1973 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News
Trainers Stan Gudgin and Ron Jeffrey moved to Slough and Portsmouth respectively following the closure of Reading. The NGRC announced plans to revamp licences, the current licences were private racecourse or dispersed full licence, owner trainer licence and C-licence, this was done in the hope that many of the 62 independent tracks would join the NGRC banner and 46 NGRC tracks at the time.


1973 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News
The last McWhirter drag hare in use (at Oxford) was switched to an Outside Sumner, and a new world and national record for 525 yards was set at Brighton by Easy Investment who recorded 28.17. The end of year annual Duke of Edinburgh Cup was won by Wembley after a final victory of 64 to 56 over Hall Green and White City was used for a film called Steptoe and Son Ride Again.


1973 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Ireland
The government legalised tote betting in Northern Ireland, a decision that came 45 years too late for Celtic Park (Belfast) who had started racing in 1927. The Irish Greyhound Derby sponsors PJ Carroll Ltd offered a single race prize of £1,200 for Dundalk International and doubled the Derby winner's prize to £10,000, which was won by Bashful Man.


1973 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Ireland
Larry Kelly's Romping To Work was voted Irish Greyhound of the Year after winning both the Oaks and St Leger.


1973 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions
Patricias Hope stole all of the headlines but St Leger champion Ramdeen Stuart started his 1973 campaign by winning the Gold Collar at Catford Stadium. Case Money, a black dog trained by Ted Parker was voted Greyhound of the Year, he had won the 1973 St Leger and the Ben Truman Stakes, in addition to the Shelbourne 600 before arriving in the UK. This was a slightly strange decision based on the fact that Patricias Hope had emulated the achievement of Mick the Miller.


1973 UMass Minutemen football team
The 1973 UMass Minutemen football team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 1973 NCAA Division II football season as a member of the Yankee Conference in NCAA Division II. The team was coached by Dick MacPherson and played its home games at Alumni Stadium in Hadley, Massachusetts. UMass finished the season with a record of 6–5 overall and 4–2 in conference play.


1973 UNLV Rebels football team
The 1973 UNLV Rebels football team was an American football team that represented the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as an independent during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. In their first year under head coach Ron Meyer, the team compiled an 8–3 record.


1973 US Navy C-117D Sólheimasandur Crash
The 1973 US Navy C-117D Sólheimasandur Crash, commonly known as the Sólheimasandur Crash, is a crashed US Navy Douglas C-117D located in Sólheimasandur on the southern coast of Iceland. The remains of the aircraft - which crashed in 1973 - have remained relatively intact, leading to the crash site becoming a tourist destination.


1973 US Navy C-117D Sólheimasandur Crash, Accident
The accident aircraft was flying from Hofn Hornafjördur Airport to Naval Air Station Keflavik, after delivering supplies for the radar station at Stokksnes. En-route the aircraft encountered severe icing and the crew were forced to land on a frozen river at Sólheimasandur. All 7 crew members survived and were rescued by helicopter, but the aircraft was written off (surveyed in USN parlance). The unsalvaged remains of the aircraft were left at the scene.


1973 US Navy C-117D Sólheimasandur Crash, Aircraft
The aircraft serial number 17171, was designated C-117D and was based on the Super DC-3, first flown in 1944. Note that this R4D-8 was built as an R4D-5 (msn 12554) and converted to R4D-8 (msn 43309) in November 1951. All R4D-8 aircraft still extant were re-designated as C-117D in the tri-service designation system introduced from 18 September 1962.


1973 US Navy C-117D Sólheimasandur Crash, Summary
Forced to land due to severe icing, 17171 was written off and unsalvaged parts of the aircraft remained at the site.


1973 US Navy C-117D Sólheimasandur Crash, Summary
As of 2020, the fuselage of the aircraft remains relatively intact, leading to the site becoming a popular tourist destination. The wreck has accumulated superficial damage from graffiti, gunfire, and tourists over the years. Tours to the site are available and the trek back-and-forth, takes about four hours.


1973 US Navy C-117D Sólheimasandur Crash, Summary
In January 2020, two Chinese tourists died of hypothermia near the wreckage after getting caught in a storm that went over the area. A month later, SAR units had to rescue several tourists that had ignored a warning from the police to not trek to the wreckage due to deteriorating weather in the area.


1973 US Open (tennis)
The 1973 US Open was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens, in New York City, United States. The tournament ran from 27 August until 9 September. It was the 93rd staging of the US Open, and the fourth Grand Slam tennis event of 1973. It was the first year the boy's championship was held. The 1973 US Open was the first Grand Slam offering equal prize money to both men and women.


1973 US Open (tennis), Seniors, Men's singles
John Newcombe defeated  Jan Kodeš, 6–4, 1–6, 4–6, 6–2, 6–3


1973 US Open (tennis), Seniors, Men's doubles
Owen Davidson /  John Newcombe defeated  Rod Laver /  Ken Rosewall, 7–5, 2–6, 7–5, 7–5


1973 US Open (tennis), Seniors, Women's doubles
Margaret Court /  Virginia Wade defeated  Rosemary Casals /  Billie Jean King, 3–6, 6–3, 7–5


1973 US Open (tennis), Seniors, Mixed doubles
Billie Jean King /  Owen Davidson defeated  Margaret Court /  Marty Riessen, 6–3, 3–6, 7–6


1973 US Open – Men's Doubles
Cliff Drysdale and Roger Taylor were the defending US Open men's doubles champions, but did not defend their title.


1973 US Open – Men's Doubles
Third-seeded Owen Davidson and John Newcombe won the title by defeating first-seeded Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall 7–5, 2–6, 7–5, 7–5 in the final.


1973 US Open – Men's Singles
John Newcombe defeated Jan Kodeš 6–4, 1–6, 4–6, 6–2, 6–3 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1973 US Open. Ilie Nastase was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Andrew Pattison.


1973 US Open – Men's Singles, Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. John Newcombe is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.


1973 US Open – Mixed Doubles
Marty Riessen and Margaret Court were the defending champions but lost in the final 6–3, 3–6, 7–6 against Owen Davidson and Billie Jean King.


1973 US Open – Women's Doubles
Françoise Dürr and Betty Stöve were the defending champions but lost in the quarterfinals to Chris Evert and Olga Morozova.


1973 US Open – Women's Doubles
Margaret Court and Virginia Wade won the title by defeating Rosemary Casals and Billie Jean King 3–6, 6–3, 7–5 in the final.


1973 US Open – Women's Singles
Margaret Court defeated Evonne Goolagong 7–6, 5–7, 6–2 in the final to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1973 US Open. This was her record extending 24th and final grand slam singles title, a record she holds to this day. Billie Jean King was the two-time defending champion, but lost in the third round to Julie Heldman.


1973 US Open – Women's Singles, Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Margaret Court is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.


1973 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
The 1973 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships men's competition took place between June 15–17 at Memorial Stadium on the campus of Bakersfield College in Bakersfield, California. This was Bakersfield's third and last time to host the men's division in a sequence every three years since 1967. At this time, Memorial Stadium still had a finely crushed brick surface, the last time the championships was held on a dirt track. They would host the women's division the following year, as they had in 1971.


1973 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
This was also the last time the men's division would compete at imperial distances (though the women would continue for another year). The women's division held their championships separately a little over a hundred fifty miles south at Anteater Stadium on the campus of University of California, Irvine in Irvine, California.


1973 USAC Championship Car season
The 1973 USAC Championship Car season consisted of 16 races, beginning in College Station, Texas on April 7 and concluding in Avondale, Arizona on November 3. The first race of the season, in Avondale, Arizona on March 17,  was postponed by rain and eventually cancelled due to infrastructure damage caused by the rain and scheduling conflicts. Bob Criss was killed in a private test at Phoenix before he could enter another event. He was 35 years old. The USAC National Champion was Roger McCluskey and the Indianapolis 500 winner was Gordon Johncock.


1973 USAC Championship Car season
In this tragic season, two drivers were killed at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Art Pollard died in an accident while practicing for the Indy 500 while Swede Savage, who crashed during the race, died by complications one month later. Another driver, Salt Walther, suffered serious burns surviving a crash at the start of the race. In response to those accidents, USAC revised the rules in time for the Pocono 500. The rear wing width was cut back from 64 inches to 55, fuel tank capacity was drastically reduced (from 75 gallons to 40) and the allowable fuel to be consumed in a 500-mile race was reduced from 375 gallons to 340.


1973 USAC Championship Car season, Final points standings
Note: Sam Posey, Peter Revson, Mark Donohue, David Hobbs, Jerry Grant, John Cannon, Graham McRae and Bobby Allison are not eligible for points. The Rookie of the Year was not awarded, because every rookie was not eligible for points.


1973 USC Trojans baseball team
The 1973 USC Trojans baseball team represented the University of Southern California in the 1973 NCAA University Division baseball season. The team was coached Rod Dedeaux in his 32nd season.


1973 USC Trojans baseball team
The Trojans won the College World Series, defeating the Arizona State Sun Devils in the championship game, winning their fourth of five consecutive national championships, and the fifth in six years.


1973 USC Trojans baseball team, Trojans in the 1973 MLB Draft
The following members of the USC baseball program were drafted in the 1973 Major League Baseball Draft.


1973 USC Trojans football team
The 1973 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season.


1973 USLTA Indoor Circuit
The 1973 USLTA Indoor Circuit  was a professional tennis circuit held in the United States from January until March that year. It consisted of 13 tournaments and was organized by Bill Riordan and sanctioned by the United States Lawn Tennis Association (USLTA).


1973 USSR Chess Championship
The 1973 Soviet Chess Championship was the 41st edition of USSR Chess Championship. Held from 2-26 October 1973 in Moscow. The tournament was won by Boris Spassky. The final were preceded by semifinals events at Frunze, Kirovabad, Lvov e Voronezh.


1973 UTEP Miners football team
The 1973 UTEP Miners football team was an American football team that represented the University of Texas at El Paso in the Western Athletic Conference during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their second year under head coach Tommy Hudspeth, the team compiled a 0–11 record.


1973 United Kingdom local elections
The first elections to the new local authorities established by the Local Government Act 1972 in England and Wales and the new Northern Ireland district councils created by the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 took place in 1973. Elections to the existing Greater London Council also took place.


1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales
Elections took place for all the seats on the councils. In the case of the new councils, they became shadow authorities, taking over from the existing local authorities on 1 April 1974. The elections for the new councils had been brought forward from an originally planned date in November 1973, to allow the councils more time to act as shadow authorities - the final dates were set in May 1972.


1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, The April elections
The elections held on 12 April saw a very impressive performance by the Labour Party, which regained control of the Greater London Council and took control of all six of the new metropolitan county councils. In the rest of England, they won seven county councils, including two of the new "estuary" counties: Cleveland and Humberside. The party also won Gwent and the three Glamorgan county councils (West Glamorgan, Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan) in Wales.


1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, The April elections
The poor Conservative vote in London and the metropolitan counties was somewhat compensated by winning thirteen of the non-metropolitan counties. Failure to gain Essex or Hertfordshire were disappointments to the party, but taking control of Gloucestershire was a success. The party also failed to gain its only realistic Welsh prospect, South Glamorgan.


1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, The April elections
There were no great successes for the Liberal party, which found itself in third place in all the metropolitan counties. They did however gain representation on the GLC for the first time, winning two seats at Sutton and Cheam and Richmond upon Thames. This followed the previous year's by-election success in winning the Sutton and Cheam parliamentary seat from the Conservatives.


1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, The April elections
Independents won two English counties outright: Cornwall and the Isle of Wight. They also formed the largest grouping on a number of other councils, and entered agreements with the Conservatives in the running of some of these. In Wales, Independents controlled three mainly rural counties.


1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, The May elections
The results of the elections in May saw an improvement in the performance by the Conservatives since the county council elections, and a slight fall back in the Labour vote. The Liberals had a notable success, becoming the largest group on Liverpool council.


1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, The May elections
The Conservatives took control of five metropolitan districts, gaining seats in areas where they had been beaten in the elections to the county councils. They also gained one Welsh district, Monmouth.


1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, The May elections
The Labour party declared it was pleased with the results, especially as opinion polls had shown them losing support. They took control of most of the metropolitan districts, making a clean sweep of councils in Tyne and Wear and South Yorkshire and important councils such as Birmingham, Coventry and Manchester. Labour also took control of most districts in South Wales including Cardiff. The party's organiser for Wales also pointed to the fact that official Labour candidates won rural seats in north and west Wales for the first time.


1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, The May elections
Apart from forming a minority administration in Liverpool, the Liberals were able to hold the balance of power at Leeds, Stockport and Wirral. They were however disappointed with their performance at Calderdale which was won by Labour.


1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, The June elections
In the June elections for 296 non-metropolitan districts, Labour won control of 71, the Conservatives 59, the Liberals 1, Democratic Labour 1, and Independents 67. 97 councils were under no overall control: in many of these councils Conservative and Independent groups formed an administration.


1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, The June elections
The Labour party won 4,327 seats, the Conservatives 4,286, Independents 3,534, and the Liberals 919; with the remaining 449 seats going to various other groupings.


1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, The June elections
It was a good result for the Liberal party who took control of Eastbourne and became the largest group on Adur, Newbury, Pendle and Waverley councils. The other two main parties also had notable successes: Labour considered control of  Cambridge, Dacorum, Ipswich and Oxford to be good results; while the Conservatives celebrated taking Gloucester, Great Yarmouth, Lewes and Warrington councils.


1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, The June elections
The break-away Lincoln Democratic Labour Association won twenty of the thirty seats on Lincoln District council. The group were supporters of Dick Taverne, member of parliament for Lincoln who had been expelled from the Labour Party. Taverne had earlier in the year resigned his seat to force a by-election in protest against his expulsion, which he won against the official Labour candidate.


1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, Future elections
Future elections to Metropolitan District councils were to be by thirds, with the one third of seats being elected in 1975.


1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, Future elections
The next election of non-metropolitan district councils and Welsh district councils was to in 1976.


1973 United Kingdom local elections, Northern Ireland
Local government in Northern Ireland was reorganised in 1973 by the Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 and the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972. The county councils, county borough and municipal borough corporations and urban and rural district councils were replaced by twenty-six Local Government districts. Elections took place for all the seats on the district councils on 30 May, and the councils came into their power in 1 October.


1973 United Kingdom local elections, Scotland
Local elections were also held in Scotland in 1973. At the time of the election, Scotland was the only part of the UK in which local government had yet to be reformed, with the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 only receiving Royal Assent in October 1973. The election saw Labour maintaining their control of Aberdeen, Glasgow, and Dundee, although failing to make gains in Edinburgh.


1973 United Nations Security Council election
The 1973 United Nations Security Council election was held on 15 October 1973 during the Twenty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The General Assembly elected the Byelorussian SSR, Cameroon, Costa Rica, Iraq, and Mauritania, as the five new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 1974. This was the first election of Cameroon, Costa Rica and Mauritania and the only election of Byelorussian SSR into the council.


1973 United Nations Security Council election, Rules
The Security Council has 15 seats, filled by five permanent members and ten non-permanent members. Each year, half of the non-permanent members are elected for two-year terms. A sitting member may not immediately run for re-election.


1973 United Nations Security Council election, Rules
In accordance with the rules whereby the ten non-permanent UNSC seats rotate among the various regional blocs into which UN member states traditionally divide themselves for voting and representation purposes, the five available seats are allocated as follows:


1973 United Nations Security Council election, Rules
To be elected, a candidate must receive a two-thirds majority of those present and voting. If the vote is inconclusive after the first round, three rounds of restricted voting shall take place, followed by three rounds of unrestricted voting, and so on, until a result has been obtained. In restricted voting, only official candidates may be voted on, while in unrestricted voting, any member of the given regional group, with the exception of current Council members, may be voted on.


1973 United Nations Security Council election, Candidates
Speaking as Chairmen of the Asian and African Groups respectively, Mr. Sharaf of Jordan endorsed Iraq, and Mr. Ramphul of Mauritius endorsed Mauritania and Cameroon as the official candidates of their respective regional groups.


1973 United Nations Security Council election, Result
The election was managed by then-President of the United Nations General Assembly Leopoldo Benites of Ecuador. The United Nations had 136 member states at this time (for a timeline of UN membership, see Enlargement of the United Nations). Delegates were to write the names of the five member states they wished elected on the ballot papers. Voting was conducted on a single ballot. There were 125 ballot papers.


1973 United States Grand Prix
The 1973 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on October 7, 1973 at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course in Watkins Glen, New York. It was race 15 of 15 in both the 1973 World Championship of Drivers and the 1973 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.


1973 United States Grand Prix
The 59-lap race was won from pole position by Ronnie Peterson, driving a Lotus-Ford. Peterson held off James Hunt in the Hesketh-entered March-Ford to take his fourth victory of the season, with Carlos Reutemann third in a Brabham-Ford.


1973 United States Grand Prix
The race was overshadowed by the death of François Cevert during qualifying, in what was to have been the 100th and final Grand Prix for Tyrrell team-mate and triple World Champion Jackie Stewart. The Tyrrell team withdrew from the event as a consequence, handing the Manufacturers' Cup to Lotus.


1973 United States Grand Prix, Summary
Ronnie Peterson ended his first year with Lotus by taking his fourth win of the season, as a thrilling two-man battle ended with Peterson beating James Hunt to the flag by the smallest winning margin in USGP history at that time. The Englishman finished less than a second behind in his Hesketh Racing entered March, but the normal celebrations were tempered by the death of François Cevert during qualifying and the premature end of the career of three-time World Champion Jackie Stewart.


1973 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Death of François Cevert
Stewart had already clinched his third World Driver's Championship when the teams came to Watkins Glen, and he intended the final Grand Prix of 1973 to be his swan song. "I had decided in April that I would retire at the end of the season, win or lose," Stewart recalled. "Watkins Glen was going to be my last race in a Formula One car. François Cevert was going to be number one in the team for 1974, although he never knew it. Ken Tyrrell and I had kept it a secret that I was going to retire after that race. In fact, not even my wife, Helen, who was with me that weekend, knew."


1973 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Death of François Cevert
With just a few minutes left in the Saturday morning qualifying session, however, the track suddenly fell quiet. Cevert had crashed violently in the uphill Esses heading onto the back of the circuit, between Turns Three and Four. Fighting the car as he went up the hill, Cevert ran too high on the kerbs and slid into the right hand guardrail. The car then lashed sideways across the track and struck the Armco on the left side of the track at 150 mph at an almost 90 degree angle. The nose of the car submarined into the ground, causing the car to flip upwards on over the barrier, coming to rest upside down on top of the Armco.


1973 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Death of François Cevert
Jody Scheckter's McLaren was close behind, and he stopped and rushed over to help Cevert out of the car, but Cevert had died instantly. Ken Tyrrell had lost a great driver and Jackie Stewart an outstanding teammate at the circuit where Cevert had taken his only Grand Prix win. "It was a horrendous accident which took the life of a wonderfully charming, personable, handsome young man, who was a tremendous friend to both Helen and me," Stewart said.


1973 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Death of François Cevert
When qualifying resumed, Peterson's time from the morning session stood up for his ninth pole of the year. The Tyrrells of Stewart and Chris Amon had earned the fifth and twelfth spots on the grid, but the team decided to withdraw in tribute to Cevert, and Stewart's driving career was over after 99 races and what was then a record 27 Grand Prix wins.


1973 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Race
On Sunday, a huge crowd turned out on a cool, overcast day for the race. On the grid, in seventh spot, Peter Revson felt his car creeping forward as the flag was raised. Rather than hold it with the brakes, he took it out of gear just as the flag dropped. He waved his arms in the air and waited for the field to roar past, then set off in last place.


1973 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Race
The front runners got away well, and at the end of the first lap, Peterson led Carlos Reutemann, Hunt, Emerson Fittipaldi, Mike Hailwood and Scheckter. On lap 4, Hunt passed Reutemann for second, and began his chase of Peterson's Lotus. To the surprise of everyone as the race progressed, Hunt was able to stay around one second behind Peterson. Occasionally the gap would widen slightly, but again and again, the extreme straightline speed of the Hesketh March would close it again.


1973 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Race
Reutemann kept pace as well, two to three seconds behind Hunt, until he lost nine seconds attempting to lap Graham Hill. From then on, he ran a lonely race to a third-place finish.


1973 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Race
Revson, meanwhile, was rocketing through the field from his last place start, and at the midway point, he had gone from twenty-third to seventh. He took sixth from Emerson on lap 40 when the Brazilian pitted to replace his front tyres that were flat-spotted when he had to avoid a spinning Scheckter.


1973 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Race
For the last 15 laps, Hunt continued to follow Peterson, between .7 and 1.4 seconds behind. He pulled alongside at one point, but could not finish the pass. "I looked over at Ronnie, and he looked fiercer than me," he explained after the race.


1973 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Race
Hunt had decided to bide his time until the final 10 laps, then make a bid to pass Peterson, but his car developed oversteer with a lightening fuel load. This kept him from taking the final corner before the back straight flat out, and effectively took away his speed advantage. He maintained the challenge to the flag, however, setting the fastest lap of the race on the penultimate lap. Peterson's winning margin of 0.688 seconds was the smallest in United States Grand Prix history until 2002.


1973 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Race
Reutemann had to weave to the line, virtually out of fuel, but held on to third; Denny Hulme ran a steady race to fourth; Revson made it up to fifth with his splendid drive from last place; and Emerson Fittipaldi took sixth after having to stop for tyres. Having already secured the Manufacturers' Cup following Tyrrell's withdrawal, Lotus finished ten points ahead, despite Stewart taking the Drivers' Championship for Tyrrell.


1973 United States House of Representatives elections
Four members of the U.S. House of Representatives were elected in special elections in 1973 to the 93rd United States Congress.


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1973 United States gubernatorial elections
United States gubernatorial elections were held 6 November 1973, in two states.


1973 United States gubernatorial elections
In Virginia, former Governor Mills E. Godwin, Jr.,  who was elected in the 1965 gubernatorial election as a Democrat, ran and won as a Republican, defeating Howell, also a former Democrat.


1973 United States gubernatorial elections
In New Jersey, the moderate incumbent Republican Cahill was defeated in the primary by Sandman. Cahill did not campaign for Sandman, and Byrne defeated Sandman handily.


1973 United States vice presidential confirmation
In 1973, Republican Vice President Spiro Agnew was forced to resign following a controversy over his personal taxes. Under the terms of the 25th Amendment, a vice presidential vacancy is filled when the president nominates a candidate who is confirmed by both houses of Congress. Republican President Richard Nixon thus had the task of selecting a vice president who could receive the majority support of both houses of Congress, which were then controlled by the Democrats.


1973 United States vice presidential confirmation
President Nixon considered selecting former Texas Governor John Connally, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and California Governor Ronald Reagan. However, Nixon settled on House Minority Leader Gerald Ford of Michigan, a moderate Republican who was popular among the members of Congress (in both parties) and who was good friends with Nixon. Ford won the approval of both houses by huge margins, and was sworn in as the 40th vice president of the United States on December 6, 1973. On August 9, 1974, Ford ascended to the presidency after the Watergate scandal led to the resignation of President Nixon.


1973 United States vice presidential confirmation, Confirmation votes
By a vote of 92 to 3 on November 27, 1973, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Gerald Ford. The following week, on December 6, the House of Representatives gave its approval, 387 to 35.. 35 Representatives and three senators voted no. The three senators voting no were, Senators William Hathaway of Maine, Thomas Eagleton of Missouri, and Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin.


1973 United States–Soviet Union wheat deal
In July 1973, the Soviet Union purchased 10 million short tons (9.1×10^6 t) of grain (mainly wheat and corn) from the United States at subsidized prices, which caused global grain prices to soar. Crop shortfalls in 1971 and 1972 forced the Soviet Union to look abroad for grain, hoping to prevent famine or other crisis. Soviet negotiators worked out a deal to buy grain on credit, but quickly exceeded their credit limit.


1973 United States–Soviet Union wheat deal
American negotiators did not realize that both the Soviets and the world grain market had suffered shortfalls, and thus subsidized the purchase, leading it to be dubbed the "Great Grain Robbery". The strategy backfired and intensified the crisis: global food prices rose at least 30 percent, and grain stockpiles were decimated.


1973 United States–Soviet Union wheat deal, Background
Due to the Soviet agricultural system, the cold climate, and frequent irregular droughts, crop failure was common in the Soviet Union. The problem was heightened by the fact that much of the arable land in the USSR couldn't be farmed due to climate problems, so only some of the land in the black earth belt was suitable for agriculture.


1973 United States–Soviet Union wheat deal, Background
In 1972, there was a drought across Europe. Soviet mismanagement of the situation led to catastrophic wheat crop failure. Additionally, the USSR had suffered an extremely hot summer with temperature comparable to the heat experienced during 2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves. This caused the Soviet Union to look to the global market to meet their grain needs.


1973 United States–Soviet Union wheat deal, Event
The main negotiations for the deal took place on June 20, 1972 at The Madison hotel in Washington, D.C., with two Soviet teams, one led by foreign trade minister Nikolai Patolichev and the second led by Nicolai Belousov. The Americans were negotiated for by multiple businessman and U.S. government officials. This included Michel Fribourg, the CEO of grain trading firm ContiGroup Companies (formerly Continental Grain), and Carroll Brunthaver, the U.S. Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services.


1973 United States–Soviet Union wheat deal, Event
In early July 1972, the U.S. government negotiated an arrangement that allowed the Soviets to buy up to $750 million of American grain on credit, over a three year timespan. However, the Soviets quickly exceeded their credit limit, spending the $750 million in only one month. By September 1972, the Soviets are thought to have spent up to US$1 billion on grain from companies in the United States, and more from other countries such as France, Canada, and Australia.


1973 United States–Soviet Union wheat deal, Event
The U.S. government spent $300 million subsidizing the grain purchases, still unaware that the Soviets had suffered massive crop shortfalls in 1971 and 1972. American ignorance of the situation was due in part that many officials, such as Earl Butz, were convinced that the Soviets were only purchasing the grain to feed their animals. By not realizing that global wheat stocks were low, and discounting reports of Soviet crop failure, the United States inadvertently contributed to domestic food prices rising, and lost significant revenue by choosing to subsidize the purchase instead of offering it at market price.


1973 United States–Soviet Union wheat deal, Aftermath and international consequences
Weeks after the grain deal was announced, the Earth-observing satellite Landsat 1 achieved orbit. If the satellite had launched a few months earlier, the deal may have been reconsidered or never have happened at all, because American negotiators could have realized the scale of Soviet crop failures. The event helped lead the U.S. government to seek more information about global agricultural output via infrared satellite intelligence. After the deal, many Americans were concerned about businesses having advantages in similar situations due to their early access to information.


1973 United States–Soviet Union wheat deal, Aftermath and international consequences
In a ten-month span in 1973, global food prices rose by at least 30 percent and some sources claim up to 50 percent. In some British markets there was a reported 87 percent increase on the price of an 800 grams (28 oz) loaf of bread. Global wheat stocks decreased exponentially; Australia was hit the hardest with a 93 percent decrease by 1974 from 1971. Not all nations were equally hit; some, such as Canada, benefited from the great grain robbery. Canadian farmers had sold their wheat to the Canadian Wheat Board, which were able to pool stocks and sell as a collective.


1973 United States–Soviet Union wheat deal, Aftermath and international consequences
Contemporary U.S. media referred to the event as "The Russian Wheat Deal" or "The Soviet Wheat Deal". The term Great Grain Robbery is a pun referring to the 1963 Great Train Robbery and it is generally accepted that it was coined by Senator Henry M. Jackson.


1973 Uruguayan Primera División, Overview
It was contested by 12 teams, and Peñarol won the championship.


1973 Uruguayan coup d'état
The 1973 Uruguayan coup d'état took place in Uruguay on 27 June 1973 and marked the beginning of the civic-military dictatorship which lasted until 1985.


1973 Uruguayan coup d'état
President Juan María Bordaberry closed parliament, and ruled with the assistance of a junta of military generals. The official reason was to crush the Tupamaros, a Marxist urban guerrilla movement. The leftist trade union federations called a general strike and occupation of factories. The strike lasted just over two weeks. It was ended with most of the trade union leaders in jail, dead, or exiled to Argentina. As part of the coup all associations including trade unions were declared illegal and banned; the Constitution of Uruguay of 1967 was practically voided.


1973 Uruguayan coup d'état
Unions and political parties remained illegal until a general strike in 1984 forced the military to accept civilian rule and the restoration of democracy in 1985.


1973 Uruguayan coup d'état, Antecedents
On September 9, 1971, President Jorge Pacheco Areco instructed the armed forces to conduct anti-guerrilla operations against the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional-Tupamaros. On December 16, a Junta of Commanders in Chief and of the Estado Mayor Conjunto (Esmaco) (Joint Chiefs) of the Armed Forces was created. Following the presidential elections of November 1971 a new government took office on 1 March 1972 led by Juan María Bordaberry. The role of the Armed Forces in political life continued to increase. On October 31, 1972, Defense Minister Augusto Legnani, had to resign for failing to remove a chief in charge of a mission of great importance for the ministry. Subsequently, military commanders made public statements indicting the President of the Republic.


1973 Uruguayan coup d'état, Antecedents
On February 8, 1973, in order to control the buildup of military pressure, President Bordaberry replaced the Minister of National Defence, Armando Malet, by the retired general Antonio Francese. On the following day, the new minister met with the commanders of the three forces and only found support in the Navy.


1973 Uruguayan coup d'état, Antecedents
At eight o'clock of the same evening, the commanders of the Army and the Air Forces announced from state television they would disavow any orders by Francese and demanded that Bordaberry sack him. At 10:30 pm Bordaberry announced from the (private) Canal 4 that he would keep Francese in the Ministry and called on the citizens to gather in Plaza Independencia, in front of Government House (Casa de Gobierno).


1973 Uruguayan coup d'état, Antecedents
In the early hours of the morning of February 9, Navy Infantry (Marines?) barricaded the entrance towards the Ciudad Vieja of Montevideo. In response, the Army pulled its tanks into the streets and occupied various radio stations, from which they exhorted the members of the Navy to join their initiatives (or propositions).


1973 Uruguayan coup d'état, Antecedents
Decree (Comunicado) No. 4 was issued, signed only by the commanders of the Army and Air Force, in which they proposed to achieve or promote socio-economic objectives, such as encouraging exports, reorganizing the foreign service (the subject of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs), eliminating the oppressive foreign debt, eradicating unemployment, attacking economic crime and corruption, reorganizing public administration and the tax system, and redistributing the land.


1973 Uruguayan coup d'état, Antecedents
On Saturday 10 February, three ministers sought a rapprochement with the positions of the rebel commanders, so that the president would retain his position. At night, the commanders of the Army and Air Force issued a new Decree No. 7, that modified the previous statement. Several officers of the Navy ignored the command of Vice Admiral Juan José Zorrilla and supported the statements of the Army and Air Force. The next day, February 11, Zorrilla resigned from the Navy Command, while Captain Conrad Olazaba assumed this position, so that this force also abandoned its constitutional position.


1973 Uruguayan coup d'état, Antecedents
On Monday February 12, Bordaberry went to the "Cap. Juan Manuel Boiso Lanza" base and accepted all the demands of the military commanders and negotiated his continuation in the presidency, in what became known as the Pacto de Boiso Lanza. This "agreement" entrusted to the Armed Forces the mission of providing security for national development and established forms of military involvement in the political-administrative matters. It resulted in the creation of the National Security Council (Consejo de Seguridad Nacional) (COSENA), advisory body to the Executive Power, subsequently established by Decree No. 163/973 of 23 February 1973.


1973 Uruguayan coup d'état, Antecedents
The day after the agreement, Néstor Bolentini was appointed as Minister of Interior and Walter Ravenna as Minister of National Defense. This completed the slide into a civil-military government, which was formally ruled by civilians, but in fact the center of power had moved into the orbit of the military. It is considered that this episode amounted to a coup in fact.


1973 Uruguayan coup d'état, Events
On 27 June 1973, arguing that "the criminal act of conspiracy against the country, in tune with the complacency of politicians with no national sentiment, is inserted into the institutions, so as to present formally disguised as a legal activity", Bordaberry dissolved the legislature with the support of the Armed Forces, created a State Council with legislative, constitutional and administrative functions, restricted freedom of thought and empowered the armed forces and the police to ensure the uninterrupted provision of public services.


1973 Uruguayan coup d'état, Events
In a speech broadcast on radio and television on the same day of the coup, Bordaberry said:


1973 Uruguayan coup d'état, Events
I affirm today, once again, in circumstances of extreme importance to national life, our deep commitment to democracy and our unreserved commitment to a system of political and social organization governing the coexistence of Uruguayans. And together with this, the rejection of any ideology of Marxist origin attempting to exploit the generosity of our democracy, to appear as a doctrine of salvation and end as a tool of totalitarian oppression.


1973 Uruguayan coup d'état, Events
This step that we had to take, does not lead (?) and will not limit the freedoms and rights of the human person.


1973 Uruguayan coup d'état, Events
We ourselves are here for this and for its surveillance; for this, furthermore, we have committed these functions to the State Council and beyond, and still above all, are the Uruguayan people who have never permitted their freedoms to be trampled (...).


1973 Uruguayan coup d'état, Events
In response to the coup d'etat, in the same morning that the coup was brewing, the secretary of the CNT (National Confederation of Workers) began the longest strike in the history of the country, which lasted 15 days.


1973 Uruguayan coup d'état, The decrees
Decree N° 464/973 of June 27, 1973, bears the signature of Bordaberry and his ministers Néstor Bolentini and Walter Ravenna. It expressed the following:


1973 Uruguayan coup d'état, The decrees
1° The Chambers of Senators and of Representatives are hereby declared dissolved.


1973 Uruguayan coup d'état, The decrees
2° Hereby is established a Council of State consisting of members that may be designated, with the following powers:


1973 Uruguayan coup d'état, The decrees
3° It is prohibited to disclose by the press orally, written or televised, any kind of information, comments or recording, which directly or indirectly, indicate or refer to the provisions of this Decree, attributing dictatorial intentions to the Executive Power.


1973 Uruguayan coup d'état, The decrees
4° The armed forces and police are empowered to take the necessary measures to ensure the continued provision of essential public services.


1973 Uruguayan coup d'état, The decrees
Also, by Decree No. 465/973 of the same date, it is considered included within the text of Article 1 of Decree 464/973 "to all the Departmental Boards of the Country (art. 1º), the formation in each Departamento of a Board of Neighbours (Junta de Vecinos), that, where relevant, and at the Departmental level, will have powers similar to those granted to the State Council created by the art. 2 of the decree today" (art. 2º).


1973 Uruguayan general strike
On 27 June 1973 a coup was declared in Uruguay by the president, Juan María Bordaberry, who closed parliament and imposed direct rule from a junta of military generals. The official reason was to crush the Tupamaros, a Marxist urban guerrilla movement.


1973 Uruguayan general strike
Within hours of the coup being declared, the leftist trade union Convención Nacional de Trabajadores called a general strike. Factory occupations took place throughout the country, and many ports, banks and stores closed. On 2 July 1973 the CNT was officially dissolved, though many affiliated unions were allowed to temporary operate, and two days later the government gave all employers to dismiss workers who failed to return to work. The strike ended 15 days after it started, with nearly all unions busted and most of the trade union leaders in jail, dead, or exiled to Argentina.


1973 Uruguayan general strike
Unions and political parties remained illegal until a general strike in 1984 forced the military to accept civilian rule and the restoration of democracy.


1973 Utah State Aggies football team
The 1973 Utah State Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Utah State University as an independent during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their first season under head coach Phil Krueger, the Aggies compiled a 7–4 record and were outscored by opponents by a total of 230 to 202.


1973 Utah State Aggies football team
The team's statistical leaders included Tom Wilson with 1,177 passing yards, Archie Gibson with 1,150 rushing yards, Craig Clark with 495 receiving yards, Jerry Cox with 60 points scored, and Brian Longuevan with 80 total tackles.


1973 Utah Utes football team
The 1973 Utah Utes football team was an American football team that represented the University of Utah during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In his sixth and final season as head coach, Bill Meek led the Utes to a 4–2 mark in the WAC and 7–5 overall.


1973 Utah Utes football team
Five weeks after the season ended, Meek resigned in early January 1974. Defensive line coach Tom Lovat, a 35-year-old alumnus from Bingham, was retained for the interim for recruiting continuation, and was promoted later that month.


1973 Utah Utes football team, NFL draft
Four Utes were selected in the 1974 NFL Draft, which lasted seventeen rounds (442 selections).


1973 VFA season
The 1973 Victorian Football Association season was the 92nd season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the 13th season of second division competition. The Division 1 premiership was won by the Prahran Football Club, after it came from fourth on the ladder to defeat Oakleigh in the Grand Final on 23 September by 35 points; it was Prahran's fourth Division 1 premiership. The Division 2 premiership was won by Caulfield; it was the first and only premiership in either division won by the club after its move from Brighton to Caulfield in 1962.


1973 VFA season, Division 1
The Division 1 home-and-away season was played over 18 rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system. The finals were played at the St Kilda Cricket Ground.


1973 VFA season, Division 2
The Division 2 home-and-away season was played over eighteen rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system; all finals were played on Sundays at Toorak Park.


1973 VFA season, Division 2, Finals
Scores were level in time-on in the final quarter before Caulfield kicked four late goals.


1973 VFL Grand Final
The 1973 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between Carlton and Richmond at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 29 September 1973. It was the 77th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League (VFL), staged to determine the premiers for the 1973 VFL season. Although Carlton were the favourites to win, it was Richmond who would take the flag by 30 points, marking that club's eighth VFL/AFL premiership victory.


1973 VFL Grand Final, Background
This was the second consecutive year in which the two teams met in the premiership decider, with Carlton having won the 1972 VFL Grand Final by 27 points in a memorable high-scoring affair. The Tigers, who were clear favourites to win that game, were desperate to atone for that humiliating result.


1973 VFL Grand Final, Background
At the conclusion of the regular home-and-away season, Richmond had finished second on the ladder behind Collingwood with 17 wins and 5 losses. Carlton had finished third with 15 wins and 7 losses.


1973 VFL Grand Final, Background
In the finals series, Richmond lost to Carlton by 20 points in the Qualifying Final before defeating St Kilda by 40 points in the First Semi-Final. They then defeated Collingwood by seven points in the Preliminary Final (a game in which they came back from a 45-point deficit) to advance to the Grand Final. Carlton, after their win in the Qualifying Final, defeated Collingwood by 20 points in the Second Semi-Final to advance to the Grand Final.


1973 VFL Grand Final, Background
Both sides had injury and illness concerns before the game. Richmond champion Francis Bourke and captain Royce Hart were not supposed to be playing on strict medical grounds, but such was their determination to play that they were selected anyway. For Carlton, Barry Armstrong and Trevor Keogh were ruled out, while Alex Jesaulenko and Neil Chandler were not fully fit. Carlton were forced to name Vin Catoggio in the Grand Final side for his first full VFL game.


1973 VFL Grand Final, Background
For field umpire Ian Robinson, this was the first of a record nine Grand Finals which he would officiate.


1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary
The weather on the day was very warm (reaching approximately 24 degrees) and a blustery north-west wind made playing conditions less than ideal. The attendance figure of 116,956 spectators was the fourth-largest crowd in VFL/AFL history.


1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, First quarter
The first key incident in the match occurred at the 4-minute mark of the quarter. Carlton captain-coach Nicholls, who had masterminded Richmond's demise in the previous year's Grand Final, had again stationed himself in the forward pocket and was coming out to mark a long kick from Jesaulenko when Richmond defender Fowler, who was running back with the flight of the ball, crashed into Nicholls with a high shirtfront. Fans and players were stunned at the sight of one of football's most imposing figures laying groggy on the ground and struggling to get up. Teammate David McKay reflected thus on the incident:


1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, First quarter
To see someone who was a colossus knocked out like that really stung. He was such an enormous presence on the ground as a leader that we thought, "Shit, what's going to happen now?" [...] You could talk to any player from that day and they'd tell you we were stunned. I'm not saying that was the reason Richmond won on the day, but we were starting to think twice about what the hell was happening out there.


1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, First quarter
The impact of that incident still resonates decades later, and has been replayed on television many times since. As Fowler recalled of that incident a few years later:


1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, First quarter
I was keyed up at the time and all I remember is that I had my eyes on the ball. If Nick had run through me the whole thing would have been forgotten.


1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, First quarter
Nicholls was helped to his feet by the trainers, and managed to take the free kick set shot awarded by umpire Robinson. He kicked the first goal of the match, but it was clear that the bump had shaken him, and required ongoing attention from the trainers for several minutes.


1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, First quarter
The incident set the tone for much of the quarter, as players from both sides went hard at the ball and the man. Tempers at times threatened to boil over, with several fiery clashes breaking out across the field, one notable exchange between Walsh and Crosswell captured on camera. With both forward lines struggling, it was Sheedy, who had been named on the half-forward flank, whose three goals for the quarter helped the Tigers capitalize on their work in the ruck and around the packs.


1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, First quarter
Two minutes into time-on, Pinnell marked a pressured kick out of defence from Keane and was awarded a 15-metre penalty for interference after the mark. His long kick to the half-forward line was eventually gathered by McKay, whose quick snap out of a pack sailed through to bring the margin back to six points. The Tigers added further behinds in the remaining time to go into the first change with a nine-point lead.


1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Second quarter
Richmond's other ruckman Michael Green—whose form leading up to the Grand Final had fans worried—opened the scoring in the second quarter when he scored a goal from a free kick at centre half-forward. Carlton hit back with goals to David McKay and Kevin Hall before big Richmond forward Neil Balme left his mark on the game. First he king-hit Carlton full-back Geoff Southby, and then moments later got a punch on Vin Waite. Southby was concussed by the blow and would not return to the field after half time. Carlton were still in the match until the time-on period of the second quarter, when Richmond took control - through goals to Bartlett, captain Royce Hart, Balme, Roberts and Ian Stewart - to lead at the main break by 26 points.


1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Third quarter
With Southby deemed unfit to continue, Carlton brought on Chandler and made some position changes, including Jesaulenko to centre, Hall to full back and Crosswell to full forward. Hart kicked his third major to open the scoring for the second half, as Richmond began to slowly increase their lead. Stewart was moved to the half-forward line after injuring a leg, and kicked two goals for the quarter. Carlton was forced to make changes and brought on their second reserve, Bryan Quirk.


1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Third quarter
Shortly afterward, Phillip Pinnell, who had been doing well in defence, suddenly broke down with severe cramp, and hobbled to the forward pocket, further adding to Carlton's woes. Richmond's defense, led by Francis Bourke and Dick Clay, managed to restrict the Blues to just two goals for the quarter - one each to Chandler and Walls. At the last change, Richmond held a commanding 38-point lead.


1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Fourth quarter
Carlton refused to concede defeat. After making some positional changes, the Blues kicked the first three goals of the quarter - two to Garry Crane and one to Walls. By the 15-minute mark they had managed to cut the margin to 18 points, and if Nicholls had not missed a shot from the goal-square, the game would have been up for grabs. Richmond steadied after Tom Hafey replaced Noel Carter with Kevin Morris, and when Balme kicked truly before being substituted for Craig McKellar, the contest was effectively over.


1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath
Kevin Bartlett was Richmond's best player, gathering 27 touches (all kicks, not surprisingly) and a goal. Kevin Sheedy's three goals in the first quarter were pivotal in helping the Tigers get a solid start, and he continued to be constructive throughout the match, ending up with 16 kicks and 7 handpasses. Michael Green shrugged off concerns over his lead-up form to assist Brian Roberts in subduing Carlton ruckman "Percy" Jones, and starred all around the ground, taking 8 marks and kicking a goal. And captain Royce Hart, despite a suspect left knee, was at his imperious best, kicking three goals and taking a series of strong marks.


1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath
Crane was rated as Carlton's best, and experienced finals campaigners Robert Walls and David McKay also played well. Richmond's win completed a great day for the club; earlier in the day, the Tigers had already secured the flag in the Reserves, Under 19s and Under 17s competitions. As Francis Bourke wrote for The Age after the game:


1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath
Imagine how we would have felt if we hadn't won the big one. We couldn't have looked [our other teams] in the eye - it's not often a club gets the chance to set such a record. How do we feel now? Bloody terrific, that's how. I never realised how sweet revenge could be, especially when it is for such a humiliating defeat as ours 12 months ago. Twelve months is a long time to live with the memory of last year's Grand Final disaster. But now we have something much better to live with. Four flags and the reputation of the strongest and most successful club in League history, that's what.


1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath
Richmond would go on to win successive premierships for the second time in the club's history, defeating North Melbourne in the 1974 VFL Grand Final and cementing Tom Hafey's reputation as one of the all-time great VFL/AFL coaches. Carlton's next appearance in a premiership decider came six years later, when it won the 1979 VFL Grand Final against Collingwood.


1973 VFL season
The 1973 Victorian Football League season was the 77th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.


1973 VFL season, Rule changes
One of the most significant innovations that came into force in 1973 was the implementation of a painted centre diamond area with 45-metre long sides, with a maximum of four players from each team permitted to stand within the diamond at centre bounces. Following a long period of lobbying by the VFL to the Australian Football Council for its introduction, the centre diamond was initially subject to a 12-month trial period. The purpose of this innovation was to try and solve the problem of congestion at centre bounces, as well as giving skilled players more space to benefit their teams.


1973 VFL season, Premiership season
The home-and-away season consisted of 22 rounds, with teams facing each other twice; matches 12 to 22 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 11.


1973 VFL season, Premiership season
At the conclusion of the home-and-away fixtures, the 1973 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the "McIntyre Final Five system".


1973 Valdostan regional election
The Valdostan regional election of 1973 took place on 10 June 1973.


1973 Valdostan regional election
The alliance of 1970 was initially confirmed, but the situation was later changed by the Valdostan Union and the Christian Democracy.


1973 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
The 1973 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The Commodores were led by head coach Steve Sloan in his first season and finished the season with a record of five wins and six losses (5–6 overall, 1–5 in the SEC).


1973 Venda legislative election
Parliamentary elections were held in Venda on 15 and 16 August 1973. The Venda Independence People's Party won 13 of the 18 elected seats in the Legislative Assembly.


1973 Venda legislative election, Electoral system
The Legislative Assembly consisted of 60 seats, of which only 18 were elected. The remaining 42 seats were reserved for 25 Chiefs, 2 Headmen and a further 15 members appointed by Chiefs.


1973 Venezuelan Primera División season
The 1973 season of the Venezuelan Primera División, the top category of Venezuelan football, was played by 9 teams. The national champions were Portuguesa.


1973 Venezuelan general election
General elections were held in Venezuela on Sunday 9 December 1973. The presidential elections were won by Carlos Andrés Pérez of Democratic Action, who received 48.7% of the vote, whilst his party won a majority of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate. Voter turnout was 96.5%.


1973 Veracruz earthquake
The 1973 Veracruz earthquake, also known as El Terremoto de Orizaba, occurred at 3:50 a.m. local time (9:50 GMT) on August 28, with the epicenter located in the vicinity of Serdán in the Mexican state of Puebla. It registered 7.0 on the Richter magnitude scale and had a maximum perceived intensity of VIII (Severe) on the Mercalli intensity scale. The effects of the earthquake were felt in the Mexican states of Veracruz and Puebla in southeast Mexico.


1973 Veracruz earthquake, Geography
The area that was damaged in Veracruz is tropical and mountainous; Pico de Orizaba, Mexico's tallest peak, is located there. The earthquake occurred during the rainy season, with heavy rain coming down before and after the event making search and rescue difficult. Serdán is located in the rain shadow of the mountainous area and has a more arid climate.


1973 Veracruz earthquake, Past events
Mexico's southwest coast is much more seismically active than the southeast area near Orizaba. Earthquakes there have been relatively infrequent. The last prior strong event in the region was on June 17, 1928, when a magnitude-7.8 event occurred south of Serdán. However, the area 100 to 300 kilometers south of Serdán does see more very strong earthquakes, with three events over magnitude 7 in 1928 alone.


1973 Veracruz earthquake, Damage
There was extensive damage, leaving hundreds dead and widespread devastation, in several cities in Puebla. The death toll was at least 600, with as many as 1,200 dead, and 212 casualties alone in the small Ciudad Serdán. Major cities affected were Ciudad Serdán, Orizaba, Ixtaczoquitlán, Córdoba, Ciudad Mendoza, Zongolica, Rio Blanco, and Acutzingo.


1973 Veracruz earthquake, Damage
In Orizaba, a twelve-story apartment building collapsed as result of the earthquake. Many of the occupants, up to 100, were sleeping at the time, and this was the number proclaimed dead at that site.


1973 Veracruz earthquake, Damage
This event was the most disastrous earthquake in Puebla until the 1999 Tehuacán earthquake.


1973 Vermont Catamounts football team
The 1973 Vermont Catamounts football team was an American football team that represented  the University of Vermont in the Yankee Conference during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. In their second year under head coach Carl Falivene, the team compiled a 3–6 record.


1973 Victorian state election
The 1973 Victorian state election, held on Saturday, 19 May 1973, was for the 46th Parliament of Victoria. It was held in the Australian state of Victoria to elect the 73 members of the state's Legislative Assembly and 18 members of the 36-member Legislative Council.


1973 Victorian state election
Rupert Hamer succeeded Henry Bolte as Premier of Victoria on 23 August 1972. In 1972 a federal Labor government was elected, the first Labor government in 23 years. The incumbent Liberal government in Victoria led by Hamer was returned at the election with an increased vote of about 5%, largely at the expense of the Democratic Labor Party.


1973 Victorian state election, Results, Legislative Assembly
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1973 Victorian state election, Results, Legislative Council
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1973 Villanova Wildcats football team
The 1973 Villanova Wildcats football team represented the Villanova University during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The head coach was Lou Ferry, coaching his fourth season with the Wildcats. The team played their home games at Villanova Stadium in Villanova, Pennsylvania.


1973 Virginia Cavaliers football team
The 1973 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The Cavaliers were led by third-year head coach Don Lawrence and played their home games at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia. They competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing in fourth. Lawrence was fired as head coach following the end of the season. He had a record of 11–22 at Virginia.


1973 Virginia Slims Championships
The 1973 Virginia Slims Championships were the second season-ending WTA Tour Championships, the annual tennis tournament for the best female tennis players in singles on the 1973 Virginia Slims circuit which was part of the 1973 WTA Tour. It was held from October 15 to 23, 1973 at the Boca Raton Hotel & Club in Boca Raton, United States. Both the top two qualifying players and top seeds Margaret Court and Billie Jean King had to withdraw from the tournament due to injury, although Court did compete (and win) in the doubles event. Fourth ranked Evonne Goolagong also defaulted. First-seeded Chris Evert won her second consecutive singles title at the event.


1973 Virginia Slims Championships, Finals, Doubles
Rosemary Casals /  Margaret Court defeated  Françoise Dürr /  Betty Stöve, 6–2, 6–4


1973 Virginia Slims Championships – Singles, Seeds
Both the top two qualifying players and top seeds Margaret Court and Billie Jean King had to withdraw from the tournament due to injury, although Court did compete (and win) in the doubles event. Fourth ranked Evonne Goolagong also defaulted.


1973 Virginia Slims Grass Court Championships
The 1973 Virginia Slims Grass Court Championships, also known as the Virginia Slims of Newport, was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island in the United States that was part of the 1973 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from August 20 through August 26, 1973. First-seeded Margaret Court won the singles title and earned $7,000 first-prize money.


1973 Virginia Slims Grass Court Championships, Finals, Doubles
Françoise Dürr /  Betty Stöve defeated  Janet Newberry /  Pam Teeguarden 6–4, 6–3


1973 Virginia Slims of Akron
The 1973 Virginia Slims of Akron, also known as the Akron Tennis Open,  was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the University of Akron Memorial Hall in Akron, Ohio in the United States that was part of the 1973 Women's Grand Prix Circuit (B class). It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from March 19 through March 25, 1973. Chris Evert won the singles title and the accompanying $6,000 first-prize money.


1973 Virginia Slims of Akron, Start of Evert – Navratilova rivalry
In the first round of the tournament Chris Evert played and won against Martina Navratilova in straight sets, 7–6(5–1), 6–3, after Navartilova had failed to serve out the first set at 6–5 and 30–0. It was their first encounter on the professional tour and the start of their rivalry which would comprise 80 matches and last until 1988.


1973 Virginia Slims of Akron, Finals, Doubles
Patti Hogan /  Sharon Walsh defeated  Patricia Bostrom /  Michèle Gurdal 7–5, 6–4


1973 Virginia Slims of Boston
The 1973 Virginia Slims of Boston, also known as the Virginia Slims Indoors,  was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States that was part of the 1973 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. The tournament was held from April 11 through April 15, 1973. Margaret Court won the singles title after a 59-minute final against Billie Jean King and earned $6,000 first-prize money.


1973 Virginia Slims of Boston, Finals, Doubles
Rosie Casals /  Billie Jean King defeated  Françoise Dürr /  Betty Stöve 6–4, 6–2


1973 Virginia Slims of Chicago
The 1973 Virginia Slims of Chicago  was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Lake Shore Racquet Club in Chicago, Illinois in the United States that was part of the 1973 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from March 8 through March 11, 1973. First-seeded Margaret Court won the singles title and earned $6,500 first-prize money.


1973 Virginia Slims of Chicago, Finals, Doubles
Rosie Casals /  Billie Jean King defeated  Karen Krantzcke /  Betty Stöve 6–4, 6–2


1973 Virginia Slims of Denver
The 1973 Virginia Slims of Denver, also known by its sponsored name Denver Majestic Tournament,  was a women's tennis tournament played on hard court at the South High School in Denver, Colorado in the United States that was part of the 1973 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from July 30 through August 5, 1973. First-seeded Billie Jean King won the singles title and earned $7,000 first-prize money. Total attendance for the event was 22,800 which made it the first women's-only tournament to have an attendance of more than 20,000.


1973 Virginia Slims of Denver, Finals, Doubles
Rosemary Casals /  Billie Jean King vs.  Françoise Dürr /  Betty Stöve 3–2 match abandoned due to rain, prize shared


1973 Virginia Slims of Detroit
The 1973 Virginia Slims of Detroit  was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Cobo Hall & Arena  in Detroit, Michigan in the United States that was part of the 1973 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from March 1 through March 4, 1973. First-seeded Margaret Court won the singles title and earned $6,000 first-prize money.


1973 Virginia Slims of Detroit, Finals, Doubles
Rosemary Casals /  Billie Jean King defeated  Karen Krantzcke /  Betty Stöve 6–3, 3–6, 6–1


1973 Virginia Slims of Fort Lauderdale
The 1973 Virginia Slims of Fort Lauderdale, also known as the S&H Green Stamp Tennis Classic,  was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in the United States that was part of the 1973 Women's Grand Prix Circuit (A class). It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from February 26 through March 4, 1973. First-seeded Chris Evert won the singles title.


1973 Virginia Slims of Fort Lauderdale, Finals, Doubles
Gail Sherriff /  Virginia Wade defeated  Evonne Goolagong /  Janet Young 4–6, 6–3, 6–2


1973 Virginia Slims of Houston
The 1973 Virginia Slims of Houston was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Net-Set (West Side) Racquet Club in Houston, Texas in the United States that was part of the 1973 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from September 17 through September 24, 1973. Unseeded Françoise Dürr won the singles title and earned $7,000 first-prize money. The final was delayed by one day due to rain.


1973 Virginia Slims of Houston
Just before the start of the tournament three of the four top-seeded players (Margaret Court, Evonne Goolagong and Chris Evert) pulled out and Billie Jean King became the new top-seeded player. King also played the "Battle of the Sexes" match against Bobby Riggs during the week of the tournament.


1973 Virginia Slims of Houston, Finals, Doubles
Mona Schallau /  Pam Teeguarden defeated  Françoise Dürr /  Betty Stöve 6–3, 5–7, 6–4


1973 Virginia Slims of Indianapolis
The 1973 Virginia Slims of Indianapolis  was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hardcourts at the Convention-Expo Center in Indianapolis, Indiana in the United States that was part of the 1973 Virginia Slims Circuit. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from February 22 through February 26, 1973. Third-seeded Billie Jean King won the singles title and earned $6,000 first-prize money. In the semifinal King, coming back from a three months break, saved three match points against Margaret Court and ended Court's 12-tournament 54-match winning streak.


1973 Virginia Slims of Indianapolis, Finals, Doubles
Rosemary Casals /  Billie Jean King defeated  Margaret Court /  Lesley Hunt 7–5, 6–4


1973 Virginia Slims of Jacksonville
The 1973 Virginia Slims of Jacksonville, also known as the Jacksonville Invitational,  was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Deerwood Club  in Jacksonville, Florida in the United States that was part of the 1973 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the second and last edition of the tournament and was held from April 16 through April 22, 1973. First-seeded Margaret Court won the singles title and earned $6,000 first-prize money.


1973 Virginia Slims of Jacksonville, Finals, Doubles
Rosie Casals /  Billie Jean King defeated  Françoise Dürr /  Betty Stöve 7–6, 5–7, 6–3


1973 Virginia Slims of Richmond
The 1973 Virginia Slims of Richmond  was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor clay courts at the Westwood Racquet Club in Richmond, Virginia in the United States that was part of the 1973 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from March 14 through March 18, 1973. First-seeded Margaret Court won the singles title and earned $6,000 first-prize money.


1973 Virginia Slims of Richmond, Finals, Doubles
Margaret Court /  Lesley Hunt defeated  Karen Krantzcke /  Betty Stöve 6–2, 7–6(5–4)


1973 Virginia Slims of Washington
The 1973 Virginia Slims of Washington  was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Linden Hill Racquet Club in Bethesda, Maryland in the United States that was part of the 1973 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from January 29 through February 4, 1973. First-seeded Margaret Court won the singles title and earned $10,000 first-prize money.


1973 Virginia Slims of Washington, Finals, Doubles
Rosie Casals /  Julie Heldman defeated  Kerry Harris /  Kerry Melville 6–3, 6–3


1973 Virginia Tech Gobblers football team
The 1973 Virginia Tech Gobblers football team represented Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season.


1973 Virginia Tech Gobblers football team, Players
The following players were members of the 1973 football team according to the roster published in the 1974 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.


1973 Virginia gubernatorial election
In the 1973 Virginia gubernatorial election, incumbent Governor A. Linwood Holton, Jr., a Republican, was unable to seek re-election due to term limits. Mills E. Godwin, Jr., former Democratic Governor of Virginia, was nominated by the Republican Party to run against Independent Lieutenant Governor of Virginia Henry Howell. The Democrats did not field a candidate, mostly choosing to support Howell's candidacy.


1973 Virginia lieutenant gubernatorial election
The 1973 Virginia lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1973. Republican nominee John N. Dalton defeated Democratic nominee James Harry Michael Jr. with 53.96% of the vote.


1973 Volta a Catalunya
The 1973 Volta a Catalunya was the 53rd edition of the Volta a Catalunya cycle race and was held from 12 September to 19 September 1973. The race started in Amposta and finished in Lleida. The race was won by Domingo Perurena.


1973 Volvo International
The 1973 Volvo International was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Mount Washington Resort in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire in the United States. The event was part of the 1973 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix circuit and classified as C category. The tournament was held from July 23 through July 29, 1973. Vijay Amritraj won the singles title.


1973 Volvo International, Men's singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. The top four seeds received a bye to the second round.


1973 Volvo International, Men's doubles
Rod Laver /  Fred Stolle defeated  Bob Carmichael /  Frew McMillan 2–6, 6–3, 6–4


1973 Vuelta a España
The 28th Edition Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the 3 grand tours, was held from April 26 to May 13, 1973. It consisted of 17 stages covering a total of 3,061 km, and was won by Eddy Merckx of the Molteni cycling team. As Merckx had already won several editions of the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia with his win in the Vuelta, he became the third cyclist after Jacques Anquetil and Felice Gimondi to win all three grand tours in his career.


1973 Vuelta a España
Merckx went on to win the 1973 Giro d'Italia and became the first cyclist to win the Vuelta-Giro double. Merckx also won the points classification and José Luis Abilleira won the mountains classification. With Merckx finishing first, Ocaña second and Thévenet third the podium of the 1973 Vuelta contained one previous winner and two future winners of the Tour de France making it one of the best podiums in the history of the race, according to the official race website. Merckx won six stages in this edition and Gerben Karstens won four.


1973 Vuelta a España, Teams
A total of eight teams were invited to participate in the 1973 Vuelta a España. Each team sent a squad of ten riders, which meant that the race started with a peloton of 80 cyclists. 62 cyclists reached the finish in San Sebastián.


1973 Vuelta a España, Classification leadership
Four different jerseys were worn during the 1973 Vuelta a España. The leader of the general classification – calculated by adding the stage finish times of each rider, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers on mass-start stages – wore a golden jersey. This classification is the most important of the race, and its winner is considered as the winner of the Vuelta.


1973 Vuelta a España, Classification leadership
For the points classification, which awarded a light blue jersey to its leader, cyclists were given points for finishing a stage in the top 15; additional points could also be won in intermediate sprints. The green jersey was awarded to the mountains classification leader. In this ranking, points were won by reaching the summit of a climb ahead of other cyclists. Each climb was ranked as either first, second or third category, with more points available for higher category climbs. The combination classification awarded a red jersey to its leader.


1973 Vuelta a España, Classification leadership
Although no jersey was awarded, there was also one classification for the teams, in which the stage finish times of the best three cyclists per team were added; the leading team was the one with the lowest total time.


1973 Vuelta a España, Classification leadership
The rows in the following table correspond to the jerseys awarded after that stage was run.


1973 WANFL season
The 1973 WANFL season was the 89th season of the Western Australian National Football League. It is most famous for Subiaco breaking the longest premiership drought in the history of the competition, winning for the first time since 1924 after having been a chopping block for most of the middle third of the century.


1973 WANFL season
Under the coaching of former St Kilda champion Ross Smith, the Lions, as they became christened in July, bounced back from two disappointing seasons to lose only two of their final sixteen home-and-away games for their first minor premiership since 1935, then in a low-scoring Grand Final comfortably defeated a much more hardened West Perth team.


1973 WANFL season
In addition to Subiaco's premiership win, veteran goal machine Austin Robertson, Jr. broke Ted Tyson’s record for most goals in a WANFL career late in the home-and-away season.


1973 WANFL season
The season also saw 1972 Grand Finalists Claremont suffer the worst single-season fall in WAFL history, from only three losses to only four wins despite being pre-season premiership favourites, as Essendon’s century goalkicker Geoff Blethyn proved an inadequate trade for champion ruckman Graham Moss. Eight losses by under two goals sunk Claremont further. Despite exceptional form from Barry Cable in his last season with the club, Perth also fell from preliminary finalists to their worst record for thirty-two seasons of only six wins. Perennial battlers Swan Districts looked like a first finals berth since 1965 during the autumn but won only two of their last thirteen matches as a rainy winter negated the strength in marking that won Swans their early victories.


1973 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 1
Perth hang on to win despite Tiger recruit Blethyn kicking a controversial last-quarter “soccer” goal that Demon defender Richard Peel believed he kicked himself.


1973 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 2
Swan Districts, after a clean-out by coach Jack Ensor, lead the Tigers 17.9 (111) to 4.9 (33) after three quarters.


1973 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 3 (Easter weekend)
Thirty-two-year-old Peter Senior leads South Fremantle to a convincing win, along with ten-goal forward Peter Troode.


1973 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 4
Swan Districts kick their highest-ever second quarter score and the highest for that quarter at Bassendean Oval.


1973 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 5
With John Lewis brilliant at full-back, Claremont kick 9.17 (71) to 2.6 (18) after the first 22 minutes to with their first game in slippery conditions.


1973 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 7
Injuries to Vernon Orr, David Mile and fullback John Lewis (who was thrashing Austin Robertson, Jr. and threatening to keep him goalless for the first time since 1965) deny Claremont a win despite playing their best football of the season.


1973 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 13
Three goals from the previously outplayed Archie Duda win East Perth a thriller against the tailender despite a 70-metre shot from Bruce Duperouzel on the siren (which was punched clear).


1973 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 17
West Perth lose top spot despite winning a game where tailender Claremont wins three quarters, and their injuries rocket Subiaco to premiership favouritism for the first time at this stage since 1935.


1973 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 19
Bill Dempsey and reluctant defender Keith Miller help the Cardinals rebound to a thrilling win in a battle of defences. Austin Robertson kicked four goals to finish the match with 1,201, two behind former Cardinal Tyson.


1973 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 20
Austin Robertson was chaired from the ground after three goals took him to the WANFL record which he has held since.


1973 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 21
East Fremantle’s desperation and determination gives them an unexpected finals place after rivals South lose.


1973 WANFL season, Finals, First semi-final
East Perth reverse the last round result with a dramatic team reshuffle, as East Fremantle fail to use a strong wind in the first quarter.


1973 WANFL season, Finals, Second semi-final
Mel Whinnen’s dominance of Peter Featherby in the centre and strong roving by Bill Valli and Shane Sheridan put the Cardinals in the Grand Final more comfortably than the score suggested.


1973 WANFL season, Finals, Preliminary final
Subiaco win for the fourth time over the Royals in a match notable for a behind to East Perth being retracted after being placed on the scoreboard late in the second quarter (due to a Lion free kick).


1973 WANFL season, Finals, Grand Final
Subiaco’s superb defence win their first flag since 1924 on a very windy and damp afternoon.


1973 WANFL season, Notes
The other two were by West Perth against Swan Districts in 1940 and the Cardinals against South Fremantle in 1966.


1973 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1973 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 14th conference playoff in league history. The tournament was played between March 5 and March 11, 1973. All games were played at home team campus sites, including each of the two regional final series. By winning the regional tournaments, both Wisconsin and Denver were invited to participate in the 1973 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


1973 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Though not official designations, Wisconsin is considered as the East Regional Champion† and Denver as the West Regional Champion‡.


1973 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The top eight teams in the WCHA, according to their final conference standings, were eligible for the tournament and were seeded No. 1 through No. 8. In the first round the first and eighth seeds, the second and seventh seeds, the third and sixth seeds and the fourth and fifth seeds were matched in two-game series where the school that scored the higher number of goals was declared the winner. After the first round the remaining teams were reseeded No. 1 through No. 4 according to their final conference standings and advanced to the second round. In the second round the first and fourth seeds and the second and third seeds competed in an additional two-game, total goal series with the winners of each being declared as co-conference champions.


1973 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format, Conference Standings
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against


1973 WCT World Doubles
The 1973 WCT World Doubles was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts in Montreal in Canada that was part of the 1973 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was the tour finals for the doubles season of the WCT Tour. The tournament was held from May 3 through May 7, 1973.


1973 WCT World Doubles, Final, Doubles
Robert Lutz /  Stan Smith defeated  Tom Okker /  Marty Riessen 6–2, 7–6(7–1), 6–0


1973 WCT World Doubles – Doubles
This was the first edition of the WCT World Doubles tennis tournament. The eight highest ranking teams qualified for the event. Third seeds, Robert Lutz and Stan Smith won the tournament in straight sets in the final against Tom Okker and Marty Riessen


1973 WHA Amateur Draft
The 1973 WHA Amateur Draft was the first draft for the World Hockey Association.


1973 WHA Amateur Draft, Selections by round
Below are listed the selections in the 1973 WHA Amateur Draft.


1973 WTA Tour
The 1973 WTA Tour was composed of the third annual Virginia Slims Circuit and Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix, a tour of tennis tournaments for female tennis players, sponsored by Virginia Slims cigarettes. It was also the year that the WTA Tour was officially formed by Billie Jean King following a meeting held in the Gloucester Hotel in London during the week before Wimbledon.


1973 WTA Tour, Schedule
This is a calendar of all events sponsored by Virginia Slims in the year 1973, with player progression documented from the quarterfinals stage. The table also includes the Grand Slam tournaments, the 1973 Virginia Slims Championships and the 1973 Federation Cup.


1973 WTA Tour, Grand Prix points system
The Grand Prix tournaments were divided into four groups. Group AA consisted of the Triple Crown – the French Open, the Wimbledon Championships and the US Open – while the other tournaments were divided into Groups A, B and C by prize money and draw size. Points were allocated based on these groups and the finishing position of a player in a tournament. No points were awarded to first round losers and ties were settled by the number of tournaments played. The points allocation is listed below:


1973 WTA Tour, Statistical information
These tables present the number of singles (S), doubles (D), and mixed doubles (X) titles won by each player and each nation during the 1973 Virginia Slims Circuit. They also include data for the Grand Slam tournaments and the year-end championships. The table is sorted by:


1973 WTA Tour, Statistical information
1) total number of titles (a doubles title won by two players representing the same nation counts as only one win for the nation);2) highest amount of highest category tournaments (for example, having a single Grand Slam gives preference over any kind of combination without a Grand Slam title);3) a singles > doubles > mixed doubles hierarchy;4) alphabetical order (by family names for players).


1973 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team
The 1973 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest University in the Atlantic Coast Conference during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In its first season under head coach Chuck Mills, the team compiled a 1–9–1 record (0–5–1 against ACC opponents) and finished last in the conference.


1973 Walker Cup
The 1973 Walker Cup, the 24th Walker Cup Match, was played on August 24 and 25, 1973, at The Country Club, Brookline, Massachusetts. The event was won by the United States 14 to 10.


1973 Walker Cup
Great Britain and Ireland failed to win any foursomes matches, losing six and halving the other two. In first singles session Great Britain and Ireland won five matches but needing 6½ points from the final 8 singles they could only win three, halve two while two of the lost matches went to the last hole.


1973 Walker Cup, Format
The format for play on Friday and Saturday was the same. There were four matches of foursomes in the morning and eight singles matches in the afternoon. In all, 24 matches were played.


1973 Walker Cup, Format
Each of the 24 matches was worth one point in the larger team competition. If a match was all square after the 18th hole extra holes were not played. Rather, each side earned ½ a point toward their team total. The team that accumulated at least 12½ points won the competition. If the two teams were tied, the previous winner would retain the trophy.


1973 Walker Cup, Teams
Ten players for the United States and Great Britain & Ireland participated in the event plus one non-playing captain for each team.


1973 Washington Huskies football team
The 1973 Washington Huskies football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In its 17th season under head coach Jim Owens, the team compiled a 2–9 record, (0–7 in the Pacific-8 Conference, last), and was outscored 376 to 218.


1973 Washington Huskies football team
The Huskies dropped the Apple Cup for the second straight year. The 52–26 loss at Husky Stadium remains as Washington's worst home loss in the series; they rebounded and won the next eight, through 1981.


1973 Washington Huskies football team
Junior defensive lineman Dave Pear was selected as the team's most valuable player.


1973 Washington Huskies football team, NFL Draft selections
One University of Washington Husky was selected in the 1974 NFL Draft, which lasted seventeen rounds with 442 selections.


1973 Washington Redskins season
The 1973 Washington Redskins season was the franchise's 42nd season in the National Football League (NFL) and their 37th  in Washington, D.C.. The team failed to improve on their 11–3 record from 1972, and finished 10-4.


1973 Washington Star International
The 1973 Washington Star International was a men's tennis tournament that was played on outdoor clay courts at the Washington Tennis Stadium in Washington, D.C.. The event was categorized as a Grade A tournament and was part of the 1973 Grand Prix circuit. It was the fifth edition of the tournament and was held  from July 23 through July 29, 1973, and was the first event on the US Tour leading up to the 1973 US Open. Third-seeded Arthur Ashe won the singles title and $11,000 prize money.


1973 Washington Star International, Finals, Doubles
Ross Case /  Geoff Masters defeated  Dick Crealy /  Andrew Pattison 2–6, 6–4, 6–4


1973 Washington State Cougars football team
The 1973 Washington State Cougars football team was an American football team that represented Washington State University in the Pacific-8 Conference (Pac-8) during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their sixth season under head coach Jim Sweeney, the Cougars compiled a 5–6 record (4–3 in Pac-8, fourth), and were outscored 290 to 250.


1973 Washington State Cougars football team
The team's statistical leaders included Chuck Peck with 1,023 passing yards, Andrew Jones with 1,059 rushing yards, and Tim Krause with 384 receiving yards.


1973 Washington State Cougars football team
The Cougars won their last four games, all in conference, which included a sweep of the three Northwest teams; the season concluded with a second consecutive win in the Apple Cup over Washington, this time a 52–26 rout on the road in Seattle.


1973 Washington State Cougars football team, All-conference
Three Washington State players were named to the All-Pac-8 team: senior linebacker Tom Poe, junior guard Steve Ostermann, and junior center Geoff Reece. Ostermann was a repeat selection; he and Reece returned to the first team the next year.


1973 West Bromwich by-election
The West Bromwich by-election of 24 May 1973 was held after the appointment of Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Maurice Foley to the European Commission. Held continuously by Labour since 1935 it was retained in this by-election.


1973 West Bromwich by-election, Campaign
The election campaign was noted for the refusal of Enoch Powell, MP for neighbouring Wolverhampton South West, to endorse Conservative candidate David Bell as he felt that Bell was too far removed from his own policies on immigration and United Kingdom membership of the European Community. Although Powell did not endorse any candidate the National Front claimed that Powell's refusal to support Bell represented tacit endorsement. As a consequence Martin Webster captured 16% of the vote, an all-time high for the NF to save its deposit.


1973 West Bromwich by-election, Campaign
In common with a number of by-elections at the time the Liberal Party did not compete for this seat.


1973 West Dorset District Council election
The 1973 West Dorset District Council election was held on Thursday 10 May 1973 to elect councillors to the new West Dorset District Council in England. It took place on the same day as other district council elections in the United Kingdom.


1973 West Dorset District Council election
These were the first elections to the new district council, which would come into effect on 1 April 1974. Future elections would take place every three years, with the next election scheduled for 6 May 1976.


1973 West Dorset District Council election
The 1973 election saw Independent councillors take a significant majority on the Council.


1973 West Glamorgan County Council election
The first election to West Glamorgan County Council and was held in April 1973. It was followed by the 1977 election.


1973 West Glamorgan County Council election
The new authority came into effect from 1 April 1974 following the division of the former Glamorgan County Council into three new authorities.


1973 West Glamorgan County Council election, Candidates
The Labour Party fielded candidates in every ward. A significant proportion of seats were contested by the Conservative Party and Plaid Cymru with fewer candidates fielded by the Liberal Party.


1973 West Glamorgan County Council election, Candidates
Numerous members of the former Glamorgan County Council stood for election.


1973 West Glamorgan County Council election, Results
o indicates sitting councillor on Glamorgan County Council or Swansea City Council prior to 1973 election


1973 West Glamorgan County Council election, Results
A indicates sitting alderman on Glamorgan County Council or Swansea City Council prior to 1973 election


1973 West Virginia Mountaineers football team
The 1973 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. It was the Mountaineers' 81st overall season and they competed as an independent. The team was led by head coach Bobby Bowden, in his fourthyear, and played their home games at Mountaineer Field in Morgantown, West Virginia. They finished the season with a record of 6–5.


1973 West Yorkshire County Council election
Elections for West Yorkshire County Council were held in 1973.


1973 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team
The 1973 Western Kentucky football team represented Western Kentucky University during the inaugural 1973 NCAA Division II football season. The team came off an 7–3 record from the prior season and was led by coach Jimmy Feix. They finished the regular season undefeated and won the Ohio Valley Conference championship. The Hilltoppers made the initial NCAA Division II Football Championship, winning their first two playoff games, including a win over Grambling in the Grantland Rice Bowl, before falling in the championship game to Louisiana Tech in the Camellia Bowl. Their rankings in the final polls were UPI 2 and AP 3.


1973 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team
This team was one of the best in school history, set a school record for victories, and finished ranked 1st in NCAA Division II in Scoring Offense. The roster included future NFL players Virgil Livers, John Bushong, David Carter, Rick Caswell, Clarence “Jazz” Jackson, and Mike McCoy. Porter Williams and David Nollner were named to All American teams, Lonnie Schuster was named OVC Defensive Player of the Year, and Feix OVC Coach of the Year. The All OVC team included Bushong, Jackson, Charlie Johnson, McCoy, Bob Morehead, Nollner, Schuster, Aundra Skiles, and Williams. The coaching staff included future NFL coach Romeo Crennel.


1973 Western Michigan Broncos football team
The 1973 Western Michigan Broncos football team represented Western Michigan University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their 10th season under head coach Bill Doolittle, the Broncos compiled a 6–5 record (1–4 against MAC opponents), finished in a tie for fifth place in the MAC, and were outscored by their opponents, 218 to 190. The team played its home games at Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo, Michigan.


1973 Western Michigan Broncos football team
The team's statistical leaders included Paul Jorgensen with 718 passing yards and 476 rushing yards and Ted Forrest with 282 receiving yards. Fullback Larry Cates and linebacker Dominic Riggio were the team captains. For the second consecutive year, Riggio received the team's most outstanding player award.


1973 Western Samoan general election
General elections were held in Western Samoa on 24 February 1973. All candidates ran as independents and voting was restricted to matai and citizens of European origin ("individual voters"), with the matai electing 45 MPs and Europeans two. Following the election, Fiame Mata'afa became Prime Minister for a second term, having previously held the office between 1959 and 1970.


1973 Western Samoan general election, Campaign
Prior to the elections, candidates were decided upon at meetings of chiefs. If there was unanimity, only one candidate would be put forward; if there were disagreements, multiple candidates would be nominated. A total of 160 candidates contested the elections, with twelve seats having only one candidate (seven of whom were incumbents), who were returned unopposed. Former Prime Minister Mata'afa, who held one of the four highest chiefly titles, was challenged by Aupito Tulaniu, an opponent of the domination of Samoan society by chiefs. His candidacy was regarded by several chiefs as the 'work of the devil'.


1973 Western Samoan general election, Campaign
The incumbent government led by  Tupua Tamasese had become increasingly unpopular since taking office following the 1970 elections. An increase in import duties led to rising food costs and car prices, whilst cabinet infighting and perceived lack of work ethic of some ministers had also been issues.