1970 VFL Grand Final, Perspective, "The birth of modern football"
Coach Ron Barassi, Jr., speaking to a radio interview after the game.


1970 VFL Grand Final, Perspective, "The birth of modern football"
The style of play displayed by Carlton in the second half, featuring frequent attacking use of handball, playing on quickly from marks, and open fast running play, was a key part of the club's recovery and victory in the game; and coach Ron Barassi's half-time instructions to "handball, handball, handball!" became part of the game's folklore.


1970 VFL Grand Final, Perspective, "The birth of modern football"
The game, and Barassi's half time instructions, are sometimes referred to as "the birth of modern football", a label which critical historical analysis views as symbolic, rather than literal.


1970 VFL Grand Final, Perspective, "The birth of modern football"
The style of football played in Victoria had been undergoing a clear change through the 1960s and early 1970s: prior to this, football had mostly been a stop-start game, with players kicking forward to teammates who took a mark, stopped and kicked again, with the handball being used mainly as a defensive or last-resort option; but through this period, attacking use of handball and playing on and short kicks, became more common. Carlton's recovery in the 1970 grand final symbolized this transition perfectly: falling 44 points behind in the first half playing "old football", then recovering to win playing "new football" in the second half.


1970 VFL Grand Final, Perspective, "The birth of modern football"
Nevertheless, the mythology surrounding the game has perpetuated a myth that Barassi's half-time instructions represented a revolutionary, seminal moment which heralded the transition from the old style of football to the modern style. This literal interpretation does not hold up to any critical assessment: Barassi noted that Carlton had been playing a handball style of game throughout 1970, and credited early 1960s Fitzroy coach Len Smith as being the first coach to encourage attacking use of handball in Victoria.


1970 VFL Grand Final, Perspective, "The birth of modern football"
Football historian John Devaney assessed likewise that the transition towards handball and playing on had been gradual through the 1960s, and was already a well established tactic both within and outside Victoria in the years before 1970. Barassi and Devaney both also note that Carlton's recovery couldn't be attributed to handball alone, with Hopkins strong play, better overall discipline and winning a higher proportion of possession also key to the recovery.


1970 VFL finals series
The 1970 Victorian Football League finals series was the 74th annual edition of the VFL/AFL final series, the Australian rules football tournament staged to determine the winner of the 1970 VFL Premiership season. The series ran over four weekends in September 1970, culminating with the 1970 VFL Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 26 September 1970.


1970 VFL finals series, Qualification
The top four teams on the ladder at the end of the home-and-away rounds of the 1970 VFL Premiership season qualified for the finals series. It was the first season in which featured 22 home-and-away rounds, meaning that each club played all the others twice.


1970 VFL finals series, Venues
All the finals matches were hosted at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and for the second straight year, official crowd attendances at each finals match exceeded 100,000 spectators. Although VFL Park had hosted its first VFL match in April 1970, the stadium's construction was not yet complete and all finals remained contracted to the Melbourne Cricket Ground until at least 1971, and so the new would not host its first VFL final until 1972.


1970 VFL finals series, Matches
The system used for the 1970 VFL finals series was the Page–McIntyre system, also known as the McIntyre Final Four System, which had been used by the VFL since 1931. The first- and second-placed teams would contest the Second Semi-final, while the third- and fourth-placed teams would contest the First Semi-final. The loser of the First Semi-final would be eliminated, while the winner would advance to the Preliminary final, while the loser of the Second Semi-final would receive a "double chance" in the Preliminary final, and the winner would advance directly to the Grand final. The winner of the Preliminary final would then play off in the Grand final, and the loser would be eliminated.


1970 VFL finals series, Matches, Week one: First Semi-final (St Kilda v South Melbourne), Teams
The First Semi-final saw third-placed St Kilda play fourth-placed South Melbourne at the MCG. South Melbourne was competing in its first VFL finals series since 1945 and were the sentimental favourite, while the Saints were competing in their seventh finals series in the last ten seasons, and still had a number of their stars from the 1966 premiership triumph. Interestingly, this was the first time the two clubs had met in a VFL final, despite being foundation members of the VFL.


1970 VFL finals series, Matches, Week one: First Semi-final (St Kilda v South Melbourne), Teams
It was a special occasion for Swans captain Bob Skilton, who had returned to action after missing the whole of 1969 due to a snapped Achilles – he was playing his first final in his 218th game, which at the time set the record for the longest wait for any VFL/AFL player before playing in a final.


1970 VFL finals series, Matches, Week one: First Semi-final (St Kilda v South Melbourne), Match summary
Bigger, more experienced, cooler in the crises, St Kilda ended the fairytale VFL season of South Melbourne and Bobby Skilton at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday. A hundred and four thousand people welcomed Skilton on to the ground with a tremendous roar. The vast majority cheered for his men throughout the match, but it was not enough. Fifteen great minutes in the second quarter saw South Melbourne grab the lead at half-time. For the rest of the match it was just a case of a fine smaller team pitting determination against a slightly more gifted and appreciably bigger team with even more discipline. In the end, height, weight and discipline told, and St Kilda won comfortably by53 points.


1970 VFL finals series, Matches, Week two: Second Semi-final (Collingwood v Carlton)
The Second Semi-final saw Collingwood play Carlton at the MCG. This was the 14th meeting between the two clubs in finals, having previously met in the 1969 Second Semi-final. Carlton had won nine of the encounters, including the last six meetings.


1970 VFL finals series, Matches, Week two: Second Semi-final (Collingwood v Carlton), Match summary
Collingwood, the hottest VFL favourite in a decade, won its way into the 1970 grand final on Saturday, but three players almost confounded its expectations. Collingwood had a far more even team, won the ball more often, outmarked its opponents by 77 to 51 yet lost the lead in every quarter and got home by only 10 points. Amid the tension bordering on delirium which always accompanies a Collingwood-Carlton finals clash, the lead changed 10 times before the biggest semi-final crowd in history.


1970 VFL finals series, Matches, Week three: Preliminary final (Carlton v St Kilda)
The Preliminary final saw Carlton play St Kilda at the MCG on Saturday, 19 September. This was the fourth final between the two clubs, having previously met in the finals in 1907, 1908 and 1929, with Carlton winning all three encounters.


1970 VFL finals series, Matches, Week three: Preliminary final (Carlton v St Kilda), Match summary
In what was predicted to be a close match, Carlton blew away St Kilda in the second half. In what turned out to be a chilling premonition, esteemed veteran journalist Rohan Rivett wrote the following in his article covering the game for the Canberra Times:


1970 VFL finals series, Matches, Week three: Preliminary final (Carlton v St Kilda), Match summary
As Collingwood's coach, Bob Rose, watched Carlton's weak links of the previous week becoming bastions of strength, he must have wondered if onceagain his hopes of a Collingwood premiership will be dashed at the eleventh hour.


1970 VFL finals series, Matches, Week four (Grand Final)
This marked the fourth meeting in a VFL Grand final between Carlton and Collingwood.


1970 VFL season
The 1970 Victorian Football League season was the 74th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.


1970 VFL season, Premiership season
In 1970, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man. A player could be substituted for any reason; however, once substituted, a player could not return to the field of play under any circumstances.


1970 VFL season, Premiership season
Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 22 rounds; matches 12 to 22 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 11.


1970 VFL season, Premiership season
Once the 22 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1970 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page–McIntyre system.


1970 VFL season, Consolation Night Series Competition
The consolation night series were held under the floodlights at Lake Oval, South Melbourne, for the teams (5th to 12th on ladder) out of the finals at the end of the home and away rounds.


1970 VI FIBA International Christmas Tournament
The 1970 VI FIBA International Christmas Tournament "Trofeo Raimundo Saporta" was the 6th edition of the FIBA International Christmas Tournament. It took place at Sports City of Real Madrid Pavilion, Madrid, Spain, on 24, 25 and 26 December 1970 with the participations of Real Madrid (champions of the 1969–70 Liga Española de Baloncesto), Juventud Nerva, Gimnasia y Esgrima and Puerto Rico.


1970 Valley State Matadors football team
The 1970 Valley State Matadors football team represented Valley State during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season.


1970 Valley State Matadors football team
Valley State competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The 1970 Matadors were led by second-year head coach Leon McLaughlin. They played home games at Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, California. Valley State finished the season with a record of four wins and six losses (4–6, 1–2 CCAA).


1970 Valley State Matadors football team, Team players in the NFL
No Valley State players were selected in the 1971 NFL Draft.


1970 Valparaiso Crusaders football team
The 1970 Valparaiso Crusaders football team represented Valparaiso University as a member of the Indiana Collegiate Conference (ICC) during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. Led by third-year head coach Norm Amundsen, the Crusaders compiled and overall record of 5–3–1 with a conference mark of 1–4, placing fourth in the ICC.


1970 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
The 1970 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The Commodores were led by head coach Bill Pace in his fourth season and finished the season with a record of four wins and seven losses (4–7 overall, 1–5 in the SEC).


1970 Venetian regional election
The Venetian regional election of 1970 took place on 7–8 June 1970.


1970 Venetian regional election, Events
Christian Democracy was by far the largest party, securing a full majority. After the election the Christian Democrats formed a one-party government under the leadership of Angelo Tomelleri, who was briefly replaced by Paolo Feltrin in 1972–1973.


1970 Venezuelan Primera División season
The 1970 season of the Venezuelan Primera División, the top category of Venezuelan football, was played by 8 teams. The national champions were Galicia.


1970 Vermont Catamounts football team
The 1970 Vermont Catamounts football team was an American football team that represented  the University of Vermont in the Yankee Conference during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. In their first year under head coach Joe Scannella, the team compiled an 0–9 record.


1970 Vermont gubernatorial election
The 1970 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Republican Deane C. Davis ran successfully for re-election to a second term as Governor of Vermont, defeating Democratic candidate Leo O'Brien Jr.


1970 Victorian state election
The 1970 Victorian state election, held on Saturday, 30 May 1970, was for the 45th Parliament of Victoria. It was held in the Australian state of Victoria to elect the 73 members of the state's Legislative Assembly and 18 members of the 36-member Legislative Council.


1970 Victorian state election
The incumbent Liberal government led by Henry Bolte was returned for a sixth term with a slightly reduced majority.


1970 Victorian state election, Results, Legislative Assembly
Victorian state election, 30 May 1970Legislative Assembly << 1967–1973 >>


1970 Victorian state election, Results, Legislative Council
Victorian state election, 30 May 1970Legislative Council << 1967–1973 >>


1970 Villanova Wildcats football team
The 1970 Villanova Wildcats football team represented the Villanova University during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The head coach was Lou Ferry, coaching his first season with the Wildcats. The team played their home games at Villanova Stadium in Villanova, Pennsylvania.


1970 Virginia Cavaliers football team
The 1970 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The Cavaliers were led by sixth-year head coach George Blackburn and played their home games at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia. They competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing in last. At the conclusion of the season, Blackburn was fired as head coach. He had a record of 28–33–0 at Virginia, with just one winning season, in 1968.


1970 Virginia Slims of Richmond
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1970 Virginia Slims of Richmond
The 1970 Virginia Slims of Richmond  was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor clay courts at the Westwood Racquet Club in Richmond, Virginia in the United States. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from November 5 through November 8, 1970. It was the second Virginia Slims tournament after the 1970 Houston Women's Invitation in September and was not sanctioned by the United States Lawn Tennis Association (USLTA). First-seeded Billie Jean King won the singles title and earned $2,400 first-prize money.


1970 Virginia Slims of Richmond, Finals, Doubles
Rosie Casals /  Billie Jean King defeated  Mary-Ann Curtis /  Valerie Ziegenfuss 6–4, 6–4


1970 Virginia Tech Gobblers football team
The 1970 Virginia Tech Gobblers football team represented Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season.


1970 Virginia Tech Gobblers football team, Players
The following players were members of the 1970 football team according to the roster published in the 1971 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.


1970 Virginia ballot measures
The 1970 Virginia State Elections took place on Election Day, November 3, 1970, the same day as the U.S. Senate and U.S. House elections in the state. The only statewide elections on the ballot were four constitutional referendums  to amend the Virginia State Constitution. All referendums were referred to the voters by the Virginia General Assembly.


1970 Virginia ballot measures, Question 1
Due to the events of the Civil Rights Movement, several U.S. federal laws, court cases, and the 24th Amendment had nullified large parts of the Virginia State Constitution which had been drafted in 1902. Therefore, Governor A. Linwood Holton Jr. and the Virginia General Assembly collectively decided to call a constitutional convention in order to overhaul the constitution and remove its discriminatory elements. After this measure was passed the Government of Virginia established a Commission on Constitutional Revision which generated the current Virginia State Constitution.


1970 Virginia ballot measures, Question 1
"Shall the Constitution be generally amended and revised, as agreed to by the General Assembly at its 1969 and 1970 sessions (except for the three proposals separately stated below)?"


1970 Virginia ballot measures, Question 2
This amendment asked voters to repeal Section 60 (which prohibits lotteries) and leave it to the General Assembly to decide whether or not to authorize or prohibit lotteries.


1970 Virginia ballot measures, Question 3
This amendment asked voters to authorize the state government to issue government bonds for specific capital projects. The sum of the debt incurred by these bond measures cannot not exceed 1.15 times the total annual income and sales tax revenues of the Commonwealth. These bond measures must first be approved by a voter referendum in order to take effect.


1970 Virginia ballot measures, Question 4
This amendment asked voters to authorize the state government to issue revenue bonds for specific capital projects. Such bonds must first by certified by the Governor that the anticipated revenues from such projects will be sufficient to pay principal and interest as they become due. Such bonds must also have the approval of 2/3s of both chambers in the Virginia General Assembly. The sum of the debt incurred by these bond measures cannot not exceed 1.15 times the total annual income and sales tax revenues of the Commonwealth.


1970 Volta a Catalunya
The 1970 Volta a Catalunya was the 50th edition of the Volta a Catalunya cycle race and was held from 10 September to 18 September 1970. The race started in Manresa and finished in Barcelona. It was won by Franco Bitossi.


1970 Vuelta a España
The 1970 Vuelta a España was the 25th Edition Vuelta a España, taking place from 23 April to 12 May 1970. It consisted of 19 stages over 3,568 km (2,217 mi), ridden at an average speed of 39.85 km/h (24.76 mph). The race revealed Augustín Tamames as a contender for the future at the Vuelta as Tamames riding in his first Vuelta held in the final week the race lead until the final individual time trial when Luis Ocaña time trialled himself into the lead. Ocaña had finished runner up in the previous edition of the race and won the two time trials in the 1970 Vuelta. It would be Ocaña’s only win in the Spanish race.


1970 WANFL season
The 1970 WANFL season was the 86th season of the Western Australian National Football League. After four years of dominance by the three Perth clubs, 1970 saw 1969 wooden spooners South Fremantle, aided by a tough pre-season training program under coach “Hassa” Mann (a three-time Melbourne premiership player) and the arrival of Len Clark and John O‘Reilly from the VFL, rise to take their first premiership since the 1947–1954 dynasty.


1970 WANFL season
The Bulldogs (as the club had recently become known) upset Perth in two finals in wet conditions, while 1969 premiers West Perth fell to sixth with only ten victories: indeed this was the first season since 1955 with East Perth that legendary ruckman “Polly” Farmer had played for a team that missed the finals.


1970 WANFL season
The Cardinals were affected by the loss of John Wynne to Norwood, backup ruckmen Brian Sampson and Neil Evans to retirement and Greg Astbury to a major stomach problem, plus a dispute over Bill Valli, whose clearance to Collingwood was refused by the WANFL and the club's severe lack of depth in its reserves.


1970 WANFL season
Of the lower sides from previous seasons, in addition to South Fremantle's surprise flag Claremont showed major improvement due to such young players as Moss, winning more games than in any season since 1965, and would have done much better but for long-term injuries to rover Bruce Duperouzel and centre half-forward Lindsay Carroll in the second half of the season, when they fell out of the four after looking like a second semi-final berth.


1970 WANFL season
Despite a much wetter winter than the drought year of 1969, scoring in 1970 was higher than ever before, exceeding 100 points per team per game for the first time, including a record highest losing score. This was largely due to the “out of bounds on the full” rule which the WANFL adopted for the first time after its success in the 1969 VFL season. Attendances for the home-and-away season also hit a never-to-be-equalled average of 9,644 per match, aided by South's revival. The season, unusually, lasted a week beyond the conclusion of the senior premiership due to a draw in the reserves Grand Final between East Fremantle and Subiaco.


1970 WANFL season
Although Swan Districts finished with its second wooden spoon in three seasons, captain-coach Bill Walker – whose coaching was often severely criticised – became the only player to win four Sandover Medals when awarded a retrospective Medal by Westar Rules in 1997.


1970 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Interstate Trial
The first interstate trial match on Anzac Day since 1961 had its revenue donated to the Anzac Day Trust Fund, and saw Claremont’s Russell Reynolds and Vern Orr emerge as the leading new lights for carnival selection.


1970 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 4
After a shaky start, an East Perth team featuring only ten of its 1969 Grand Final players demolishes a feeble Perth via hard defence on a perfect day for football.


1970 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 10
West Perth, without Farmer and Dempsey on state duty, and only seventeen fit players after half-time, fall to two games below fourth as their forwards fail to capitalise on Mel Whinnen’s dominance.


1970 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 13
With Farmer and Dempsey back in form, West Perth hold South Fremantle scoreless in the opening quarter, but the Cardinals’ lack of good forwards proves decisive afterwards.


1970 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Interstate match
Western Australia’s speed on the wings allows it to win a drab and unexciting match, whose margin should have been wider since a late goal awarded to Wayne Phillis was clearly a behind according to replays. “Polly” Farmer played with a major ankle problem.


1970 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 20
After an even first half, George Young, Cam Blakemore and Peter Metropolis take the match over, kicking eight of the Maroons’ ten second half goals and dominating general play on the ball. The result leaves Claremont to beat top team Perth and hope Old Easts can continue their recent form to remain in the four.


1970 WANFL season, Finals, First semi-final
Poor tactics by Subiaco – including playing an unfit Bunton together with Watt on the ball and constantly kicking too high in the air – leave the depleted Royals with a very easy win and no injuries form the game.


1970 WANFL season, Finals, Second semi-final
South Fremantle end a record 11-game losing streak against Perth to enter their first Grand Final since 1956. The Bulldogs’ resolution after a woefully inaccurate first quarter yielding 2.12 (24) allowed them to hold out Perth in a controversial finish where Perth forward Pat Astone was denied a mark to boos from the crowd.


1970 WANFL season, Finals, Preliminary final
Perth’s tired finish – it just held on after leading by thirty-five points at three-quarter time – raises doubts over its Grand Final prospects on the back of two very tough games.


1970 WANFL season, Finals, Grand Final
In very wet conditions, South Fremantle take advantage of Perth’s woeful inaccuracy in the first half to win their first premiership for sixteen years with some ease.


1970 WANFL season, Notes
Walker lost on a countback, but was retrospectively awarded a Medal by the Westar Rules hierarchy in 1997. This policy was made illegal in 1973 when a ‘centre diamond’ (later the current centre square) was introduced, within with no team could place more than four players during a centre bounce. East Fremantle were not to suffer another wooden spoon after their debut until 2004, and they did so again in 2006.


1970 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1970 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 11th conference playoff in league history. The tournament was played between March 12 and March 14, 1970. All East Regional games were played at the Duluth Arena Auditorium in Duluth, Minnesota while West Regional games were held at the DU Arena in Denver, Colorado. By winning the regional tournaments, both the East Regional Champion†, Michigan Tech, and West Regional Champion‡, Wisconsin, were invited to participate in the 1970 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


1970 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The top eight teams in the WCHA, according to their final conference standings, were eligible for the tournament and were seeded No. 1 through No. 8. The eight teams were then divided into two separate groups by placing all even-numbered seeds in one group (2, 4, 6, 8) and the odd-numbered seeds (1, 3, 5, 7) in the other group.


1970 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
Using the location of the top seeds in each of the groups, the odd-numbered group (containing Minnesota) was placed in the east region which was held at the Duluth Arena Auditorium while the odd-numbered grouping (containing Denver) was placed in the west region which was held at the DU Arena. Once each regional group was set the teams were reseeded No. 1 to No. 4 according to their final conference standings.


1970 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
Because Minnesota-Duluth was placed in the West Region despite their building hosting the East Region they were swapped with the equivalent seed (Michigan State) in the East Region to allow them to play in their home venue. In the first round the first and fourth seeds and the second and third seeds in each region were matched in a single game with the winners advancing to their regional final games. The winners of the two championship games were declared as co-conference tournament champions.


1970 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format, Conference Standings
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PCT = Winning Percentage; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against


1970 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team
The 1970 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest University during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In its second season under head coach Cal Stoll, the team compiled a 6–5 record, finished in first place in the Atlantic Coast Conference with a 5–1 record against conference opponents.


1970 Washington Darts season
The 1970 Washington Darts season was the team's first season in the North American Soccer League, and the club's fourth season in professional soccer. Previously the club fielded a team in the American Soccer League. In their initial run in the NASL, the team earned first place in the Southern Division and finished with the top record in the league. As division champions they automatically qualified for the championship game known as the NASL Final.


1970 Washington Darts season, Competitions, NASL regular season
G = Games, W = Wins, L = Losses, T= Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, PT= point system


1970 Washington Darts season, Competitions, NASL regular season
6 points for a win, 3 points for a tie,0 points for a loss,1 point for each goal scored up to three per game.


1970 Washington Huskies football team
The 1970 Washington Huskies football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In its fourteenth season under head coach Jim Owens, the team compiled a 6–4 record,  tied for second in the Pacific-8 Conference at 4–3, and outscored its opponents 334 to 216.


1970 Washington Huskies football team
The Huskies were led on the field by sophomore quarterback Sonny Sixkiller, who set numerous team records. Fullback Bo Cornell and defensive tackle Tom Failla were the team captains.


1970 Washington Huskies football team, NFL Draft selections
Four University of Washington Huskies were selected in the 1971 NFL Draft, which lasted seventeen rounds with 442 selections.


1970 Washington Redskins season
The 1970 Washington Redskins season was the franchise's 39th season in the National Football League (NFL) and their 34th in Washington, D.C..  Second-year head coach Vince Lombardi was diagnosed with terminal cancer in late June and died on September 3; offensive line coach Bill Austin stepped in as interim head coach in mid-July.


1970 Washington Redskins season
Austin had been an NFL head coach for three seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers (1966–68) and was starting his eighth year as an assistant coach under Lombardi (1959–64, 1969–70). Also, Austin's final four seasons as a player on the offensive line with the New York Giants (1954–57) were with Lombardi as offensive coordinator.


1970 Washington Redskins season
The Redskins finished at 6–8 in 1970, fourth in the NFC East, but with a five-game losing streak in the second half of the season. The last loss was a 34–0 shutout at rival Dallas on December 6, and Washington fell to a 4–8 record and four games behind the Cowboys.


1970 Washington Redskins season
It was the 25th consecutive season that the Redskins did not advance to the playoffs. Austin's contract was not renewed, and he was succeeded by George Allen in January 1971. Austin returned to Redskins in 1973 as the offensive line coach under Allen for five seasons.


1970 Washington Redskins season, Regular season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1970 Washington Senators season
The 1970 Washington Senators season involved the Senators finishing sixth in the American League East with a record of 70 wins and 92 losses. This was the franchise's penultimate season in Washington, D.C..


1970 Washington Senators 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


1970 Washington Senators 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


1970 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1970 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1970 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1970 Washington Star International
The 1970 Washington Star International was a men's tennis tournament and was played on outdoor clay courts. It was the second edition of the tournament and was part of the 1970 Grand Prix circuit and categorized as a Class 2 event. It was held  at the Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C. from July 13 through July 19, 1970. Cliff Richey won the singles title and earned a $7,000 first prize.


1970 Washington Star International, Finals, Doubles
Bob Hewitt/  Frew McMillan defeated  Ilie Năstase /  Ion Țiriac 7–5, 6–0


1970 Washington State Cougars football team
The 1970 Washington State Cougars football team was an American football team that represented Washington State University in the Pacific-8 Conference (Pac-8) during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In their third season under head coach Jim Sweeney, the Cougars compiled a 1–10 record (0–7 in Pac-8, last), and were outscored 460 to 231.


1970 Washington State Cougars football team
The team's statistical leaders included Ty Paine with 1,581 passing yards, Bob Ewen with 667 rushing yards, and Ed Armstrong with 488 receiving yards.


1970 Washington State Cougars football team
Due to the fire at Rogers Field in April, all home games were played at Joe Albi Stadium in Spokane in 1970 and 1971. AstroTurf was installed there in the summer of 1970.


1970 Washington State Cougars football team
For the second straight year, Washington State played a full conference schedule and went winless. The only victory was in September over neighbor Idaho in the Battle of the Palouse, the sole meeting in a three-year span. The annual rivalry game was not played the previous season (and in 1971) to allow the Cougars to schedule all seven conference opponents.


1970 Washington State Cougars football team, All-conference
One Washington State offensive lineman, junior guard Steve Busch, was named to the All-Pac-8 team. On the second team (honorable mention) was senior cornerback Lionel Thomas. Busch made the first team again as a senior in 1971.


1970 Washington State Cougars football team, NFL Draft
For the first time in five years, no Cougars were selected in the 1971 NFL Draft.


1970 Watkins Glen 6 Hours
The 1970 Watkins Glen 6 Hours was an endurance race held at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course, New York, United States on July 11, 1970. It was the ninth round of the 1970 World Sportscar Championship season.


1970 Watkins Glen 6 Hours, Pre-race
John Wyer's team had not won a race since Spa and they came off a disastrous attempt at winning Le Mans; losing all three of their cars in 10 hours and the race to their sister team, Porsche Salzburg. Mario Andretti returned to Ferrari to try to help the great marque repeat their triumph at Sebring less than 4 months previously. Ferrari were keen on doing this; a win here would be sufficient comeuppance for them after their humiliating Le Mans run; all four works cars had retired after 4 hours and 4 of 6 other privately entered 512's also retired.


1970 Watkins Glen 6 Hours, Pre-race
This particular race was one of 4 timed races on the calendar; the others being at Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans. It was the only 6 hour race on the calendar in 1970.


1970 Watkins Glen 6 Hours, Pre-race
Qualifying once again went to a Porsche; the Jo Siffert/Brian Redman 917K managed to edge out the Andretti/Giunti Ferrari 512S and the Rodriguez/Kinnunen 917K by three tenths of a second.


1970 Watkins Glen 6 Hours, Pre-race
This would be the last Watkins Glen 6 Hours race on the original circuit. The circuit was rebuilt for the next year; they used the short track (as the extension had not yet been finished) and the whole track in 1972.


1970 Watkins Glen 6 Hours, Race
At the start, Andretti took the lead from Siffert, but the Swiss driver took the lead back from Andretti on the third lap. He then lost the lead to Rodriguez. Later on in the race, Rodriguez attempted to switch off the 917K's headlights; but instead he switched off the fuel pumps, and the engine started to fail.


1970 Watkins Glen 6 Hours, Race
Rodriguez was about to come into the pits, but then he realized what he had done, switched the pumps on, and then stormed through the field, made fastest lap and he & Kinnunen went on to win for the 4th time in the season. Wyer's team finished 1-2, and both cars finished on the same lap, with the works Ferrari of Andretti/Giunti completing the podium.


1970 Wayne State Tartars football team
The 1970 Wayne State Tartars football team represented Wayne State University as an independent during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. In its sixth season under head coach Vernon Gale, the team compiled a 6–2 record.


1970 Wayne State Tartars football team
Although classed did not begin until October 1, the team began training camp on September 3. Before the season began, the university began a review of the football program and its future. Coach Gale hinted at the time that 1970 may be his last as head football coach at Wayne.


1970 Wayne State Tartars football team
The team's statistical leaders included Gary Rossi with 914 passing yards, Terry Fuller with 451 receiving yards, George Crayton with 206 rushing yards, Rossi set a school record with 35 pass attempts against Hillsdale on November 21. Tom Bomberski and Tom Sheppard were the team captains.


1970 West Virginia Mountaineers football team
The 1970 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. It was the Mountaineers' 78th overall season and they competed as an independent. The team was led by head coach Bobby Bowden, in his first year, and played their home games at Mountaineer Field in Morgantown, West Virginia. They finished the season with a record of 8–3.


1970 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team
The 1970 Western Kentucky football team represented Western Kentucky University during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. The team was led by coach Jimmy Feix and won the Ohio Valley Conference championship after coming in second the previous three years. The coaching staff included future NFL coach Romeo Crennel. The Hilltoppers’ finished the season ranked No. 12 in the AP and No. 9 in the UPI final polls.


1970 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team
The team roster included future National Football League (NFL) players Lawrence Brame, Bill "Jelly" Green, Clarence "Jazz" Jackson, Brad Watson, and Mike McCoy. Brame was named to the AP All-American team as well as being the OVC Defensive Player Of The Year for the second consecutive year. The All-OVC team included Jim Barber, Brame, Jay Davis, Dennis Durso, Green, and Steve Wilson.


1970 Western Michigan Broncos football team
The 1970 Western Michigan Broncos football team represented Western Michigan University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In their seventh season under head coach Bill Doolittle, the Broncos compiled a 7–3 record (2–3 against MAC opponents), finished in fourth place in the MAC, and outscored their opponents, 277 to 132. The team played its home games at Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo, Michigan.


1970 Western Michigan Broncos football team
The team's statistical leaders included Ted Grignon with 1,001 passing yards, Roger Lawson with 1,205 rushing yards, and Greg Flaska with 372 receiving yards. Safety Vern Davis and tight end Greg Flaska were the team captains. Fullback Roger Lawson received the team's most outstanding player award.


1970 Western Samoan general election
General elections were held in Western Samoa on 7 February 1970. All candidates ran as independents, with voting restricted to matais and citizens of European origin ("individual voters"), with the matais electing 45 MPs and Europeans two. Following the election, Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV became Prime Minister.


1970 Western Samoan general election, Background
A parliamentary debate on introducing universal suffrage was held on 27 March 1969. The motion by Letele Taneolevao Siaosi, the youngest member of parliament, would still limit candidacy to the 8,500 matais, but allow all citizens over the age of 21 (numbering over 30,000) to vote in elections. Prior to 1967 elections, the number of matais was increased significantly, as candidates seeking to increase their vote were able to bestow titles on people to create new matai. Following the elections, a law was introduced that prohibited conferring of a matai title on anyone younger than 21.


1970 Western Samoan general election, Background
Although Prime Minister Fiame Mata'afa had been in favour of universal suffrage during the 1954 and 1960 constitutional conventions, he opposed the motion, arguing that voters had approved limiting suffrage to matais in the 1961 constitutional referendum, which had been held under universal suffrage. Members of the Legislative Assembly voted 37–6 against the motion.


1970 Western Samoan general election, Campaign
Over 150 candidates contested the elections. Fifteen candidates were returned unopposed, including Faimaala Filipo, who became Western Samoa's first female MP, and Prime Minister Fiame Mata'afa.


1970 Western Samoan general election, Results
Twenty-one of the forty-seven elected members were new to the Legislative Assembly.


1970 Western Samoan general election, Aftermath
The newly elected Legislative Assembly met for the first time on 25 February. In the first round of the election for Prime Minister, Fiame Mata'afa received 19 votes, Tupua Tamasese Lealofi 17 and Tufuga Efi 10. The second ballot saw Mata'afa and Tupua both receive 23 votes. A third round of voting was held the following day, which Tupua won by 25 votes to 20. It was reported that Mata'afa would almost certainly have won in the second round had one of his supporters, To'omata Lilomaiava Tua, not died the previous week.


1970 Western Samoan general election, Aftermath
A cabinet reshuffle took place in March 1971 when Fatialofa Momo'e resigned. Va'ai Kolone was brought into the government as Minister of Health, with Fuimaono Moasope becoming Minister for the Post Office, Radio and Broadcasting in place of Momo'e. Minister of Justice Tuala Paulo and Minister for Education Amoa Tausilia also exchanged portfolios.


1970 Wichita State Shockers football team
The 1970 Wichita Shockers football team was an American football team that represented Wichita State University as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The team compiled a 0–9 record (0–4 against conference opponents), finished last out of five teams in the MVC, and was outscored by a total of 381 to 99. The team played its home games at Cessna Stadium in Wichita, Kansas.


1970 Wichita State Shockers football team
Head coach Ben Wilson, 14 players, and 16 others died on October 2 in the Wichita State University football team plane crash. Bob Seaman took over as head coach after the crash.


1970 Wichita State Shockers football team
The team's statistical leaders included Rick Baehr with 513 passing yards, Don Gilley with 290 rushing yards and 12 points scored, Bill Moore with 175 receiving yards.


1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, Pre-season
The team included 22 returning lettermen led by junior quarterback Bob Renner, senior fullback Randy Jackson, and middle linebacker John Hoheisel. Hoheisel, who was described by coach Wilson in the preseason as "the heart and soul of our defense", was selected as the team captain. Prior to the start of the season, second-year head coach Ben Wilson described his squad as a young club with good team speed, room to improve, and "a chance to surprise a lot of people."


1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, September games
On September 12, Wichita State opened its season with a 41–14 loss to Gene Stallings' Texas A&M Aggies before a crowd of 30,006 in College Station, Texas. They followed with losses to Arkansas State on September 19 and West Texas State on September 26.


1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, Plane crash
On Friday, October 2, 1970, Wichita State traveled to Logan, Utah, in two chartered planes, designated as "Gold" and "Black" according to the school colors, for a game against Utah State. The "Gold" plane carrying the first-team players and staff crashed in Colorado's Loveland Pass. Thirty-one persons were killed in the crash, including the following 14 players:


1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, Plane crash
The fatalities also included head coach Ben Wilson (and his wife Helen), athletic director Bert Katzenmeyer (and his wife Marian), team manager Marty Harrison (age 19), team trainer Tom Reeves, admissions director Carl Fahrbach, ticket manager Floyd Farmer, Shocker Club chairman Ray Coleman (and his wife Maxine), Kansas state representative Ray King (and his wife Yvonne), the plane's pilot Dan Crocker, and two stewardesses.


1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, Plane crash
In addition to the 14 players killed, eight other players survived the crash with varying degrees of injury:


1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, Plane crash
On the scheduled game day, the team held a memorial service at Romney Stadium in Logan and placed a wreath on the 50-yard line. Classes at Wichita State were canceled for Monday, October 5, and a memorial service was held that evening at the school's Cessna Stadium.


1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, Plane crash
The following month, Southern Airways Flight 932 carrying the Marshall University football team crashed, killing 37 members of that team. At the end of the season, a nationally televised fundraising program hosted by Monty Hall was aired to raise money for the victims of the two crashes.


1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, "Second season"
After the crash, the team's scheduled games against Utah State and Southern Illinois were cancelled. However, the surviving members of the team voted 76-to-1 to complete the 1970 schedule. The remaining portion of the schedule was designated the "second season." Assistant coach Bob Seaman took over as the team's head coach after the crash.


1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, "Second season"
On October 24, 1970, the team played the first game after the crash. With permission from the NCAA, the Shockers played seven freshmen in their starting lineup. Facing an Arkansas team ranked No. 9 in the country, Wichita lost by a 62–0 score. The Arkansas crowd cheered for the effort demonstrated by Wichita State, and Arkansas coach Frank Broyles benched his first team after seven minutes and used 61 players in the game.


1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, "Second season"
On October 31, the Shockers lost by at 35–5 score to Cincinnati before a homecoming crowd of 27,210. Prior to the game, a 15-minute ceremony featuring astronaut John Swigert was held to commemorate the team's return to Cessna Stadium for its first game since the crash. The Shockers started seven freshmen and 10 sophomores and scored five points on a 37-yard field goal by John Potts and a safety when Cincinnati quarterback Bill Carter was tackled in the end zone.


1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, "Second season"
On November 7, the Shockers showed marked improvement in a 21–12 loss to Tulsa. Trailing 21–6 in the fourth quarter, Wichita's freshman quarterback Tom Owen threw a 21-yard touchdown pass to wingback Tim Thissen to narrow the score to 21–12.


1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, "Second season"
On November 14, Wichita lost to Memphis State by a 51–6 score. The Shockers only points were scored in the first quarter on a 14-yard touchdown pass from Tom Owen to Eddie Plopa.


1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, "Second season"
On November 21, the Shockers lost to North Texas State by a 41–24 score. The highlight of the game for Wichita was a 105-yard kickoff return by tailback Don Gilley in the first quarter. Wichita's freshman quarterback Rick Baher also threw two touchdown passes, and John Potts kicked a 47-yard field goal.


1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, "Second season"
In the final game of the season, the Shockers took a 17–0 lead over Lee Corso's bowl-bound Louisville Cardinals. However, the Cardinals came back to win the game by a 34–24 score.


1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, Roster
The following players from the 1970 team were not on the plane that crashed:


1970 Wightman Cup
The 1970 Wightman Cup was the 42nd edition of the annual women's team tennis competition between the United States and Great Britain. It was held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London in England in the United Kingdom.


1970 William & Mary Indians football team
The 1970 William & Mary Indians football team represented the College of William & Mary as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. Led by Lou Holtz in his second year as head coach, William & Mary finished the season 5–7 overall and 3–1 in conference play, winning the SoCon title. The Indians were invited to the Tangerine Bowl, where they lost to Toledo.


1970 Wimbledon Championships
The 1970 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament was held from Monday 22 June until Saturday 4 July 1970. It was the 84th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the third Grand Slam tennis event of 1970.


1970 Wimbledon Championships, Prize money
The total prize money for 1970 championships was £41,650. The winner of the men's title earned £3,000 while the women's singles champion earned £1.500.


1970 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Men's Singles
John Newcombe defeated  Ken Rosewall, 5–7, 6–3, 6–2, 3–6, 6–1


1970 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Men's Doubles
John Newcombe /  Tony Roche defeated  Ken Rosewall /  Fred Stolle, 10–8, 6–3, 6–1


1970 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Women's Doubles
Rosie Casals /  Billie Jean King defeated  Françoise Dürr /  Virginia Wade, 6–2, 6–3


1970 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Mixed Doubles
Ilie Năstase /  Rosie Casals defeated  Alex Metreveli /  Olga Morozova, 6–3, 4–6, 9–7


1970 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Singles
Byron Bertram successfully defended his title, defeating Frank Gebert in the final, 6–0, 6–3 to win the Boys' Singles tennis title at the 1970 Wimbledon Championships.


1970 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Singles
Sharon Walsh defeated Marina Kroschina in the final, 8–6, 6–4 to win the Girls' Singles tennis title at the 1970 Wimbledon Championships.


1970 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles
John Newcombe and Tony Roche successfully defended their title, defeating Ken Rosewall and Fred Stolle in the final, 10–8, 6–3, 6–1 to win the Gentlemen's Doubles title at the 1970 Wimbledon Championships.


1970 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


1970 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
John Newcombe defeated Ken Rosewall in the final, 5–7, 6–3, 6–2, 3–6, 6–1 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1970 Wimbledon Championships. It was his second Wimbledon singles title, and his fifth major singles title overall.


1970 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
Rod Laver was the defending champion, but lost in the fourth round to Roger Taylor.


1970 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


1970 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles Qualifying
Players who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held one week before the event. One players withdrew from the main draw after qualifying had commenced, leading to the highest ranked players who lost in the final qualifying round, Eduardo Zuleta, to be entered into the main draw as a lucky loser.


1970 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles
Fred Stolle and Ann Jones were the defending champions, but Jones did not compete. Stolle partnered with Evonne Goolagong, but lost in the semifinals to Ilie Năstase and Rosie Casals.


1970 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles
Năstase and Casals defeated Alex Metreveli and Olga Morozova in the final, 6–3, 4–6, 9–7 to win the Mixed Doubles tennis title at the 1970 Wimbledon Championships.


1970 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


1970 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles
Margaret Court and Judy Dalton were the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals to Françoise Dürr and Virginia Wade.


1970 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles
Rosie Casals and Billie Jean King defeated Dürr and Wade in the final, 6–2, 6–3 to win the Ladies' Doubles tennis title at the 1970 Wimbledon Championships.


1970 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


1970 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
Margaret Court defeated Billie Jean King 14–12, 11–9 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1970 Wimbledon Championships. This was Court's third Wimbledon title, her third major tournament of the year, her fourth consecutive major title and her nineteenth major singles title overall. Court became the first woman to complete a Career Grand Slam in the Open Era. She would later win the US Open, thus also becoming the first woman to win the Grand Slam in the Open Era. Ann Jones was the reigning champion, but she didn't defend her title as she had retired from Grand Slam singles competition.


1970 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


1970 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Qualifying
Players who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held one week before the event.


1970 Winter Universiade
The 1970 Winter Universiade, the VI Winter Universiade, took place in Rovaniemi, Finland.


1970 Wisconsin Badgers football team
The 1970 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin in the 1970 Big Ten Conference football season.


1970 Wisconsin gubernatorial election
The 1970 Wisconsin gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1970. Democrat Patrick Lucey won the election with 54% of the vote, winning his first term as Governor of Wisconsin and defeating Republican Jack B. Olson.


1970 Women's British Open Squash Championship
The 1970 Women's Open Squash Championships was held at the BP Club in Sydenham, London from 13–18 February 1970.Heather McKay (née Blundell) won her ninth consecutive title defeating Marcia Roche in the final.


1970 Women's College World Series
The second Women's College World Series of softball was conducted in 1970. It was organized by the Omaha Softball Association and recognized by the Division for Girls' and Women's Sports (DGWS) as a championship tournament. Softball teams from 17 schools met on May 15–17 in Omaha, Nebraska.


1970 Women's College World Series, Teams
The John F. Kennedy College Patriettes won their second consecutive college softball championship by winning five of their six games, defeating Southwest Missouri State in the final if-necessary game, 7–6.


1970 Women's Softball World Championship
The 1970 ISF Women's World Championship for softball was held in Osaka, Japan.


1970 Women's World Allround Speed Skating Championships
The 31st edition of the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Women took place on 28 February and 1 March in West Allis at the State Fair Park ice rink.


1970 Women's World Cup
The 1970 Women's World Cup (Italian: Coppa del Mondo; sponsored name Martini & Rossi Cup) was an association football tournament organised by the Federation of Independent European Female Football (FIEFF) in Italy in July 1970. It featured women's teams from seven countries and is the first known tournament to be named as a women's football World Cup.


1970 Women's World Cup
Matches were played in Genoa, Bologna, Milan, Bari, Salerno, Naples, and the third-place playoff and final were both in Turin.


1970 Women's World Cup
The tournament was won by Denmark, represented by Boldklubben Femina.


1970 Women's World Cup, The tournament
Eight teams were scheduled to appear in the tournament, but only seven could participate: England, West Germany, Denmark, Mexico, Italy, Austria and Switzerland. The eighth team, Czechoslovakia, would have been the only country from Europe's Eastern Bloc to compete, but the team withdrew because of visa issues.


1970 Women's World Cup, The tournament
The crowds for the tournament were "30,000-strong". Denmark won the tournament after beating Italy 2–0 in the final.


1970 Women's World Cup, The tournament
Teams were divided into the "northern" group (in Genoa, Bologna and Milan), and "southern" (Bari, Salerno, Naples) with the top teams meeting in the final.


1970 Women's World Cup, The tournament
The tournament did not involve FIFA, which had held the first men's World Cup in 1930 but did not hold any women's event until 1988. The host country's matches are considered official by the Italian Football Federation. The Italian women's league had been established in 1968.


1970 Women's World Cup, The tournament
Mexico, a losing semi-finalist 2–1 to Italy, were described as the "revelation" of the tournament.


1970 Women's World Cup, The tournament, Quarter-finals
Czechoslovakia withdrew due to visa issues, and so West Germany were given a second chance instead.


1970 Women's World Cup, Memorials
Tournament memorabilia was collected at an exhibition in Pessione di Chieri (Turin) from June to August 2019.


1970 Women's World Cup, Later tournaments
The tournament was followed by the 1971 Women's World Cup in Mexico, and the series of five Mundialito tournaments from 1981–1988 in Japan and Italy, before the 1988 FIFA Women's Invitation Tournament and 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup, both in China.


1970 World 600
The 1970 World 600 the 11th running of the event, was a NASCAR Grand National Series race held on May 24, 1970 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. Contested over 400 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.42 km) speedway, it was the 16th race of the 1970 NASCAR Grand National Series. Donnie Allison won the race.


1970 World 600
Bugs Stevens made his official NASCAR debut in this race.


1970 World 600, Background
The race was held at Charlotte Motor Speedway, a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) quad-oval track located in Concord, North Carolina. The track's turns were banked at twenty-four degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, was five degrees. The back stretch, opposite of the front, also had a five degree banking. Charlotte Motor Speedway hosted the NASCAR Grand National Series twice during the 1970 season, with the other race being the National 500. The track opened for the inaugural World 600 in 1960, and was built by Bruton Smith and Curtis Turner. An estimated 70,000 spectators attended the race.


1970 World Allround Speed Skating Championships
The World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men took place on 14 and 15 February 1970 in Oslo at the Bislett Stadium ice rink.


1970 World Amateur Snooker Championship
The 1970 World Amateur Snooker Championship was the fourth edition of the championship that later became known as the IBSF World Snooker Championship, the first event having been held in 1963. The 1970 tournament was played at the Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh, Scotland from 19 October to 7 November 1970, with two round-robin groups each producing one player to contest the final. Both finalists were from England. Jonathan Barron defeated Sid Hood 11–7 to win the title.


1970 World Amateur Snooker Championship
Jack Rogers made the highest break of the tournament, 65.


1970 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The 17th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Hala Tivoli, Ljubljana, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia, in 1970.


1970 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Cathy Rigby won the first medal for the United States women at the World Championships with a silver on balance beam.


1970 World Championship Tennis season
The 1970 season of the World Championship Tennis (WCT) circuit was one of the two rival professional male tennis circuits of 1970. It was organized by World Championship Tennis (WCT).


1970 World Cup (men's golf)
The 1970 World Cup took place 12–15 November at The Jockey Club in San Isidro 28 kilometers north of the center of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was the 18th World Cup event. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 43 teams. 44 teams were invited, but the Czechoslovakia team of amateurs Jiri Dvorak and Jan Kunšta withdraw from the tournament before it begun. Each team consisted of two players from a country. The combined score of each team determined the team results.


1970 World Cup (men's golf)
The Australia team of Bruce Devlin and David Graham won, with a record aggregate of 544, by eight strokes over the Japan team of Takaaki Kono and Haruo Yasuda. Australia held a record advantage of 19 strokes going into the final round. This was the third victory for Australia in the history of the World Cup, until 1967 named the Canada Cup. The individual competition was won by Roberto De Vicenzo, Argentina one stroke ahead of Graham. The event was dedicated to the 47-year-old home hero De Vicenzo, who had participated in 15 Canada Cup/World Cup events played and shared in Argentina's victory in the 1953 inaugural event.


1970 World Fencing Championships
The 1970 World Fencing Championships were held in Ankara, Turkey.


1970 World Figure Skating Championships
The 1970 World Figure Skating Championships were held at the Hala Tivoli in Ljubljana, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia from March 3 to 8. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance.


1970 World Figure Skating Championships
The ISU Representative was John R. Shoemaker of the United States.


1970 World Karate Championships
The 1970 World Karate Championships are the 1st edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan on October 10 and October 13, 1970.


1970 World Men's Handball Championship
The 1970 World Men's Handball Championship was the seventh team handball World Championship. It was held in France between 26 February-8 March 1970. Romania won the championship.


1970 World Men's Handball Championship, Results, Placement Round (9-12 pos.)
The four third placed teams from the preliminary round played a round robin tournament for positions 9-12.


1970 World Men's Handball Championship, Results, Main Round
The top two finishers from each preliminary round group progressed to the quarter-finals. The winners progressed to the semi-final stage, while losers played for positions 5-8.


1970 World Men's Handball Championship, Final standings
Places 1–8 were decided by play–off or knock–out. Places 9–12 were decide by a placement round. Teams finishing fourth in the preliminary round are ranked 13 to 16. In case of a tie in points gained, the goal difference of the preliminary round were taken into account.


1970 World Men's Handball Championship – qualification
Qualification matches for the 1970 World Men's Handball Championship took place in 1969.


1970 World Men's Handball Championship – qualification, Europe and Africa
The draw took place on 15 March in Basel, Switzerland.


1970 World Men's Handball Championship – qualification, Europe and Africa, East Germany – Israel
The second game between East Germany and Israel was a forfeit lose because Israel had not a correct handball hall. This was decided by executive committee of the IHF at the weekend 29–30 November 1969.


1970 World Men's Handball Championship – qualification, Europe and Africa, East Germany – Israel
In Tel Aviv was only an outdoor small field handball place available and the hall in Kfar Giladi had not the official handball court dimensions of 20×40 meter.


1970 World Men's Handball Championship – qualification, Europe and Africa, East Germany – Israel
On 28 November 1969 the Israel Handball Association found an alternative place but it was too late.


1970 World Men's Handball Championship – qualification, Europe and Africa, East Germany – Israel
The Israel Handball Association made a protest against the decision of the IHF. They said the dimensions were correct and on Tuesday two officials of the East Germany team and the two referees had no complains against the field. The Israelis said there were political reasons that the Germany didn't travel to Israel.


1970 World Men's Handball Championship – qualification, Europe and Africa, East Germany – Israel
In einer gemeinsamen Sitzung des Büros der IHF am 21. Dezember 1969 in Basel mit Vertretern Ostdeutschland und Israel wurde nach eingehender Beratung entschieden, daß das Rückspiel Israel – Ostdeutschland für die Endrundenqualifikation der Hallenhandball-Weltmeisterschaft 1970 wegen Nichterfüllung der technischen Voraussetzungen entsprechend dem geltenden WM-Reglement nicht stattfinden konnte und damit nicht gewertet wird. Ostdeutschland ist auf Grunde des regulären Vorspielergebinsses von 35:2 für die Endrunde der Weltmeisterschaft in Frankreich qualifiziert. Dem Protest von Israel konnte nicht stattgegeben werden.


1970 World Men's Handball Championship – qualification, Europe and Africa, East Germany – Israel
In a joint meeting of the IHF office in Basel on December 21, 1969 with representatives of East Germany and Israel, it was decided after detailed consultation that the return leg Israel - East Germany for the final qualification of the 1970 Indoor Handball World Cup due to non-fulfillment of the technical requirements in accordance with the current World Cup Regulations could not take place and are therefore not evaluated. East Germany is qualified for the finals of the World Cup in France due to the regular lead win of 35: 2. The Israeli protest could not be accepted.


1970 World Men's Handball Championship – qualification, Europe and Africa, Iceland – Austria
2009-04-22 at the National and University Library of Iceland: 15.11.1969 and 7.12.1969


1970 World Men's Handball Championship – qualification, Europe and Africa, Poland – Morocco
Morocco gave forfeit. First was Morocco directly qualified for the World championship, one year later the IHF recall this decision.


1970 World Men's Handball Championship – qualification, North America
In March Die Tat from Switzerland wrote that Canada was already qualified.


1970 World Men's Handball Championship – qualification, North America
The USA submitted a protest in December because the Canadian Eric Jacobsen is Danish and has not a passport from Canada.


1970 World Men's Handball Championship – qualification, North America
On 21 December 1969 the protest was rejected because of missing evidence by the IHF.


1970 World Men's Handball Championship – qualification, North America
In January the USA was able to prove the claimed and Canada was disqualified.


1970 World Men's Handball Championship – qualification, North America
Therefore the Spanish team should be the substitute. But they rejected because they have no time to build a good team again.


1970 World Men's Handball Championship – qualification, North America
On 28 January 1970 the former rival USA was taken as replacement.


1970 World Modern Pentathlon Championships
The 1970 World Modern Pentathlon Championships were held in Warendorf, West Germany.


1970 World Orienteering Championships
The 3rd World Orienteering Championships were held in Eisenach/Friedrichroda, East Germany, in September 1970.


1970 World Orienteering Championships
The championships had four events; individual contests for men and women, and relays for men and women.


1970 World Orienteering Championships
The men's individual course had 19 controls over 14.5 kilometres, while the women's individual course had 10 controls over 7.5 kilometres.


1970 World Rowing Championships
The 1970 World Rowing Championships was the 3rd World Rowing Championships. It was held in 1970 at the Royal Canadian Henley Rowing Course in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. The competition involved seven events. Prior to the 4th World Rowing Championships in 1974, only men competed.


1970 World Rowing Championships, Background
The International Rowing Federation (FISA) held a congress in conjunction with the 1967 European Rowing Championships in Vichy, France. At that congress, it was decided that the 1970 World Championships would be held outside of Europe, and that Canada was likely be chosen as host.


1970 World Rowing Championships, Finals
+ 7 boat final following protest in semi finals from Australia


1970 World Series
The 1970 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1970 season. The 67th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League champion Baltimore Orioles (108–54 in the regular season) and the National League champion Cincinnati Reds (102–60). The Orioles won, four games to one.


1970 World Series
In this series Emmett Ashford became the first African American to umpire a World Series. It also featured the first World Series games to be played on artificial turf, as Games 1 and 2 took place at Cincinnati's first-year Riverfront Stadium.


1970 World Series
This was the last World Series in which all games were played in the afternoon. It was also the third time in a World Series in which a team leading three games to none failed to complete the sweep by losing Game 4 but still won Game 5 to clinch the series; 1910 and 1937 were the others. This was the last World Series until 2017 in which both participating teams won over 100 games during the regular season.


1970 World Series, Background
The Baltimore Orioles won the American League East division by 15 games over the New York Yankees and the Cincinnati Reds won the National League West division by 14+1⁄2 games over the Los Angeles Dodgers.


1970 World Series, Background
Coming into the World Series, the Orioles had won 14 straight including the final 11 during the regular season then defeated the Minnesota Twins, three games to none, in the American League Championship Series for the second straight year. The Reds went 32–30 in their last 62 regular season games, but swept the Pittsburgh Pirates, three games to none, in the National League Championship Series.


1970 World Series, Background
This World Series set up a classic matchup of a pair of teams laden with all-star players.


1970 World Series, Background
The 1970 Cincinnati Reds squad was the first edition of the "Big Red Machine." Sparky Anderson's first year as a major league manager produced 102 wins and the first of four NL pennants in a seven-year stretch.


1970 World Series, Background
The Reds featured a heavy-hitting lineup that included future Hall of Famers in catcher Johnny Bench (45 home runs, 148 RBI and .293 batting average) and third baseman Tony Pérez (40, 129, .317), as well as all-time hits leader Pete Rose (15, 52, .316) in right field, NL stolen base leader Bobby Tolan (16, 80, .316) in center field and power-hitting first baseman Lee May (34, 94, .253). The Reds led the National League in batting average and finished third in runs scored. Cincinnati pitching, however, would be a weak spot throughout the Series.


1970 World Series, Background
Two-time 20-game winner Jim Maloney could only make three starts during the regular season and was shelved with a ruptured tendon in his toe. Two 1970 All Star game representatives, Jim Merritt (20–12) and rookie Wayne Simpson (14–3), were suffering arm injuries. Merritt, who won 20 games by the end of August, pitched less than four regular season innings after September 4. Merritt started Game 5 against Baltimore, but was unable to get through the second inning. Simpson started 8–1 and had 14 wins by July 26, but was shelved thereafter. He did not pitch in the post season. Right-hander Gary Nolan (18–7, 3.26 ERA) would assume the ace role for the Reds.


1970 World Series, Background
By contrast, pitching was a strength for the Baltimore Orioles as manager Earl Weaver had three, healthy 20-game winners. Mike Cuellar (24–8, 3.48 ERA), Dave McNally (24–9, 3.22) and future Hall of Famer Jim Palmer (20–10, 2.71) were all well-rested and ready for the Series. Weaver balanced good pitching with the hitting of 1970 AL MVP Boog Powell (35, 114, .297), Merv Rettenmund (18, 58, .322), as well as future Hall of Famers Frank Robinson (25, 78, .306) and Brooks Robinson (18, 94, .276). The Orioles led the AL in most runs scored (792), fewest runs allowed (574), complete games (60), lowest team ERA (3.15) and they were second in the AL in fielding percentage (.981) establishing themselves as the most dominant Orioles team in the modern era.


1970 World Series, Background
The 1970 World Series appearance by Baltimore was the second of what would be three-straight World Series appearances. The Reds would go on to amass four WS appearances in a seven-year stretch (1970, '72, '75 & '76, winning the last two).


1970 World Series, Background
Of the four World Series Earl Weaver managed the Orioles to, the 1970 World Series was the only one that they won. They lost to the New York Mets in 1969, and to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1971 and 1979.


1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
The Reds got off to a fast start, taking a 3–0 lead off Jim Palmer on a first-inning RBI single by Johnny Bench and a third-inning two-run homer by Lee May. The Orioles' offense answered with a two-run homer by Boog Powell in the fourth inning, off Reds starter Gary Nolan. Elrod Hendricks tied it with a homer in the fifth, and Brooks Robinson hit the game-winning homer in the seventh. In the sixth, Robinson made a spectacular backhanded grab of a hard grounder down the line by May before spinning to throw him out. It was one of several spectacular plays the Gold Glove third baseman would make in the series.


1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
The game turned in the sixth inning on a controversial call by home-plate umpire Ken Burkhart. The Reds had Bernie Carbo on third and Tommy Helms on first when Ty Cline, batting for Woody Woodward, hit a high chopper in front of the plate. Burkhart positioned himself in front of the plate to call the ball fair or foul as Carbo sped home. Baltimore catcher Hendricks fielded the ball and turned to tag Carbo with Burkhart blocking the way.


1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
Hendricks tagged the sliding Carbo with his glove hand while holding the ball in his bare right hand; all the while, Burkhart was knocked to the ground and had his back to the play. When Burkhart turned around, he saw Carbo out of the baseline because Burkhart was actually blocking Carbo's direct path to the plate as Hendricks held the ball. Burkhart signaled Carbo out without asking for help from the other umpires. Replays showed that Hendricks tagged Carbo with an empty mitt, but Carbo also missed the plate on the slide, although, unwittingly, he stood on it when he argued the "out" call. Both Carbo and Sparky Anderson vehemently argued the call, to no avail.


1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
Robinson's home run put the O's ahead for the first time, while Palmer settled into a groove on the mound. Palmer allowed no hits in his final 2+2⁄3 innings of work. After he walked Pete Rose with two outs in the ninth, Pete Richert relieved Palmer and got Bobby Tolan to line out to shortstop Mark Belanger to end the game.


1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
The Jackson 5 performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" prior to the game, with the Lemon-Monroe High School Marching Band accompanying the group in the performance. The events were re-enacted in the 1992 miniseries The Jacksons: An American Dream, with the group performing the song a cappella.


1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
Again, another fast start by the Reds fell by the wayside. The Reds scored three in the first on a two-run double by Lee May, who went to third when Orioles center fielder Paul Blair bobbled the ball. Hal McRae squeeze-bunted May home for the third run. They pushed the lead to 4–0 on a homer by Bobby Tolan in the third.


1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
The Orioles began their comeback innocently enough on a Boog Powell solo homer in the fourth. In the fifth, the floodgates opened. With one out, Reds' starter Jim McGlothlin gave up successive singles to pinch-hitter Chico Salmon and Don Buford. Paul Blair singled home Salmon, chasing McGlothlin and bringing in Milt Wilcox. Wilcox gave up RBI singles to Powell and Brooks Robinson and the crushing blow, a two-run double to Elrod Hendricks.


1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
The Reds would get back one run in the sixth on a Johnny Bench home run, but that was it.


1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
American actor and singer Tony Martin sang the National Anthem prior to the first pitch, which was thrown out by former NL President Warren Giles.


1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
Left-hander Dave McNally had a banner day, pitching a complete game and scattering nine hits, while also connecting for a grand slam in the sixth inning off reliever Wayne Granger to break the game open. McNally became the first pitcher to hit a World Series grand slam.


1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
Baltimore third baseman Brooks Robinson added to his highlight reel with a spectacular display of fielding. After Pete Rose and Bobby Tolan led the game off with consecutive hits, Robinson made a sensational, leaping grab of Tony Pérez's hopper, stepped on third and fired to first for a double play. In the second inning, Robinson snagged a slow grounder hit by Tommy Helms and threw out the sprinting second baseman. And in the sixth, Robinson made a diving catch of a line drive by Johnny Bench. The Memorial Stadium fans gave Robinson a standing ovation as he came to bat in the bottom of the sixth. He responded by doubling to left.


1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
The Orioles got two runs in the first on Brooks Robinson's bases-loaded double off of Tony Cloninger. The Reds cut it to 2–1 in the second when Hal McRae singled, moved to second on a groundout and scored on Dave Concepcion's single, but Frank Robinson's home run in the third gave the Orioles that run back. Don Buford's home run in the fifth extended their lead to 4–1. Next inning Dave McNally's grand slam off of Wayne Granger blew the game open and put the Orioles up 8–1. The Reds got two runs in the seventh on Dave Concepcion's sacrifice fly and Pete Rose's RBI single, but the Orioles got a run in the bottom half on Paul Blair's RBI double off of Don Gullett. The Orioles took a commanding 3–0 series lead with a 9–3 win.


1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
The Reds staved off a Series sweep thanks to clutch hitting by Lee May and stellar relief pitching by rookie Don Gullett and veteran Clay Carroll.


1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
With a 2–1 lead in the third, Reds' starter Gary Nolan gave up two-out RBI singles to Frank Robinson and Brooks Robinson. Gullett relieved Nolan and surrendered another RBI single to Elrod Hendricks. The Reds crept back in the fifth on a homer by Pete Rose.


1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
Gullett gave up an unearned run in the sixth when Hendricks singled Brooks Robinson to third and Robinson scored when Rose's attempted throw from right field sailed past Tony Pérez at third.


1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
In the eighth, Perez walked and Johnny Bench singled off Baltimore starter Jim Palmer, who was then relieved by Eddie Watt. Lee May then slammed a three-run homer on the first pitch he saw from Watt to put the Reds ahead. Carroll, who had entered in the seventh, made the lead stand. Gullett and Carroll combined to pitch 6+1⁄3 innings, allowing four hits and one unearned run. The Reds' victory snapped Baltimore's 17-game winning streak which included the final 11 regular-season games and a three-game sweep over Minnesota in the ALCS. It also ended Cincinnati's six-game World Series losing streak, including the last three games in the 1961 World Series.


1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
Rain showers threatened to delay game 5, but it kept the Memorial Stadium crowd from being less than capacity. Seemingly re-energized from their game 4 win, the Reds rocked Orioles starter Mike Cuellar for three runs in the first on an RBI single by Johnny Bench and a two-run double by Hal McRae. Cuellar stayed in the game and got Tommy Helms to ground out to Mark Belanger for the final out. The Orioles scored two runs in the bottom of the first against Reds' 20-game winner Jim Merritt, who had been battling a sore arm and had not pitched in 10 days. Merritt allowed more two runs in the second inning before being lifted.


1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
Frank Robinson hit a two-run home run, Merv Rettenmund also had a homer and two RBI, and Davey Johnson had two RBI to pace the Orioles' attack. After the rocky first inning, Cuellar settled down and allowed no runs and two hits in the final eight innings for a complete-game victory.


1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
Brooks Robinson won the World Series Most Valuable Player Award hitting .429, broke the record for total bases in a five-game series with 17, tied the record for most hits in one game with four, and tied teammate Paul Blair for most hits in a five-game Series with nine. Total Baseball described Brooks Robinson's fielding with, "other-worldly defense at third (which) gave Reds right-handed hitters nightmares through the Series." Upon hearing that Robinson won the MVP award and a new car from Toyota, Reds' catcher Johnny Bench said, "If we had known he wanted a car that badly, we'd all have chipped in and bought him one."


1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
The victory was redemption for Baltimore, who had lost to the underdog New York Mets in the 1969 World Series.


1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
The game was the last in the majors for Ashford, who became the first black umpire to work at the top level of baseball, when he was hired by the American League in 1966. Ashford reached MLB's then-mandatory retirement age of 55 in late 1969, but was allowed by AL president Joe Cronin to come back for 1970, giving him the opportunity to break the World Series color barrier for umpires. A black umpire did not call balls and strikes in a World Series game until 1993, when the NL's Charlie Williams worked the plate in Game 4.


1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
This World Series was the first in which both teams wore their last names on the backs of their uniforms. It was also the last where either team wore wool flannel uniforms. The Orioles gradually switched to double-unit uniforms throughout 1971, then went to them full-time in the American League Championship Series; their World Series opponents, the Pittsburgh Pirates, were the first team to don double-knits when they moved to Three Rivers Stadium in July 1970. The Reds, along with 15 other teams, moved from flannels to knits to start 1972.


1970 World Series, Matchups, Composite line score
1970 World Series (4–1): Baltimore Orioles (A.L.) over Cincinnati Reds (N.L.)


1970 World Series, Aftermath
This was the second of three consecutive appearances by the Orioles, who went on to lose the following year's World Series to the Pittsburgh Pirates 4–3. Baltimore won both the Super Bowl and the World Series in the same season as the Baltimore Colts won Super Bowl V over the Dallas Cowboys. However, the city fell short of winning MLB, NFL and NBA championships within a one-year span as the Baltimore Bullets were swept by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 1971 NBA Finals. Such a scenario is now unlikely as the Bullets have since relocated to Washington, D.C. and renamed the Wizards.


1970 World Series, Aftermath
For the Reds, this was the first of four World Series appearances in the 1970s. After losing to the Oakland Athletics four games to three in 1972, they proceeded to win back-to-back championships in 1975 (4–3 vs. the Red Sox) and 1976 (4–0 vs. the Yankees).


1970 World Series of Poker
The World Series of Poker was first held in 1970. Unlike the WSOP events that followed it, which are decided using a freeze-out tournament, the 1970 champion was decided from a vote by the players. Jack Binion invited the best seven poker players in America to his Binion's Horseshoe casino in Las Vegas, Nevada to decide who was America's best poker player.


1970 World Series of Poker
After a cash game session, Johnny Moss was voted the best in the world by "Amarillo Slim" Preston, Sailor Roberts, Doyle Brunson, Puggy Pearson, Crandell Addington, and Carl Cannon. Moss was awarded a silver cup rather than a bracelet, which was not established as the prize until 1976.


1970 World Series of Poker
According to an apocryphal legend, two votes were taken to determine the best player in the world. In the first, the players were asked to vote for the best player, and, the story goes, each voted for himself. In the second vote, they were asked to vote for the second-best player, and Moss won the vote and was awarded the title.


1970 World Snooker Championship
The 1970 World Snooker Championship (also known as the Player's No.6 World Snooker Championship for sponsorship reasons) was a snooker tournament that took place in 1970. Like the previous year the final was held at the Victoria Hall in London, from 6 to 11 April 1970. For the second and last time the event was sponsored by Player's No.6.


1970 World Snooker Championship
Ray Reardon won in the final 37–33 against John Pulman. This year was the first of Reardon's six world titles; he held the title for only seven months until the next championship in Australia during November 1970. Reardon also made the highest break of the tournament with 118.


1970 World Snooker Championship, Background
The World Snooker Championship is a professional tournament and the official world championship of the game of snooker. The sport was developed in the late 19th century by British Army soldiers stationed in India. Professional English billiards player and billiard hall manager Joe Davis noticed the increasing popularity of snooker compared to billiards in the 1920s, and with Birmingham-based billiards equipment manager Bill Camkin, persuaded the Billiards Association and Control Council (BACC) to recognise an official professional snooker championship in the 1926–27 season.


1970 World Snooker Championship, Background
In 1927, the final of the first professional snooker championship was held at Camkin's Hall; Davis won the tournament by beating Tom Dennis in the final. The annual competition was not titled the World Championship until 1935, but the 1927 tournament is now referred to as the first World Snooker Championship.


1970 World Snooker Championship, Background
In 1952, the, following a dispute between the Professional Billiards Players' Association (PBPA) and the BACC about the distribution of income from the world championship, the PBPA members established an alternative competition known as the World Professional Match-play Championship, the editions of which are now recognised as world championships, whilst only Horace Lindrum and Clark McConachy entered for the BACC's 1952 World Snooker Championship.


1970 World Snooker Championship, Background
The World Professional Match-play Championship continued until 1957, after which there were no world championship matches until professional Rex Williams gained agreement from the BACC that the world championship would be staged on a challenge basis, with defending champion Pulman featuring in the first match. Pulman retained the title in several challenges from 1964 to 1968. Pulman had been touring snooker clubs as promotional work for the tobacco brand John Player, and the company had sponsored his 1968 match against Eddie Charlton.


1970 World Snooker Championship, Background
The good attendances for the championship match led to John Player deciding to sponsor the 1969 World Snooker Championship as a knock-out format tournament, using their "Players No. 6" brand. The 1969 championship is regarded as the first of the modern snooker era, and was won by John Spencer, who defeated Gary Owen 37–24 in the final.


1970 World Snooker Championship, Background
The 1970 Championship was sponsored by John Player, the second and last time that they were the world championship sponsors. The eight players who participated in the 1969 championship all entered again, joined by David Taylor, who had turned professional after winning the 1968 World Amateur Snooker Championship.


1970 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, First round
In the first round match, Taylor played Bernard Bennett at the Yew Tree Labour Club, West Bromwich, from 15 to 17 October. Bennett won the first two frames, and the players were level at 3-3 before the first day finished with Bennett 4-3 up. He added the eighth frame, with Taylor then taking four consecutive frames. After Bennett won the 13th frame, Taylor made a break of 52 and led 8–6. Taylor ensured qualificatino fod the next round be securing a winning margin at 11–8, with the score 12-9 after dead frames.


1970 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Quarter-finals
Owen met Rex Williams at West Bromwich Community Centre from 1 to 6 December 1969, and won all six frames in their first session. He won the seventh frame too, before Williams registered his first frame win. With Williams missing many attempts to pot balls, Owen took a winning lead at 31–11, and finished 46-15 ahead.


1970 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Quarter-finals
Spencer played Jackie Rea at the Co-Op Hall, Bolton, from 8 to 12 December, and won 31–15.


1970 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Quarter-finals
Reardon and Fred Davis contested their semi-final from 15 to 19 December at Longport W.M.C., Bolton. with Reardon prevailing 31–26.


1970 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Quarter-finals
The last quarter-final, between Pulman and Tayor, was held from 12 to 16 January 1970, at Grimsby and Cleethorpes Transport Recreation Club. Pulman won 31–20.


1970 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Semi-finals
Spencer and Reardon played their semi-final from 16 to 21 February at the Co-Op Hall, Bolton. Reardon defeated Spencer 37–33.


1970 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Semi-finals
The second semi-final took place at Priory Social Club, Middlesbrough from 23 to 28 February, between Pulman and Owen. Pulman won 37–12.


1970 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Final
The final was held at Victoria Hall, Bloomsbury Square, London, from 6 to 11 April. Reardon led 4-2 after the first session, and 8-4 after the second. On the next day, Reardon won four of the six afternoon session frames, and Pulman took four of the six evening frames, including the last three of the session, leaving Reardon 14-10 ahead. Reardon later extended his lead to 27–14, but Pulman narrowed the deficit to a single frame at 33–34. Reardon eventually won 37–34.


1970 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Final
Reardon revieved prize money of £1,125 and Pulman took £975. Pulman said after the match that Reardon had deserved to win, and acclaimed Reardon's long potting. Pulman also stated that he felt that his own consistency in matches had been diminished due to a lack of match practice, leading to lapses in concentration.


1970 World Sportscar Championship
The 1970 World Sportscar Championship season was the 18th season of FIA World Sportscar Championship motor racing. It featured the 1970 International Championship for Makes  and the 1970 International Cup for GT Cars, which were contested concurrently from 31 January to 11 October over a ten race series. The International Championship for Makes, which was open to Group 6 Sports-Prototypes, Group 5 Sports Cars and Group 4 Special GT Cars, was won by German manufacturer Porsche. The International Cup for GT Cars was also won by Porsche.


1970 World Sportscar Championship, Schedule
† - The BOAC 1000 km was open to Group 6 Sports-Prototypes and Group 5 Sports Cars only. GT Cars did not participate.


1970 World Sportscar Championship, Season results, International Championship for Makes
Points were awarded for the first six places in each race on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis. Manufacturers were only awarded points for their highest placed car  with no points awarded for positions filled by other cars from the same manufacturer.


1970 World Sportscar Championship, Season results, International Championship for Makes
No points were awarded for positions filled by cars other than Group 6 Sports-Prototypes, Group 5 Sports Cars and Group 4 Special GT Cars.


1970 World Sportscar Championship, Season results, International Championship for Makes
Out of the ten rounds in the championship, only the best seven results counted towards the points total for each manufacturer. Discarded points are shown within brackets in the following table.


1970 World Sportscar Championship, Season results, International Cup for GT Cars
Points were awarded for the first six places in the GT category at each race on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis. Manufacturers were only given points for their highest finishing car with no points awarded for positions filled by other cars from the same manufacturer.


1970 World Sportscar Championship, Season results, International Cup for GT Cars
Only the best seven results were retained towards the championship total of each manufacturer. Discarded points are shown within brackets in the following table.


1970 World Sportscar Championship, Season results, International Cup for GT Cars
The Grand Touring Car category did not participate in Round 3 at Brands Hatch.


1970 World Sportscar Championship, The cars
The following models contributed towards the net point scores of their respective manufacturers.


1970 World Weightlifting Championships
The 1970 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Columbus, Ohio, United States from September 12 to September 20, 1970. There were 129 men from 28 nations in the competition.


1970 World Weightlifting Championships
Nine weightlifters (Sandor Holczreiter, Walter Szoltysek, Vladimir Smetanin, Imre Földi, Henryk Trebicki, Miecyslaw Nowak, Jan Wojnowski, Yoshiyuki Miyake, Janos Bagocs) test positive for amphetamines (Dexedrine) and were disqualified. The urine samples were tested using the Beckman DK-2A ratio recording ultraviolet spectrophotometer.


1970 World Weightlifting Championships, Medal table
Ranking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Press, Snatch and Clean & Jerk)


1970 World Wrestling Championships
The 1970 World Wrestling Championships were held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.


1970 Wyoming Cowboys football team
The 1970 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. Led by ninth-year head coach Lloyd Eaton, they were members of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) and played their home games on campus at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie.


1970 Wyoming Cowboys football team
The Cowboys had a record of 1–9, and Eaton was reassigned to assistant athletic director. The controversial previous season had concluded with four consecutive losses.


1970 Wyoming Cowboys football team, NFL Draft
One Cowboy was selected in the 1971 NFL Draft, which lasted seventeen rounds (442 selections).


1970 Wyoming gubernatorial election
The 1970 Wyoming gubernatorial election took place on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Republican Governor Stanley Hathaway ran for re-election to a second term. He faced Democratic nominee John J. Rooney, a State Representative and the former Chairman of the Wyoming Democratic Party. Despite Democratic Senator Gale W. McGee's strong performance in the U.S. Senate race, Hathaway's popularity proved an insurmountable obstacle for Rooney to overcome, and the Governor won a second term in a landslide.


1970 Wyoming state elections
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Wyoming on Tuesday, November 3, 1970. All of the state's executive officers—the Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, and Superintendent of Public Instruction—were up for election. Continuing their success from 1962 and 1966, Republicans won all of the statewide executive offices once again, and all of them by large margins.


1970 Wyoming state elections, Governor
Incumbent Republican Governor Stanley Hathaway ran for re-election to a second term. He was opposed by State Representative John J. Rooney, the Democratic nominee. Hathaway defeated Rooney in a landslide.


1970 Wyoming state elections, Secretary of State
Incumbent Republican Secretary of State Thyra Thomson ran for re-election to a third term. After facing marginal opposition in the Republican primary, Thomson faced former State Representative Howard L. Burke, the Democratic nominee, in the general election. Continuing her streak of winning large majorities, Thomson defeated Burke in a landslide to win re-election.


1970 Wyoming state elections, Auditor
Incumbent Republican State Auditor Everett T. Copenhaver ran for re-election to a second consecutive term, his fourth term as State Auditor overall. The Democratic Party did not embark on a major recruitment effort for the race, and the primary election boiled down to Mike Vinich, who served as the executive director of the state employment security commission, rancher David Laird, and businessman Frank Woodhouse. The primary election was close, with Vinich holding a several-hundred vote lead over Laird as the votes were tallied. However, Laird declined to seek a recount and conceded to Vinich, who advanced to the general election against Copenhaver. The general election was much less close, and Copenhaver handily defeated Vinich to win re-election.


1970 Wyoming state elections, Treasurer
Incumbent Republican State Treasurer Minnie A. Mitchell was unable to seek re-election to a second consecutive term, creating an open seat. Newspaper publisher Jim Griffith won the Republican primary over Cheyenne Mayor Floyd Holland, and he proceeded to the general election, where he was opposed by Democratic nominee Bob Adams, a former State Representative who had repeatedly run as the Democratic nominee for Auditor or Treasurer for several decades. Griffith ultimately defeated Adams by a wide margin.


1970 Wyoming state elections, Superintendent of Public Instruction
Incumbent Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction Harry Roberts declined to seek a second term, instead opting to run forCongress rather than seek re-election. Robert G. Schrader, the superintendent of schools in the city of Cody, won a crowded Republican primary to succeed Roberts. He faced Democratic nominee Patrick J. Moran, the Superintendent of the Johnson County School District No. 1, in the general election. Schrader defeated Moran by a wide margin, significantly improving from Roberts's 1966.


1970 Yale Bulldogs football team
The 1970 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The Bulldogs were led by sixth-year head coach Carmen Cozza, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished tied for second place in the Ivy League with a 5–2 record, 7–2 overall.


1970 Yukon general election
The 1970 Yukon general election was held on 8 September 1970 to elect the seven members of the 22nd Yukon Territorial Council. The council was non-partisan and had merely an advisory role to the federally appointed Commissioner. There were twenty-one candidates, and 5,152 out of a potential 7,700 electors voted, a turnout of 66.9%.