1973 Norwegian Football Cup
Strømsgodset's winning squad: Inge Thun, Per Rune Wøllner, Johnny Vidar Pedersen, Tor Alsaker-Nøstdahl, Svein Dahl Andersen, Odd Arild Amundsen, Finn Aksel Olsen, Bjørn Odmar Andersen, Thorodd Presberg, Steinar Pettersen, Ingar Pettersen, Bjørn Erik Halvorsen, Helge Widemann Karlsen and Runar Larsen.


1973 Norwegian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 9 and 10 September 1973. The Labour Party remained the largest party, winning 62 of the 155 seats in the Storting.


1973 Norwegian parliamentary election, Results
The joint list of the Centre Party and the Liberal Party won seven seats, six taken by the Centre Party and one by the Liberal Party.


1973 Norwegian parliamentary election, Results
The joint list of the Centre Party, Liberal Party and the Christian People's Party won three, two taken by the Centre Party and one by the Christian People's Party.


1973 Norwegian parliamentary election, Results
The joint list of the Conservative Party and the Christian People's Party won no seats.


1973 Norwich City Council election
The 1973 Norwich City Council election took place on 7 June 1973 to elect members of Norwich City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. Voting took place across 16 wards, each electing 3 Councillors. Following the Local Government Act 1972, this was the first election to the new non-metropolitan district council for Norfolk, which came into being on 1 April the following year. Labour took control of the Council after winning a comfortable majority of seats.


1973 Norwich Union Open
The 1973 Norwich Union Open was an invitational snooker tournament which took place between 24 and 29 November 1973 at the Piccadilly Hotel in London. It was open to both professionals and amateurs and featured 24 players. John Spencer won 8–7 in the final against John Pulman.


1973 Norwich Union Open, Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:


1973 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team
The 1973 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The Irish, coached by Ara Parseghian, ended the season undefeated with 11 wins and no losses, winning the national championship. The Fighting Irish won the title by defeating the previously unbeaten and No. 1 ranked Alabama Crimson Tide in the 1973 Sugar Bowl by a score of a 24–23. The 1973 squad became the ninth Irish team to win the national title and the second under Parseghian. Although Notre Dame finished No. 1 in the AP Poll to claim the AP national title, they were not awarded the Coaches title, since Alabama was awarded the Coaches Poll title before the bowl season.


1973 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Season
Ara Parseghian's second national title team was led by its relentless rushing attack. Fullback Wayne Bullock (750 yards), halfback Art Best (700 yards), halfback Eric Penick (586 yards) and quarterback Tom Clements (360 yards) comprised one of the fastest Irish backfields, with Peneck and Best clocking in under 10 seconds in the 100-yard dash. The Irish started the season strong, amassing large margins of victory over Northwestern, Rice and Army to set up a highly anticipated contest with No. 6 and unbeaten USC.


1973 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Season
USC came into the contest riding a 23-game unbeaten streak, and USC's star tailback Anthony Davis ran over the Irish the previous year for 6 touchdowns in a 45–23 Trojan victory. Moreover, Parseghian had not outright beaten USC since 1966. The Irish defense responded to the challenge, limiting Davis to 55 yards on 19 carries. The star tailback of the day was Notre Dame's Penick, who ran for 118 yards, 50 more than the entire Trojan team. The Irish won the contest 23–14 and won their remaining games.


1973 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Season
After Notre Dame accepted the Sugar Bowl bid, the stage was set to determine the national championship. Alabama was awarded the UPI title before the bowl season, but it was Notre Dame that won it on the field, winning 24–23 in a thriller that had six lead changes. Notre Dame jumped to a 6–0 lead, but Alabama answered with a Randy Billingsley 6-yard touchdown run.


1973 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Season
Al Hunter then scored on a 93-yard kickoff return, and Clements completed a two-point conversion pass to Pete Demmerle to give the Irish a 14-7 (which would turn out to be the widest margin in the game). Alabama scored a field goal to close the halftime deficit to 14–10, and then went on a 93-yard touchdown march in the third quarter to regain the lead. Notre Dame answered with a 12-yard touchdown run by Eric Penick to go back in front, 21–17.


1973 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Season
In the fourth quarter, three turnovers occurred in 90 seconds, with Alabama coming out on top and capitalizing on a halfback pass from Mike Stock to quarterback Richard Todd for a 25-yard touchdown to take a slim 23–21 lead, but the Tide missed the crucial extra point. Notre Dame responded, with Tom Clements driving the Irish 79 yards in 11 plays and setting up a potential field goal on a clutch 15-yard pass to tight end Dave Casper. Irish kicker Bob Thomas kicked a field goal to give the Irish a slim 24–23 victory and the AP national title.


1973 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Air Force
This is the only Thanksgiving Day game ever played at Notre Dame Stadium, and with students away on a week-long break, it also was the only official non-sellout for a Fighting Irish home football game between October 24, 1964, and November 16, 2019.


1973 Nottinghamshire County Council election
The 1973 Nottinghamshire County Council election was held on Thursday, 12 April 1973. The election resulted in the Labour Party winning an overall majority of seats on the council.


1973 Nottinghamshire County Council election
The election was the first to take place to the new non-metropolitan county council of Nottinghamshire as defined by the Local Government Act 1972, which had reformed local government in England and Wales. The council acted as a "shadow authority" until 1 April 1974, when it gained control from its predecessor county council, which had been established by the Local Government Act 1888.


1973 Nottinghamshire County Council election
Whilst previously the City of Nottingham was an independent county borough and therefore not included within the administrative county of Nottinghamshire or involved in the election of county councillors, the new administrative county included Nottingham for the first time as a non-metropolitan district. Nottingham would subsequently regain independent control over its affairs when it became a unitary authority in 1998.


1973 Nottinghamshire County Council election, Results by division
Each electoral division returned either one, two or three county councillors. The candidate elected to the council in each electoral division is shown in the table below. "Unopposed" indicates that the councillor was elected unopposed.


1973 Oakland Athletics season
The 1973 Oakland Athletics season involved the A's winning their third consecutive American League West title with a record of 94 wins and 68 losses. The A's went on to defeat the Baltimore Orioles in the ALCS for their second straight AL Championship, and won the World Series in seven games over the New York Mets to take their second consecutive World Championship.


1973 Oakland Athletics season, Regular season
The 1973 A's had three 20-game winners in Jim (Catfish) Hunter, Ken Holtzman and Vida Blue.


1973 Oakland Athletics season, Regular season
The A's were on the receiving end of some milestones as well. On July 3, Nolan Ryan struck out Sal Bando of the Athletics for the 1000th strikeout in his career. On July 30,  Jim Bibby threw the first no-hitter in Texas Rangers history as he no-hit the Athletics. The Rangers won the game 6–0.


1973 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases


1973 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases


1973 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts


1973 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts


1973 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts


1973 Oakland Athletics season, Postseason, ALCS, Game 1
In Game 1, the Orioles jumped on Oakland starter Vida Blue and reliever Horacio Piña for four runs in the bottom of the first inning. Jim Palmer pitched a 5-hit shutout as the Orioles won, 6–0.


1973 Oakland Athletics season, Postseason, ALCS, Game 2
In Game 2, the Athletics hit three home runs off Baltimore starter Dave McNally, and won 6–3 behind Catfish Hunter.


1973 Oakland Athletics season, Postseason, ALCS, Game 3
In Game 3, the Athletics won 2–1 when shortstop Bert Campaneris homered to lead off the bottom of the 11th inning.


1973 Oakland Athletics season, Postseason, ALCS, Game 4
In Game 4, the Athletics held a 4–0 lead after six innings, but the Orioles scored four in the seventh off Blue to tie the game; the key blow was a three-run home run by catcher Andy Etchebarren. Baltimore second baseman Bobby Grich broke the tie with a solo home run in the 8th inning, and the Orioles went on to win, 5–4.


1973 Oakland Athletics season, Postseason, ALCS, Game 5
In Game 5, Hunter pitched a 5-hit shutout as the Athletics won, 3–0, and took the series 3 games to 2.


1973 Oakland Athletics season, Postseason, World Series
The Athletics' victory over the New York Mets in the 1973 Series was marred by Charlie O. Finley's antics. Finley forced Mike Andrews to sign a false affidavit saying he was injured after the reserve second baseman committed two consecutive errors in the 12th inning of the A's Game Two loss to the Mets. This would allow Manny Trillo, ineligible because he was not a member of the team on Sep 1, to be activated.


1973 Oakland Athletics season, Postseason, World Series
By demeaning Mike Andrews, Finley brought on open rebellion, the logical progression for a team that has never deluded itself about being a happy ship. The A's worked out at Shea with Andrews' No. 17 taped to their uniforms as a sign of sympathy with him. By then he was back home in Peabody, Massachusetts. When other team members, manager Dick Williams, and virtually the entire viewing public rallied to Andrews' defense, commissioner Bowie Kuhn forced Finley to back down. Andrews entered Game 4 in the eighth inning as a pinch-hitter. As he walked to the on-deck circle the crowd of 54,817 at Shea Stadium spotted his No. 17 and commenced cheering. He promptly grounded out, and Finley ordered him benched for the remainder of the Series.


1973 Oakland Athletics season, Postseason, World Series
Andrews never played another major league game. Williams was so disgusted by the affair that he announced his resignation as Manager while the Series was still being played. Finley retaliated by vetoing Williams' attempt to become manager of the Yankees. Finley claimed that since Williams still owed Oakland the last year of his contract, he could not manage anywhere else. Finley relented later in 1974 and allowed Williams to take over as manager of the California Angels.


1973 Oakland Athletics season, Postseason, World Series
The A's won the World Series in seven games after rallying from a three games to two deficit.


1973 Oakland Athletics season, Postseason, World Series, Summary
AL Oakland Athletics (4) vs. NL New York Mets (3)


1973 Oakland Raiders season
The 1973 Oakland Raiders season was the team's 14th season, and fourth in the National Football League.


1973 Oakland Raiders season
In Week Two of the regular season, the Raiders defeated the Miami Dolphins, snapping Miami's 18-game winning-streak including a perfect season in 1972.


1973 Oakland Raiders season
For the third time in four seasons, the Raiders won the AFC West title. They exacted a measure of revenge by defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC Division Round game, one year following the Immaculate Reception loss. But the Raiders failed to reach the Super Bowl as they lost to Miami in the AFC Championship Game.


1973 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season, Season summary, Week 2 vs. Dolphins
The Raiders became the first team to defeat Miami since Super Bowl VI.


1973 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season, Season summary, Week 9 vs. Steelers
Second quarterPIT – Ron Shanklin 14-yard pass from Terry Hanratty (Roy Gerela kick). Steelers 7–0.


1973 Oceania Cup
The 1973 OFC Nations Cup was the first Oceania-wide football tournament ever held. It took place in New Zealand from 17 February 1973–24 February 1973. All matches were held at Newmarket Park, in Auckland, and five teams participated: New Zealand, New Caledonia, Tahiti, New Hebrides (now known as Vanuatu) and Fiji.


1973 Oceania Cup
At the time, the Oceania Football Confederation was not considered a full FIFA Confederation, and as such allowed national teams unaffiliated with FIFA to enter.


1973 Oceania Cup
The teams played each other according to a round-robin format, and the top two teams (New Zealand and Tahiti) played off in a final to determine the winner. New Caledonia and New Hebrides also played each other, on the same day as the final, to determine third place.


1973 Oceania Cup
New Zealand won the tournament with a 2–0 victory in the final, while New Caledonia retained third place by defeating New Hebrides.


1973 Oceania Cup, Goalscorers
There were 37 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 3.08 goals per match.


1973 Oceania Cup, Tournament team rankings
As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.


1973 Oceania Cup Final
The 1973 Oceania Cup Final was a football match that took place on 24 February 1973 to determine the winners of the 1973 Oceania Cup. It was the final of the first Oceania Cup, a tournament contested by the senior men's national teams of the member associations of OFC to decide the champions of Oceania.


1973 Oceania Cup Final
New Zealand won their inaugural Oceania Cup, beating Tahiti 2–0. New Zealand's Dave Taylor opened the scoring before Alan Marley scored their second to clinch the title.


1973 Oceania Cup squads
The following is a list of players used by each competing nation during the entirety of the 1973 OFC Nations Cup.


1973 Ohio Bobcats football team
The 1973 Ohio Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Ohio University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their 16th season under head coach Bill Hess, the Bobcats compiled a 5–5 record (2–3 against MAC opponents), finished in a tie for third place in the MAC, and were outscored by all opponents by a combined total of 231 to 156.


1973 Ohio State Buckeyes football team
The 1973 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented the Ohio State University in the 1973 Big Ten Conference football season. The Buckeyes compiled a 10–0–1 record, including the 1974 Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, where they won, 42–21, against the USC Trojans. The Ohio State Buckeyes were named national champion by the National Championship Foundation, Poling System, David Rothman (statistician) and the Sagarin Ratings, but this championship is not claimed by Ohio State.


1973 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Game summaries, at Michigan
Cornelius Greene played with injured thumb (did not attempt a pass)


1973 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Game summaries, Rose Bowl (vs. USC)
MVP - Cornelius Greene 174 yards total offense, rush TD


1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game
The 1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game was one of the most controversial games in NCAA history. In this game, both teams were undefeated, with Ohio State ranked first, and Michigan ranked fourth. A conference championship, Rose Bowl appearance, and possible national championship was on the line in this monumental game, part of the hotly contested stretch of the rivalry known as The Ten Year War. A then-NCAA record crowd of 105,233 watched the game at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor.


1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game
With heavy rain prior to the game, the battle was mostly fought on the ground. Michigan had 90 yards passing and Ohio State attempted only four passing plays in a defensive contest. Ohio State failed to make a single first-down in the first quarter, but took an early 3–0 lead in the second quarter, with a 31-yard field goal by Blair Conway. Gil Chapman, Michigan's punt returner returned OSU's ensuing kick-off all the way to the OSU 27-yard line. A significant clipping penalty was called on Michigan which subsequently gave Michigan bad field position. With the way the game had gone, field position proved to be a huge advantage.


1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game
After a series of punts, Ohio State got the ball on their own 45-yard line. Back-to-back Heisman Trophy winner Archie Griffin rushed for 41 yards on 5 carries, to get to 100 yards rushing, and OSU to the five-yard line. Fullback Pete Johnson busted his way through the defense for a touchdown just before the half to extend OSU's lead to 10–0.


1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game
Michigan made defensive halftime adjustments in an attempt to crawl back into the game. The Wolverines outgained the Buckeyes 209–91 in total yardage in the 2nd half. Michigan took the 2nd half kick-off and marched all the way to the OSU 30-yard line. However, quarterback Dennis Franklin's pass was intercepted in the end zone ruining a productive drive. Midway through the third quarter, OSU faced a 4th and 2 on the Michigan 34-yard line, and decided to go for it. Their failed fourth down conversion gave Michigan new life, and much momentum. It is still looked on today as a controversial coaching call.


1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game
Michigan engineered an 11 play drive, using the rushing ability of fullback Ed Shuttlesworth. The Wolverines kicked a field goal to get on the board, and make the score 10–3. Midway through the fourth quarter, Michigan's defense held, and the offense was able to start the tying drive with great field position. Dennis Franklin threw a 35-yard post-out pattern to tight end Paul Seal to get inside the red zone. Three consecutive Michigan offensive plays failed to get them a first down, and they were now faced with a fourth and inches on the ten-yard line.


1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game
Ohio State loaded the box with nine defensive players, and focused on stopping Shuttlesworth, who had burned them the entire game. Franklin faked the inside hand-off to Shuttlesworth, and then slipped through the tackles running ten yards for a touchdown, to tie the score at 10-10. Michigan got the ball back with over six minutes to go for the game-winning drive, but had to start at their own ten-yard line. After a couple of completions to Clint Haslerig and some nice runs by Chapman and Shuttlesworth, Michigan made it into OSU territory.


1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game
Franklin then threw a seven-yard pass play to Shuttlesworth and was injured, breaking his collar bone with 2:23 left in the game. Three plays later, Michigan kicker Mike Lantry attempted a 58-yard field goal, but the ball missed the left goal-post by a few inches. Ohio State took over, but back-up quarterback, Greg Hare, threw an interception that was returned to the OSU 33 with 52 seconds left. Michigan moved the ball to the OSU 28 before settling for a field goal on 3rd and 5 with 28 seconds to go. For the second consecutive try, the field goal was missed and the game ended in a 10–10 tie.


1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath
Michigan's coaches and players felt that although the game was a tie, that they were the better team and deserved to go to the Rose Bowl. Ohio State coach Woody Hayes said, “We had to win this one to go and we didn't. If they vote Michigan, Michigan deserves to go.”. There was much to debate on who would play in the Rose Bowl as the best representative of the Big Ten Conference.


1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath
Ohio State had gone to the Rose Bowl the year before. The Big Ten, alongside the Pacific-8, at the time had a longstanding policy stating that only the conference champion would reach postseason, and that game was the Rose Bowl, and neither conference allowed other teams to appear in postseason games. The Big Ten also had a rule prohibiting teams from appearing in consecutive Rose Bowls until 1971, and had it still been in effect, Michigan would have gone to the Rose Bowl automatically, even if it had lost the game to Ohio State. With the latter rule abolished, the decision as to who would represent the conference would be left up to a telephone vote by the Big Ten's athletic directors.


1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath
According to Michigan coach Bo Schembechler's 1989 autobiography, the Big Ten was nervous because the conference had lost the previous four Rose Bowls, and Franklin's injury may have been a deciding factor.


1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath
On the day after the game, following a conference call, it was announced that Ohio State would play in the Rose Bowl instead of Michigan. Schembechler was furious at the call, referring to it as "an embarrassment to the Big Ten Conference" and claiming "petty jealousies" were involved. Schembechler went on to demand changes to the Big Ten's policies regarding post-season play. Schembechler was particularly bitter because his 1973 team did not lose a game and was not rewarded with a bowl assignment, and remained angry at the vote until his death in 2006. Schembechler also claimed the Franklin injury was just an excuse, since Michigan's strength was a running game and not a passing attack.


1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath
It was rumored that Michigan State University voted for Ohio State in retaliation for Michigan's "no" vote in 1949 against admitting Michigan State to the Big Ten. There was also a rumor that Michigan State had voted for itself for the same reason. Neither of these charges were ever substantiated. For months afterward, Ohio newspapers would be flooded with letters from angry Wolverine fans, and threats of lawsuits.


1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath
Schembechler said he had spoken with Illinois coach Bob Blackman, who said his athletic director, Cecil Coleman, would vote in favor of Michigan. Yet following the vote, it was revealed that Coleman had voted for the Buckeyes. Even if the vote were tied at 5-all, Michigan would have been awarded the berth since Ohio State had gone the year before. According to Tiebreaker, a 2013 Big Ten Network documentary dedicated to the 1973 contest, the Buckeyes were supported by Illinois, Northwestern, Purdue, Wisconsin, and possibly Michigan State; the Wolverines were supported by Indiana, Iowa, and Minnesota.


1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath
Footage from the documentary had audio and printed admissions from Coleman, Iowa's Bump Elliott (Schembechler's predecessor at Michigan), Minnesota's Paul Giel, and Michigan State's J. Burt Smith, who told a crowd at an MSU football banquet on November 28, 1973 that he had voted for Ohio State because he felt they "best met the definition of the most representative team."


1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath
It is unknown whether then Big Ten commissioner Wayne Duke had influenced the vote in Ohio State's favor or not, although a 1973 investigation by the Big Ten Conference Faculty Representatives determined he did not. Until his death in 2017, Wayne Duke continued to vehemently deny that he influenced the vote in any way, saying the athletic directors followed the procedure in place and that he was merely the messenger. Ohio State ended up winning the 1974 Rose Bowl over USC by a score of 42-21, the Big Ten's lone Rose Bowl victory from 1970 through 1980.


1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath
The next season, Ohio State defeated Michigan 12-10 at Columbus, necessitating a vote to determine the Rose Bowl participant. This time, there was no controversy when the Buckeyes prevailed. Ohio State lost the Rose Bowl 18-17 to USC.


1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath
Michigan went 30-2-1 over the 1972, '73 and '74 seasons, but had zero bowl appearances to show for it.


1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath
Among the changes that were made in the Big Ten Conference was, by 1975, to open postseason bids to four teams (since expanded to any team with six wins). This would allow conference teams other than the champion to accept invitations to other bowls. Michigan would be the first team to receive such an invite, to the Orange Bowl following the 1975 season, where it lost 14-6 to national champion Oklahoma. Another change, which also took effect in 1975, was the dropping of the athletic directors' vote in the event of a tie for the championship.


1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath
The new rule stated the team which had gone the longest without appearing in the Rose Bowl would go to Pasadena. Schembechler had pushed for that reform, claiming that the athletic directors were not qualified to decide which team would better represent the conference in the Rose Bowl. That rule was changed following the institution of the conference championship game in 2011. The tie-breaker for that game is the head-to-head result.


1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath
The tie denied Ohio State the national championship. Alabama vaulted the Buckeyes into the top spot in both polls, and the Crimson Tide finished the regular season 11–0 to earn the number one ranking in the UPI coaches poll, which did not conduct a post-bowl poll at that time. Notre Dame ended up as AP national champions by defeating Alabama 24–23 in the Sugar Bowl, leaving the Buckeyes second in both wire-service surveys.


1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath
To this day, the aftermath of the 1973 Michigan-Ohio State contest remains one of the biggest controversies in college football history.


1973 Oklahoma Sooners football team
The 1973 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. Oklahoma participated as members of the Big Eight Conference and played its home games in Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium where it has played its home games since 1923. The team posted a 10–0–1 overall record and a 7–0 conference record to earn the Conference outright title under first-year head coach Barry Switzer. This would be the first of eight consecutive Big Eight Conference championships for the Sooners with Switzer as head coach.


1973 Oklahoma Sooners football team
The team was led by three All-Americans: Rod Shoate (Oklahoma's second three-time All-American) the oldest of the Selmon brothers, Lucious, and Eddie Foster. The Selmon brothers Lucious, Lee Roy and Dewey started on the defensive line. The team went undefeated on a schedule that included seven ranked opponents (In order, #1 USC, #17 Miami, #13 Texas, #13 Colorado, #10 Missouri, #18 Kansas, and #10 Nebraska). Five of these opponents finished the season ranked. The team tied with USC in the second game of the season before winning nine consecutive contests. It began the season ranked number 11 and steadily climbed in the polls as the season progressed.


1973 Oklahoma Sooners football team
Joe Washington led the team in rushing with 1173 yards, Steve Davis led the team in passing yard for with 934 yards, Tinker Owens led the team in receiving with 472 yards, Davis led the team in scoring with 108 points, Shoate led the team in tackles with 126, and Randy Hughes led the team in interceptions with 5.


1973 Oklahoma Sooners football team
Prior to the season in August, the Sooners were put on probation by the NCAA, which included a two-year ban on bowl appearances.


1973 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Texas
The most points Oklahoma had scored against Texas to date.


1973 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Postseason, NFL draft
The following players were drafted into the National Football League following the season.


1973 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team
The 1973 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team represented Oklahoma State University in the Big Eight Conference during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their first season under head coach Jim Stanley, the Cowboys compiled a 5–4–2 record (2–3–2 against conference opponents), finished in fifth place in the conference, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 303 to 186.


1973 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team
The team's statistical leaders included Brent Blackman with 809 rushing yards and 602 passing yards and Reuben Gant with 447 receiving yards.


1973 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team
The team played its home games at Lewis Field in Stillwater, Oklahoma.


1973 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team, After the season
The 1974 NFL Draft was held on January 29–30, 1974. The following Cowboys were selected.


1973 Old Bailey bombing
The 1973 Old Bailey bombing (known as Bloody Thursday in Britain) was a car bomb attack carried out by the Provisional IRA (IRA) which took place outside the Old Bailey Courthouse on 8 March 1973. The attack was carried out by an 11-person active service unit (ASU) from the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade. The unit also  exploded a second bomb which went off outside the Ministry of Agriculture near Whitehall in London at around the same time the bomb at the Old Bailey went off.


1973 Old Bailey bombing
This was the Provisional IRA's first major attack in England since the Troubles began in the late 1960s. One British civilian died of a heart attack attributed to the bombing, estimates of the injured range from 180 to 220 from the two bombings. Two additional bombs were found and defused. Nine people from Belfast were convicted six months later for the bombing, one person managed to escape and one was acquitted for providing information to the police.


1973 Old Bailey bombing, Background
The Troubles had been ongoing in Northern Ireland and to a lesser extent in the Republic of Ireland since the late 1960s. Rioting, protests, gun battles, sniper attacks, bombings and punishment beatings became part of everyday life in many places in Northern Ireland, especially in the poorer working class areas of Belfast and Derry. These events and others helped to heighten sectarianism and boosted recruitment into Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups and the security forces; mainly the newly created Ulster Defence Regiment.


1973 Old Bailey bombing, Background
England had been relatively untouched from the violence up until the beginning of 1973, but the IRA Army Council had drawn up plans for a bombing campaign to take place in England some time early in 1973. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, loyalist paramilitaries had bombed Dublin and other parts of the Republic of Ireland a number of times before the IRA began its bombing campaign in England. These early loyalist bombings were carried out by the Ulster Volunteer Force and were small bombs aimed at destruction only, not injuring or killing anybody.


1973 Old Bailey bombing, Background
Following the Dublin bombings in late 1972 and in January 1973 carried out by Loyalists which killed three people and injured over 150, the media attention these bombings received  helped the IRA decide to take its campaign to Britain in return. Another reason the IRA brought their campaign to England Billy McKee explained to journalist Peter Taylor was that the IRA had decided to bomb England early if there was an emergency in the IRA and it began to weaken in Ireland. The arrest of top IRA personnel in both the Republic and Northern Ireland like Máire Drumm, Seán Mac Stíofáin, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh and Martin McGuinness in late 1972  helped to convince the IRA to bomb England to take the heat off of the IRA in Ireland.


1973 Old Bailey bombing, Background
The IRA selected the volunteers who would constitute the ASU for the England bombing operation, which was scheduled to take place on 8 March 1973, the same day that a border poll – boycotted by Nationalists and Roman Catholics – was being held in Belfast.


1973 Old Bailey bombing, Background
Volunteers from all three of the IRA's Belfast Brigade Battalions were selected for the bombing mission, the team included 19-year-old Gerry Kelly, 24-year-old Robert "Roy" Walsh (an expert bomb maker from Belfast), Hugh Feeney (a Belfast-born IRA volunteer & explosives expert), and two sisters, Marian, 19, and Dolours Price, 22, from Belfast who were from a staunchly Republican family, along with five other lesser-known volunteers from Belfast: Martin Brady, 22, William Armstrong, 29, Paul Holmes, 19, William McLarnon, 19, and Roisin McNearney, 18.


1973 Old Bailey bombing, Bombing
Several days before the bombing, the leaders of the IRA ASU, which included sisters Marian and Dolours Price, went to London and picked out four targets: the Old Bailey, the Ministry of Agriculture, an army recruitment office near Whitehall and New Scotland Yard. They then reported back to their Officer Commanding in Belfast, and the IRA Army Council gave the go ahead. The bombs were made in Ireland and transported to London via ferry, according to Marian Price.


1973 Old Bailey bombing, Bombing
The Royal Ulster Constabulary warned the British that the ASU was travelling to England, but were unable to provide specifics as to the target.


1973 Old Bailey bombing, Bombing
The drivers and the volunteers who were to prime the bombs woke up at 6:00 a.m. and drove the car bombs to their various targets. Gerry Kelly and Roy Walsh drove their car bomb to the Old Bailey. It was planned that by the time the bombs went off at around 15:00, the ASU would be back in Ireland. The bomb at New Scotland Yard was found at 8:30 by a policeman who noticed a discrepancy in the licence plate.


1973 Old Bailey bombing, Bombing
The bomb team started lifting out 5-pound bags of explosives and separated them, so that if the bomb did go off, the force of the explosion would be greatly reduced. The bomb squad eventually found the detonating cord leads, which ran under the front passenger seat of the car; Peter Gurney, a senior member of New Scotland Yard, cut the detonator cord leads, defusing the bomb.


1973 Old Bailey bombing, Bombing
However, at the Old Bailey the bomb exploded, injuring many and causing extensive damage. Scotland Yard stated it had warned the City of London police at 14:01 to search near the Old Bailey for a green Ford Cortina; the car was not located until 14:35 and exploded at 14:49 while police were evacuating the area. A shard of glass from the explosion is preserved as a reminder, embedded in the wall at the top of the main stairs.


1973 Old Bailey bombing, Bombing
Several more people were injured by the car bomb near the Ministry of Agriculture, which brought the total number injured to over 200. A British man, 60-year-old Frederick Milton, died of a heart attack. Dolours Price wrote in her memoir: "There were warnings phoned in but people had stood about, curious to see... If people ignored the warnings and stood around gawking, they were stupid. The numbers of injured came about through curiosity and stupidity." The ASU was caught trying to leave the country at Heathrow Airport prior to the explosions, as the police had been forewarned about the bombings and were checking all passengers to Belfast and Dublin. All 10 gave false names that did not match their documents.


1973 Old Bailey bombing, Court and sentence
The IRA volunteers had to be tried at Winchester Crown court sitting in Winchester Castle as the Old Bailey was wrecked by the car bomb there. The trial took 10 weeks and was set amid extremely strict security. William McLarnon pleaded guilty to all charges on the first day of the trial. On 14 November 1973, a jury convicted six men and two women of the bombings. The jury acquitted Roisin McNearney in exchange for information and she was given a new identity. As her verdict was handed down, the other defendants began to hum the "Dead March" from Saul, and one threw a coin at her, shouting "Take your blood money with you" as she left the dock in tears. Six of the nine people convicted admitted to Provisional IRA membership.


1973 Old Bailey bombing, Court and sentence
At the court, the judge sentenced the eight to life imprisonment for the bombings and 20 years for conspiracy, while 19 year old William McLarnon whose family was forced out of their home in August 1969 was sentenced to 15 years, when his sentence was read out he shouted "Up The Provisional IRA". As the eight were led to the cells below the court, several gave raised fist salutes to relatives and friends in the public gallery, who shouted "Keep your chins up" and "All the best".


1973 Old Bailey bombing, Court and sentence
The Price sisters immediately went on hunger strike, soon followed by Feeney and Kelly, for the right not to do prison work and to be repatriated to a jail in Ireland. The bombers on hunger strike were eventually moved to jails in Ireland as part of the 1975 IRA truce agreed with the British. In 1983, Kelly escaped from Maze Prison and became part of an IRA ASU in the Netherlands; he was recaptured three years later by the Dutch authorities and extradited.


1973 Old Bailey bombing, Further IRA bombs in England
The Old Bailey bomb was the beginning of a sustained bombing campaign in England. The next major bombing by the IRA in England was the King's Cross station and Euston station bombings which injured 13 people and did widespread damage. Another significant attack that year was the 1973 Westminster bombing which injured 60 people. Two more people would die in England from IRA bombings in 1973, bringing the total to three for the year in that part of United Kingdom.


1973 Old Bailey bombing, Further IRA bombs in England
The next year 1974, was the bloodiest year of the Troubles outside of Northern Ireland with over 70 people being killed in the Republic of Ireland and England combined. 34 were killed in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, 21 from the Birmingham pub bombings, 12 from the M62 coach bombing and several people were killed by the IRA's Balcombe Street Gang.


1973 Old Bailey bombing, Further IRA bombs in England
One of the Old Bailey bombers Marian Price explained the IRA's reasoning for bombing England. "It doesn't seem to matter if it's Irish people dying." So if the armed struggle was to succeed then it was necessary to "bring it to the heart of the British Establishment" Hence symbolic targets such as the Old Bailey: "the targets were carefully chosen".


1973 Ole Miss Rebels football team
The 1973 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Billy Kinard, in his third year, for the first three games and then by Johnny Vaught, in his 25th year, for their last eight games. The Rebels played their home games at Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi and Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson, Mississippi. They finished the season with a record of six wins and five losses (6–5, 4–3 SEC).


1973 Omagh District Council election
Elections to Omagh District Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 20 councillors.


1973 Omagh District Council election, Districts results, Area A
1973: 2 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Unionist, 1 x Independent Nationalist


1973 Omagh District Council election, Districts results, Area B
1973: 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent Nationalist, 1 x Independent Unionist


1973 Omagh District Council election, Districts results, Area C
1973: 3 x UUP, 2 x SDLP, 1 x Nationalist, 1 x Alliance


1973 Omagh District Council election, Districts results, Area D
1973: 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent Nationalist, 1 x Independent Republican


1973 Omloop Het Volk
The 1973 Omloop Het Volk was the 28th edition of the Omloop Het Volk cycle race and was held on 3 March 1973. The race started and finished in Ghent. The race was won by Eddy Merckx.


1973 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election
The Ontario Liberal Party leadership election, 1973, was held on October 27–28, 1973 to replace Robert Nixon who had announced his retirement in 1972. After a change of heart he reversed his decision to retire and entered the leadership race to retain his position. He defeated Norman Cafik on the third ballot by 317 votes.


1973 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election, Background
On February 12, 1972, at a party annual meeting, Robert Nixon announced that he was resigning as party leader. Initially five names were presented as possible leadership contenders. Murray Gaunt, a farmer; Donald Deacon, MPP and investment dealer; James Bullbrook, lawyer; Vern Singer, MPP and lawyer; and Phil Givens, former mayor of Toronto. Nixon agreed to stay on as party leader until a leadership convention was held.


1973 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election, Background
Deacon was the first to announce his candidacy on May 15, 1973. He said he would reduce the sales tax to 5% and make up the revenue by taxing services that the wealthy use. He also said that he would work on proposals for a guaranteed annual income. He was endorsed by Margaret Campbell, Leonard Braithwaite and federal MP Barney Danson.


1973 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election, Background
On August 15, 1973, Nixon announced that he was reversing his earlier decision and would be a candidate in the October convention. Changes for the better in Liberal fortunes had figured into his decision.


1973 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election, Background
Other contenders to enter the race were Ted Culp, a teacher from Toronto (September 5), MPP Eddie Sargent (September 11), Michael Houlton, a promoter (October 1), and MP Norman Cafik (October 3). Culp later quit the race on October 18. Culp, who said he ran to highlight issues such as wage and price controls and school curricula found his efforts stymied by the other candidates. He said, "Unfortunately, my purpose was largely obscured by the strange tactics of Deacon and Sargent, who seem to be preoccupied with knifing Bob Nixon in the back. Their performance fully explains why they are still backbenchers."


1973 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election, Background
According to Peter Oliver, the campaign was rather tedious until Vern Singer was found to have received a $25,000 retainer from a developer working for Ontario Hydro. Sargent accused Nixon of suppressing the information calling it 'hush money'. Singer resigned as Deputy Leader and sued Sargent for defamation of character. On the eve of the convention, Sargent withdrew from the race.


1973 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election, Convention
On Saturday October 27, 2,081 Liberal delegates gathered at the Royal York Hotel. The speeches took place during the evening. Each contender was given 25 minutes to speak. During Deacon's address, party president Joe Cruden inadvertently cut him off five minutes early. Deacon continued to speak over shouts of "time". The mistake appeared to deflate his campaign.


1973 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election, Convention
Balloting began on noon on Sunday, October 28. Houlton was eliminated on the first ballot with only 11 votes. On the second ballot, Deacon was eliminated. He then walked across the convention floor and offer his support to Nixon. While Cafik supporters were incredulous given Deacon's attacks on Nixon during the campaign, Deacon explained his move by saying, "I know Bob, and I know I can count on his integrity."


1973 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election, Convention
On the third and final ballot, Nixon defeated Cafik by 317 votes. Nixon continued as party leader. He appointed Deacon as Deputy Leader and Jim Breithaupt as House Leader.


1973 Open Championship
The 1973 Open Championship was the 102nd Open Championship, played 11–14 July at Troon Golf Club in Troon, Scotland. Tom Weiskopf won his only major championship by three strokes over runners-up Neil Coles and Johnny Miller, the winner of the U.S. Open a month earlier. Weiskopf was a wire-to-wire winner and his four-round total of 12-under-par 276 matched the then-existing Open Championship record set by Arnold Palmer on the very same course in 1962.


1973 Open Championship
Gene Sarazen, 71, made a hole-in-one in the first round at the famous 8th hole, a 126-yard (115 m) par-3 named the "Postage Stamp," due to its small green. Lee Trevino's bid for a third straight Open fell short, thirteen strokes back in a tie for tenth place.


1973 Open Championship
This was the course's last Open Championship under the name Troon Golf Club; it became Royal Troon Golf Club five years later in 1978, and next hosted in 1982.


1973 Open Championship, Course
Opens from 1962 through 1989 played the 11th hole as a par-5.


1973 Open Championship, Round summaries, Second round
Amateurs: Edwards (+6), Homer (+7), Russell (+7), Foster (+8),Stuart (+9), Milne (+10), Hedges (+13), Bonallack (+15), Sym (+15), Burch (+16), Eyles (+18), James (+24)


1973 Orange Bowl
The 1973 Orange Bowl was the 39th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, on Monday, January 1. The final game of the 1972–73 bowl season, it matched the ninth-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers of the Big Eight Conference and the independent #12 Notre Dame Fighting Irish, led by their respective hall of fame coaches, Bob Devaney and Ara Parseghian. Nebraska scored early and won 40–6.


1973 Orange Bowl, Teams, Notre Dame
Notre Dame opened with four wins, but lost by four points to Missouri at home. In the regular season finale, the Irish lost 45–23 at rival USC, the eventual national champion. It was Notre Dame's first appearance in the Orange Bowl.


1973 Orange Bowl, Teams, Nebraska
The two-time defending national champion Cornhuskers started the season top-ranked, but were upset by a late field goal in the opener, late at night at UCLA. They later tied Iowa State on the road and lost 17–14 to rival Oklahoma at home, their first loss on artificial turf. Nebraska was  appearing in their third consecutive Orange Bowl.


1973 Orange Bowl, Game summary
Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Rodgers scored on an 8-yard touchdown run as Nebraska took the lead. In the second quarter, Gary Dixon scored from a yard out to increase the score to 14–0. I-back Rodgers then found split end Frosty Anderson for a 52-yard touchdown pass and the Huskers led 20–0 at halftime.


1973 Orange Bowl, Game summary
In the third quarter, Rodgers scored on runs of four and five yards as Nebraska built a 33–0 lead. Quarterback Dave Humm threw a 50-yard touchdown pass to Rodgers as Nebraska led 40–0 after three quarters. Notre Dame finally managed six points on a touchdown from Tom Clements to Pete Demmerle against the Husker reserves to avoid a shutout.


1973 Orange Bowl, Aftermath
Although 1972 was a letdown season after two consecutive national championships, the Huskers were the first to three-peat in the Orange Bowl and finished fourth in the final AP poll at 9–2–1. Rodgers scored four touchdowns and threw for another in his final collegiate game, and sat out the final twenty minutes. The final UPI coaches poll was released in early December, prior to the bowls, and had the Huskers ninth.


1973 Orange Bowl, Aftermath
The 1972 season also was the only three-loss season in Parseghian's eleven years at Notre Dame and they fell to fourteenth in the final AP poll; the Irish rebounded in 1973 to finish 11–0 and win the national championship.


1973 Oregon State Beavers football team
The 1973 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State University in the Pacific-8 Conference (Pac-8) during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their ninth season under head coach Dee Andros, the Beavers compiled a 2–9 record (2–5 in Pac-8, tie for fifth), and were outscored 293 to 166. The team played four home games on campus at Parker Stadium in Corvallis, with one at Civic Stadium in Portland.


1973 Oregon State Beavers football team
With their three-point road win over rival Oregon in the season finale, Andros' record improved to 8–1 against the Ducks in the Civil War game.


1973 Oregon Webfoots football team
The 1973 Oregon Webfoots football team represented the University of Oregon during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In his second and final year as head coach, Dick Enright led the Ducks to a 2–9 record (2–5 in Pac-8, tied for fifth)


1973 Oregon Webfoots football team
Six weeks after the season ended, Enright was fired by athletic director Norv Ritchey in early January, with the university buying out the remainder of his four-year contract. He was immediately succeeded by assistant coach Don Read, who handled quarterbacks and receivers for the past two seasons.


1973 Oregon Webfoots football team, All-conference
Three Oregon underclassmen were named to the All-Pac-8 team: tight end Russ Francis, defensive back Steve Donnelly, and defensive tackle Reggie Lewis. Francis and Donnelly were juniors and Lewis was a sophomore.


1973 Oregon Webfoots football team, NFL Draft
Two Oregon seniors were selected in the draft; tackle Tim Guy (122nd) and defensive back Jack Conners (400th).


1973 Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo)
1973 Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo) was the 67th water polo championship in Hungary. There were ten teams who played two-round match for the title.


1973 Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo), Final list
* M: Matches W: Win D: Drawn L: Lost G+: Goals earned G-: Goals got P: Point


1973 Ottawa Rough Riders season
The 1973 Ottawa Rough Riders finished the season in 1st place in the Eastern Conference with a 9–5 record and won the Grey Cup.


1973 Ottawa Rough Riders season, Postseason, Grey Cup
Edmonton quarterback Tom Wilkinson was accused of using an unnatural head motion to draw the defence offside. Ottawa General Manager Frank Clair lobbied league officials to watch Wilkinson carefully at the line of scrimmage.


1973 PGA Championship
The 1973 PGA Championship was the 55th PGA Championship, played August 9–12 at Canterbury Golf Club in Beachwood, Ohio, a suburb east of Cleveland. Ohio native Jack Nicklaus won the third of his five PGA Championships, four strokes ahead of runner-up Bruce Crampton.


1973 PGA Championship
It was the twelfth of Nicklaus' eighteen major titles as a professional. At the time, the holder of the most major titles was the late Bobby Jones, with thirteen. As a lifelong amateur, his majors were the Open and amateur championships in the U.S. and Britain. Including his two U.S. Amateur titles, Nicklaus now had 14 majors, surpassing Jones. With his 12th professional major win Nicklaus also usurped Walter Hagen's record of 11 professional major victories. As of July 2021 these records still stand.


1973 PGA Championship
Sam Snead, age 61, shot even-par each day and finished in the top ten for the second straight year; he tied for ninth after a tie for fourth in 1972 and would improve on those in 1974.


1973 PGA Championship
This was the third major at Canterbury, which hosted the U.S. Open twice in the 1940s, both decided in playoffs. Lawson Little was the champion in 1940 with a three-stroke win over Gene Sarazen. Following World War II in 1946, the first U.S. Open in five years was played at the course. Lloyd Mangrum won in the second 18-hole playoff round, one stroke ahead of major winners Byron Nelson and Vic Ghezzi.


1973 PGA Tour
The 1973 PGA Tour season was played from January 4 to December 1. The season consisted of 48 official money events. Jack Nicklaus won the most tournaments, seven, and there were seven first-time winners. The tournament results and award winners are listed below.


1973 PGA Tour, Tournament results
The following table shows all the official money events for the 1973 season. "Date" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Majors are shown in bold.


1973 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
This is a list of the 1973 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates.


1973 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
The tournament returned to a 144-hole final. After three 72-hole regional qualifiers, their were 78 players in the final field. The first four rounds were played at Perdido Bay Country Club in Pensacola, Florida in mid-October and the final four at Dunes Golf Club in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina the following week. They changed courses because the tour was attempting to prepare participants what week-to-week life would be like if they graduated onto the PGA Tour.


1973 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
Ben Crenshaw won the event by 12 strokes. Recently one of the leading amateurs in the country, Crenshaw "gave more credence to projections that he would become golf's next dominating player." Joe Inman, in his second attempt at Q-school, successfully moved on to the PGA Tour. He finished in a tie for sixth place. A total of 23 players earned their tour cards.


1973 Pacific Coast Open
The 1973 Pacific Coast Open, also known by its sponsored name Fireman's Fund International, was a men's tennis tournament that was part of the Grade B category of the 1973 Grand Prix circuit. The event was played on outdoor hard courts at the Round Hill Country Club in Alamo in the San Francisco Bay Area, United States. It was the 83rd edition  of the tournament and was held from September 23 through September 30, 1973. Fourth-seeded Roy Emerson won the singles title and the accompanying $9,000 first-prize money and 40 Grand Prix points.


1973 Pacific Coast Open, Finals, Doubles
Roy Emerson /  Stan Smith defeated  Ove Nils Bengtson /  Jim McManus 6–2, 6–1


1973 Pacific Conference Games
The 1973 Pacific Conference Games was the second edition of the international athletics competition between five Pacific coast nations: Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and the United States. It was held on June 27 and 28 in Toronto. A total of 20 men's and 12 women's athletics events were contested.


1973 Pacific Southwest Open
The 1973 Pacific Southwest Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Los Angeles Tennis Center in Los Angeles, California in the United States. The tournament was classified as Grade A and was part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit. It was the 47th edition of the tournament and ran from September 17 through September 23, 1973. Jimmy Connors won the singles title and the $11,000 first place prize money.


1973 Pacific Southwest Open, Finals, Doubles
Jan Kodeš /  Vladimír Zedník defeated  Jimmy Connors /  Ilie Năstase 6–2, 6–4


1973 Pacific Tigers football team
The 1973 Pacific Tigers football team represented the University of the Pacific (UOP) in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association.


1973 Pacific Tigers football team
The team was led by head coach Chester Caddas, in his second year, and played their home games at Pacific Memorial Stadium in Stockton, California. They finished the season with a record of seven wins, two losses and one tie (7–2–1, 2–1–1 PCAA). The Tigers outscored their opponents 279–109 for the entire season.


1973 Pacific Tigers football team, Team players in the NFL
The following UOP players were selected in the 1974 NFL Draft.


1973 Pacific hurricane season
The 1973 Pacific hurricane season was an event in tropical cyclone meteorology. The most important system this year was Hurricane Ava, which was the most intense Pacific hurricane known at the time. Several other much weaker tropical cyclones came close to, or made landfall on, the Pacific coast of Mexico. The most serious of these was Hurricane Irah, which downed power and communication lines in parts of the Baja California Peninsula; the other landfalling storms caused rain and some flooding. No tropical cyclone this season caused any deaths.


1973 Pacific hurricane season
This season had a quick start but a slow end. Overall activity was below average, with twelve named systems in total. Of these, five were tropical storms, seven were hurricanes, of which three were major (Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale). Just one storm formed in August, one of the least active Augusts ever in the east Pacific. The season officially started May 15, 1973, in the eastern Pacific, and June 1, 1973, in the central Pacific, and lasted until November 30, 1973.


1973 Pacific hurricane season
These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. All tropical cyclones this season formed in the eastern north Pacific Ocean, often off the coast of Mexico. As is usual in the northern hemisphere, most traveled generally westward or northwestward, and two reached as far as the waters south of the Hawaiian Islands.


1973 Pacific hurricane season, Season summary
The season began with the formation of the pre-Ava tropical depression on June 2 and ended with the dissipation of Tropical Lillian on October 9. The season lasted a total of 129 days. No named storms formed in May, three in June, four in July, one in August, three in September, one in October, and none in November. Another six tropical depressions formed during the year, but data on them is unavailable. All of these tropical cyclones formed in the eastern north Pacific tropical cyclone basin, which encompasses the Pacific Ocean north of the equator east of 140°W. None formed in the central north Pacific, which is the remainder of the Pacific Ocean east of the international dateline.


1973 Pacific hurricane season, Season summary
Of the tropical cyclones that formed this year, were twelve tropical storms and seven were hurricanes. Of those hurricanes, three of them were major hurricanes because they reached Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson Scale. These totals are all below the long-term averages of thirteen tropical storms, nine hurricanes, and four major hurricanes. At the time, this season's total of twelve named tropical cyclones was exactly average, although at the time the climatology in this basin was weak because satellite coverage was spotty before 1966.


1973 Pacific hurricane season, Season summary
This season, all advisories and tropical cyclone data were released and collected by two agencies, the Eastern Pacific Hurricane Center in Redwood City, California, and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, both of which were coextensive with the National Weather Service Forecast Offices in their respective cities. The EPHC covered the area between the coast of North America and 140°W, and the CPHC the remainder of the area.


1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ava
A tropical depression formed on June 2. It steadily strengthened and headed in a generally westerly direction. It moved slowly and became Hurricane Ava on June 4. Two days later, it became a major hurricane and it sped up. On June 7, it became a Category 5 hurricane. It then started weakening and slowed down until it dissipated on June 12. No deaths or damages were attributed to Hurricane Ava.


1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ava
Ava's minimum central pressure was 915 millibars, and its maximum sustained winds reached 140 knots (260 km/h). This made Ava the most intense recorded east Pacific hurricane at the time. Ava reached Category 5 intensity on June 7, the earliest date in an east Pacific season that a hurricane has done so. It was also the second known Category 5 storm in the east Pacific; (behind Patsy in 1959). Ava is the strongest June storm, the fifth most intense east Pacific hurricane, and was the only June Category 5 on record until 2010.


1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ava
Ava was also flown into by hurricane hunter aircraft in what was the first penetration of a Pacific hurricane by NOAA aircraft. During these flights, radars and other devices were tested, and wind speed, pressure, and wave heights were measured. This is the reason why Hurricane Ava's pressure is measured instead of estimated. Ava was also photographed from Skylab because it was visible during one of the missions. At that time, it was coincidentally on the surface of the Earth directly underneath the space station. All in all, these made Hurricane Ava one of the best-observed Pacific hurricanes at the time.


1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Bernice
A nearly stationary disturbance in the Intertropical Convergence Zone spent three days organizing and finally developed into a tropical depression on June 22. The cyclone started heading northwest. After intensifying into a tropical storm, Bernice made landfall on June 23 at a location roughly 50 mi (80 km) southwest of Zihuatanejo. It dissipated later that day. Bernice exposed two ships to gales, but otherwise neither deaths nor significant impact was reported. At its peak, Tropical Storm Bernice had winds of 70 miles per hour (110 km/h).


1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Claudia
A tropical depression formed June 26 from a westward-moving area of disturbed weather. The next day, it developed gale-force winds and was named Claudia. Claudia headed northwesterly and then northwards and made landfall on June 28 approximately 30 mi (50 km) east of Acapulco. It dissipated inland the next day. No deaths or casualties were reported due to this tropical cyclone.


1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Doreen
On July 18, a tropical storm formed from a disturbance in the Intertropical Convergence Zone and was named Doreen. It steadily intensified, and became a hurricane on July 19. Doreen briefly reached Category 4 strength on July 21 with a relatively high central pressure of 972 mb (28.7 inHg). It then weakened steadily as its path carried it on a direct path to the Big Island of Hawaii. Doreen weakened to a tropical storm as it entered the Central Pacific Hurricane Center's area of responsibility on July 25.


1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Doreen
A frontal system stuck between two high-pressure areas weakened as the two areas merged, creating a larger high pressure area that turned Doreen to the southwest on July 27. The hurricane then turned back to the northwest and strengthened back into a hurricane. It became a major hurricane again before weakening. Doreen dissipated August 3. Its remnant vortex continued westward until it dissipated under a trough near the dateline. Doreen's sudden change of track and restrengthening was unusual.


1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Doreen
From formation to dissipation, Doreen lasted 16.25 days and traveled a distance of 4,200 mi (6,760 km). This tied Hurricane Celeste's record for longest-lasting Pacific hurricane. Doreen was also the longest-lasting July tropical cyclone. Hurricane Fico broke both of these records in the 1978 season. Doreen remains the eighth-longest lasting Pacific tropical cyclone, tied with two other storms. Several ships encountered Doreen. The most serious incident involved a Greek ship called Cornelia which lost its rudder in 35 ft (10 m) waves, but managed to escape and continue on its way to Panama. On the afternoon of July 29, 9 ft (2.7 m) swells and 3.5 ft (1.1 m) waves were seen from Kapoho. Otherwise, no damages or deaths were blamed on this tropical cyclone.


1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Emily
A depression formed July 21 from squalls in the Gulf of Tehuantepec and headed west-northwest and strengthened into a tropical storm. Emily continued moving nearly parallel to the coast before turning to the west while steadily intensifying. Emily eventually reached Category 4 intensity on July 22. Emily then weakened as it turned to the northwest. It dissipated on July 28. Emily's wind field was large enough to bring gales areas 300 mi (480 km) east of the hurricane from July 22 to 24. This tropical cyclone caused no deaths or damage. Emily had a pressure of 972 mbar, which is unusually high for a hurricane of Category 4 strength.


1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Florence
On July 25, a depression formed off the coast of Guatemala. The storm made a close approach to the Mexican coast as a depression, but did not make landfall. Just after that, it strengthened into a tropical storm. Florence headed west and then west-northwest. It became a hurricane on July 29. It began weakening thereafter. Florence dissipated on July 30. No damages or deaths were reported.


1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Glenda
A depression that had formed on July 30 from a tropical disturbance quickly strengthened into a tropical storm and was named Glenda. It took a path similar to both Florence and Emily, but further from the shore. Glenda dissipated August 5. At the time it still had winds of 40 knots (70 km/h), down from its peak of 60 miles per hour (97 km/h). No deaths, damage, or other impact was reported.


1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Heather
The only storm to form in August this year formed on August 31 from an area of circulation in the ITCZ over the Gulf of Tehuantepec. It became a tropical depression on August 30. After moving northwest for a bit, it became a tropical storm and headed almost due north towards Mexico. Heather dissipated September 1, just before making landfall. Tropical Storm Heather caused no deaths or damage to any location in the coastal area of the Gulf of Tehuantepec.


1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Irah
A depression formed September 22. It became a tropical storm on September 23 and a hurricane on September 24. Irah took a northwesterly path and reached Category 2 strength on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, and then dropped back down to a 1 as it recurved. It made landfall on Baja California and entered the Gulf of California as a tropical storm, making landfall again in northwestern Mexico approximately 30 mi (50 km) northwest of Los Mochis. Irah's first landfall was the strongest of the season. The hurricane dissipated on September 27 while heading east-northeast over mainland Mexico.


1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Irah
Irah blew over some power and communication lines during its passage over the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula. Heavy rain fell over parts of Mexico, with the highest total being 10.24 in (260 mm) at Sierra de la Laguna. One person was injured and at least ten houses were destroyed in Cabo San Lucas. No one was killed. There was some concern that the hurricane could disrupt splashdown procedures for astronauts at the end of Skylab 3; however, the return to Earth was not seriously affected.


1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Jennifer
On September 23, another depression formed. It took a northeasterly path, rotating around the southern periphery of Hurricane Irah as part of a Fujiwhara interaction. It strengthened into a tropical storm late on September 24. The peak windspeed of this tropical cyclone was 40 miles per hour (60 km/h). Jennifer then weakened to a depression and turned to the north-northeast. Jennifer brushed the Islas Marías. The cyclone made landfall near just southeast of Mazatlán and dissipated September 27. Tropical Depression Jennifer caused rain over several parts of Mexico. The highest total was 7.48 in (190 mm) at Navarette/San Blas. No one was killed and no damage was reported.


1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Katherine
Katherine became a tropical storm on September 29, just six hours after forming. It headed out to sea. On October 1, it became a hurricane category 5 . It peaked in windspeed the next day. After weakening to storm strength, it crossed 140°W and entered the central Pacific. Katherine continued its slightly south of westward track. It dropped to a depression on October 9, and dissipated shortly after that due to the influence of a cold trough


1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Lillian
A depression that formed October 5 reached storm strength the same day. It generally paralleled the coast of Mexico far offshore. Lillian reached minimal hurricane strength on October 7 and peaked the next day. The hurricane began to weaken immediately thereafter and dissipated on October 9. Through its life, Lillian at first traveled generally west-northwestward, and then westward. Lillian never threatened land, causing no known impact.


1973 Pacific hurricane season, Storm names
These names were used for storms that formed in the eastern Pacific during this season. It is the same list used in the 1969 season. Storms were named Katherine and Lillian for the first time this year. No names were retired, so this list was used again in the 1977 season. Names that weren't assigned are colored gray.


1973 Pacific hurricane season, Storm names
The Central Pacific used names and numbers from the Western Pacific's typhoon list. No systems formed in the area, and thus no names were required.


1973 Pacific hurricane season, Season effects
This is a table of all of the storms in the 1973 Pacific hurricane season. It includes their durations, peak intensities, names, landfall(s), damages, and death totals. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but are still storm-related. Damage and deaths include totals while the storm was extratropical or a wave or a low.


1973 Pacific typhoon season
The 1973 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1973, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.


1973 Pacific typhoon season
The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator and west of the international date line. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see 1973 Pacific hurricane season. Tropical Storms formed in the entire west pacific basin were assigned a name by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Tropical depressions in this basin have the "W" suffix added to their number. Tropical depressions that enter or form in the Philippine area of responsibility are assigned a name by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration or PAGASA. This can often result in the same storm having two names.


1973 Pacific typhoon season, Systems
25 tropical depressions formed this year in the Western Pacific, of which 21 became tropical storms. 12 storms reached typhoon intensity, of which 3 reached super typhoon strength.


1973 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Wilda (Atring)
Tropical Storm Wilda formed as a disturbance east of the Philippines. It traveled northwest and became a tropical depression as it made landfall on Luzon on June 30th. It crossed the island, and became a tropical storm as it entered the South China Sea on the 1st of July. It traveled north and made landfall in southern China on the 3rd. The remnants of Wilda dissipated inland a few days later.


1973 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Billie (Bining)
Tropical Storm Bille, which developed on July 12 east of the Philippines, rapidly strengthened on the 14th and 15th to a 150 mph super typhoon. It tracked due north, fluctuating in intensity for the next 3 days. A building ridge over the Sea of Japan forced Billie to the northwest, where it weakened greatly, first to a tropical storm on the 18th, then to a tropical depression on the 19th as it passed over northeastern China. The storm dissipated on the 20th.


1973 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Dot
Typhoon Dot struck Hong Kong causing sustained storm force winds, killing one person.


1973 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Marge (Ibiang)
Hainan, Qionghai Jiaji town recorded a minimum central pressure of 937.8 hPa when Marge landfall. Marge killed 903 people in Hainan. Marge made its final landfall in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam on September 15.


1973 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Nora (Luming)
The monsoon trough spawned a tropical depression east of the Philippines on October 1. Under weak steering currents, it meandered westward, where favorable conditions allowed for it to strengthen, first to a tropical storm on the 2nd, then to a typhoon on the 3rd. Nora continued to the northwest, and explosively deepened on the 5th and 6th to a 185 mph super typhoon. At the time, it had a minimum central pressure of 875 millibars, the lowest pressure on record at the time and currently tied for 9th. The typhoon weakened as it headed to the northwest, and struck northeastern Luzon on the 7th as a 115 mph typhoon. Nora continued to the northwest, weakening to a minimal typhoon as it hit southeast China on the 10th. The typhoon caused 18 fatalities, with over $2 million in damage.


1973 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Ruth (Narsing)
27 people were killed when Typhoon Ruth crossed Luzon on October 15 and caused $5 million in damage. Ruth continued to the northwest, and hit Hainan Island and Quang Ninh, Vietnam on the 19th, respectively.


1973 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Ruth (Narsing)
Ruth had the similar path to the Typhoon Sarika in the same time in 2016.


1973 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Sarah
On November 12 this system emerged in the Bay of Bengal and became Tropical Cyclone 37-73.


1973 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Vera (Openg)
One of the strongest tropical cyclones to hit Visayas when it entered on November 20, although the system didn't reach typhoon status. Tropical Storm Openg affected around 3.4 million people.


1973 Pacific typhoon season, Storm names
Western North Pacific tropical cyclones were named by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. The first storm of 1973 was named Wilda and the final one was named Vera.


1973 Pacific typhoon season, Storm names, Philippines
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration uses its own naming scheme for tropical cyclones in their area of responsibility. PAGASA assigns names to tropical depressions that form within their area of responsibility and any tropical cyclone that might move into their area of responsibility. Should the list of names for a given year prove to be insufficient, names are taken from an auxiliary list, the first 10 of which are published each year before the season starts. This is the same list used for the 1969 season. PAGASA uses its own naming scheme that starts in the Filipino alphabet, with names of Filipino female names ending with "ng" (A, B, K, D, etc. ).


1973 Pacific typhoon season, Season effects
This table will list all the storms that developed in the northwestern Pacific Ocean west of the International Date Line and north of the equator during 1973. It will include their intensity, duration, name, areas affected, deaths, missing persons (in parentheses), and damage totals. Classification and intensity values will be based on estimations conducted by the JMA, however due to lack of information around this time sustained winds were recorded by the JTWC. All damage figures will be in 1973 USD. Damages and deaths from a storm will include when the storm was a precursor wave or an extratropical low.


1973 Palanca Awards
The Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature winners in the year 1973 (rank, title of winning entry, name of author).


1973 Palestine Cup of Nations
The 1973 Palestine Cup was the 2nd edition of the Palestine Cup of Nations, it was held in Libya between 11 and 26 August. Ten nations took part in the competition of which Tunisia won.


1973 Palestine Cup of Nations squads
Below are the squads for the 1973 Palestine Cup of Nations, hosted in Libya, and which took place between 11 and 26 August 1973.


1973 Paraguayan general election
General elections were held in Paraguay on 11 February 1973. Alfredo Stroessner of the Colorado Party won the presidential elections, whilst the Colorado Party won 20 of the 30 seats in the Senate and 40 of the 60 seats in the Chamber of Deputues. Voter turnout was 77.4%.


1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash
The 1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash was the destruction of the second production Tupolev Tu-144 at Goussainville, Val-d'Oise, France, which killed all six crew and eight people on the ground. The crash, at the Paris Air Show on Sunday, 3 June 1973, damaged the development program of the Tupolev Tu-144.


1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash
One theory is that a French Mirage jet sent to photograph the aircraft without the knowledge of the Soviet crew caused the pilots to take evasive manoeuvres, resulting in the crash. Another theory is that in a rivalry with the Anglo-French Concorde, the pilots attempted a manoeuvre that was beyond the capabilities of the aircraft.


1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash, Accident
The aircraft involved was Tupolev Tu-144S CCCP-77102, manufacturer's serial number 01–2, the second production Tu-144. The aircraft had first flown on 29 March 1972. This aircraft had been modified compared to the initial prototype to include landing gear that retracted into the nacelles, and retractable canards. The pilot was Mikhail Kozlov, and the co-pilot was Valery M. Molchanov. Also on board were G. N. Bazhenov, the flight navigator, V. N. Benderov, deputy chief designer and engineer major-general, B. A. Pervukhin, senior engineer, and A. I. Dralin, flight engineer. The crash occurred in front of 250,000 people, including designer Alexei Tupolev, toward the end of the show.


1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash, Accident
During the show, there was a "fierce competition between the Anglo-French Concorde and the Russian Tu-144". The Soviet pilot, Mikhail Kozlov, had bragged that he would outperform the Concorde. "Just wait until you see us fly," he was quoted as saying. "Then you'll see something." On the final day of the show, the Concorde, which was not yet in production, performed its demonstration flight first. Its performance was later described as being unexciting, and it has been theorized that Kozlov was determined to show how much better his aircraft was.


1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash, Accident
Once in flight, the aircraft made what appeared to be a landing approach, with the landing gear out and the "moustache" canards extended, but then with all four engines at full power, climbed rapidly. Possibly stalling below 2,000 ft (610 m), the aircraft pitched over and went into a steep dive. Trying to pull out of the subsequent dive with the engines again at full power, the Tu-144 broke up in mid-air, possibly due to overstressing the airframe. The left wing came away first, and then the aircraft disintegrated and crashed, destroying 15 houses, and killing all six people on board the Tu-144 and eight more on the ground. Three children were among those killed, and 60 people received severe injuries.


1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash, Aftermath
The crew of the Tu-144 were buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow on 12 June 1973.


1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash, Aftermath
Following the crash, Marcel Dassault called for the 1975 Paris Air Show to be held at Istres, which is situated in open country 40 km (25 mi) north west of Marseille.


1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash, Aftermath
The crash reduced the enthusiasm of Aeroflot for the Tu-144. Restrictions on the Tu-144 following the Paris Air Show crash meant that it only saw limited service during 1977 and 1978, and it was finally withdrawn following another crash in May 1978. The Tu-144's rival, the Concorde, went on to serve with British Airways and Air France for 30 years afterwards, being finally withdrawn from service in 2003 due to low passenger numbers following the crash of Flight 4590, rising service costs and the slump in the aviation industry following the September 11 attacks.


1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash, Causes, Investigation
The accident was investigated by the DTCE, part of the French military, which was responsible for accidents involving prototype aircraft in France. The wreckage was recovered to a hangar at Le Bourget, with some of it being flown by an Antonov An-22 to the Soviet Union.


1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash, Causes, Theories
One theory is that the Tu-144 manoeuvred to avoid a French Mirage chase plane that was attempting to photograph its unique canards, which were advanced for the time, and that the French and Soviet governments colluded with each other to cover up such details. The flight of the Mirage was denied in the original French report of the incident, perhaps because it was engaged in industrial espionage. More recent reports have admitted the existence of the Mirage (and the fact that the Soviet crew were not told about the Mirage's flight) though not its role in the crash.


1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash, Causes, Theories
However, the official press release did state: "though the inquiry established that there was no real risk of collision between the two aircraft, the Soviet pilot was likely to have been surprised." Howard Moon, author of Soviet SST: The Techno-Politics Of The Tupolev-144, stresses that last-minute changes to the flight schedule would have disoriented the pilots in a cockpit with notably poor sightlines. He also cites an eyewitness who claims the co-pilot had agreed to take a camera with him, which he may have been operating at the time of the evasive manoeuvre. The initial approach may have been an attempted landing on the wrong runway, which occurred due to a last-minute shortening of the Tu-144's display.


1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash, Causes, Theories
An important contributing factor could be that control surfaces deflection had been de-restricted before the flight, perhaps to allow a more impressive demonstration, giving way for a bug of the electronics flight controls which deflected the elevons 10 degrees down after the retraction of the canards, causing the sudden dive.


1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash, Causes, Theories
Bob Hoover, a pilot on the supersonic Bell X-1 program, believed that the rivalry of the Tu-144 and Concorde led the pilot of the Tu-144 to attempt a manoeuvre that went beyond the abilities of the aircraft: "That day, the Concorde went first, and after the pilot performed a high-speed flyby, he pulled up steeply and climbed to approximately 10,000 [feet] before leveling off. When the Tu-144 pilot performed the same manoeuvre he pulled the nose up so steeply I didn't believe he could possibly recover."


1973 Paris Open
The 1973 Paris Open was a men's Grand Prix tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 4th edition of the Paris Open (later known as the Paris Masters). It took place at the Palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France, from 29 October until 4 November 1973. Ilie Năstase won the singles title.


1973 Paris Open, Finals, Singles
Ilie Năstase defeated  Stan Smith 4–6, 6–1, 3–6, 6–0, 6–2


1973 Paris Open, Finals, Doubles
Juan Gisbert, Sr. /  Ilie Năstase defeated  Arthur Ashe /  Roscoe Tanner 6–2, 4–6, 7–5


1973 Paris Open – Doubles
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1973 Paris Open – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. All four seeded teams received byes to the second round.


1973 Paris Open – Singles
Stan Smith was the defending champion, but Ilie Năstase defeated him 4–6, 6–1, 3–6, 6–0, 6–2 in the final.


1973 Paris–Nice
The 1973 Paris–Nice was the 31st edition of the Paris–Nice cycle race and was held from 11 March to 17 March 1973. The race started in Paris and finished in Nice. The race was won by Raymond Poulidor of the Gan team.


1973 Paris–Roubaix
The 1973 Paris–Roubaix was the 71st edition of the Paris–Roubaix cycle race and was held on 15 April 1973. The race started in Compiègne and finished in Roubaix. The race was won by Eddy Merckx of the Molteni team.


1973 Paris–Tours
The 1973 Paris–Tours was the 67th edition of the Paris–Tours cycle race and was held on 30 September 1973. The race started in Paris and finished in Tours. The race was won by Rik Van Linden.


1973 Parramatta by-election
A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Parramatta on 22 September 1973. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of former Liberal Party long serving Attorney General and Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Honourable (and later Sir) Nigel Bowen who accepted an appointment to the NSW Court of Appeal.


1973 Parramatta by-election
The seat was retained by the Liberal Party, with Philip Ruddock defeating Michael Whelan, who contested the seat for the Labor Party. Ten other candidates from minor parties contested the seat.


1973 Parramatta by-election
This was the first federal election in which eighteen-year-olds were eligible to vote, the voting age having been lowered from twenty-one earlier in the year.


1973 Pau Grand Prix
The 1973 Pau Grand Prix was a Formula Two motor race held on 6 May 1973 at the Pau circuit, in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France. The Grand Prix was won by François Cevert, driving the Alpine A367. Jean-Pierre Jarier finished second and Tim Schenken third.


1973 Peach Bowl
The 1973 Peach Bowl was the sixth annual Peach Bowl, featuring the Georgia Bulldogs and the Maryland Terrapins.


1973 Peach Bowl, Background
Four losses in six games in the middle of the Bulldogs season lead them to finish tied for fifth place in the Southeastern Conference (SEC), going 2–1 against ranked teams, beating #19 NC State and #11 Tennessee, but losing to #1 Alabama. After 17 years, the Terrapins made their first bowl appearance since the late 1950s Led by Jerry Claiborne, in his second year at the program, Maryland tied for second-place finish in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). This was the first Peach Bowl appearance for both teams.


1973 Peach Bowl, Game summary
Jimmy Poulos gave the Bulldogs the lead on a touchdown catch from Johnson to break the scoreless tie in the second quarter with 5:27 in the quarter. Walter White caught a 68-yard touchdown pass from Carter to tie the game 23 seconds later. His reception proved to be Maryland's only touchdown of the day. Mayer and Leavitt traded field goals to make the game even at 10 at halftime. A Terrapin fumble gave the Bulldogs the ball in Maryland territory which culminated with an Andy Johnson touchdown run to give the Bulldogs a 17–10 lead with 4:24 in the third. The Terrapins narrowed the margin on two Mike Mayer field goals in the final quarter to make it a one-point game with seven minutes remaining, but they did not get any closer as Georgia held on to win consecutive bowl games for the first time in seven years.


1973 Peach Bowl, Aftermath
The Terrapins created an ACC dynasty the following season, winning the next three ACC titles, culminating with an appearance in the Cotton Bowl Classic. The Terrapins did not return to the Peach Bowl until 2002. The Bulldogs did not win another bowl game for eight years following this game. Georgia returned to the Peach Bowl in 1989.


1973 Penn Quakers football team
The 1973 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season.


1973 Penn State Nittany Lions baseball team
The 1973 Penn State Nittany Lions baseball team represented Pennsylvania State University in the 1973 NCAA University Division baseball season. The head coach was Chuck Bedlar, serving his 11th year.


1973 Penn State Nittany Lions baseball team
The Nittany Lions lost in the College World Series, defeated by the Oklahoma Sooners.


1973 Penn State Nittany Lions football team
The 1973 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented Pennsylvania State University in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. Penn State's third undefeated season under Joe Paterno was led by John Cappelletti who would become the first Penn State player to win the Heisman Trophy.


1973 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Game summaries, Navy
Penn State capitalized on a fumble and two short punts to score three second-quarter touchdowns and break the game wide open against Navy. The Nittany Lions opened scoring with just one second left in the first as QB Tom Shuman hit SE Gary Heyman for a touchdown to cap an 88-yard drive. On the first play after the ensuing kickoff, E Greg Murphy recovered a fumble by RB Bob Jackson at the Navy 41, and the Lions took two-and-a-half minutes and five plays to score again.


1973 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Game summaries, Navy
Penn State scored on two more quick drives of 60 and 51 yards following short punts into a stiff wind by John Stufflebeem. The Lions added a field goal by Chris Bahr midway through the third and backup QB John Clark capped a 56-yard drive with a keeper to put Penn State ahead 37-0. The final points of the contest came when a snap from Navy's center sailed over Stufflebeem's head and out of the end zone for a safety.


1973 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Post season, NFL Draft
Ten Nittany Lions were drafted in the 1974 NFL Draft.


1973 Penwith District Council election
Elections to Penwith District Council were held for the first time in 1973. All 40 seats were contested. Independent candidates won an overwhelming majority, gaining 37 seats. The Labour Party, the Liberal Party, and a Residents' Association candidate each won one seat.


1973 People's Republic of the Congo parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in the People's Republic of the Congo on 24 June 1973, concurrent with a constitutional referendum. The country was a one-party state at the time, with the Congolese Party of Labour as the sole legal party. As such, it won all 115 seats in the People's National Assembly. Voter turnout was 83.2%.


1973 Philadelphia Eagles season
The 1973 Philadelphia Eagles season was the franchise's 41st in the National Football League. Although they improved upon their 2–11–1 record of the previous season, they failed to complete a winning record for the seventh consecutive season and failed to reach the playoffs for the thirteenth straight year.


1973 Philadelphia Eagles season, Offseason
At the end of the 1972 season, Eagles head coach Ed Khayat was fired. Mike McCormack, who had been a Washington Redskins assistant coach from 1965 to 1972, was hired in his place


1973 Philadelphia Eagles season, Offseason
The Eagles move training camp from Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania, to Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania, a short distance from Veterans Stadium.


1973 Philadelphia Phillies season
The 1973 Philadelphia Phillies season was the 91st season in the history of the franchise. The team, managed by Danny Ozark, played their third season at Veterans Stadium and finished last in the National League East, 111⁄2 games behind the Mets.


1973 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season
Steve Carlton, the highest paid pitcher in the game at $165,000, never recovered from a spring training illness and went 13–20. Pitchers Jim Lonborg and Ken Brett, both obtained in a trade with the Milwaukee Brewers, won 13 games each, as did Wayne Twitchell, whose 2.50 ERA was third in the league. Left fielder Greg Luzinski led the team with 29 home runs, 97 RBIs, and 76 runs, and hit .285. In his rookie season, Mike Schmidt hit just .196 and struck out 136 times in 367 at-bats.


1973 Philadelphia Phillies 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


1973 Philadelphia Phillies 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


1973 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1973 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1973 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1973 Philippine constitutional plebiscite
The Philippine constitutional plebiscite of 1973 ratified the 1973 Constitution of the Philippines.


1973 Philippine constitutional plebiscite
In 1970, delegates were elected to a constitutional convention which began to meet in 1971. In September 1972, President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law and arrested 11 members of the convention. The convention then re-convened and wrote a constitution in line with what President Ferdinand Marcos wanted, at least, according to many critics and victims of martial law.


1973 Philippine constitutional plebiscite
Marcos issued Presidential Decree No. 86 calling for the cancellation of the plebiscite and instituted barangays' citizens' assemblies to ratify the new constitution by a referendum from 10–15 January 1973.


1973 Philippine constitutional plebiscite
On 17 January 1973, Marcos issued Proclamation No. 1102 certifying and proclaiming that the 1973 Constitution had been ratified by the Filipino people and thereby was in effect.


1973 Philippine constitutional plebiscite
These results were challenged by the Ratification Cases heard by the Philippine Supreme Court in 1973. The court upheld the results and the ratification of the 1973 Constitution.


1973 Philippine constitutional plebiscite
For this plebiscite to changes to voting requirements were implemented. The voting age was reduced from 18 to 15 years old and those who were illiterate, as described by the opposition, were allowed to vote.


1973 Philippine martial law referendum
The 1973 Philippine martial law referendum was a national referendum in which the citizens' assemblies voted for:


1973 Philippine martial law referendum
The referendum was set from July 27 to July 28, 1973.


1973 Philippine martial law referendum
This referendum was marred with controversy. It is contested that there could not have been any valid referendum held from January 10 to January 15, 1973. Observers noted that many of the claimed 35,000 citizens' assemblies never met and voting was by show of hands.


1973 Phillip Island 500K
The 1973 Phillip Island 500K was an endurance race for Group C Touring Cars, staged at the Phillip Island circuit in Victoria, Australia on 25 November 1973. Race distance was 106 laps of the 4.73 km circuit, a total distance of 501.38 km. The race, which was the fifth and final round of the 1973 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, was the third Phillip Island 500K.


1973 Phillip Island 500K, Results
Note : As 47 cars were entered for this event, it is likely that there were additional starters not shown in the above table.


1973 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship
The 1973 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship was the tenth World Match Play Championship. It was played from Thursday 11 to Saturday 13 October on the West Course at Wentworth. Eight players competed in a straight knock-out competition, with each match contested over 36 holes. The champion received £10,000 out of a total prize fund of £30,000. In the final, Gary Player beat Graham Marsh at the fourth extra hole to win the championship for the fifth time.


1973 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship
In a close final, Player holed a 7-foot birdie putt at the 36th hole to tie the match after Marsh's second shot had found a green-side bunker and he was unable to get down in two more. Player had to get up and down from bunkers at the first two extra holes to extend the match. At the fourth extra hole, he holed from 9 feet and then Marsh missed from 3 feet to give Player the victory.


1973 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship, Prize money
The winner received £10,000, the runner-up £5,000, the losing semi-finalists £3,500 and the first round losers £2,000, making a total prize fund of £30,000.


1973 Pioneer Bowl
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1973 Pioneer Bowl
The 1973 Pioneer Bowl was a college football bowl game in Texas, played between the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs and Boise State Broncos at Memorial Stadium in Wichita Falls. The third edition of the Pioneer Bowl, it was one of two semifinals in the inaugural NCAA Division II playoffs played on December 8.


1973 Pioneer Bowl, Notable participants
Notable participants for Louisiana Tech include Fred Dean, Roger Carr, Pat Tilley, Roland Harper, Mike Barber, John Henry White, Billy Ryckman, Maxie Lambright, Mickey Slaughter, Pat Patterson, and Pat Collins.


1973 Pitcairnese general election
General elections were held on Pitcairn Island on 25 December 1973. Ivan Christian was elected as chair of the Internal Committee, with Thelma Brown and Carol Christian elected to the Island Council, becoming its first two female members. All three were elected unopposed.


1973 Pittsburgh Panthers football team
The 1973 Pittsburgh Panthers football team represented the University of Pittsburgh in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The Panthers competed in the Fiesta Bowl.


1973 Pittsburgh Pirates season
The 1973 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 92nd season of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise; the 87th in the National League. The Pirates finished third in the National League East with a record of 80–82.