1970–71 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary
Benfica started the new season with the task of improving on troubled past season, where they lost the title to Sporting and had Estádio da Luz banned for part of the season for pitch invasion. Back-to-back league winner, Otto Glória had resigned and was replaced by José Augusto for the final months of the season. Alfredo Di Stéfano was approached to replace him, but the choice fell to Englishman, Jimmy Hagan, who arrived in Lisbon on 15 April. Hagan most notorious change was his rigidity and harsh training sessions.


1970–71 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary
In the transfer window, Benfica lost Mário Coluna and Humberto Fernandes, both were part of the team for over 10 years and Coluna become a club legend. The only signing for the first team was António Barros, with the youth team, bringing in Shéu. The pre-season began on 28 July with the team travelling to Luanda for a tour. After a brief period in Portugal, on 17 August, Benfica embarked on another tour, in South-east Asia, where they played seven games in roughly two weeks. Due to the events of the past season, Benfica still had to play one game at Estádio Nacional.


1970–71 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary
The league campaign began on 13 September with home win against CUF. Three days later, Benfica faced Olimpija Ljubljana for the European Cup Winners' Cup and drew 1–1. In the first away match of the league, Benfica visited Estádio de Alvalade to play Sporting, bringing home  his second 1–1 draw of the week. For the final league match of the month, Benfica returned to Estádio da Luz after a prolonged exile. They beat Boavista by 4–0 and reached first place, levelled on points with Sporting.


1970–71 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary
Mid week, Benfica played host to Olimpija Ljubljana, winning 8–1 and qualifying for the second round. In October, the club performance dipped and they went three weeks without a win. First they drew nil-nil on the road against Vitória de Guimarães, followed by a 2–2 draw in the Clássico with Porto. On 21 October, Benfica hosted Vorwärts Berlin for the Cup Winners' Cup and beat them by 2–0. Four days later, Benfica concluded their three weeks without a win for the Primeira Divisão, with a third away draw, now with Belenenses.


1970–71 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary
This left Benfica in second place, three points shy of leader Sporting. In the last match of October, Benfica responded to this dark spell with a 7–0 home win against Tirsense. On the 4 November, Benfica was knocked-out of Europe by Vorwärts Berlin on penalties, after a 2–0 loss during 120 minutes. On the opening league match of the month, Benfica won away against Barreirense, their first ever away win in the season. Still, the team remained uncompetitive on the road, losing for the first time in the league on 15 November in a visit to Farense.


1970–71 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary
This put Benfica in fourth place with five points less than Sporting. In the following week, a home win against Leixões, while Sporting dropped points, cut Benfica's deficit to four points. However, a double from Vítor Baptista in the visit to Vitória de Setúbal, inflicted the team their second league loss of the campaign. Sporting had again a six-point lead over Benfica, who remained fourth. Benfica began December with a 3–0 win over Varzim and gained a point over Sporting. The first half of the season ended with an away draw against Académica de Coimbra, putting Benfica with six points less than Sporting at the turn of the season.


1970–71 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary
Benfica began the second part of the campaign with an away win over CUF. Sporting lost so Benfica regained two points, right before meeting them. In the Derby de Lisboa, Benfica received and beat Sporting by 5–1 with a hat-trick from Artur Jorge. Jimmy Hagan described the win as "Speed, goals and football, plus an amazing Vítor Damas". Benfica was now with 21 points, two less than Sporting. They kept on winning and beat Boavista by 3–0 on the road.


1970–71 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary
After a tour in South America in mid January, Benfica defeated Vitória de Guimarães at home and got within a point of Sporting, after they dropped points on the same day. On 31 January, Benfica visited Estádio das Antas and was surprised by 4–0 loss. This result kept Benfica in third place and saw Sporting reopen a three–point lead. In the opening match of February, Benfica beat Belenenses at home, while Sporting drew away, resetting the gap between them at two points.


1970–71 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary
In the following two match-days, all of the Big Three won, so no changes occurred at the top of the table; Benfica beat Tirsense on the road and Barreinse in Estádio da Luz. On 21 March, Benfica defeated Farense at home by 5–0 and climbed to the top of table, taking advantage of a loss from Sporting and Porto draw. The win put Sporting and Benfica level on points. Benfica closed March with an away win over Leixões, with Porto losing and dropping out of race. This left Benfica and Sporting with a three–point lead and three match-days to go.


1970–71 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary
On 4 April, Benfica beat Vitória de Setúbal at home and for the first time headed the league isolated, with a two-point lead. Sporting had lost with Porto. Three weeks later, Benfica confirmed their league title with an away win over Varzim. It was their 18th league title. They finished the Primeira Divisão with a 5–1 victory over Académica, ending the campaign with a three-point lead over Sporting, having won nine points over them in half a season. Artur Jorge was Bola de Prata with 24 goals. The season concluded with Benfica and Sporting both qualifying for the Taça de Portugal Final, with Sporting winning by 4–1. It was Sporting's first ever win against Benfica in the final of the Taça de Portugal.


1970–71 S.L. Benfica season, Player statistics
The squad for the season consisted of the players listed in the tables below, as well as staff member Jimmy Hagan (manager) and José Augusto (assistant manager).


1970–71 S.L. Benfica season, Player statistics
Note 1: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


1970–71 S.L. Benfica season, Player statistics
Note 2: Players with squad numbers marked ‡ joined the club during the 1970-71 season via transfer, with more details in the following section.


1970–71 SK Rapid Wien season
The 1970–71 SK Rapid Wien season was the 73rd season in club history.


1970–71 SM-sarja season
The 1970–71 SM-sarja season was the 40th season of the SM-sarja, the top level of ice hockey in Finland. 12 teams participated in the league, and Ässat Pori won the championship.


1970–71 San Diego Rockets season
The 1970–71 NBA season was the Rockets' 4th season in the NBA. It was also the team's final season in San Diego, as the franchise relocated to Houston, Texas following the season.


1970–71 San Francisco Warriors season
The 1970–71 NBA season was the Warriors' 25th season in the NBA and ninth in the San Francisco Bay Area.


1970–71 San Francisco Warriors season
It was also the franchise's final season in San Francisco before relocating across the Bay to Oakland the following season. The team would not play in San Francisco full time until the 2019–20 NBA season.


1970–71 Scottish Cup
The 1970–71 Scottish Cup was the 86th staging of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The Cup was won by Celtic who defeated Rangers in the replayed final.


1970–71 Scottish Division One
The 1970–71 Scottish Division One was won by Celtic by two points over nearest rival Aberdeen. St Mirren and Cowdenbeath finished 17th and 18th respectively and were relegated to the 1971–72 Second Division.


1970–71 Scottish Division Two
The 1970–71 Scottish Second Division was won by Partick Thistle who, along with second placed East Fife, were promoted to the First Division. Brechin City finished bottom.


1970–71 Scottish Football League, Scottish League Division One
Aberdeen, with 15 straight wins of which the last 12 were without conceding, led the league from December until the last week of the season. Aberdeen faced Celtic in their penultimate game needing a win to almost certainly clinch the title, but could only draw 1-1: and then they lost their last game, at Falkirk, allowing Celticto take the championship by 2 points.


1970–71 Scottish Inter-District Championship
The 1970–71 Scottish Inter-District Championship was a rugby union competition for Scotland's district teams.


1970–71 Scottish League Cup
The 1970–71 Scottish League Cup was the twenty-fifth season of Scotland's second football knockout competition. The competition was won by Rangers, who defeated Celtic in the Final breaking a run of 5 successive wins in the preceding years.


1970–71 Seattle SuperSonics season
The 1970–71 Seattle SuperSonics season was the Seattle SuperSonics 4th season in the National Basketball Association (NBA). In their second season with Lenny Wilkens as head coach, the Sonics finished in 8th place in the Western Conference with a 38–44 record. Trouble arose with the injury of top scorer Bob Rule, who tore his Achilles tendon three games into the season during a match against the Portland Trail Blazers and lost him for the remainder of the season.


1970–71 Seattle SuperSonics season, Offseason
During the offseason, the SuperSonics traded 10-year veteran Bob Boozer and their first round selection from the 1969 NBA draft, Lucius Allen to the Milwaukee Bucks for Don Smith (later known as Zaid Abdul-Aziz). Despite the early retirement announcement made by 24-year-old Smith to the Sonics' front office, he joined the team and played in 61 games in the regular season.


1970–71 Seattle SuperSonics season, Offseason, Draft picks
Note: only draft picks who participated in at least one game in the NBA are listed.


1970–71 Seattle SuperSonics season, Transactions, Overview
The Sonics signed Haywood as a free agent after he spent a season with the American Basketball Association's Denver Rockets, who signed Haywood after his sophomore year at the University of Detroit Mercy under a hardship clause. Because eligibility rules of the National Basketball Association at the time required a span of four years after high school graduation for a player to be picked by any team, a legal battle ensued, with the federal court ruling in favor of Haywood.


1970–71 Segunda División
The 1970–71 Segunda División season was the 40th since its establishment and was played between 5 September 1970 and 6 June 1971.


1970–71 Segunda División, Overview before the season
20 teams joined the league, including 3 relegated from the 1969–70 La Liga and 7 promoted from the 1969–70 Tercera División.


1970–71 Serie A, Teams
Varese, Foggia and Catania had been promoted from Serie B.


1970–71 Serie A (basketball)
The 1970–71 Serie A basketball championship was the 48th season of the Serie A, the highest professional basketball league in Italy.


1970–71 Serie A (basketball)
The regular season ran from 18 October 1970 to 28 March 1971, twelve teams played 22 games each. As both Ignis Varese and Simmenthal Milano were tied first with the same head-to-head record (having only lost once apiece, to each other) a single playoff game decided the title, the third ever played between the two squads (one on-the-court win per side, respectively in 1962 and 1966). Varese won the game played in Rome to earn their third straight championship, fifth overall (and the single spot in the European Champions Cup).


1970–71 Serie A (basketball)
The other end of the league table also saw a tie, with three teams on the same points for two relegation spots, hence playoffs were also played where Libertas Livorno and Cecchi Biella (both newly promoted) were relegated back to the Serie B.


1970–71 Serie A (basketball), Preseason
Ignis Varese, who had the previous season completed the domestic double (league and Italian Cup) in addition to winning the European Champions Cup (adding the Intercontinental Cup before the season) were seen as the overwhelming favourites. Simmenthal Milano, All'Onestà Milano and on a lesser note Forst Cantù and Splügen Venezia were seen as the likely challengers. All but one club had sponsorship names – widely the major source of revenue for clubs – with Libertas Livorno the involuntary exception.


1970–71 Serie A (basketball), Preseason
With only one foreign player allowed per club, nearly all were American, Varese's Mexican international Manuel Raga (considered the best foreigner in the league) and Splügen Venezia's newly arrived Brazilia international Ubiratan were the notable exceptions. Ignis, led by Aca Nikolić, could still count on Raga, Dino Meneghin, Aldo Ossola, Ottorino Flaborea and Paolo Vittori, adding Italian international Ivan Bisson from Snaidero Udine whilst sending Claudio Malagoli and Livio Paschini the other way (American John Fultz was signed only for the European Champions Cup).


1970–71 Serie A (basketball), Preseason
Simmenthal, coached by Cesare Rubini, had replaced on-off American Jim Tillman with compatriot Arthur Kenney, the retirement of historic player Sandro Riminucci was the only other change. All'Onesta put their trust in the proven quartet of Joe Isaac, Tony Gennari, Enrico Bovone and Marino Zanatta, Forst Cantù had supplemented key players Carlo Recalcati and Alberto De Simone with American newcomer Bob Lienhard whilst an important move saw Dado Lombardi move from Norda Bologna to cross-town rivals Eldorado Bologna for 25 million lira.


1970–71 Serie A (basketball), Regular season
Both Ignis and Simmenthal raced ahead of the others, so much that by the time they met each other in Varese on 27 December 1970 they were both unbeaten, with only Fides Napoli having provided any serious opposition. The game was already seen as title-deciding, Ignis had the best defence (60,1 points conceded per game to Simmenthal's 63.8) but the Milanese were more prolific in attack (81.8 points per game to Varese's 79.4) and were seen to have a slight edge over the holders.


1970–71 Serie A (basketball), Regular season
Ultimately, Varese would win a hard-fought if not spectacular game 71-58, Meneghin out-rebounded Massimo Masini to score 16 points while Vittori and Flaborea dominated in attack (the first scoring a game-high 22 points). Though Giorgio Giomo shackled Raga well and Kenney put in a fighting performance (15 points), it was not enough for Simmenthal, not helped by an anonymous performance from Renzo Bariviera (3 points).


1970–71 Serie A (basketball), Regular season
When came the time to play the return game in Milan on the 14 March 1971 the situation remained unchanged with both teams having won all their games in between (including in Europe). The game, reportedly played at the highest level, saw a partial repeat of the first leg as an in-form Vittori again top-scored (25 points) whilst Flaborea (18 points) also stepped up when Giomo's good marking on Raga restricted the sharpshooter.


1970–71 Serie A (basketball), Regular season
However, this time Simmenthal stepped up to the challenge and an extremely combative Kenney dished up 20 points, including two free-throws with only seconds left, whilst Masini added as much, to grab a close 72-71 win. With both squads on the same points and with the same head-to-head record, a playoff game was seen as virtually guaranteed despite there being three rounds left to play as no team could challenge the leaders. It proved to be the case as both squads easily won their final games to preserve the status-quo and make a playoff necessary.


1970–71 Serie A (basketball), Regular season
Simmenthal even recorded the most points scored in a league game by downing Snaidero Udine 138-88 in the final round on 24 April, four days before other games as Milano were playing the Cup Winners' Cup final.. The 138 points record, replacing the 133 Simmenthal themselves had scored the previous season, stayed as league record for decades, it still is a club record as of 2015.


1970–71 Serie A (basketball), Regular season
Forst Cantù comfortably beat presumed title-challenger All'Onesta Milano 90-57 in Milan in the second round. They proved to be the surprise squad of the tournament as the emergence of an eighteen-year-old Pierluigi Marzorati at playmaker coupled with good performances from Lienhard and Recalcati led them to third-place, 10 points from the leading duo but themselves 8 points in front of the rest of the pack led by All'Onesta Milano, an Ubiratan-led Splügen Venezia and a workmanlike Fides Napoli.


1970–71 Serie A (basketball), Regular season
In the relegation battle, the two promoted squads Cecchi Biella and Libertas Livorno predictably struggled but managed to win the odd game (Biella was greatly helped by American import Rudy Bennett, third-best league scorer with 22.8 points per game). At the same time Norda Bologna spent a large part of the season in free-fall, losing twelve consecutive games until a win over Snaidero Udine during the penultimate round enabled them to join Biella and Livorno on 10 points (from five wins). All three lost their final game, which both Livorno and Biella had to play at a neutral venue (respectively Florence and Borgosesia) due to being penalised for previous crowd behaviour), meaning a three-way playoff series was needed to decide relegation.


1970–71 Serie A (basketball), Regular season, Individual scoring table
Source: unofficial statistics compiled by the Giganti del Basket magazine (official statistics started from the 1975–76 season).


1970–71 Serie A (basketball), Postseason, Title playoff
The title-deciding playoff was played as a single game on 3 April 1971 at a neutral venue, namely Rome's Palazzo dello Sport. It proved slightly anticlimactic as Ignis raced in front during the first minutes and never allowed Simmenthal back in the game on the way to securing a 65-57 win and their third straight league championship. Manuel Raga was the foremost contributor to Varese's lead, escaping first Giomo's then Giuseppe Brumatti's then Kenney's marking to score 17 points in 12 minutes whilst at the same time the normally accurate Giulio Iellini and Giomo were shooting astray for Milano.


1970–71 Serie A (basketball), Postseason, Title playoff
With Flaborea and Vittori also potent in attack and Meneghin in defence, Milano's task became even greater despite Masini's efforts as the half-time score read 39-21 for the champions. Though Simmenthal managed to reduce the deficit in the second half, the gulf was too big and Varese were comfortable enough to rest Raga and play eighth man Paolo Polzot (who had arrived from Biella that season and rarely came off the bench) for nearly all the half.


1970–71 Serie A (basketball), Postseason, Relegation playoffs
The relegation playoffs were played on the 2nd, 3rd and 4 April 1971 in Cantù (originally scheduled in Milan's Palalido, they were moved after student protesters occupied the arena). Each team won and lost a game apiece, Norda Bologna ultimately escaped relegation thanks to a superior points differential (+14 to Livorno's -4 and Biella's -10).


1970–71 Serie A (basketball), Italian Cup
Ignis Varese won nearly all the competitions they played after lifting the Italian Cup, beating Fides Napoli 83-60 in the final, played in Viareggio on 12 April 1971. The third place game between losing semifinalists saw Simmenthal Milano down Forst Cantù 66-63.


1970–71 Serie A (ice hockey) season
The 1970–71 Serie A season was the 37th season of the Serie A, the top level of ice hockey in Italy. Six teams participated in the league, and SG Cortina won the championship.


1970–71 Serie B
The Serie B 1970–71 was the thirty-ninth tournament of this competition played in Italy since its creation.


1970–71 Serie B, Teams
Novara, Massese and Casertana had been promoted from Serie C, while Brescia, Palermo and Bari had been relegated from Serie A.


1970–71 Serie C
The 1970–71 Serie C was the thirty-third edition of Serie C, the third highest league in the Italian football league system.


1970–71 Sheffield Shield season
The 1970–71 Sheffield Shield season was the 69th season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. South Australia won the championship.


1970–71 Shell Shield season
The 1970–71 Shell Shield season was the fifth edition of what is now the Regional Four Day Competition, the domestic first-class cricket competition for the countries of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). The tournament was sponsored by Royal Dutch Shell, with matches played from 22 January to 23 April 1971.


1970–71 Shell Shield season
Five teams contested the competition – Barbados, the Combined Islands, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica both won two and drew two of their four matches, but Trinidad and Tobago finished with more points, winning a second consecutive title. Trinidadian batsman Joey Carew led the tournament in runs for a second consecutive season, while Jamaican fast bowler Uton Dowe was the leading wicket-taker.


1970–71 Shell Shield season, Statistics, Most runs
The top five run-scorers are included in this table, listed by runs scored and then by batting average.


1970–71 Shell Shield season, Statistics, Most wickets
The top five wicket-takers are listed in this table, listed by wickets taken and then by bowling average.


1970–71 South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball team
The 1970–71 South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball team represented the University of South Carolina during the 1970–71 men's college basketball season. South Carolina won the ACC Tournament Championship, defeating North Carolina in the championship game 52-51. This was the last season South Carolina ever played in the ACC. The success South Carolina achieved on the court brought resentment and anger from fellow ACC schools, especially those on "Tobacco Road," as the conference members of the state of North Carolina were known.


1970–71 South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball team
The hostility of the road crowds, the unfriendly behavior of coaches and athletic directors in the conference, and the discrepancies in eligibility standards led head coach Frank McGuire to support South Carolina becoming an Independent before the 1971-72 season. Despite South Carolina leaving the ACC in 1971, (as of 2018) they still remain the only school in the state of South Carolina to win an ACC tournament championship, even though Clemson, still remains in the ACC.


1970–71 South Pacific cyclone season
The 1970–71 South Pacific cyclone season, in terms of severe tropical cyclones, was the least active season on record, with none of its six storms strengthening above Category 2 tropical cyclone intensity. It was a below average season, beginning late and ending early. The season officially began on November 15 and ended on April 30, but the first storm formed a month after that, on December 15.


1970–71 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Priscilla
During December 15, a small tropical depression developed about 278 km (175 mi) to the north of Yasawa-i-Rara in Fiji's Yasawa Islands. Over the next day, the system drifted westwards, before it started to move southwards and intensify further. The system subsequently became equivalent to a modern-day category 1 tropical cyclone, with 10-minute sustained wind speeds of 75 km/h (45 mph) during December 17. During that day, the system passed about 95 km (60 mi) to the west of Nadi and started to move south-eastwards and passed well to the south of Ono-I-Lau during December 18. The system was last noted during the next day, after it had moved below 25S and out of the tropics. It was thought that the system caused gale-force winds in parts of Viti Levu, Vatulele, Kandavu and the Yasawa and Mamanutha group of islands.


1970–71 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Rosie
Cyclone Rosie was a weak cyclone which existed in late December 1970 near New Caledonia.


1970–71 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Ida
Cyclone Ida existed from 16 to 22 February 1971 in the Coral Sea.


1970–71 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Fiona
Cyclone Fiona existed from 16 to 28 February 1971. It developed from remains of Cyclone Gertie, which was located in the Gulf of Carpentaria.


1970–71 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Lena
Cyclone Lena existed from 13 to 20 March 1971 near New Caledonia.


1970–71 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Other systems
Tropical Depression Nora caused minor damage and gale-force winds over the Yasawa and Mamanuca islands, Viti-Levu as well as the Lomaiviti Islands, when it impacted Fiji between October 29–30.


1970–71 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Other systems
Cyclone Dora formed in the Coral Sea east of Proserpine on February 10, 1971. It took a southeasterly track over the next four days, away from the Queensland coast, turning into a low pressure system well east of the Queensland/New South Wales border. On February 17, the system reintensified into a cyclone east of the Gold Coast, and it crossed the Queensland coast north of Brisbane at Redcliffe. Widespread structural damage was reported, with numerous power lines falling and roofs being uproofed.


1970–71 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Other systems
During March 8, Tropical Cyclone Thelma impacted Western and Southwestern Fiji and caused flooding in Ba.


1970–71 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
The 1970–71 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season was an above-average cyclone season. The season officially ran from November 1, 1970, to April 30, 1971.


1970–71 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Felicie
Cyclone Felicie was a slow moving cyclone that made a large number of landfalls in Madagascar, 4, in addition to a single landfall in Mozambique, which reportedly killed 30 people. The storm followed a very erratic track due to unusual steering patterns, and went through many cycles of strengthening and weakening as it slowly trudged to the south. Felicie reached Tropical Cyclone status three separate times, before finally becoming extratropical southwest of Madagascar.


1970–71 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Myrtle–Ginette
On January 19, Severe Tropical Cyclone Myrtle entered the South-West Indian Ocean; therefore, it was assigned a second name, Ginette. The next day, Ginette reached hurricane status and developed a clear eye as it traveled generally west-southwestward. On January 22, Ginette curved southwestward and came within 72 kilometers (45 miles) of the island of Rodrigues. On Rodrigues, winds as high as 150 km/h (93 mph) were recorded along with a minimum barometric pressure of 989 mbar (29.21 inHg). Throughout the next two days, Ginette approached the island of Reunion, causing stormy weather that lasted until January 29.


1970–71 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Myrtle–Ginette
In Reunion, swells associated with Ginette reached 6 meters (20 feet) at times. On January 25, Ginette became stationary while located south of Reunion. The next day, Ginette encountered a ridge which caused it to execute a small clockwise loop. After completing the loop, Ginette accelerated southeastward and gradually weakened. By January 31, Ginette had transitioned into an extratropical cyclone.


1970–71 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Helga
On February 8, Helga passed southeast of Réunion and Mauritius, bringing heavy rainfall to the former island, reaching 926 mm (36.5 in) at Commerson. Two people died on the island due to drowning.


1970–71 Southern Football League
The 1970–71 Southern Football League season was the 68th in the history of the league, an English football competition.


1970–71 Southern Football League
Yeovil Town won the championship, winning their third Southern League title, whilst Folkestone, Gravesend & Northfleet, Guildford City and Merthyr Tydfil were all promoted to the Premier Division. Eight Southern League clubs applied to join the Football League at the end of the season, but none were successful.


1970–71 Southern Football League
At the end of the season Division One was split into divisions One North and One South with 14 new clubs joining the league.


1970–71 Southern Football League, Premier Division
The Premier Division consisted of 22 clubs, including 18 clubs from the previous season and four new clubs, promoted from Division One:


1970–71 Southern Football League, Division One
Division One consisted of 20 clubs, including 17 clubs from the previous season and four new clubs, relegated from the Premier Division:


1970–71 Southern Football League, Division One
At the end of the season Division One was split into divisions One North and One South with 14 new clubs joining the league.


1970–71 Southern Football League, Football League elections
Alongside the four League clubs facing re-election, a total of 12 non-League clubs applied for election, eight of which were Southern League clubs. All League clubs were re-elected.


1970–71 Soviet Cup (ice hockey)
The 1970–71 Soviet Cup was the 13th edition of the Soviet Cup ice hockey tournament. 32 teams participated in the tournament, which was won by Spartak Moscow, who claimed their second title.


1970–71 Soviet League season
The 1970–71 Soviet Championship League season was the 25th season of the Soviet Championship League, the top level of ice hockey in the Soviet Union. Nine teams participated in the league, and CSKA Moscow won the championship.


1970–71 Spartan League
The 1970–71 Spartan League season was the 53rd in the history of Spartan League. The league consisted of 18 teams.


1970–71 Spartan League, League table
The division featured 18 teams, 17 from last season and 1 new team:


1970–71 St. John's Redmen basketball team
The 1970–71 St. John's Redmen basketball team represented St. John's University during the 1970–71 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team was coached by Frank Mulzoff in his first year at the school after Lou Carnesecca left to become the head coach of the New York Nets in the American Basketball Association. St. John's home games are played at Alumni Hall and Madison Square Garden.


1970–71 St. Louis Blues season
The 1970–71 St. Louis Blues season was the St. Louis Blues' fourth season in the National Hockey League (NHL).


1970–71 St. Louis Blues season
The Blues began the 1970–71 season with high hopes after making a trip to the Stanley Cup Finals in the 1969–70 season. They purchased Christian Bordeleau from the Montreal Canadiens, who led the team in scoring and finished in the top five in game winning goals that season. They also sold Hall-of-Famer Jacques Plante to the Toronto Maple Leafs.


1970–71 St. Louis Blues season
During this season the Blues saw the most ties in their history (19), as well as most home ties (9), and the fewest home losses (7).


1970–71 St. Louis Blues season, Statistics, Skater statistics
Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes


1970–71 St. Louis Blues season, Playoffs, Goalie statistics
Note: GP = Games Played; TOI = Time On Ice (minutes); W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals Against; SO = Shutouts; Sv% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average


1970–71 St. Louis Blues season, Draft picks
St. Louis's draft picks at the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.


1970–71 Stoke City F.C. season
The 1970–71 season was Stoke City's 64th season in the Football League and the 40th in the First Division.


1970–71 Stoke City F.C. season
Stoke had a successful season making it to the semi-final of the FA Cup for only the second time in their history. Stoke made it through seven matches before facing Arsenal, where after building a 2–0 lead at Hillsborough Stoke let slip in the final few minutes and Arsenal levelled at 2–2. In the replay the "Gunners" won 2–0 at Villa Park. In the league Stoke finished in a mid-table position of 13th with 37 points, Stoke did record a famous win over Arsenal beating the eventual league champions 5–0 in September.


1970–71 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, League
Stoke had a good opening spell to the 1970–71 season, losing just three of their first 12 matches one of which was a crushing 5–2 defeat at Midlands rivals West Bromwich Albion. But generally the defence looked strong and solid and indeed six clean sheets were kept during that period. Stoke's sixth home game of the season on 26 September was against Bertie Mee's impressive Arsenal side at the Victoria Ground. Because of local travel difficulties (bus driver strike) just over 18,000 fans saw the match and those lucky enough to be there watch one of the best performances by a Stoke City side.


1970–71 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, League
Arsenal, who would go on to become First Division and FA Cup winners were well beaten 5–0 by Stoke in front of the Match of the Day cameras. As the season wore on Stoke found it difficult to maintain a consistent run of form in the First Division and their attentions soon turned towards the FA Cup. With the cup a distraction Stoke did well to finish in a mid table position of 13th.


1970–71 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, FA Cup
After Christmas Stoke became heavily involved in the FA Cup and they came very close to making it to their first final. Revenge was gained over Millwall in the third round and then Huddersfield Town proved to be difficult to get the better of, the tie finally being decided in a second replay at Old Trafford, Stoke winning 1–0 thanks to a goal from Jimmy Greenhoff. In the fifth round Stoke met Ipswich Town and after a goalless draw, Denis Smith scoring the only goal at Portman Road to send Stoke through to face Hull City in the quarter final. The tie at Boothferry Park was a cracking encounter with Stoke winning 3–2 to claim a place in the semi final for the first time since 1899, 75 years ago.


1970–71 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, FA Cup
Their opponents in the semi final were Arsenal with the tie played at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield. Stoke produced a dominant first half display and went into the half time break 2–0 up, with Smith and Ritchie scoring the goals that sent Stoke supporters ecstatic. Alas it was not to be as Arsenal clawed their way back into the match thanks to two second half goals from Peter Storey with the last being a penalty in the last minute of the game.


1970–71 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, FA Cup
Stoke were left to rue only scoring two goals in their first half dominance as the "Gunners" earned a replay they hardly deserved. Villa Park was the venue for 'part two' of the contest and in front of 62,356, Arsenal comfortably won 2–0 and went on to lift the trophy and complete a domestic double alongside their First Division league title. On the eve of the final, Stoke won the third place play off against Everton 3–2.


1970–71 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, League Cup
Millwall knocked Stoke out of the League Cup 2–1 in the second round.


1970–71 Sussex County Football League
The 1970–71 Sussex County Football League season was the 46th in the history of Sussex County Football League a football competition in England.


1970–71 Sussex County Football League, Division One
Division One featured 14 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with two new clubs, promoted from Division Two:


1970–71 Sussex County Football League, Division Two
Division Two featured 13 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with three new clubs:


1970–71 Svenska Cupen
Svenska Cupen 1970–71 was the sixteenth season of the main Swedish football Cup. The competition was concluded on 30 June 1971 with the final, held at Malmö Stadion, Malmö. Åtvidabergs FF won 3-2 against Malmö FF before an attendance of 7,544 spectators.


1970–71 Svenska Cupen, Quarter-finals
The quarter finals were held on 4 and 5 April 1971.


1970–71 Svenska Cupen, Final
The final was played on 30 June 1971 at Malmö Stadion.


1970–71 Swedish Division I season
The 1970–71 Swedish Division I season was the 27th season of Swedish Division I. Brynas IF won the league title by finishing first in the final round.


1970–71 Tercera División
The 1970–71 Tercera División season was the 37th since the establishment.


1970–71 Texaco Cup
The 1970–71 Texaco Cup was the first edition of the tournament sponsored by Texaco. It was won by Wolverhampton Wanderers, who beat Hearts in a two-legged final by 3–2 on aggregate.


1970–71 Texas Chaparrals season
The 1970–71 Texas Chaparrals season was the fourth season of the Chaparrals in the American Basketball Association. In order to try to attract more fans, the Chaparrals adopted the Texas moniker, even playing games in Fort Worth, Texas, at the Tarrant County Coliseum along with Lubbock, Texas, at the Lubbock Municipal Coliseum. This practice was scrapped after the season, along with the moniker, as the team was renamed before the next season. For the fourth straight year, the Chaps made the playoffs, but for the third straight year in a row they bowed out in the Division Semifinals, once again to Utah.


1970–71 Texas Chaparrals season, Playoffs
The Rockets and Chaparrals were tied for the fourth and final playoff spot in the Western Division, so the two teams played in a one game playoff, with the Chaps winning 115–109.


1970–71 Texas Chaparrals season, Awards and honors
1971 ABA All-Star Game selections (game played on January 23, 1971)


1970–71 The Floridians season
The 1970–71 The Floridians season was the third season of American Basketball Association in Florida and first as The Floridians, after two seasons as the Miami Floridians. In an attempt to appeal to the entire regional, game were played in five cities: Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Florida, Jacksonville, and West Palm Beach. New head owner Ned Doyle decided to get rid of the entire team, except the coach. The Floridians finished 9th in points scored at 114.0 per game, but 5th in points allowed at 115.6 per game.


1970–71 The Floridians season
The team's biggest losing streak was 6, which happened less than a month after the season began, though a 5-game winning streak followed that. But by the first half of the season, they were 17–25, and Blitman was fired after they had lost their fifth straight game on January 14 to make them 18–30. One day later, Bob Bass was hired by the team after resigning from Texas Tech. The next day, he won his first game, versus the Utah Stars.


1970–71 The Floridians season
A seven-game winning streak near the end of the season helped clinch a playoff spot for the team, with the key win being versus the Pittsburgh Condors on March 28, the penultimate game of the season played in Jacksonville, beating them 130–117 to eliminate Pittsburgh. In the Semifinals, they overcame a 2–0 hole to tie the series up, but the Kentucky Colonels won the next two games to win the series.


1970–71 The Floridians season, Awards and honors
1971 ABA All-Star Game selections (game played on January 23, 1971)


1970–71 Toronto Maple Leafs season
The 1970–71 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 54th season of the franchise, 44th as the Maple Leafs. Norm Ullman ranked sixth in the league in the scoring with 85 points. The Leafs placed fourth in the East to qualify for the playoffs. The Leafs lost to the New York Rangers in the first round of the playoffs.


1970–71 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Regular season
In February, the Maple Leafs and Philadelphia Flyers swung a large trade. Toronto picked up Bernie Parent and a second-round draft choice for Bruce Gamble, Mike Walton and a first-round draft choice.


1970–71 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Transactions
The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 1970–71 season.


1970–71 Tweede Divisie
The Dutch 1970–71 Tweede Divisie season was contested by 17 teams. The Tweede Divisie league would be disbanded after this season, so eleven teams returned to amateur football (either forced or on a voluntary basis). De Volewijckers were the last champions and they were promoted to the Eerste Divisie along with five other teams.


1970–71 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team
The 1970–71 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team represented the University of California, Irvine during the 1970–71 NCAA College Division men's basketball season. The Anteaters were led by second year head coach Tim Tift and played their home games at Crawford Hall. The anteaters finished the season with a record 16–10.


1970–71 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team, Previous Season
After previous head coach Dick Davis accepted the head coaching position at San Diego State, frosh coach Tim Tift was hired to be his replacement. The anteaters finished the season with a record 17–9 and were not invited to a post season tournament.


1970–71 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team
The 1970–71 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team won the National Collegiate Championship on March 27, 1971, in the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. It was UCLA's fifth consecutive national title, and seventh in eight years under head coach John Wooden. The Bruins defeated Villanova 68–62, but the Wildcats' runner-up finish was later vacated by the NCAA.


1970–71 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team
Smith Barrier, executive sports editor at the Daily News and Record of Greensboro, North Carolina, wrote: "Mister John Wooden has a watch factory out in Los Angeles. It's a bit different from most Swiss works. They don't make watches, they win 'em."


1970–71 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team
The Bruins' only blemish was a 89–82 loss at Notre Dame on January 23. The victory over UC Santa Barbara on January 30 began UCLA's record 88-game winning streak; it lasted nearly three years, broken on January 19, 1974, again at Notre Dame.


1970–71 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team
UCLA averaged 83.5 points per game, and allowed 71.1 points. Seniors Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe were selected to the consensus All-America team.


1970–71 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team
The Bruins opened NCAA West Regional in Salt Lake City with a 91–73 win over BYU, then edged Long Beach State 57–55 in the regional final.


1970–71 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team
At the Final Four in Houston, UCLA defeated fourth-ranked Kansas 68–60 in the semifinal game on Thursday night.


1970–71 USM Alger season
In the 1970–71 season, USM Alger is competing in the Championnat National for the 5th season, as well as the Algerian Cup. They will be competing in Championnat National, and the Algerian Cup.


1970–71 USM Alger season, Summary season
In 1970–71 Algerian Cup after a long march due to playing the quarter and semi-finals in home and away system Al-Ittihad reached the final to face in the Algiers Derby, MC Alger and be defeated again. before her in the semi-finals in Khenchela against the local team, Al-Ittihad was not welcomed because of a word used by USM Alger supporters which is that Khenchela is “Shawiya” a term that has been misinterpreted and they prepared a hostile reception, and the match lasted four hours due to the storming to the stadium several times by the supporters.


1970–71 USM Alger season, Summary season
After the end of the match USM Alger players who were accompanied by a handful of fans, remained locked in the dressing rooms until midnight and after the intervention of a Gendarmerie brigade sent from Batna. his return to Algiers was around 9 am the next day, then the Algerian Football Federation at that time punished the two clubs by playing 50 kilometers away from its stadium for one year. As for USM Alger it received in the 1971–72 season at Stade des Frères Brakni. USM Alger again participated in the Maghreb Cup Winners Cup as a runner-up of the Algerian Cup, finished in the last place with two defeats against Club Africain and Wydad Casablanca.


1970–71 USM Alger season, Squad list
Players and squad numbers last updated on 1 September 1970.Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


1970–71 USM Alger season, Squad information, Goalscorers
Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted alphabetically by surname when total goals are equal.


1970–71 United States network television schedule
The following is the 1970–71 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1970 through August 1971. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1969–70 season. All times are Eastern and Pacific, with certain exceptions, such as Monday Night Football.


1970–71 United States network television schedule
This was the first time that the top rated show of the season aired on ABC.


1970–71 United States network television schedule
Each of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research.


1970–71 United States network television schedule
PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, was in operation by October 1970; however, schedules were set by each affiliated station.


1970–71 United States network television schedule
In April 1970, Congress passed a law banning the advertising of cigarettes on television and radio, effective January 2, 1971.


1970–71 United States network television schedule
This season would be the last one for the traditional 3½-hour prime time schedule.


1970–71 United States network television schedule, Monday
Note: NBC Comedy Theater featured repeats of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, with new introductions by Jack Kelly.


1970–71 United States network television schedule, Wednesday
Notes: Love on a Rooftop consisted of reruns of the series, which originally aired during the 1966-1967 season. The Men from Shiloh formerly was entitled The Virginian.


1970–71 United States network television schedule, Thursday
Notes: The Dean Martin Summer Show Starring Your Host Vic Damone consisted entirely of reruns of the show of the same name from the summer of 1967. NBC Action Playhouse featured repeats of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, with new introductions by Peter Marshall.


1970–71 United States network television schedule, By network, NBC
Note: The * indicates that the program was introduced in midseason.


1970–71 United States network television schedule (daytime)
The 1970–71 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1970 to August 1971.


1970–71 United States network television schedule (daytime), Schedule, Saturday
In the Know aired on CBS at 8:55 am, 9:55 am, 10:55 am, 11:55 am, and 12:55 pm.


1970–71 United States network television schedule (late night)
These are the late night Monday-Friday schedules on all three networks for each calendar season beginning September 1970. All times are Eastern/Pacific.


1970–71 United States network television schedule (late night)
Talk/Variety shows are highlighted in yellow, Local News & Programs are highlighted in white.


1970–71 Utah Stars season
The 1970–71 Utah Stars season was the first season for the Stars in Utah. After one season in Anaheim and two seasons in Los Angeles, the team moved to Utah in June 1970. The Stars finished second in the Western Division and won their first and only ABA title. In the Semifinals, the Stars swept the Texas Chaparrals in four games. In the Division Finals, they beat the Indiana Pacers in seven games (including Game 7 in Indiana) to advance to the ABA Finals. In seven games, they beat the Kentucky Colonels, to give the state of Utah its first pro championship.


1970–71 Utah Stars season, Roster
Bold indicates the player was on the final roster prior to the playoffs.


1970–71 Utah Stars season, Playoffs
Zelmo Beaty scored 23.2 points per game and rebounded 14.6 rebounds per game, which earned him the Playoffs MVP.


1970–71 Valparaiso Crusaders men's basketball team
The 1970–71 Valparaiso Crusaders men's basketball team represented Valparaiso University during the 1970–71 NCAA Division II men's basketball season.


1970–71 Vancouver Canucks season
The 1970–71 Vancouver Canucks season was the Canucks' first in the NHL. They joined the league on May 22, 1970, along with the Buffalo Sabres. After not being awarded an expansion team in 1967 when the league added six teams, Vancouver finally joined the NHL in 1970 for a price of $6 million (compared to $2 million in 1967). The Vancouver Canucks of the Western Hockey League were promoted to the NHL, though the ownership group of the WHL Canucks, not willing to pay the $6 million to join the NHL, sold the team to Medicor, a group controlled by Thomas Scallen.


1970–71 Vancouver Canucks season
The Canucks logo was a stylized C designed as a hockey stick inside a rink incorporating the colours of blue, green and white to represent the water, forests and snow surrounding Vancouver. It was designed by a local creative designer, Joe Borovich, and bought for $500.


1970–71 Vancouver Canucks season
During the Amateur draft, held on June 11 in Montreal, there was debate over what expansion team would draft first. In order to reach a compromise, a numbered spinning wheel was brought in to determine the draft: the Sabres were odd numbers, the Canucks even. When the wheel landed on 11, the Canucks and NHL President Clarence Campbell thought it was II (two) in Roman numerals. However it turned out to be 11 (eleven) in Arabic numerals, leading the Sabres to select first overall future superstar Gilbert Perreault.


1970–71 Vancouver Canucks season
On October 9, 1970, the Canucks played their first game in the NHL, a 3–1 loss to the Los Angeles Kings. There was a grand opening ceremony attended by British Columbia Premier W. A. C. Bennett, Mayor of Vancouver Tom Campbell (who was booed by fans), Chief Dan George and former Vancouver Millionaires player Cyclone Taylor, who received a standing ovation upon being introduced. Barry Wilkins scored the first goal for the Canucks in the third period.


1970–71 Vancouver Canucks season
Inexplicably, the Canucks were placed in the East Division, which was not only the tougher division but featured opponents over 2,000 miles away from Vancouver. (The Canucks were nearly a .500 team at home, but could only win seven of 39 road games.) Throughout the first three months of the season, though, the expansion club managed to stay within contention of a playoff spot, until captain Orland Kurtenbach injured his knee in late December. The Canucks would finish their inaugural season with six 20-goal scorers, and Tallon would break Bobby Orr's rookie record for defenseman assists, but 11-30-5 mark to end the season placed them only one point out of last place.


1970–71 Vancouver Canucks season, Player statistics, Skaters
Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty Minutes


1970–71 Vancouver Canucks season, Player statistics, Skaters
†Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Vancouver. Stats reflect time with the Canucks only.


1970–71 Vancouver Canucks season, Player statistics, Skaters
*Denotes player traded by Vancouver midway through the season. Stats reflect time with Canucks only.


1970–71 Vancouver Canucks season, Player statistics, Goaltenders
Note: GP = Games Played; Min = Minutes; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals Against; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals Against Average


1970–71 Vancouver Canucks season, Awards and records, Records achieved in the season
Note: Only records that stand as of 2020–21 are listed


1970–71 Vancouver Canucks season, Transactions
The Canucks were involved in the following transactions during the 1970–71 season.


1970–71 Vancouver Canucks season, Draft picks, Expansion draft
Vancouver's picks at the 1970 NHL Expansion Draft. In order to fill out the rosters of both the Canucks and Buffalo Sabres, they were given the opportunity to select eighteen skaters and two goaltenders from the unprotected lists of existing NHL team's rosters. Teams were allowed to protect several players from being drafted, and as such kept many of their star players, leaving the Canucks and Sabres with lesser quality players to choose from. The draft was held on June 9, 1970, at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Using a spinning wheel to determine the order of the expansion draft, Buffalo had the first choice.


1970–71 Vancouver Canucks season, Draft picks, Amateur draft
Vancouver's picks at the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft. The draft was held on June 11, 1970, at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.


1970–71 Vehicle & General Australasian knock-out competition
The 1970–71 Vehicle & General Australasian knock-out competition was the second edition of the officical List A domstic tournament in Australia. Seven teams representing six states in Australia and New Zealand took part in the knock-out competition. The competition began on 18 October 1970 when South Australia took on Victoria at the Adelaide Oval.


1970–71 Vehicle & General Australasian knock-out competition
The 1970–71 cup final was played on 6 February 1971 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground between Queensland and Western Australia, with Western Australia recording an 91 run victory over Queensland. Ian Chappell scored the most runs in the tournament with 176 runs with Graham McKenzie from Western Australia taking the most wickets with eight.


1970–71 Vehicle & General Australasian knock-out competition, Format
The second season of the competition was a straight knockout competition between the six states of Australia and a team that represented New Zealand at the domestic level.


1970–71 Villanova Wildcats men's basketball team
The 1970–71 Villanova Wildcats men's basketball team represented Villanova University during the 1970–71 NCAA University Division men's basketball season. The team was led by head coach Jack Kraft and played its home games on campus at Villanova Field House in Villanova, Pennsylvania.


1970–71 Villanova Wildcats men's basketball team
The independent Wildcats made a run through the NCAA Tournament before falling to No. 1 UCLA, 68–62, in the championship game. Villanova finished with a 27–7 (.794) record.


1970–71 Virginia Squires season
The 1970–71 Virginia Squires season was the first season of the Virginia Squires in the American Basketball Association. After one season each in Oakland and Washington, owner Earl Foreman was convinced by the league to move his team to Virginia. Like the Carolina Cougars and The Floridians, the Squires played as a regional franchise, primarily playing games in Norfolk, Hampton and Richmond, with Salem and Roanoke having occasional games. The Squires started play on October 17, 1970, in Norfolk, winning 133–116 over the Pittsburgh Condors.


1970–71 Virginia Squires season
They proceeded to win their next five games, while having a 30–12 first half of the season, highlighted by a seven-game winning streak. They went 25–17 in the second half, though they never lost more than two games in a row. They finished 1st in points scored at 123.3 per game, but 7th in points allowed at 119.7 per game. In the playoffs, they beat the Kentucky Colonels in six games to advance to the Division Finals, but they were beaten in six games themselves by the New York Nets.


1970–71 Virginia Squires season
Prior to the season on September 1, the Squires traded an unhappy Rick Barry to the New York Nets for $200,000 cash. Offsetting this loss was rookie Charlie Scott from the University of North Carolina. Scott averaged 27.1 points per game and was named ABA Rookie of the Year.


1970–71 Virginia Squires season, Awards and honors
1971 ABA All-Star Game selections (game played on January 23, 1971)


1970–71 WCHL season
The 1970–71 WCHL season was the fifth season of the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL). Ten teams completed a 66-game season, with the Edmonton Oil Kings winning the President's Cup.


1970–71 WCHL season, League business
The Medicine Hat Tigers were approved as an expansion team in January 1970, for the upcoming 1970–71 season. The Regina Pats were accepted into the WCHL, which increased league to ten teams by May 1970. League president Ron Butlin stated that the expansion draft was configured so that new teams would be competitive in their first year. Established teams could protect six players before expansion teams could then start drafting from the rest.


1970–71 WCHL season, League business
The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) general meeting in May 1970 discussed proposals, in which the WCHL and Butlin were interested as part of rejoining the CAHA and disbanding the Canadian Hockey Association. Proposals included splitting junior ice hockey into two tiers, and readmitting the WCHL into the top tier along with the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and the Ontario Hockey Association Major Junior A Series. The top tier teams would be eligible to compete for the Memorial Cup, receive greater development payments from the National Hockey League when players were drafted, and be allowed to select a limited number of players from lower-tier teams.


1970–71 WCHL season, League business
On May 29, 1970, Justice Lieberman of the Alberta Supreme Court ruled in favour of the WCHL being paid C$13,200 in outstanding development payments from the CAHA for the 1968 NHL draft. Butlin was satisfied with the ruling and considered further court action to receive an additional $40,700 from the 1969 NHL draft.


1970–71 WCHL season, League business
On June 24, 1970, the WCHL and the CAHA signed a two-year agreement to reunite the organizations. The WCHL was admitted to the top tier of the CAHA, and would receive $100,000 in development grants for the 1970–71 season. The WCHL would pay a flat registration fee per team rather than a percentage of gate receipts, and would have direct representation on the CAHA junior council. The WCHL was expected to abide by any future CAHA-NHL agreements which included the renegotiation of draft payment amounts, and the CAHA agreed to distribute outstanding draft money.


1970–71 WCHL season, League business
League expansion or relocation of teams were subject to CAHA approval, and the WCHL league champion qualified for the Memorial Cup final. The WCHL was allowed four over-age players in the upcoming season, then reduced to two over-age players in the second season onward. The WCHL was allowed to transfer up to six players between provinvces per team from areas west of Ontario, and could draft a maximum of two players from a lower tier team.


1970–71 WCHL season, League business
In August 1970, Butlin announced an affiliation agreement with the British Columbia Junior Hockey League to develop prospect players for the WCHL.


1970–71 WCHL season, League business
In October 1970, CAHA president Earl Dawson threatened to have the league expelled from the CAHA due to the use of over-age players who came from Ontario, and disputes with payments to lower tier teams. CAHA secretary Gordon Juckes later clarified that automatic release provisions would not be used in the 1970–71 season, and suggested alternate arrangements be made to settle disputes of roster movements between tiers.


1970–71 WCHL season, League business
In January 1971, the league set up an $8,000 scholarship for Ernie Heineman due to a career-ending eye injury.


1970–71 WCHL season, League business
The Edmonton Oil Kings issued a challenge to the Quebec Remparts to play for the 1971 Memorial Cup championship. The CAHA approved a best-of-three final with all three games played at the Quebec Coliseum. Edmonton failed to win a game and the Remparts won the Memorial Cup.


1970–71 WCHL season, League business
Butlin chose to resign as WCHL president on June 21, 1971, since he was not happy with how some of the team owners did business. He stated that he was cautious about expanding in to British Columbia, and claimed that several team owners had done negotiations without him. Butlin had one year remaining on his contract.


1970–71 WCHL season, Regular season
The Medicine Hat Tigers were added to the West division, and the Regina Pats were added to the East division. The regular season was expanded to 66 games from 60.


1970–71 WCHL season, Regular season, Scoring leaders
Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes


1970–71 WCHL season, All-Star game
The 1970–71 WCHL All-Star Game was held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with the WCHL All-stars defeating the Winnipeg Jets 4–3 before a crowd of 3,543.


1970–71 WFA Cup
The 1970–71 Women's Football Association Cup was the first edition of the WFA Cup (Women's FA Cup), the national women's football knockout competition in England, which at the time was open to clubs from the rest of the United Kingdom. It was organised by the Women's Football Association (WFA).


1970–71 WFA Cup
Seventy-one teams entered the Cup, which was sponsored by sports equipment company Mitre and was thus named the Mitre Challenge Trophy.


1970–71 WFA Cup
The inaugural Cup-winners were the English club Southampton Women's F.C., who beat Scotland's Stewarton Thistle in the Final on 9 May 1971 at Crystal Palace Park; Stewarton won the first edition of the Scottish Women's Cup Final in the same year.


1970–71 WFA Cup
The WFA tournament followed the rescindment of the English Football Association's 1921 ban on women's teams' use of FA member clubs' pitches. However, the English Football League partially continued this ban for more than a decade after 1970.


1970–71 WFA Cup, Prior developments
After the 1921 ban, national women's football competitions had been attempted by organisations including the English Ladies Football Association.


1970–71 WFA Cup, Prior developments
From 1967 until 1972, a large annual summer tournament was held in Deal, Kent with women's clubs from throughout Great Britain, playing short-form matches. The Deal International Tournament comprised 52 clubs in 1969, including some from Czechoslovakia and Austria. This was a catalyst in the formation of the Ladies Football Association of Great Britain in November 1969 by forty-four clubs, with its first AGM on 6 June 1970. It was shortly renamed the Women's Football Association (WFA). One of the Association's founder members was a club from the Republic of Ireland, Dundalk.


1970–71 WFA Cup, Prior developments
Women's football had been treated in hostile terms by the FA, which forbade women's teams to play at its member club grounds in England from 1921 until the early 1970s. The FA voted to revoke the ban in January 1970, but the men's Football League did not take similar action, and did not permit its clubs to host the first WFA Cup Finals. A blanket ban lasted for a further three years, according to the WFA's Patricia Gregory:


1970–71 WFA Cup, Prior developments
The Football League (FL, now EFL) didn't lift their objections to our using their grounds until we played an International match against The Netherlands in November 1973 (a game played at Reading FC [Elm Park]).


1970–71 WFA Cup, Prior developments
In 1971, and in the next ten competitions, the WFA Cup Finals were not allowed to be held at Football League grounds, according to the History of the Women's Football Association, based on British Library records: "As the sport grew the WFA was reliant upon the generosity of smaller clubs". The first women's Final held at a League ground was the 1982 Final at Loftus Road.


1970–71 WFA Cup, Prior developments
In November 1970, the County FA Secretaries' Association conference voted to reject, by 31 to 13, the Birmingham FA's proposal to allow women's clubs to affiliate to county FAs.


1970–71 WFA Cup, Prior developments
Several regional leagues were formed around this time, including the Heart of England Ladies' Football League, Midland Ladies Football League, Torbay Women's League, Home Counties Women's Football League, Kent Women's League, and Merseyside and Wirral Ladies' Football League


1970–71 WFA Cup, Early rounds
The first news report on team entries to the Cup was in August 1970. Mitre's sponsorship of the competition continued from 1970 until 1976; the company also provided the first winners' trophy, which was used until 1979.


1970–71 WFA Cup, Early rounds
The 1970–71 Cup was reportedly divided into eight area groups. The eight zonal winners qualified to the quarter-finals, held in Watford.


1970–71 WFA Cup, Early rounds
A first-round match in Scotland was Aberdeen Prima Donnas v Stewarton Thistle (of Kilmarnock), on 29 November 1970 at the Aberdeen Lads' Club Fields in Woodside, Aberdeen. The teams would meet again in the Scottish Women's Cup Final in 1971.


1970–71 WFA Cup, Early rounds
In the earliest reported fixture in the Cup, on 1 November, Leicester City Supporters L.F.C. were drawn at home to The Wandering Angels (Lichfield),  and in December Amersham Angels ("who were given a bye in the preliminary round") beat Luton Ladies, 5–3.


1970–71 WFA Cup, Early rounds
At this time, the Association was evidently open to all Irish and Welsh women's football clubs, though how many competed in the Cup is unclear. The successful Welsh women's team Prestatyn travelled to Ireland to play Dundalk in an "international" friendly match in April 1971, which ended in a 4–2 away win, and Dundalk's Kevin Gaynor was on the WFA Executive. A representative Northern Ireland team was discussed with the WFA in June 1971; eventually, the WFA came to be solely a governing body for England. The Scottish Women's Football Association was founded in 1972.


1970–71 WFA Cup, Final rounds
One of the eight zonal final matches was won by Nuneaton Wanderers (Warwickshire) 6–3 against Bantams Ladies (Coventry), at the Memorial Park; another zonal winner was EMGALS (from Leicester, representing the East Midlands Gas Board, EMGAS), who won 5–3 at Hull. Another zonal final match was between Chiltern Valley and Amersham Angels.


1970–71 WFA Cup, Final rounds
In the quarter-finals, Nuneaton Wanderers beat Kays Ladies (Worcester) on 25 April at Watford. EMGALS, Southampton and Stewarton also progressed from their quarter-finals.


1970–71 WFA Cup, Final rounds
The semi-final winners were Stewarton Thistle (9–2 against the injury-hit Wanderers) and Southampton (11–0 versus EMGALS).


1970–71 WFA Cup, Final rounds
The final matches were held at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, earlier the site of twenty men's FA Cup Finals in the 19th and 20th centuries. As in the FA Cup at the time, a third-place playoff was held – Nuneaton Wanderers beat EMGALS on penalties after a 3–3 draw. Soon after, Wanderers won a 10-team international tournament in Holland in June 1971.


1970–71 WFA Cup, Final rounds
Southampton Women's F.C. won the Cup with a 4–1 victory over Stewarton Thistle, including a hat-trick by Pat Davies. The Kilmarnock-based club, whose Rose Reilly later won eight women's Serie A titles, were the first winners of the Scottish Women's Cup in the same year; the team also reached the second WFA Cup Final in 1972 under the name Lee's Ladies. Southampton went on to win eight WFA Cups.


1970–71 WIHL season
1970–71 was the 24th season of the Western International Hockey League.


1970–71 WIHL season, Playoff
In the Best of 7 final series, the Nelson Maple Leafs defeated the Spokane Jets 4 games to 2 (9-4, 3-4, 3-6, 4-2, 4-3, 5-2). The Nelson Maple Leafs advanced to the 1970-71 Western Canada Allan Cup Playoffs.


1970–71 Washington Huskies men's basketball team
The 1970–71 Washington Huskies men's basketball team represented the University of Washington for the 1970–71 NCAA college basketball season. Led by third-year head coach Tex Winter, the Huskies were members of the Pacific-8 Conference and played their home games on campus at Hec Edmundson Pavilion in Seattle, Washington.


1970–71 Washington Huskies men's basketball team
The Huskies were 15–13 overall in the regular season and 6–8 in conference play, fifth in the standings.


1970–71 Washington Huskies men's basketball team
After the season in May 1971, Winter left to become head coach of the NBA's San Diego Rockets, who moved to Houston that summer. Marv Harshman was hired in June, and he led the Huskies for fourteen seasons. He was previously the head coach at rival Washington State for thirteen years, preceded by thirteen years at his alma mater, Pacific Lutheran.


1970–71 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team
The 1970–71 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team represented Washington State University for the 1970–71 college basketball season. Led by thirteenth-year head coach Marv Harshman, the Cougars were members of the Pacific-8 Conference and played their home games on campus at Bohler Gymnasium in Pullman, Washington.


1970–71 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team
The Cougars were 12–14 overall in the regular season and 2–12 in conference play, tied for last in the standings.


1970–71 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team
At the end of the season, assistant Jud Heathcote became head coach at the University of Montana.


1970–71 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team
A fixture in Pullman since 1958, Harshman departed in June for rival Washington in Seattle. Bob Greenwood, an assistant at Iowa and former head coach at Washington University in St. Louis, was hired in July.


1970–71 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team
The 1970–71 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team represented Weber State College during the 1970–71 NCAA University Division basketball season. Members of the Big Sky Conference, the Wildcats were led by third-year head coach Phil Johnson and played their home games on campus at Wildcat Gym in Ogden, Utah. They were 21–5 in the regular season and 12–2 in conference play.


1970–71 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team
The conference tournament was five years away, and for the fourth consecutive season, Weber State won the Big Sky title and played in the 25-team NCAA Tournament. In the West regional at nearby Logan, they met Jerry Tarkanian's Long Beach State 49ers in the first round for a second straight year and lost again, this time by eleven points.


1970–71 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team
Both starting forwards were unanimously selected to the all-conference team; senior Willie Sojourner was named for a third consecutive season and junior Bob Davis repeated the next year.


1970–71 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team
Following the season, Johnson became an assistant in the NBA with the Chicago Bulls under Dick Motta, whom he had played for in high school in Idaho and coached under at Weber.


1970–71 Welsh Cup
The 1970–71 FAW Welsh Cup is the 84th season of the annual knockout tournament for competitive football teams in Wales.


1970–71 Welsh Cup, Fifth round
Nine winners from the Fourth round and seven new clubs.


1970–71 West Midlands (Regional) League
The 1970–71 West Midlands (Regional) League season was the 71st in the history of the West Midlands (Regional) League, an English association football competition for semi-professional and amateur teams based in the West Midlands county, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and southern Staffordshire.


1970–71 West Midlands (Regional) League, Premier Division
The Premier Division featured 18 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with one new club:


1970–71 Western Football League
The 1970–71 season was the 69th in the history of the Western Football League.


1970–71 Western Football League
The champions for the second time in their history were Bideford.


1970–71 Western Football League, Final table
The league was reduced from twenty clubs to eighteen after Portland United, Weymouth Reserves and Yeovil Town Reserves left, and one new club joined:


1970–71 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers basketball team
The 1970–71 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers men's basketball team represented Western Kentucky University during the 1970–71 NCAA University Division men's basketball season. The Hilltoppers were led by Ohio Valley Conference Coach of the Year John Oldham and consensus All-American player Jim McDaniels. WKU won the OVC season championship, as well as the conference's automatic bid to the 1971 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament. No conference tournament was held, so the conference bid was awarded to the season champion. The Hilltoppers advanced to the NCAA Final Four, though the tournament games were later vacated by the NCAA due to McDaniels having signed a contract with an agent.


1970–71 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers basketball team
For the second consecutive year, McDaniels was OVC Player of the Year and set the school record for most points scored in season and career, and highest scoring average. Jerry Dunn and Jim Rose joined McDaniels on the All-OVC Team. This team was one of the most talented in school history with several players being drafted by the NBA and ABA including McDaniels, Dunn, Rose, Clarence Glover, and Jerome Perry.


1970–71 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers basketball team, Cultural Relevance
This year's Western Kentucky team was the first non-historically black Kentucky college to start five African-American players: McDaniels, Rose, Glover, Dunn, and Rex Bailey. Coach Oldham was pressured, and even threatened, not to start all five together, but resisted the pressure saying "they are my best five players."


1970–71 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers basketball team, NCAA Sanctions
WKU's NCAA tournament games were later vacated by the NCAA after it was discovered that McDaniels had signed with a professional agent prior to the tournament. “I admit I made a mistake,” McDaniels told the Courier-Journal in an interview. “There was a lot of pressure. I got around some people who did not have my best interests at heart.”   The sanctions reduced their officially recognized record to 20–5.


1970–71 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team
The 1970–1971 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented University of Wisconsin–Madison. The head coach was John Powless, coaching his third season with the Badgers. The team played their home games at the UW Fieldhouse in Madison, Wisconsin and was a member of the Big Ten Conference.


1970–71 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team
The 1970–71 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Yale University during the 1970–71 men's college basketball season. The Bulldogs, led by 14th year head coach Joe Vancisin, played their home games at John J. Lee Amphitheater of the Payne Whitney Gymnasium and were members of the Ivy League. They finished the season 4–20, 2–12 in Ivy League play to finish in seventh place.


1970–71 Yorkshire Cup
The 1970–71 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-third occasion on which the  Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.


1970–71 Yorkshire Cup
Leeds won the trophy by beating Featherstone Rovers by the score of 23–7


1970–71 Yorkshire Cup
The match was played at Odsal in the City of Bradford, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 6,753 and receipts were £1,879


1970–71 Yorkshire Cup
This was Featherstone Rovers's second Yorkshire Cup final defeat in successive competitions


1970–71 Yorkshire Cup, Background
This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entrants and no "leavers" and so the total of entries remained the  same at sixteen.


1970–71 Yorkshire Cup, Background
This in turn resulted in no byes in the first round.


1970–71 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and Results, Final, Teams and Scorers
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points


1970–71 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments
1 * Just prior to the new season's start, the Hunslet players were told they had to accept a cut in wages. This they refused to accept as they had not had a rise for eight years. They went on strike. When the management threatened to close down the club, the players relented and backed down, but after only one match they went back on strike. This match was not played and Doncaster awarded a walk-over.


1970–71 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments
2 * Odsal is the home ground of Bradford Northern from 1890 to 2010 and the current capacity is in the region of 26,000, The ground is famous for hosting the largest attendance at an English sports ground when 102,569 (it was reported that over 120,000 actually attended as several areas of boundary fencing collapse under the sheer weight of numbers) attended the replay of the Challenge Cup final on 5 May 1954 to see Halifax v Warrington


1970–71 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar
The Rugby League Yorkshire Cup competition was a knock-out competition between (mainly professional) rugby league clubs from  the  county of Yorkshire. The actual area was at times increased to encompass other teams from  outside the  county such as Newcastle, Mansfield, Coventry, and even London (in the form of Acton & Willesden).


1970–71 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar
The Rugby League season always (until the onset of "Summer Rugby" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final taking place in (or just before) December (The only exception to this was when disruption of the fixture list was caused during, and immediately after, the two World Wars)


1970–71 Yorkshire Football League
The 1970–71 Yorkshire Football League was the 45th season in the history of the Yorkshire Football League, a football competition in England. This season the league expanded up to three divisions.


1970–71 Yorkshire Football League, Division One
Division One featured 12 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with two new clubs:


1970–71 Yorkshire Football League, Division Two
Division Two featured eight clubs which competed in the previous season, along with six new clubs, relegated from Division One:


1970–71 Yorkshire Football League, Division Three
The division was formed by nine clubs relegated from Division Two and six new clubs.


1970–71 Yugoslav Cup
The 1970–71 Yugoslav Cup was the 24th season of the top football knockout competition in SFR Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav Cup (Serbo-Croatian: Kup Jugoslavije), also known as the "Marshal Tito Cup" (Kup Maršala Tita), since its establishment in 1946.


1970–71 Yugoslav Cup, Finals (First Leg)
Vladislav Bogićević, Slobodan Janković (Mile Novković), Stanislav Karasi, Zoran Filipović, Jovan Aćimović, Dragan Džajić


1970–71 Yugoslav Cup, Finals (Second Leg)
Fuad Subašić, Omer Jusić (Muhamed Glavović), Tihomir Trifunović, Časlav Jevremović


1970–71 Yugoslav First Basketball League
The 1970–71 Yugoslav First Basketball League season was the 27th season of the Yugoslav First Basketball League, the highest professional basketball league in SFR Yugoslavia.


1970–71 Yugoslav First League
The 1970–71 Yugoslav First League season was the 25th season of the First Federal League (Serbo-Croatian: Prva savezna liga), the top level association football league of SFR Yugoslavia, since its establishment in 1946. Eighteen teams contested the competition, which ended with Hajduk Split winning their fourth title, club's first in 16 years.


1970–71 Yugoslav First League, Incidents
The season featured an incident that occurred in Split's Stari plac Stadium on 23 September 1970 during the Hajduk vs. OFK Beograd week 7 league fixture. With the score tied at 2-2 in the 52nd minute, match referee Pavle Ristić from Novi Sad fell unconscious after getting hit in the head with an object thrown from the stands. The match was stopped and the Yugoslav FA's (FSJ) disciplinary body made a ruling to register it with a 0-3 score for OFK Beograd.


1970–71 Yugoslav First League, Incidents
The disciplinary measure set off huge, days-long, often violent protests in Split that quickly assumed a distinctly anti-Belgrade and anti-Serb tone. Led by the club's hardcore fans Torcida, the practice of seeking out parked cars with the city of Belgrade license plates and pushing them into the Adriatic Sea from the docks was especially widespread in Split during the protests.


1970–71 Yugoslav First League, Incidents
The press also reported about some of the gathered mob spontaneously launching into a cynical and sarcastic rendition of Sergio Endrigo's then current and popular song "Kud plovi ovaj brod" ('Where is This Ship Going') as the cars with Belgrade plates were pushed into the sea and floated in the water before sinking.


1970–71 Yugoslav First League, Incidents
Due to their political undertones and the potential to undermine the country's official inter-ethnic guiding principle during the sensitive time when MASPOK was gathering steam in SR Croatia, the Split football protests quickly came to the attention of Yugoslav politicians who decided to deal with the situation by pressing FSJ into changing its disciplinary ruling and registering the 2-2 score. FSJ did exactly that, reinstating the score at the moment when the match was interrupted as the official result.


1970–71 Yugoslav Ice Hockey League season
The 1970–71 Yugoslav Ice Hockey League season was the 29th season of the Yugoslav Ice Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Yugoslavia. 11 teams participated in the league, and Jesenice have won the championship.


1970–71 ice hockey Bundesliga season
The 1970–71 Ice hockey Bundesliga season was the 13th season of the Ice hockey Bundesliga, the top level of ice hockey in Germany. 10 teams participated in the league, and EV Fussen won the championship.


1970–71 in Belgian football
The 1970–71 season was the 68th season of competitive football in Belgium. Standard Club Liégeois won their 6th Division I title. RFC Brugeois reached the quarter-finals of the 1970–71 European Cup Winners' Cup. K Beerschot VAV won the Belgian Cup final against K Sint-Truidense VV (2-1 after extra time). The Belgium national football team started their UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying campaign as they were drawn in Group 5 with Portugal, Scotland and Denmark. They won all of their first 4 games and finished the season at the top of Group 5, 2 points ahead of Portugal with 2 matches to go.


1970–71 in Belgian football, Overview
At the end of the season, R Charleroi SC and ARA La Gantoise were relegated to the Division II, to be replaced by KSV Cercle Brugge and KV Mechelen from Division II. The bottom 2 clubs in Division II (ASV Oostende KM and KSV Sottegem) were relegated to Division III, to be replaced by KSK Tongeren and K Boom FC from Division III. The bottom club of each Division III league (VC Westerlo, RC Tirlemont, Kortrijk Sport and R Jet de Bruxelles) were relegated to the Promotion, to be replaced by R Herve FC, Wavre Sports, K Helzold FC and KSC Lokeren from Promotion.


1970–71 in Belgian football, European competitions
Standard Club Liégeois beat Rosenborg BK of Norway in the first round of the 1970–71 European Champion Clubs' Cup (won 2-0 away, 5-0 at home) but lost in the second round to Legia Warsaw of Poland (won 1-0 at home, lost 0-2 away).


1970–71 in Belgian football, European competitions
RFC Brugeois eliminated Kickers Offenbach of West Germany in the first round of the 1970–71 European Cup Winners' Cup (lost 1-2 away, won 2-0 at home) and FC Zürich of Switzerland in the second round (won 2-0 at home, lost 1-2 away). In the quarter-finals, Bruges lost to future winner Chelsea FC after extra time (won 2-0 at home, lost 0-4 away).


1970–71 in Belgian football, European competitions
The 3 Belgian clubs who entered the 1970–71 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup were ARA La Gantoise, RSC Anderlechtois  and KSK Beveren. In the first round, RSC Anderlechtois beat NK Željezničar of Yugoslavia (won 4-3 away, 5-4 at home) and KSK Beveren beat Wiener Sportclub of Austria (won 2-0 away, 3-0 at home), but ARA La Gantoise lost to Hamburger SV of West Germany (lost 0-1 at home, 1-7 away). In the second round, RSC Anderlechtois beat Akademisk Boldklub of Denmark (won 3-1 away, 4-0 at home), while KSK Beveren beat Valencia CF of Spain (won 1-0 away, drew 1-1 at home). Both clubs exited at the third round, RSC Anderlechtois to Vitoria FC of Portugal (won 2-1 at home, lost 1-3 away after extra time) and KSK Beveren to Arsenal FC (lost 0-4 away, drew 0-0 at home).


1970–71 in English football
The 1970–71 season was the 91st season of competitive football in England.


1970–71 in English football, Honours
Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition


1970–71 in English football, FA Cup
The 1971 FA Cup Final saw Arsenal beat Liverpool 2–1 to become only the fourth club in history and the second club this century to have won the league championship and FA Cup double.


1970–71 in English football, FA Cup
Stoke City beat Everton 3–2 at Selhurst Park in a third-place playoff, held the day before the final. The biggest FA Cup shock, however, was Fourth Division Colchester United's 3–2 victory over Don Revie's Leeds United at Layer Road in the fifth round.


1970–71 in English football, FA Cup
Barnet equalled the record for the biggest win by a non-league team over a Football League team by beating Newport County 6–1 in the First Round.


1970–71 in English football, League Cup
The final was held at Wembley Stadium, London. Tottenham Hotspur beat Aston Villa to win the 1971 Football League Cup Final and add to their list of trophies won under the management of Bill Nicholson.


1970–71 in English football, Football League, First Division
Arsenal won the league championship at the end of a season which would soon be followed by their FA Cup final tie with Liverpool. Arsenal secured the league title at White Hart Lane, the home of bitter rivals Tottenham. They narrowly overcame Leeds to win the league, with a 12-point gap separating Leeds from third-placed Tottenham. Wolves and Liverpool joined these two teams in the UEFA Cup. Chelsea missed out on the top five on goal average but compensated for this shortcoming by achieving European Cup Winners' Cup glory over Real Madrid.


1970–71 in English football, Football League, First Division
Burnley and Blackpool (who won this year's Anglo-Italian Cup) were relegated to the Second Division. Burnley returned from 1973–74 to 1975–76 but Blackpool had to wait 39 years to regain their top flight status for the 2010–11 season.


1970–71 in English football, Football League, First Division
Wilf McGuinness was sacked at the end of 1970 after 18 unsuccessful months as manager of Manchester United. Sir Matt Busby was re-appointed as manager on a temporary basis, but never considered returning to his old job on a permanent basis. Leicester City manager Frank O'Farrell was appointed at the end of the season, ahead of more reputable candidates including Jock Stein and Don Revie.


1970–71 in English football, Football League, Second Division
Leicester City and Sheffield United were promoted to the First Division. Blackburn Rovers and Bolton Wanderers, two of the most famous and historic names in English football, were relegated to the Third Division.


1970–71 in English football, Football League, Third Division
Preston North End and Fulham finally had something to shout about by getting promoted to the Second Division. Reading, Bury, Doncaster Rovers and Gillingham slid into the Fourth Division.


1970–71 in English football, Football League, Fourth Division
Notts County, Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic, Oldham Athletic and York City were promoted to the Third Division. Newport County set a new Football League record by not winning any of their first 25 matches. The Football League voted for the league's four bottom clubs to maintain their status.


1970–71 in English football, European football
Leeds United won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup against Juventus in the two leg Final and also took part in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Trophy Play-Off which they lost 2–1 to Barcelona.


1970–71 in English football, European football
There was also success in London for Chelsea, who beat Real Madrid in the European Cup Winners Cup final to win their first ever European trophy.


1970–71 in English football, Ford Sporting League
The Ford Sporting League was a short-lived reward scheme sponsored by the Ford Motor Company. Its only season was that of 1970–71. Clubs were awarded a point for every goal scored at home and two points for every goal scored away, but lost 5 points if a player was booked and 10 points if a player was sent off.


1970–71 in English football, Ford Sporting League
Points could be earned over the first 42 league games (it did not apply to cup ties) only, so that the First and Second divisions were on an equal footing with the Third and Fourth.


1970–71 in English football, Ford Sporting League
Oldham Athletic won the competition, winning a pot of £70,000. League rules stipulated the prize money be used on stadium improvements, so the money went to build a stand in the stadium.


1970–71 in English football, Ford Sporting League
The £70,000 prize fund was made up of 8 monthly prizes of £2,500 and then a final prize of £50,000. The points total was cumulative, which resulted in Oldham winning each prize available, as they picked up only four bookings and no red cards over the 42 game period.


1970–71 in English football, Ford Sporting League
Ford's sponsorship of the competition is notable, with the 1970–71 season marking a watershed for sponsorship in English football. In addition to the Ford Sporting League, the season saw the first Watney Cup and first Texaco Cup, although The Football League itself turned down an offer of £600,000 to sponsor the Football League Cup.


1970–71 in English football, Star players
Frank McLintock was credited for his key role in Arsenal's double triumph with the FWA Footballer of the Year award.


1970–71 in Scottish football
The 1970–71 season was the 98th season of competitive football in Scotland and the 74th season of Scottish league football.


1970–71 in Scottish football, Scottish League Division One
Aberdeen, with a 15-game unbeaten run, led the league from December until the last week of the season. Aberdeen faced Celtic in their penultimate game, needing a win to almost certainly clinch the title, but could only draw 1–1 and then they lost their last game, at Falkirk, allowing Celtic to take the championship by 2 points.


1970–71 in Scottish football, Other honours, County
* – aggregate over two legs – play off – won on penalties


1970–71 snooker season
The 1970–71 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments played between July 1970 and January 1971. The following table outlines the results for the season's events.


1971
1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1971st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 971st  year of the 2nd millennium, the 71st  year of the 20th century, and the  2nd   year of the 1970s decade.


1971
The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6).


1971
The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history.


1971 (2007 film)
1971 is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language war drama film directed by Amrit Sagar, and written by Piyush Mishra and Amrit Sagar, based on a true story of prisoners of war after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. The film features an ensemble cast of Manoj Bajpayee, Ravi Kishan, Piyush Mishra, Deepak Dobriyal and others.


1971 (2007 film)
At the 55th National Film Awards, it won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi The film is an account of the escape of six soldiers of the Indian Army taken as prisoners of war by Pakistan Army, during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 that was preceded by rebellion of East Pakistan to separate itself from West Pakistan and create a new country.


1971 (2007 film), Plot
The story takes place in Pakistan in 1977, six years after the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. Major Suraj Singh of 18th Rajputana Rifles, Captain Kabir, Captain Jacob and Subedar Ahmed discussing the camp in general. The next morning, an army truck is driving towards the camp. This truck has a few more Indian POWs. This group includes Flight Lieutenant Ram, Flight Lieutenant Gurtu and Colonel Puri. They steal a guard's wallet and get a Pakistani army ID card on the way. The POWs realize that they are in a place less than 200  km from the Indo-Pak border.


1971 (2007 film), Plot
The place, it is revealed later, is Chaklala. When Colonel Puri is told of this and the idea of an escape is put forward, he overrules it. His reasons are that perhaps they will finally be repatriated and that a failed attempt could result in all of them being killed. Colonel Shakoor arrives at the Chaklala camp; he informs Colonel Puri and Major Singh that all the POWs will be repatriated. Ahmed steals a newspaper and finds they are being and lied to and plan an escape.


1971 (2007 film), Plot
As a celebration for 14 August, a Ghazal singer is invited to the camp. The soldiers also manage some fake IDs and Pakistani uniforms. Due to some confusion, Ahmed dies to blow up the electrical room during the escape attempt. The rest escape with the singer. Jacob shoots himself unable to take the pain after he is injured during their stay at a hideout. Ram kills many of the search party by exploding a grenade on himself, helping his comrades to evade capture. Kabir dies in his sleep as they reach very close to the Indian border. Suraj is shot and killed by Pakistanis as he is about to cross to the India side.


1971 (2007 film), Plot
It is now in 2007. The place is Multan Jail in Pakistan. We see an old man walking in the prison compound. He has made five little mounds of earth and he is putting a few flowers on them. He sits on the ground next to them and leaves through what was once Major Suraj Singh's prison diary. This old man is Gurtu.


1971 (2014 film)
1971 is a 2014 American documentary film and the directorial debut of producer Johanna Hamilton, who also co-wrote the film. The film had its world premiere on 18 April 2014 at the Tribeca Film Festival and focuses on the break-in of an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania on Monday, March 8, 1971, to steal over 1000 classified documents. It was pitched at the Sheffield Doc/Fest 2011 MeetMarket preceding its debut. The break-in took place on the night of the first Ali-Frazier boxing title fight dubbed the Fight of the Century.


1971 (2014 film)
Hamilton was inspired to create the film after learning that Betty Medsger was working on her book The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI, which discussed the 1971 events and revealed the identities of many of the participants, who had remained anonymous up to that point.


1971 (2014 film), Synopsis
The film focuses on the events of March 8, 1971, when eight people orchestrated the burglary and public distribution of government files from an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania. The theft was altogether different than the numerous contemporary draft board office break-ins, in which activists (including many of the burglars) burned government draft paperwork to interfere with America's continued participation in the Vietnam War. The group, all of whom were ordinary citizens, called themselves the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI and stole every file in the office.


1971 (2014 film), Synopsis
The goal of the burglars was to gather tangible evidence of government surveillance of civilian political activists, which was infringing on First Amendment rights. The stolen files exposed that the FBI was indeed running extensive, illegal operations intended to spread paranoia and distrust among numerous New Left and black civil rights organizations. (Other files included training manuals, information about organized crime, and information about draft resistance.) Over time, the group mailed copies of the files to various newsrooms.


1971 (2014 film), Synopsis
Most news organizations returned the files to the FBI and refused to run stories regarding the stolen documents, but the notable exception was The Washington Post, which ran a front-page story on March 24, 1971, about the files which were mailed to journalist Betty Medsger. Arguably the most significant element in the stolen materials turned out to be a single file mentioning "COINTELPRO", a secret surveillance program that was run by J. Edgar Hoover. Subsequent investigations and freedom of information requests regarding COINTELPRO played a role in the 1975 Church Committee.


1971 (2014 film), Reception
Critical reception for 1971 has been positive. Washingtonian and Variety both praised the work, which the Washingtonian described as "a compelling documentary that provides a powerful perspective on the current debate about the men and women who risk everything to disclose government secrets." Indiewire also gave a favorable review, praising Hamilton's directing and stated "Her film is not celebratory, lingering on the notion that, with the public charade of COINTELPRO, ultimately the FBI won. While their post-break-in behaviors are mocked, the government credits itself with tactics specifically utilized to "enhance the paranoia," creating a culture of fear that still exists today."


1971 1. divisjon
The 1971 1. divisjon was the 27th completed season of top division football in Norway.


1971 1. divisjon, Overview
It was contested by 10 teams, and Rosenborg BK won the championship, their third league title.


1971 1. divisjon, Overview
Only one team was relegated this season due to the league's extension to 12 teams ahead of the 1972 season.


1971 1000 km Buenos Aires
The 1971 Buenos Aires 1000 Kilometers was the opening round of the 1971 International Championship for Makes season. It took place at the Buenos Aires circuit No.15, Argentina, on January 10, 1971. Grand tourer class cars did not participate in this event.


1971 1000 km Buenos Aires
Scuderia Ferrari driver Ignazio Giunti was killed during the race. He was leading the race when his car ran into the back of the disabled Matra driver Jean-Pierre Beltoise was pushing to the pits. Both cars were caught on fire and Giunti was unable to escape.


1971 1000 km Buenos Aires, Official results
Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of the winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).


1971 2. divisjon
The 1971 2. divisjon was a Norwegian second-tier football league season.