1972 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR, Competition schedule, Final
Avtomobilist: 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


1972 Cupa României Final
The 1972 Cupa României Final was the 34th final of Romania's most prestigious football cup competition. It was disputed between Rapid București and Jiul Petroşani, and was won by Rapid București after a game with 2 goals. It was the 8th cup for Rapid București.


1972 Currie Cup
The 1972 Currie Cup was the 34th edition of the Currie Cup, the premier annual domestic rugby union competition in South Africa.


1972 Currie Cup
The tournament was won by  Transvaal for the sixth time; they beat  Eastern Transvaal 25–19 in the final in Springs.


1972 Czechoslovak Figure Skating Championships
The 1972 Czechoslovak Figure Skating Championships was held on December 18–19, 1971 in Karvina. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


1972 DFB-Pokal Final
The 1972 DFB-Pokal Final decided the winner of the 1971–72 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 5–0 against 1. FC Kaiserslautern, to claim their 2nd cup title.


1972 DFB-Pokal Final, Route to the final
The 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.


1972 DFB-Pokal Final, Route to the final
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).


1972 Dahomeyan coup d'état
The 1972 Dahomeyan coup d'état was a military coup staged on 26 October 1972 by Major (later General) Mathieu Kérékou, 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 Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin and Sourou-Migan Apithy) were to rotate in power. Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin served as the Chairman at the time of the coup.


1972 Dahomeyan coup d'état, The coup
The coup was launched by soldiers of the Ouidah garrison and occurred during a Presidential Council meeting between Maga and Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin. 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. Kérékou led the first armed company of soldiers to break into the meeting, where he declared the end of the Presidential Council.


1972 Dahomeyan coup d'état, The coup
Kérékou 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'état 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.


1972 Dahomeyan coup d'état, Aftermath
The 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, Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin, and Apithy all moved to Paris.


1972 Dahomeyan coup d'état, Aftermath, Ideological changes
Kérékou proclaimed the formal accession of his government to Marxism–Leninism 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, Kérékou 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.


1972 Dallas Cowboys season
The 1972 Dallas Cowboys season was their 13th in the league. The team failed to improve their previous output of 11–3, 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).


1972 Dallas Cowboys season
In the divisional playoff round, Staubach came off the bench to engineer an improbable 30–28 comeback win over the 49ers (Dallas had trailed by 28–16 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.


1972 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season
Roger 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 30–28 victory over San Francisco. In 1972 the Cowboys would build up big leads in games only to hang on to win.


1972 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season
Some 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 20–23, and featuring Cowboy middle linebacker #55 Lee Roy Jordan on the cover.


1972 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season
Still 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.


1972 Dallas Cowboys season, Season recap
The 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.


1972 Dallas Cowboys season, Season recap
The Cowboys qualified for the playoffs a record seventh consecutive year.


1972 Dallas Cowboys season, Trivia
This 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.


1972 Danish 1st Division, Overview
It was contested by 12 teams, and Vejle Boldklub won the championship.


1972 Danish European Communities membership referendum
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1972 Danish European Communities membership referendum
A 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.


1972 Danish European Communities membership referendum, Background
According 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.


1972 Dartmouth Indians football team
The 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.


1972 Dartmouth Indians football team
In their second season under head coach Jake Crouthamel, the Indians compiled a 7–1–1 record and outscored opponents 260 to 168. Robert Norton and Frederick Radke were the team captains.


1972 Dartmouth Indians football team
The Indians' 5–1–1 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.


1972 Dartmouth Indians football team
Dartmouth played its home games at Memorial Field on the college campus in Hanover, New Hampshire.


1972 Davis Cup
The 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.


1972 Davis Cup
The 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.


1972 Davis Cup
In 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 13–15 October.


1972 Davis Cup Americas Zone
The Americas Zone was one of the three regional zones of the 1972 Davis Cup.


1972 Davis Cup Americas Zone
11 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.


1972 Davis Cup Americas Zone
The 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.


1972 Davis Cup Eastern Zone
The Eastern Zone was one of the three regional zones of the 1972 Davis Cup.


1972 Davis Cup Eastern Zone
11 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.


1972 Davis Cup Eastern Zone
Australia 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.


1972 Davis Cup Europe Zone
The Europe Zone was one of the three regional zones of the 1972 Davis Cup.


1972 Davis Cup Europe Zone
33 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.


1972 Davis Cup Europe Zone
Romania 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.


1972 Daytona 500
The 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.


1972 Daytona 500
First 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.


1972 Daytona 500, Summary
Foyt 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.


1972 Daytona 500, Summary
The 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 mph. There were a total of 13 lead changes between Foyt, Allison, and Petty throughout the race.


1972 Daytona 500, Summary
Foyt's victory would earn him a spot on the cover of Sports Illustrated, the first time for a reigning Daytona 500 champion.


1972 Daytona 500, Summary
Walter 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.


1972 Daytona 500, Summary
Raymond 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.


1972 Daytona 500, Summary
Third-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.


1972 Daytona 500, Summary
Bobby 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.


1972 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team
The 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.


1972 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team
Following 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.


1972 Delaware State Hornets football team
The 1972 Delaware State Hornets football team represented Delaware State College—now known as Delaware State University—as 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 5–4 and a mark of 2–4 in conference play, trying for fifth in the MEAC.


1972 Delaware gubernatorial election
The 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.


1972 Delaware gubernatorial election, Nominations
From 1972 to 1992 Delaware used a system of “challenge” 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.


1972 Delhi Metropolitan Council election
Delhi 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.


1972 Delhi Metropolitan Council election, Results
The election elected Second Delhi Metropolitan Council. Mir Mushtaq Ahmed was Chairman of the council, Jag Parvesh Chandra being Deputy Chairman.


1972 Democratic National Convention
The 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 10–13, 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.


1972 Democratic National Convention
The 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.


1972 Democratic National Convention
The convention, which has been described as "a disastrous start to the general election campaign", was one of the most unusual—perhaps the most contentious in the history of the Democratic Party since 1924—with 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 a.m.—after 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.


1972 Democratic National Convention, Delegate selection
The 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–Fraser Commission its name. The 28-member commission was established after the tumultuous 1968 convention.


1972 Democratic National Convention, Delegate selection
The 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.


1972 Democratic National Convention, Delegate selection
In 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.


1972 Democratic National Convention, Delegate selection
As 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.


1972 Democratic National Convention, Delegate selection
Their 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.


1972 Democratic National Convention, Delegate selection
The 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.


1972 Democratic National Convention, Delegate selection
The 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.


1972 Democratic National Convention, Delegate selection
McGovern 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".


1972 Democratic National Convention, Delegate selection
The so-called "magic number", or number of delegates needed to secure the nomination, was 1,509.


1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform
Formed 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.


1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform, Feminism
The 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.


1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform, Feminism
There 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).


1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform, Feminism
As 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.


1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform, Feminism
McGovern 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:


1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform, Feminism
The 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.


1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform, Feminism
Germaine 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".


1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform, Feminism
Greer 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".


1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform, Gay rights
A 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 54–34. 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.


1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform, Desegregation
The platform championed busing under its "Education" plank, stating, "Transportation of students is another tool to accomplish desegregation".


1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform, Welfare
In 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.


1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform, Welfare
The 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"—so much so that one in three Democrats voted for Nixon, the Republican incumbent, in the presidential election in November. For example:


1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform, Welfare
Although the McGovern platform did not promise socialism, it did pledge to eliminate—through government guarantee and dicta—any 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.


1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform, Right to be different
The 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".


1972 Democratic National Convention, Running mate
Most 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.


1972 Democratic National Convention, Running mate
McGovern 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.


1972 Democratic National Convention, Running mate
Finally, the vice presidential slot was offered to Senator Thomas Eagleton of Missouri, who was relatively unknown to many of the delegates.


1972 Democratic National Convention, Running mate
The 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.


1972 Democratic National Convention, Running mate
By 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.


1972 Democratic National Convention, Running mate
As 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.


1972 Democratic National Convention, Running mate
Eventually, Eagleton secured the nomination at 1:40 AM. 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".


1972 Democratic National Convention, Running mate
Several 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.


1972 Democratic National Convention, Running mate
Eventually, 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.


1972 Democratic National Convention, Running mate
McGovern 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.


1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries
From 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.


1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Background
As 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.


1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Background
On 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.


1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Background
As 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.


1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Background
Shirley 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.


1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign
Prior 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.


1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign
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. 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.


1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign
Hubert 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.


1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign
Alabama 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.


1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign
Within 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.


1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign
Chairman 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.


1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign
Washington 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.


1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign
Jackson 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.


1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign, Attempted assassination of George Wallace
While 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.


1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign, Attempted assassination of George Wallace
Following 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.


1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign, Attempted assassination of George Wallace
While 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.


1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign, Attempted assassination of George Wallace
Bremer 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.


1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign, Attempted assassination of George Wallace
As 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).


1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign, Attempted assassination of George Wallace
Wallace 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.


1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Endorsements
Gloria 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.


1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Endorsements
Nevertheless, 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."


1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Endorsements
Earlier 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.


1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Caucuses
The 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.


1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Caucuses
11 states held caucuses before the 1972 convention in which one candidate captured a majority of support:


1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primaries, Analysis
In 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—that the Democratic primaries should determine the winner of the Democratic nomination—lasted 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.


1972 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection
This 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.


1972 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection
McGovern 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.


1972 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection, Frances Farenthold’s candidacy
At 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’ incumbent Democratic Governor Dolph Briscoe in the Democratic primaries.


1972 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection, Frances Farenthold’s candidacy
The 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’s 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 “Sissy” Farenthold’s name in nomination for Vice President would be Gloria Steinem, the co-founder of Ms. magazine.


1972 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection, Frances Farenthold’s candidacy
Although 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.


1972 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection, Frances Farenthold’s candidacy
Farenthold 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.


1972 Denver Broncos season
The 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.


1972 Denver Broncos season
Hired 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.


1972 Denver Winter Olympics referendum
The 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.


1972 Denver Winter Olympics referendum, Aftermath
Richard 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.


1972 Denver Winter Olympics referendum, Aftermath
Within three months, Innsbruck, Austria was selected as the replacement city, hosting the Winter Olympics for the second time, previously in 1964.


1972 Detroit Lions season
The 1972 Detroit Lions season was their 43rd in the National Football League (NFL). The team improved on their previous season's output of 7–6–1, 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.


1972 Detroit Tigers season
The 1972 Detroit Tigers won the American League East division championship with a record of 86–70 (.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—a 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.


1972 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, Season summary
After having a losing record in 1970, the Tigers were reinvigorated in 1971 and 1972 by their fiery manager, Billy Martin.


1972 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, Season summary
The 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—seventh in the AL. Light-hitting third baseman Aurelio Rodríguez 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).


1972 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, Season summary
The 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 5–12, and three of the team's wins were by Fryman. Excluding Fryman's wins, the Tigers were 2–12 in the first half of August. In the final two months of the season, Fryman had a 10–3 record with a 2.06 ERA (Adjusted ERA+ of 154).


1972 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, Season summary
Defense also played an important role in the team's success. Rodríguez 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.


1972 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, Season summary
The 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.)


1972 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, Season summary
Detroit'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.


1972 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1972 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1972 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1972 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1972 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W= Wins; L= Losses; SV = Saves; GF = Games finished; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1972 Detroit Tigers season, Awards and honors, Players ranking among top 100 all time at position
The 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:


1972 Detroit Tigers season, Postseason, American League Championship Series
The Tigers lost to the Oakland Athletics in the 1972 American League Championship Series, losing three games to two. The A's were 93–62 in the regular season and went on to beat the Cincinnati Reds in the 1972 World Series.


1972 Detroit Tigers season, Postseason, American League Championship Series, Game 1
Game 1 was a pitching duel with 20-game winners, Mickey Lolich (22–14) and Catfish Hunter (21–7). 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, 1–1, 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 Márquez singled to right, driving in two runs to give the A's the win in Game 1.


1972 Detroit Tigers season, Postseason, American League Championship Series, Game 2
Game 2 was a lopsided 5–0 win for the A's, as Blue Moon Odom (15–6) pitched a complete game shutout and held the Tigers to three hits. Woodie Fryman (10–3), 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.


1972 Detroit Tigers season, Postseason, American League Championship Series, Game 2
When 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.


1972 Detroit Tigers season, Postseason, American League Championship Series, Game 3
The Series moved to Detroit for the final three games. In Game 3, Joe Coleman (19–14) pitched a complete game shutout and set an ALCS record by striking out 14 A's batters. The Tigers won, 3–0, 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 (19–11) was the losing pitcher for the A's.


1972 Detroit Tigers season, Postseason, American League Championship Series, Game 4
Game 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 – 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, 1–1, on a Mike Epstein home run in the 7th inning, and the game went into extra innings with the score tied, 1–1.


1972 Detroit Tigers season, Postseason, American League Championship Series, Game 4
In 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 3–3. Jim Northrup ended it with a walk-off game-winning single, as Gates Brown scored the winning run.


1972 Detroit Tigers season, Postseason, American League Championship Series, Game 5
The 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.


1972 Detroit Tigers season, Postseason, American League Championship Series, Game 5
In 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, 2–1. 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.


1972 Detroit Tigers season, Postseason, Postseason player stats, Batting
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1972 Detroit Tigers season, Postseason, Postseason player stats, Pitching
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1972 Drake Bulldogs football team
The 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 7–5 record, capturing the Missouri Valley Conference championship. The Bulldogs participated in the 1972 Pioneer Bowl.


1972 Drexel Dragons football team
The 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.


1972 Duke Blue Devils football team
The 1972 Duke Blue Devils football team represented Duke University during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season.


1972 Dutch Open (tennis)
The 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 Stöve won the singles titles.


1972 Dutch Open (tennis), Finals, Men's Singles
John Cooper defeated  Hans Kary 6–1, 3–6, 12–10, 3–6, 6–2


1972 Dutch Open (tennis), Finals, Men's Doubles
Ross Case /  Geoff Masters defeated  John Cooper  Colin Dibley 8–6, 6–4


1972 Dutch Open (tennis), Finals, Women's Doubles
Michèle Gurdal /  Betty Stöve defeated  Lita Liem /  Lany Kaligis 6–4, 6–0


1972 Dutch Open (tennis), Finals, Mixed Doubles
Betty Stöve /  Bob Howe defeated  Wendy Turnbull /  Colin Dibley 2–6, 9–7, 6–3


1972 Dutch general election
Early 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.


1972 Dutch general election
The 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.


1972 Dwars door België
The 1972 Dwars door België 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.


1972 E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
The 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.


1972 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 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.


1972 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The 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.


1972 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Conference Standings
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; Pct. = Winning Percentage; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against


1972 East Carolina Pirates football team
The 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 9–2 record.


1972 East Texas State Lions football team
The 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.


1972 East Texas State Lions football team
Heading into the 1972 season, the Lions were picked to finish fourth in the conference, and started out the season with 14–12 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.


1972 East Texas State Lions football team
In the semifinal round the Lions faced the top-ranked team in the nation, the Central State Bronchos of Oklahoma. The Lions routed Central State, 54–0 in the earning them a spot in Champion Bowl against the second-ranked Carson–Newman. 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–Newman, 21–18, 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.


1972 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team
The 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 1–9. They played their home games at O'Brien Stadium in Charleston, Illinois.


1972 Eastern Michigan Hurons football team
The 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 6–4 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 5–1 record in the final six games, including a 28–3 victory over Central Michigan.


1972 Eastern Suburbs season
The 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.


1972 Edinburgh Corporation election
An 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.


1972 Edinburgh Corporation election
Following 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.


1972 Edinburgh Corporation election
The election also witnessed the continuation of the decline of the Progressives, who lost 5 seats.


1972 Eisenhower Trophy
The 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.


1972 Eisenhower Trophy
The 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.


1972 Eisenhower Trophy, Individual leaders
There was no official recognition for the lowest individual scores.


1972 Emperor's Cup, Overview
It 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.


1972 Emperor's Cup Final
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1972 Emperor's Cup Final
1972 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.


1972 Emperor's Cup Final, Overview
Hitachi won their 1st title, by defeating Yanmar Diesel 2–1.


1972 England rugby union tour of South Africa
This 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.


1972 England rugby union tour of South Africa, Test Match
Piet 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.


1972 English Greyhound Derby
The 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 £10,952.


1972 English Greyhound Derby, Final result, Distances
3¼, head, 1¼, 1, 3½ (lengths)The distances between the greyhounds are in finishing order and shown in lengths. One length is equal to 0.08 of one second.


1972 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report
Ante-post favourites were Favourite Rory and Juvenile champion Short Interview. Oaks heroine Decimal Queen and the previous year’s third placed greyhound Leap and Run were two other leading contenders.


1972 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report
The 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.


1972 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report
Proud 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.


1972 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report
An anonymous offer of £12,000 was followed by a £14,000 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.


1972 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report
NoteDerby roar* (the noise made by the crowd when the electric hare is set in motion)


1972 English National Badminton Championships
The 1972 English National Badminton Championships were held at the Sussex University Sports Centre, from 10-11 December, 1971.


1972 English cricket season
The 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 2–2.


1972 English cricket season, Test series
A very entertaining England v Australia series resulted in a 2–2 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.


1972 Espirito Santo Trophy
The 1972 Espirito Santo Trophy took place 11–14 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.


1972 Espirito Santo Trophy
The 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.


1972 Espirito Santo Trophy, Teams
20 teams contested the event. Each team had three players.


1972 Espirito Santo Trophy, Individual leaders
There was no official recognition for the lowest individual scores.


1972 Estonian SSR Football Championship
The 1972 Estonian SSR Football Championship was won by Baltic Fleet Tallinn.


1972 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup
The 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.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships
The 3rd European Athletics Indoor Championships were held between 11–12 March 1972 in Grenoble, France.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships
The track used for the championships was 180 metres long.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 1500 metres
The men's 1500 metres event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 March in Grenoble.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres
The men's 3000 metres event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 March in Grenoble.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 4 × 360 metres relay
The men's 4 × 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.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 4 × 720 metres relay
The men's 4 × 720 metres relay event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 March in Grenoble. Each athlete ran four laps of the 180 metres track.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 400 metres
The men's 400 metres event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 11 and 12 March in Grenoble.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 400 metres, Results, Heats
First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 400 metres, Results, Semifinals
First 2 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 50 metres
The men's 50 metres event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 11 March in Grenoble.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 50 metres, Results, Heats
First 4 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the semifinals.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 50 metres, Results, Semifinals
First 3 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 50 metres hurdles
The men's 50 metres hurdles event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 March in Grenoble.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 50 metres hurdles, Results, Heats
First 3 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the semifinals.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 50 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals
First 3 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 800 metres
The men's 800 metres event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 11 and 12 March in Grenoble.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 800 metres, Results, Heats
First 4 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's high jump
The men's high jump event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 11 March in Grenoble.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's long jump
The men's long jump event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 11 March in Grenoble.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's pole vault
The men's pole vault event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 March in Grenoble.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's shot put
The men's shot put event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 11 March in Grenoble.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's triple jump
The men's triple jump event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 11 March in Grenoble.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 1500 metres
The women's 1500 metres event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 March in Grenoble.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 4 × 180 metres relay
The women's 4 × 180 metres relay event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 11 March in Grenoble. Each athlete ran one lap of the 180 metres track.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 4 × 360 metres relay
The women's 4 × 360 metres relay event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 March in Grenoble. Each athlete ran two laps of the 180 metres track.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 400 metres
The women's 400 metres event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 11 and 12 March in Grenoble.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 400 metres, Results, Heats
First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 400 metres, Results, Semifinals
First 2 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 50 metres
The women's 50 metres event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 March in Grenoble.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 50 metres, Results, Heats
First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 50 metres, Results, Semifinals
First 3 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 50 metres hurdles
The women's 50 metres hurdles event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 11 March in Grenoble.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 50 metres hurdles, Results, Heats
First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 50 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals
First 3 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 800 metres
The women's 800 metres event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 11 and 12 March in Grenoble.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 800 metres, Results, Heats
First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's high jump
The women's high jump event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 March in Grenoble.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's long jump
The women's long jump event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 March in Grenoble.


1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's shot put
The women's shot put event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 11 March in Grenoble.


1972 European Badminton Championships
The 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 Badmintonförbundet.


1972 European Cup Final
The 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 1971–72 European Cup. Ajax defeated Inter by a score of 2–0 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.


1972 European Cup Final
This 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.


1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final
The 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 1971–72 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.


1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final
Both 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.


1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final
Rangers 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.


1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final
The 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.


1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Route to the final, Rangers
Rangers began their route to the final by beating Stade Rennes 2–1 on aggregate. The first leg was drawn 1–1 with Willie Johnston scoring for Rangers. Rangers won the return leg 1–0 through Alex MacDonald. The second round saw Rangers play Sporting CP from Portugal. Rangers led the first half of the first leg 3–0, but lost two goals in the second half to lead 3–2 going into the second leg. The second leg finished 3–2 to Sporting, 5–5 on aggregate.


1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Route to the final, Rangers
Willie Henderson scored for Rangers in extra time but Rangers then lost a goal with six minutes left to make it 6–6 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.


1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Route to the final, Rangers
After 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 2–1 on aggregate. In the semi final Rangers played Bayern Munich, who had beaten Rangers in the final five years previously in Nuremberg. Rangers progressed 3–1 on aggregate to reach their third European final.


1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Route to the final, Dynamo Moscow
Dynamo Moscow began their campaign by defeating Olympiakos 3–2 on aggregate, before beating the Turkish side Eskişehirspor 3–0. Moscow’s 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 3–1 on aggregate again. In the semi final Moscow played Dynamo Berlin from Germany. Scores were drawn 1–1 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.


1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Match, Background
Dynamo 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.


1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Match, Background
Rangers 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.


1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Match, Summary
Dynamo 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 3–0 up minutes into the second half as Willie Johnston scored his second after a long kick out by goalkeeper Peter McCloy.


1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Match, Summary
Dynamo 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.


1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Match, Summary
The 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 Policía 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.


1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Match, Summary
While 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.


1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Match, Summary
Colin 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.


1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Match, Summary
After 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.


1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Aftermath, Rangers reaction to victory
Rangers 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.


1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Aftermath, Rangers reaction to victory
Rangers 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.


1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Aftermath, Reaction to pitch invasion
In 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.


1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Aftermath, Reaction to pitch invasion
While 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.


1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Aftermath, Reaction to pitch invasion
This 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".


1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Aftermath, Reaction to pitch invasion
In 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.


1972 European Figure Skating Championships
The 1972 European Figure Skating Championships was a senior-level international competition held at the Scandinavium in Gothenburg, Sweden on January 11–15. 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.


1972 European Figure Skating Championships, Overview
The 1970 European bronze medalist, Günter Zöller, 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.


1972 European Figure Skating Championships, Overview
In 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 Péra 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.


1972 European Figure Skating Championships, Overview
The 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.


1972 European Figure Skating Championships, Overview
In 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 Groß / 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.