1975 Dallas Cowboys season, Season recap
They made the playoffs as a wild-card team and beat the Minnesota Vikings 17-14 during the first round, in the now famous “Hail Mary” game. They then defeated the heavily favored Los Angeles Rams 37-7 on the road, winning the NFC Championship Game and becoming the first non-division winner to advance to the Super Bowl in league history. The storybook season ended in Super Bowl X after losing 21-17 to the Pittsburgh Steelers.


1975 Dallas Cowboys season, Publications
The Football Encyclopedia ISBN 0-312-11435-4Total Football ISBN 0-06-270170- 3Cowboys Have Always Been My Heroes ISBN 0-446-51950-2


1975 Danish 1st Division, Overview
It was contested by 16 teams, and Køge BK won the championship.


1975 Danish general election
General elections were held in Denmark on 9 January 1975. The result was a victory for the Social Democratic Party, who won 53 of the 179 seats. Voter turnout was 88.2% in Denmark proper, 56.1% in the Faroe Islands and 68.7% in Greenland.


1975 Danish general election, Political parties
The Soviet Union covertly funded the Communist Party of Denmark.


1975 Dartmouth Big Green football team
The 1975 Dartmouth Big Green football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College during the 1975 NCAA Division I football season. Dartmouth finished fourth in the Ivy League.


1975 Dartmouth Big Green football team
In their third season under head coach Jake Crouthamel, the Big Green compiled a 5–3–1 record and outscored opponents 160 to 121. Thomas Parnon and Reginald Williams were the team captains.


1975 Dartmouth Big Green football team
The Big Green's 4–2–1 conference record placed fourth in the Ivy League. Dartmouth outscored Ivy opponents 129 to 107.


1975 Dartmouth Big Green football team
Dartmouth played its home games at Memorial Field on the college campus in Hanover, New Hampshire.


1975 Davis Cup
The 1975 Davis Cup was the 64th edition of the Davis Cup, the most important tournament between national teams in men's tennis. 55 teams would enter the competition, 32 in the Europe Zone, 12 in the Americas Zone, and 11 in the Eastern Zone. Kenya made its first appearance in the tournament.


1975 Davis Cup
Chile defeated South Africa in the Americas Inter-Zonal final, Australia defeated New Zealand in the Eastern Zone final, and Sweden and Czechoslovakia were the winners of the two Europe Zones, defeating Spain and France respectively.


1975 Davis Cup
In the Inter-Zonal Zone, Czechoslovakia defeated Australia and Sweden defeated Chile in the semifinals. Sweden then defeated Czechoslovakia in the final to win their first title and become the sixth nation to win the Davis Cup. The final was held at the Kungliga tennishallen in Stockholm, Sweden on 19–21 December.


1975 Davis Cup, Controversy
The Inter-Zonal Zone semifinal between Sweden and Chile was played on 19–21 September in Båstad, Sweden, two years after Augusto Pinochet's military coup in Chile. Many people in Sweden wanted the match to be cancelled, in protest of the junta's violations of human rights, however others wanted sport and politics to remain separated.


1975 Davis Cup, Controversy
Chilekommittén mobilised protests against the match. The call for the manifestation was issued on July 30, 1975. The slogan of the protests was Stoppa matchen! ('Stop the match'). About 7,000 people took part in the protest. Hundreds of balloons, with names of political prisoners were released in the vicinity of the match venue, guarded by a police force of 1,300. Through Chilean sports commentators on site, news about the protests reached Chile. A special issue of Chilebulletinen was produced for the protests, with 20,000 copies.


1975 Davis Cup, Controversy
The then governing Swedish Social Democratic Party didn't take part in the protests on September 20. A protest march was instead organized in Båstad by the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League on September 18, ending at the town square, where former prime minister Tage Erlander and Sweden's former ambassador to Chile Harald Edelstam (who personally helped rescue over 1,200 political prisoners in Chile after the 1973 coup) addressed a crowd of some 3,000.


1975 Davis Cup, Controversy
Olof Palme's government tried to stop the match, but on September 12 negotiations ended with a decision to play. During the game on September 20, which was guarded by 1,300 police, over 7,000 demonstrators gathered peacefully on the square. The match was played behind closed doors with no spectators present.


1975 Davis Cup Americas Zone
The Americas Zone was one of the three regional zones of the 1975 Davis Cup.


1975 Davis Cup Americas Zone
12 teams entered the Americas Zone split across two sub-zones, the North & Central America Zone and the South America Zone. 9 teams played in the preliminary rounds, competing to advance to the main draw and join the remaining 3 teams which advanced to the main draw directly. The winners of each sub-zone main draw then played against each other to determine who moved to the Inter-Zonal Zone to compete against the winners of the Eastern Zone and Europe Zone.


1975 Davis Cup Americas Zone
South Africa were declared winners of the North & Central America Zone by walkover after Colombia withdrew ahead of the final, while in the South America Zone Chile defeated Brazil in the final. In the Americas Inter-Zonal Final, Chile defeated South Africa and progressed to the Inter-Zonal Zone.


1975 Davis Cup Americas Zone, North & Central America Zone, Main Draw, Draw
South Africa were declared the winners of the North & Central America Zone by default after both Mexico and Colombia withdrew from their matches.


1975 Davis Cup Eastern Zone
The Eastern Zone was one of the three regional zones of the 1975 Davis Cup.


1975 Davis Cup Eastern Zone
10 teams entered the Eastern Zone: 4 teams entered the competition in the Qualifying Rounds, with the winners of the 2 head-to-head ties progressing to the Preliminary Rounds, where they were joined by an additional 4 teams. From the 6 competing teams in the Preliminary Rounds, 3 head-to-head ties determined the winning teams who progressed to the main draw, joining the remaining 3 teams. Following a knockout competition, the winner of the main draw went on to compete in the Inter-Zonal Zone against the winners of the Americas Zone and Europe Zone.


1975 Davis Cup Eastern Zone
Australia defeated New Zealand in the final and progressed to the Inter-Zonal Zone.


1975 Davis Cup Europe Zone
The Europe Zone was one of the three regional zones of the 1975 Davis Cup.


1975 Davis Cup Europe Zone
32 teams entered the Europe Zone, competing across 2 sub-zones. 4 teams in each sub-zone entered the competition in the pre-qualifying rounds, competing head-to-head for 2 spots in the preliminary rounds. The 4 winners in the pre-qualifying rounds joined an additional 20 teams in the preliminary rounds, with 12 teams in each sub-zone competing for 4 places in the main draw, to join the 4 finalists from the 1974 Europe Zone.


1975 Davis Cup Europe Zone
The winners of each sub-zone's main draw went on to compete in the Inter-Zonal Zone against the winners of the Americas Zone and Eastern Zone.


1975 Davis Cup Europe Zone
Sweden defeated Spain in the Zone A final, and Czechoslovakia defeated France in the Zone B final, resulting in both Sweden and France progressing to the Inter-Zonal Zone.


1975 Daytona 500
The 1975 Daytona 500, the 17th running of the event on February 16, 1975, was a race in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series.


1975 Daytona 500, Race report
From the start, it appeared that David Pearson was on his way to his first Daytona 500 victory as he built a sizable lead on second place Benny Parsons late in the race. However, Richard Petty was eight laps behind the leaders on his way to finishing seventh, and Parsons hooked up in a draft and began reeling in Pearson who was slowed by lapped traffic. The key moment of the race occurred two laps from the end when contact with Cale Yarborough in traffic sent Pearson spinning on the backstretch. Parsons avoided the accident and went on to take the win.


1975 Daytona 500, Race report
One of the things that set up that incident late in the race that cost David Pearson the race was the fact that Cale Yarborough was running on 7 cylinders. On the final restart, Cale was actually placed in front of the leaders, on the end of the lead lap, but the power deficit he was at resulted in the leaders actually lapping him in less than 25 laps. When Pearson caught up to Yarborough and Richie Panch, Yarborough was trying to slip in behind Pearson and simply misjudged it. Of course, another was the role Richard Petty played.


1975 Daytona 500, Race report
Even in a two-car draft with Ramo Stott (who barely missed the massive lap 4 crash), Benny Parsons was losing about a half to three-quarters of a second per lap to Pearson, who was simply content to draft A.J. Foyt to the win, but Foyt dropped out with nine laps left while running third, not long after Petty got back onto the track after his final pit stop, and where he came out was a stroke of luck for Parsons and Stott, because he came out exactly where they were running.


1975 Daytona 500, Race report
As per the list below, 26 of the 40 drivers failed to finish the race for various reasons, including a huge crash on the fourth lap, which took out nine cars, nearly one-quarter of the field.


1975 Daytona 500, Race report
West Coast ace Hershel McGriff's third and final Daytona 500 ends with a blown motor on lap 13. Bruce Jacobi would debut in this race, finishing in 12th place after qualifying in 39th place.


1975 Daytona 500, Race report
Among those involved were famous country music singer Marty Robbins, who also crashed out of the 1973 Daytona 500.


1975 Daytona 500, Race report
At the time, it was the biggest crash in terms of the number of cars involved in race history. Donnie Allison started on the pole, but only led the first lap and was sidelined by mechanical problems, as was DiGard Racing teammate Johnny Rutherford, the reigning Indianapolis 500 champion. Another that failed to finish was Buddy Baker, who led 46 laps. As a result, a record-low 14 cars, including that of Pearson, were classified as running at the finish.


1975 Daytona 500, Race report
None of the 40 cars in this year's Daytona 500 had a single-digit car number.


1975 Daytona 500, Race report, Finishing order
Note: * denotes that the driver failed to finish the race.


1975 Deauville American Film Festival
The 1st Deauville American Film Festival took place at Deauville, France from September 3 to 7, 1975. It was created by French writer Lionel Chouchan and French journalist and television producer André Halimi, which they described as "(to) show films that only a few privileged - amazed or astonished – people had discovered, in New York or Los Angeles, to French audiences, without exclusion, barriers or bias". It occurs every year since its creation at the end of the summer. They received funding from French entrepreneur and businessman Lucien Barrière's group and mayor of Deauville at that time, Michel d'Ornano.


1975 Deauville American Film Festival
The festival was non-competitive in nature and remained so until 1995. It screened 12 feature films at three different sites, International Centre (1,500 seats), the Casino (700 vehicles) and the Cinéma Morny (two rooms of 271 and 99 seats). Initially the festival was attended by locals but with passing years its popularity increased and attracted international attention. The festival also highlighted the best of American cinematography.


1975 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team
The 1975 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team represented the University of Delaware in the 1975 NCAA Division II football season as an independent. They were led by Tubby Raymond, who was in his 10th season as head coach of the Fightin' Blue Hens. The team played its home games at Delaware Stadium in Newark, Delaware. They finished the season with a record of 8–3, but failed to qualify for the postseason.


1975 Delaware State Hornets football team
The 1975 Delaware State Hornets football team represented Delaware State College—now known as Delaware State University—as a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) in the 1975 NCAA Division II football season. Led by first-year head coach Ed Wyche, the Hornets compiled an overall record of 5–5 and a mark of 2–4 in conference play, placing fifth out of seven teams in the MEAC.


1975 Denver Broncos season
The 1975 Denver Broncos season was the team's 16th year in professional football and its sixth with the National Football League (NFL). Led by fourth-year head coach and general manager John Ralston, the Broncos were 6–8, second in the AFC West, but five games behind the Oakland Raiders, who clinched in late November.


1975 Denver Broncos season
Denver opened the season with two wins at home, against the Chiefs and Packers, but won only four of their last twelve games. In their sixteen years of existence, the Broncos had yet to reach the postseason.


1975 Denver WCT
The 1975 Denver WCT, also known as the 1975 United Bank Tennis Classic for sponsorship reasons, was a men's professional tennis tournament. It was held on indoor carpet courts in Denver, Colorado. It was the fourth  edition of the tournament and was held from 14 April through 20 April 1975. The tournament was part of the 1975 World Championship Tennis circuit, and was part of the Blue group circuit. Jimmy Connors made his WCT debut and won the singles title and the accompanying $12,000 first prize.


1975 Denver WCT, Finals, Doubles
Roy Emerson /  Rod Laver defeated  Bob Carmichael /  Allan Stone 6–2, 3–6, 7–5


1975 Detroit Lions season
The 1975 Detroit Lions season was the 46th season in franchise history. It was the first season for the Detroit Lions at the new Pontiac Metropolitan Stadium in Pontiac, a Detroit suburb, which was built specifically for the team. It was also their first ever season outside Detroit since the franchise's move and name change in 1934; its first three seasons were played in Portsmouth, Ohio as the Portsmouth Spartans. For the seventh consecutive season, the Lions finished the season in second place.


1975 Detroit Tigers season
The 1975 Detroit Tigers compiled a record of 57–102, the fifth worst season in Detroit Tigers history. They finished in last place in the American League East, 37½ games behind the Boston Red Sox. Their team batting average of .249 and team ERA of 4.27 were the second worst in the American League. They were outscored by their opponents 786 to 570.


1975 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1975 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1975 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1975 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1975 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L= Losses; SV = Saves; GF = Games finished; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1975 Detroit Tigers season, Awards and honors, Players ranking among top 100 all time at position
The following members of the 1975 Detroit Tigers are among the Top 100 of all time at their position, as ranked by The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract in 2001:


1975 Devastation Glacier landslide
The 1975 Devastation Glacier landslide was a massive rock avalanche that originated from Devastation Glacier on the southern flank of the Mount Meager massif on July 22, 1975. It had a volume of 13,000,000 m3 (460,000,000 cu ft) and buried and killed a group of four geologists at the confluence of Devastation Creek and Meager Creek.


1975 Dominican general election
General elections were held in Dominica on 24 March 1975. The result was a victory for the Dominica Labour Party, which won 16 of the 21 seats. Voter turnout was 79.0%.


1975 Duke Blue Devils football team
The 1975 Duke Blue Devils football team represented Duke University during the 1975 NCAA Division I football season.


1975 Dutch Grand Prix
The 1975 Dutch Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Circuit Zandvoort on 22 June 1975. It was race 8 of 14 in both the 1975 World Championship of Drivers and the 1975 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. It was the 24th Dutch Grand Prix. It was held over 75 laps of the four kilometre circuit for a race distance of 318 kilometres.


1975 Dutch Grand Prix
The race is memorable for one of the greatest underdog victories in Formula One. British driver and future world champion James Hunt won his first Formula One Grand Prix, giving small privateer operation Hesketh Racing the highlight of its six-year history with its first and only Grand Prix win. Hunt drove his Hesketh 308 to a one-second win over the Ferrari 312T of the World Championship points leader, Austrian driver Niki Lauda. Third was taken by Lauda's Ferrari team mate, Swiss driver Clay Regazzoni.


1975 Dutch Grand Prix, Race summary
Niki Lauda dominated practice, with teammate Clay Regazzoni joining him on the front row. Jean-Pierre Jarier had a crash and the Maki team's weekend ended abruptly in a cloud of smoke from engine problems. James Hunt had a storming practice to take third place on the grid. On Saturday afternoon, weather conditions meant practice times would not improve, so Hunt was sent out to get some extra testing – during which something in the metering unit broke. This was fortunate as the Dutch Grand Prix did not have Sunday morning practice, so had it not been for those extra laps, the mechanical problems would have occurred during the race itself.


1975 Dutch Grand Prix, Race summary
The race was delayed by rainstorms as the teams persuaded the organizers to let them run on wet tyres. Lauda led from Jody Scheckter whilst Vittorio Brambilla and Patrick Depailler collided. Jochen Mass was having metering unit troubles and Jacky Ickx exploded his engine. Meanwhile, Hunt had changed onto dry tyres and was gaining time rapidly on the drying surface to take the lead from Jarier and Lauda by lap 15. The Austrian championship leader was finding overtaking a very difficult prospect indeed. Emerson Fittipaldi dropped out with engine problems whilst John Watson broke a wing support and Carlos Reutemann got past Tom Pryce who was suffering from brake problems.


1975 Dutch Grand Prix, Race summary
On lap 43, Jarier spun when a tyre burst. Lauda now pursued Hunt desperately for over 20 laps, putting him under immense pressure. Hunt had cracked under similar pressure in Buenos Aires, but this time he resisted. The Ferrari managed to gain on the slow corners, but Hunt pulled ahead on the fast corners and down the straight. The TV directors were so confused that the captions showed three laps left to go when a massive roar from the grandstands signalled it was all over. Hunt became the first Englishman since Peter Gethin to win a Grand Prix.


1975 Dutch Grand Prix, Race summary
Lauda's second place reinforced his championship lead, which expanded to 13 points over Brabham driver Carlos Reutemann.


1975 Dutch Open (tennis)
The 1975 Dutch Open was a men's tennis tournament staged at 't Melkhuisje in Hilversum, Netherlands which was part of the Group B tier of the 1975 Grand Prix. The tournament was played on outdoor clay courts and was held from 20 July to 27 July 1975. It was the 19th edition of the tournament, and first-seeded Guillermo Vilas won his second consecutive singles title at the event.


1975 Dutch Open (tennis), Finals, Doubles
Wojciech Fibak /  Guillermo Vilas defeated  Željko Franulović /  John Lloyd 6–4, 6–3


1975 Dutch TT
The 1975 Dutch TT was the seventh round of the 1975 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 26–28 June 1975 at the Circuit van Drenthe located in Assen, Netherlands.


1975 Dutch train hostage crisis
On 2 December 1975, seven South Moluccans seized a train with about 50 passengers on board in open countryside near the village of Wijster, halfway between Hoogeveen and Beilen in the northern part of the Netherlands. The hijacking lasted for 12 days and three hostages were killed.


1975 Dutch train hostage crisis
At the same time, seven other South-Moluccans took hostages in the Indonesian Consulate in Amsterdam.


1975 Dutch train hostage crisis
The attackers came from Bovensmilde, a village where a few years later another group of South Moluccans seized a primary school. The attackers hid their weapons disguised as presents for the Sinterklaas holiday on 5 December.


1975 Dutch train hostage crisis, Context
The South-Moluccans came to the Netherlands for a temporary stay, promised by the Dutch government that they would get their own independent state, Republik Maluku Selatan (RMS). For about 25 years they lived in temporary camps, often in poor conditions. After these years the younger generation felt betrayed by the Dutch government for not giving them their independent state and they started radical actions to draw attention to their case.


1975 Dutch train hostage crisis, Developments
Around 07:10 the emergency cord was pulled on the local train Groningen-Zwolle. The train driver, Hans Braam,  was immediately murdered. When on the third day the Dutch government had not given the hijackers what they wanted, 22-year-old national serviceman Leo Bulter was murdered and both bodies were thrown out of the train on the rails. That night 14 hostages managed to escape from the train.


1975 Dutch train hostage crisis, Developments
The next day young economist Bert Bierling was brought to the doors and shot dead in full view of the police and the military as well as the press. The dead bodies thrown from the train were only allowed to be taken away a couple of days later.


1975 Dutch train hostage crisis, Developments
On 14 December the hijackers surrendered. Among reasons for surrender were reports about retaliation on the Moluccan islands and the sub-zero temperatures in and around the train.


1975 Dutch train hostage crisis, Aftermath
The hijackers were convicted to sentences of 14 years. The most fanatical member of the hijackers, Eli Hahury, committed suicide in prison in 1978.


1975 Dutch train hostage crisis, In popular culture
In 2008, Wijster, a Dutch-language television film was made about this hostage crisis, directed by Paula van der Oest.


1975 Dwars door België
The 1975 Dwars door België was the 30th edition of the Dwars door Vlaanderen cycle race and was held on 23 March 1975. The race started and finished in Waregem. The race was won by Cees Priem.


1975 Düsseldorf Grand Prix
The 1975 Düsseldorf Grand Prix, also known by its sponsored name Agfa Colour Cup, was a men's Grand Prix tennis circuit tournament held in Düsseldorf, West Germany and played on outdoor clay courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament and was held from 26 May though 1 June 1975. Second-seeded Jaime Fillol won the singles title.


1975 Düsseldorf Grand Prix, Finals, Doubles
François Jauffret /  Jan Kodeš defeated  Harald Elschenbroich /  Hans Kary 6–2, 6–3


1975 E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
The 1975 E3 Harelbeke was the 18th edition of the E3 Harelbeke cycle race and was held on 22 March 1975. The race started and finished in Harelbeke. The race was won by Frans Verbeeck of the Maes Pils team.


1975 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1975 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 14th tournament in league history. It was played between March 4 and March 8, 1975. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the 'final four' games were played at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. By reaching the championship game both, Boston University and Harvard received invitations to participate in the 1975 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


1975 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The tournament featured three rounds of play, all of which were single-elimination. The top eight teams, based on winning percentage, qualified to participate in the tournament. In the quarterfinals the first seed and eighth seed, the second seed and seventh seed, the third seed and sixth seed and the fourth seed and fifth seed played against one another. In the semifinals, the highest seed plays the lowest remaining seed while the two remaining teams play with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers advancing to the third place game.


1975 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Conference Standings
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; Pct. = Winning Percentage; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against


1975 East Carolina Pirates football team
The 1975 East Carolina Pirates football team was an American football team that represented East Carolina University as a member of the Southern Conference during the 1975 NCAA Division I football season. In their second season under head coach Pat Dye, the team compiled a 8–3 record.


1975 Eastbourne Championships
The 1975 Eastbourne Championships was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at Devonshire Park in Eastbourne in the United Kingdom. The event was part of the Women's International Grand Prix circuit of the 1975 WTA Tour. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from 16 June through 21 June 1975. Fifth-seeded Virginia Wade won the singles title and earned £1,750 ($4,025) first-prize money.


1975 Eastbourne Championships, Finals, Doubles
Julie Anthony /  Olga Morozova defeated  Evonne Goolagong /  Peggy Michel 6–2, 6–4


1975 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team
The 1975 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team represented Eastern Illinois University during the 1975 NCAA Division II football season. The Panthers played their home games at O'Brien Stadium in Charleston, Illinois.


1975 Eastern Michigan Hurons football team
The 1975 Eastern Michigan Hurons football team represented Eastern Michigan University as an independent during the 1975 NCAA Division II football season. In their second and final season under head coach George Mans, the Hurons compiled a 4–6 record and outscored their opponents, 198 to 171. The team's statistical leaders included Jerry Mucha with 526 passing yards and Clarence Chapman with 634 rushing yards and 194 receiving yards.


1975 Eastern Michigan Hurons football team
In May 1976, coach Mans announced his resignation as the school's head football coach in what the Associated Press described as a "surprise move." According to one newspaper report, Mans resigned "when it became apparent that EMU would place a greater emphasis on basketball, hiring former Detroit Pistons coach Ray Scott." Mans compiled an 8–12–1 record in two seasons as the head football coach at Eastern Michigan.


1975 Eastern Suburbs Roosters season
The 1975 Eastern Suburbs season was the 68th in the club's history. They competed in the NSWRFL's 1975 Premiership, winning all but 3 of their 25 matches and finishing premiers, as well as the 1975 Amco Cup, which they also won.


1975 Eastern Suburbs Roosters season
Easts' 1975 season has since been described as one of the most dominant in Australian rugby league history.


1975 Edmonton Eskimos season
The 1975 Edmonton Eskimos finished in 1st place in the Western Conference with a 12–4 record and won the 63rd Grey Cup.


1975 Egypt Cup Final
1975 Egypt Cup Final, was the final match of the 1974–75 Egypt Cup, was between Zamalek and Ghazl El Mahalla, Zamalek won the match 1–0.


1975 Emilia-Romagna regional election
The Emilia-Romagna regional election of 1975 took place on 15 June 1975.


1975 Emilia-Romagna regional election
The Italian Communist Party was by far the largest party, with almost two times the votes of Christian Democracy. After the election Guido Fanti, the incumbent Communist President of the Region, formed a new government with the support of the Italian Socialist Party. In 1976 Fanti was replaced by Sergio Cavina, to whom Lanfranco Turci succeeded in 1978.


1975 Emperor's Cup, Overview
It was contested by 26 teams, and Hitachi won the championship.


1975 Emperor's Cup Final
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1975 Emperor's Cup Final
1975 Emperor's Cup Final was the 55th final of the Emperor's Cup competition. The final was played at National Stadium in Tokyo on January 1, 1976. Hitachi won the championship.


1975 Emperor's Cup Final, Overview
Hitachi won their 2nd title, by defeating Fujita Industries 2–0. Hitachi was featured a squad consisting of Tatsuhiko Seta, Yoshitada Yamaguchi, Masaki Yokotani, Nobuo Kawakami, Kazuhisa Kono, Minoru Kobata, Akira Matsunaga and Shusaku Hirasawa.


1975 England rugby union tour of Australia
The 1975 England rugby union tour of Australia was a series of eight matches played by the England national rugby union team in Australia in May and June 1975. England won only four of the eight matches and lost both internationals to Australia. In addition to the two test defeats they also lost to the Sydney and New South Wales Country representative teams.


1975 England rugby union tour of Australia
The England selectors boldly, and in the circumstances quite rightly, chose an experimental squad for this, England's first tour of Australia. That the experiment was not altogether successful, nor the tour the team building exercise it had been intended to be, was largely due to the extraordinary number of injuries suffered by the England squad, frequently to key players.


1975 English Greyhound Derby
The 1975 Spillers Greyhound Derby took place during June with the final being held on 28 June 1975 at White City Stadium. The winner was Tartan Khan and the winning owner Derek Law received £15,000. The competition was sponsored by the Spillers.


1975 English Greyhound Derby, Competition report
Ante-post favourites for the 1975 running of the Derby included Pineapple Grand and Myrtown. Ireland was well represented by Irish Greyhound Derby champion Lively Band and Shamrock Point.


1975 English Greyhound Derby, Competition report
A new metric distance of 500 metres saw new best times recorded by first round winners Shamrock Point (29.46) and Myrtown (29.43). The second round produced a new mark when Sallys Cobbler pipped Foreign Exchange and Shamrock Point in a time of 29.31. Outsider Slippery Slave then went five spots better in a later second round heat when defeating Lively Band. The only market leader to be eliminated was 'That Silver' who had been second in ante-post lists.


1975 English Greyhound Derby, Competition report
Myrtown won the first semi-final in yet another best time of 29.23 from Pineapple Grand and Tartan Khan. The second semi-final ended dramatically when around the last bend Lively Band swerved towards Shamrock Point and forced him near the hare rail. Sallys Cobbler and Foreign Exchange slipped through to take the first two places with Lively Band finishing third before being disqualified for fighting+. The rules (changed since the 1968 incident) meant that Lively Band would not be replaced by Shamrock Point in the final. Instead only a five-runner race would ensue.


1975 English Greyhound Derby, Competition report
In the final Sallys Cobbler led Tartan Khan to the first bend before moving off, 25-1 shot Tartan Khan then challenged until taking a decisive third bend lead. Tartan Khans owner Derek Law was a permit trainer Law and had placed his greyhound with trainer Gwen Lynds for the competition because he was not allowed to train for the Derby under permit rules.


1975 English National Badminton Championships
The 1975 English National Badminton Championships were held in Nottingham, from 13-14 December, 1974.


1975 English cricket season
The 1975 English cricket season was the 76th in which the County Championship had been an official competition. The inaugural Cricket World Cup was won by West Indies, who defeated Australia in an exciting final. Australia toured England to compete for the Ashes and won the series 1-0. Leicestershire won their first County Championship title.


1975 English cricket season, Test series
England played a four-Test Ashes series against Australia but lost the first at Edgbaston following Mike Denness's surprising decision to put Australia in. The other three were drawn, the one at Headingley being abandoned in controversial circumstances when the pitch was destroyed overnight by political protestors. Australia therefore retained the Ashes.


1975 Estonian SSR Football Championship
The 1975 Estonian SSR Football Championship was won by Narva Baltika.


1975 Estonian Supreme Soviet election
Elections to the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR were held on 15 June 1975. The Bloc of Communists and Non-Party Candidates was the only party able to contest the elections, and won all 200 seats.


1975 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup
The 1975 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup was the second official edition of Europe's premier field hockey club competition. It took place in Frankfurt, where it was won once again by hosts SC 1880 Frankfurt - the last of five titles in a row.


1975 European Amateur Boxing Championships
The 1975 European Amateur Boxing Championships  were held in Spodek, Katowice, Poland from 1 to 8 June. The 21st edition of the bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA. There were 193 fighters from 23 countries participating.


1975 European Amateur Team Championship
The 1975 European Amateur Team Championship took place 28 June – 1 July at Killarney Golf & Fishing Club on the shore of Lough Leane, 3 kilometres  west of Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland. It was the ninth men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.


1975 European Amateur Team Championship
The tournament was played at the club's 18-hole Mahony's Point Course, opened in 1939. The course was set up with par 35 over the first nine holes and par 38 on the second nine, finishing with a par 3 hole.


1975 European Amateur Team Championship
All participating teams played one qualification round of stroke-play with six players, counted the five best scores for each team.


1975 European Amateur Team Championship
The eight best teams formed flight A, in knock-out match-play over the next three days. The teams were seeded based on their positions after the stroke play. The first placed team were drawn to play the quarter final against the eight placed team, the second against the seventh, the third against the sixth and the fourth against the fifth. In each match between two nation teams, two 18-hole foursome games and five 18-hole single games were played. Teams were allowed to use six players during the team matches, selecting four of them in the morning foursome matches and five players in to the afternoon single matches. Games all square at the 18th hole were declared halved, if the team match was already decided.


1975 European Amateur Team Championship
The six teams placed 9–14 in the qualification stroke-play formed Flight B and the four teams placed 15–18 formed Flight C, to play similar knock-out play to decide their final positions.


1975 European Amateur Team Championship
The course was dry and the whether warm and sunny during the whole tournament.


1975 European Amateur Team Championship
Scotland won the gold medal, earning their first title, beating Italy in the final 4.5–2.5. The Scottish team won the qualifying competition for the fourth consecutive occasion and had previously in the history of the championship finished second three times, losing the last two finals to England.


1975 European Amateur Team Championship
Team Sweden, earned the bronze on third place, just as at the previous event two years earlier, after beating  Switzerland 4–3 in the bronze match.


1975 European Amateur Team Championship
Defending champions England did not make it to the quarter-finals, finishing tied 8th in the qualifying competition and losing the tie-breaker to France with a one stroke higher non-counting sixth score. Team Wales' low scorer Jeff Toye holed from eight feet on both of his last two greens, giving his team a final one-stroke advantage over England and France, but the sixth score for Wales would not have beaten the sixth scores of neither England or France in the event of a tie.


1975 European Amateur Team Championship
Individual leader in the opening 18-hole stroke-play qualifying competition was Ian Hutcheon, Scotland, with a score of 3-under-par 70. There was no official award for the lowest individual score.


1975 European Amateur Team Championship, Teams
18 nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of six players.


1975 European Amateur Team Championship, Results
* Note: In the event of a tie the order was determined by the better non-counting score.


1975 European Amateur Team Championship, Results
Note: There was no official award for the lowest individual score.


1975 European Amateur Team Championship, Results
* Note: Game declared halved, since team match already decided.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships
The 6th European Athletics Indoor Championships were held in 1975 in Katowice, Poland.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships
The track used for these championships was 160 metres long. A two-lap relay race was organised over an unusual distance of 320 metres for each leg. This was the last edition to feature relay races until 2000.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 1500 metres
The men's 1500 metres event  at the 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 8 and 9 March in Katowice.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 1500 metres, Results, Heats
Held on 8 March. First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres
The men's 3000 metres event at the 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 9 March in Katowice.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 4 × 320 metres relay
The men's 4 × 320 metres relay event at the 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 8 March in Katowice. The athletes ran two laps for each leg, like in modern indoor relay races, but because the track was only 160 metres long, it resulted in an unusual distance of 320 metres for each runner.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 400 metres
The men's 400 metres event  at the 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 8 and 9 March in Katowice.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 400 metres, Results, Heats
Held on 8 March. First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 400 metres, Results, Semifinals
Held on 8 March. First 2 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 400 metres, Results, Semifinals
Note: Only two athletes started in semifinal 2 because the other two were not informed about it. A special third heat was run on 9 March to let those compete for one extra spot in the final.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres
The men's 60 metres event  at the 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 8 March in Katowice.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres, Results, Heats
First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres, Results, Semifinals
First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres hurdles
The men's 60 metres hurdles event  at the 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 9 March in Katowice.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres hurdles, Results, Heats
First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals
First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 800 metres
The men's 800 metres event  at the 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 8 and 9 March in Katowice.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 800 metres, Results, Heats
Held on 8 March. First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's high jump
The men's high jump event at the 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 8 March in Katowice.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's long jump
The men's long jump event at the 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 8 March in Katowice.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's pole vault
The men's pole vault event at the 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 9 March in Katowice.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's shot put
The men's shot put event at the 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 9 March in Katowice.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's triple jump
The men's triple jump event at the 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 8 March in Katowice.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 1500 metres
The women's 1500 metres event  at the 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 8 and 9 March in Katowice.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 1500 metres, Results, Heats
Held on 8 March. First 3 from each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 4 × 320 metres relay
The men's 4 × 320 metres relay event at the 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 9 March in Katowice. The athletes ran two laps for each leg, like in modern indoor relay races, but because the track was only 160 metres long, it resulted in an unusual distance of 320 metres for each runner.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 400 metres
The women's 400 metres event  at the 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 8 and 9 March in Katowice.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 400 metres, Results, Heats
Held on 8 March. The winner of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres
The women's 60 metres event  at the 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 9 March in Katowice.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres, Results, Heats
First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres, Results, Semifinals
First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres hurdles
The women's 60 metres hurdles event  at the 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 8 March in Katowice.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres hurdles, Results, Heats
First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 800 metres
The women's 800 metres event  at the 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 8 and 9 March in Katowice.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 800 metres, Results, Heats
Held on 8 March. First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's high jump
The women's high jump event at the 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 9 March in Katowice.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's long jump
The women's long jump event at the 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 8 March in Katowice.


1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's shot put
The women's shot put event at the 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 8 March in Katowice.


1975 European Athletics Junior Championships
The 1975 European Athletics Junior Championships was the third edition of the biennial athletics competition for European athletes aged under twenty. It was held in Athens, Greece.


1975 European Baseball Championship
The 1975 European Baseball Championship was held in Spain and was won by Italy. The Netherlands finished as runner-up.


1975 European Cup (athletics)
The 1975 European Cup was the 5th edition of the European Cup of athletics.


1975 European Cup Final
The 1975 European Cup Final was a football match between Bayern Munich of West Germany and Leeds United of Yorkshire, England, played on 28 May 1975 at the Parc des Princes in Paris. It was the final match of the 1974–75 season of Europe's premier cup competition, the European Cup. Bayern Munich were appearing in their second final; they had won the previous season's competition, beating Spanish team Atlético Madrid 4–0 in a replay after the first match finished 1–1. Leeds were appearing in their first final.


1975 European Cup Final
As defending champions of the European Cup, Bayern Munich received a bye in the first round, while Leeds progressed through four rounds to reach the final. Bayern's matches were generally close affairs, they beat Soviet team Ararat Yerevan 2–1 on aggregate in the quarter-finals and won their semi-final tie against French team Saint-Étienne 2–0 on aggregate. Leeds matches ranged from close affairs to comfortable victories. They beat Hungarian team Újpest 5–1 on aggregate in the second round, while they beat Barcelona of Spain 3–2 on aggregate in the semi-final.


1975 European Cup Final
Bayern Munich went into the match as favourites. Watched by a crowd of 48,374, Leeds had the best of the opening exchanges of the match and had two appeals for a penalty kick turned down by the referee Michel Kitabdjian. Bayern suffered two injuries in the first half, to defender Björn Andersson and striker Uli Hoeneß, following strong tackles by Leeds players. A Peter Lorimer goal for Leeds in the 62nd minute was disallowed, when Billy Bremner was adjudged to be offside. Franz Roth scored in the 71st minute for Bayern and Gerd Müller extended the lead ten minutes later, to secure a 2–0 victory for Bayern.


1975 European Cup Final
It was Bayern's second consecutive victory in the competition, although they failed to retain their Bundesliga title, finishing in 10th place. Riots by the Leeds fans during the match led to UEFA banning the club from European competition for four years, although this was reduced to two years on appeal.


1975 European Cup Final, Background
Bayern Munich were appearing in what would be their second of three consecutive European Cup finals, all of which they would win. The Bavarian side contained many great players such as Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Müller and Uli Hoeneß, who had featured heavily in West Germany's 1974 World Cup victory the previous season, and as such were heavy favourites. In the 1974–75 Bundesliga season, Bayern had a serious slump after winning the previous three German championships. This was said to be caused by motivational deficits, especially as six of the Bayern players also won the 1972 European championship and the 1974 World Cup. To boot, at the start of the season Paul Breitner moved to Real Madrid.


1975 European Cup Final, Background
Bayern became the domestically worst-performing winner of the European Champions Cup up to then, finishing only 10th in the Bundesliga, with even points and a negative goal difference. Only Aston Villa would do domestically worse in the year of their European title win. In 1982, when they defeated Bayern 1–0 in the final, the team from Birmingham finished 11th in the First Division, also with even points, but a positive goal difference. For Bayern coach Dettmar Cramer, who took over from Udo Lattek early in the season, this was the first of three international club titles.


1975 European Cup Final, Background
He remained without domestic silverware. Franz Roth scored for the second time in a European final, after the Cup Winners' Cup final in 1967, putting Bayern ahead 1–0 in this final, and drew level with Sandro Mazzola from Italy's Inter Milan, who achieved this in the champions' finals 1964 and 1967.


1975 European Cup Final, Background
For Leeds United – only the second English club to reach the final after Manchester United in 1968, and the second team in history to reach the finals of all three European cup competitions after FC Barcelona – the game was the climax of the 'glory years' of the team built by former manager Don Revie. Among the stars of the team were the Scottish internationals Billy Bremner and Peter Lorimer. This would be the club's last appearance in a major cup final until they reached the 1996 Football League Cup Final.


1975 European Cup Final, Background
Leeds, like Bayern Munich, also had a rather poor season domestically; the experienced, but now aging, side from Yorkshire had finished only 9th in the 1974–75 Football League. Thus, only the winner of the final between Bayern and Leeds would be entitled to participate in the European Cup competition the following season.


1975 European Cup Final, Match, Summary
The match would become controversial for a series of several hotly contested refereeing decisions.


1975 European Cup Final, Match, Summary
Leeds United dominated most of the match and had a number of near misses. After three minutes Bayern's Swedish international defender Björn Andersson had to be replaced by the inexperienced Sepp Weiß after a hard tackle from Terry Yorath, described by Uli Hoeneß as the "most brutal foul I think I have ever seen". He only played a handful more matches for Bayern. In the 23rd minute, Bayern captain Franz Beckenbauer was in his own penalty box on the ground and rested on his left arm which subsequently came into contact with the ball.


1975 European Cup Final, Match, Summary
The Leeds players appealed for a penalty, which the French referee Michel Kitabdjian denied. More controversial, however, was when the referee denied Leeds a penalty in the 34th minute after Beckenbauer tripped Allan Clarke, who was attacking the Bayern goal from the left wing and seemed ready to round Bayern goalkeeper Sepp Maier.


1975 European Cup Final, Match, Summary
The first half also saw German international Uli Hoeneß, later president of Bayern, suffer a serious knee injury in the 37th minute after turning awkwardly on the pitch, which would ultimately bring his career to a premature end in 1979 at the age of 27, when he started his career in club management. He was replaced by one-time German international Klaus Wunder.


1975 European Cup Final, Match, Summary
In the 62nd minute, Billy Bremner was denied from five metres by a reflex of Sepp Maier in the Bayern goal. Less than a minute later a goal by Peter Lorimer was disallowed, due to Bremner being in a tight passive offside position in front of the goal at the six-yard box. Referee Michel Kitabdjian initially pointed to the centre circle (indicating a goal) and then Beckenbauer convinced him to consult with the linesman who had run back to the halfway line and had not raised his flag. Thereupon, the referee indicated offside against Bremner. This decision caused riots to break out as 'people realised that they were really being cheated'.


1975 European Cup Final, Match, Summary
After a match interruption Roth finished off a counter-attack in the 71st minute with the 1–0 for Bayern after a short pass from Conny Torstensson. This completely derailed Leeds and 10 minutes later another counter led to a second goal for Bayern through Gerd Müller after a cross from the right side by Jupp Kapellmann. This put the match completely beyond the reach of Leeds.


1975 European Cup Final, Match, Summary
The violence saw Leeds banned from Europe for four years, although this was reduced to two years on appeal. Ultimately, this ban was never applied due to a decline in the performance of the club in the late 1970s preventing European qualification until 1979–80.


1975 European Cup Final, Match, Summary
However, due to the violence, which included 'skirmishes in the city and damage to private property' according to journalist Geoffrey Green, as well as damage to a £50,000 camera and a lost eye and a broken arm to German media workers, UEFA were apparently considering abandonment of the competition altogether.


1975 European Cup Final, Legacy
The controversy surrounding the final is still manifested in the chant "We are the Champions, Champions of Europe" – amid a feeling that their club was cheated of victory in this match – by fans of Leeds United.


1975 European Cup Final, Legacy
The 'luckier' Bayern, on the other hand, would remain one of Europe's top clubs and would go on to victory in the 1976 final, completing a hat-trick of wins – but would ultimately have to wait until 2001 for their fourth title. Interestingly, Leeds could have been the other side for that final yet were eliminated in the semi-finals by eventual runners-up Valencia CF.


1975 European Cup Final, Legacy
The appearance of an English club in the final for only the second time would ultimately precede a period of dominance by Football League clubs Liverpool (1977, 1978, 1981 and 1984), Nottingham Forest (1979 and 1980) and Aston Villa (1982) of European football. However, the violence and the lengthy ban handed down to Leeds would foreshadow the tragic events in the European Cup final 10 years later.


1975 European Cup Winners' Cup Final
The 1975 European Cup Winners' Cup Final was a football match contested between Dynamo Kyiv of the Soviet Union and Ferencváros of Hungary. It was the final match of the 1974–75 European Cup Winners' Cup and the 15th European Cup Winners' Cup final. The final was held at St. Jakob Stadium in Basel, Switzerland. Dynamo won the match 3–0 thanks to goals by Vladimir Onishchenko (2) and Oleg Blokhin.


1975 European Curling Championships
The 1975 European Curling Championships were held at the Palais des Sports in Megève, France from the 11th to the 14th of December.


1975 European Figure Skating Championships
The 1975 European Figure Skating Championships was a senior-level international competition held in Copenhagen, Denmark from January 28 to February 2. Elite senior-level figure skaters from European ISU member nations competed for the title of European Champion in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


1975 European Formula Two Championship
The 1975 European Formula Two season was contested over 14 rounds. Automobiles Martini driver Jacques Laffite clinched the championship title.


1975 European Formula Two Championship, Calendar
Race 2 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 14 were held in two heats, with results shown in aggregate.


1975 European Formula Two Championship, Calendar
Race 14 was won by a graded driver, all FIA graded drivers are shown in Italics


1975 European Formula Two Championship, Final point standings, Driver
For every race points were awarded: 9 points to the winner, 6 for runner-up, 4 for third place, 3 for fourth place, 2 for fifth place and 1 for sixth place. No additional points were awarded. The best 7 results count. No driver had a point deduction.


1975 European Formula Two Championship, Final point standings, Driver
Only drivers which were not FIA graded were able to score points.


1975 European Judo Championships
The 1975 European Judo Championships were the 24th edition of the European Judo Championships, and were held in Lyon, France on 11 May 1975. Championships were subdivided into six individual competitions, and a separate team competition.


1975 European Junior Badminton Championships
The 1975 European Junior Badminton Championships was the fourth edition of the European Junior Badminton Championships. It was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in the month of April. Danish players won three titles, the Girls' singles, Girls' doubles and mixed team championships while England won Mixed doubles, and Sweden won Boys' singles and Boys' doubles disciplines.


1975 European Karate Championships
The 1975 European Karate Championships, the 10th edition, was held  in Ostend, Belgium from May 5 to 7, 1975.


1975 European Rugby League Championship
The revived 1975 European Rugby League Championship used traditional structures that saw a return to the one game format. It was also known as the International Triangular Tournament, as it involved only three nations, England, France and Wales. This was the seventeenth competition and was won for the eighth time by England.


1975 European Super Cup
The 1975 European Super Cup was played on 9 September and 6 October 1975, between Bayern Munich of West Germany and Dynamo Kyiv of USSR. Dynamo won 3–0 on aggregate.


1975 European Tour
The 1975 European Tour was a series of golf tournaments that comprised the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) Tournament Players’ Section circuit. It is officially recognised as the fourth season of the PGA European Tour.


1975 European Tour
Historically, the PGA's Order of Merit only included tournaments in Great Britain and Ireland, but in 1970 events in continental Europe were included for the first time. The circuit and organisation evolved further over the following years, adopting the name PGA European Golf Tour in 1979.


1975 European Tour
The Order of Merit was won by South Africa's Dale Hayes.


1975 European Tour, Schedule
The table below shows the 1975 European Tour schedule which was made up of 19 tournaments counting for the Order of Merit, and some non-counting tournaments that later became known as "Approved Special Events". The schedule included the major national opens around Europe, with the other tournaments mostly held in England and Scotland.


1975 European Tour, Schedule
There were several changes from the previous season, with the addition of the Carroll's Irish Open, which replaced the Carroll's International, and the Kerrygold International Classic; and the loss of the Penfold Tournament, the W.D. & H.O. Wills Tournament and the El Paraiso Open. Following the withdrawal of sponsors, Lord Derby's Young Professionals' Tournament and the Coca-Cola Young Professionals' Championship were also lost from the schedule, the PGA ultimately decided to sponsor an under-25's event themselves.


1975 European Tour, Order of Merit
The PGA European Tour's money list was known as the "Order of Merit". It was based on a points system, which meant that some players could finish lower than others despite accumulating more prize money.


1975 European Weightlifting Championships
The 1975 European Weightlifting Championships were held at the Luzhniki Sports Palace in Moscow, Soviet Union from September 15 to September 23, 1975. This was the 54th edition of the event. There were 123 men in action from 22 nations. This tournament was a part of 1975 World Weightlifting Championships.


1975 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The 1975 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships took place in Skien, Norway. It was the 10th edition of the competition, which started in 1957. This was Nadia Comăneci's international breakthrough.


1975 FA Charity Shield
The 1975 FA Charity Shield was the 53rd FA Charity Shield, an annual football match played between the winners of the previous season's First Division and FA Cup competitions. The match was played on 9 August 1975 at Wembley Stadium and contested by Derby County, who had won the 1974–75 First Division, and West Ham United, who had won the 1974–75 FA Cup. Derby County won the match by 2–0.


1975 FA Charity Shield, Match details, Summary
Kevin Hector opened the scoring for Derby in the 20th minute when he scored with a low right footed shot from the right of the penalty area. Roy McFarland got the second goal for Derby from two yards out after a corner from the left was headed back into the six yard box by Francis Lee.


1975 FA Cup Final
The 1975 FA Cup Final was the 94th final of the FA Cup. It took place on 3 May 1975 at Wembley Stadium and was contested by London clubs West Ham United and Fulham. The Fulham team contained two former England captains in former West Ham captain Bobby Moore, making his last appearance at Wembley, and Alan Mullery.


1975 FA Cup Final
West Ham won 2–0, with both goals scored by Alan Taylor. The first came in the 60th minute when Fulham goalkeeper Peter Mellor parried Billy Jennings' shot into Taylor's path; the second came four minutes later when Taylor capitalised after Mellor failed to hold on to Graham Paddon's shot.


1975 FA Cup Final
The 1975 West Ham team remains the last all-English team to win the FA Cup. The match remains the only occasion that Fulham have appeared in an FA Cup final; it was the club's last major final for 35 years, until the 2010 UEFA Europa League Final.


1975 FAMAS Awards
The 22nd Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards Night was held in 1975. This ceremony gave recognition to the movies that was made for the year 1974.


1975 FAMAS Awards
The year 1974, was a banner year for the Philippine movie industry, producing quality movies like Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang, Tatlo, Dalawa, Isa; Ang Pinakamagandang Hayop sa Balat ng Lupa, Alala Mo, Daigdig; Fe, Esperanza, Caridad, John en Marsha; and Patayin Mo Sa Sindak Si Barbara.


1975 FAMAS Awards
During the awarding ceremony of FAMAS 1975, Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang became the second Filipino movie to win 4 major awards including the most coveted FAMAS Award for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress but it failed win the best screenplay.


1975 FESPIC Games
The 1st FESPIC Games was a multi-sport event for Far East and South Pacific athletes with a disability held in Beppu, Japan. It opened on June 1 and closed on June 3, 1975.


1975 FIA European Formula 3 Cup
The 1975 FIA European Formula 3 Cup was the first edition of the FIA European Formula 3 Championship. The championship consisted of six rounds across the continent. The season was won by Australian Larry Perkins, with Conny Andersson second and Renzo Zorzi in third.


1975 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship
The 1975 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (known at that time as 1975 European Championship for Cadets) was the third edition of the FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship. The cities of Athens and Thessaloniki, in Greece, hosted the tournament. The Soviet Union won their second title in a row and became the most winning country in the tournament.


1975 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, Preliminary round
The twenty teams were allocated in four groups (two groups of four teams each and two groups of six teams each).


1975 FIBA Intercontinental Cup
The 1975 FIBA Intercontinental Cup William Jones was the 9th edition of the FIBA Intercontinental Cup for men's basketball clubs. It took place at Varese and Cantù, Italy.


1975 FIBA Oceania Championship
The FIBA Oceania Championship for Men 1975 was the qualifying tournament of FIBA Oceania for the 1976 Summer Olympics. The tournament, a best-of-three series between  Australia and  New Zealand, was held in Melbourne, Hobart and Launceston. Australia won the series 3-0 to win its second consecutive Oceania Championship.


1975 FIBA World Championship for Women
The 1975 FIBA World Championship for Women (Spanish: 1975 Campeonato Mundial FIBA Femenino) was hosted in Colombia. The Soviet Union won the tournament, defeating Japan 106-75 in the final.


1975 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup
The 1975 Artistic Gymnastics World Cup was held in London, England in 1975.


1975 FIM Motocross World Championship
The 1975 FIM Motocross World Championship was the 19th F.I.M. Motocross Racing World Championship season.


1975 FIM Motocross World Championship, Summary
In a rematch of the previous season, Suzuki's Roger De Coster and Husqvarna's Heikki Mikkola were once again the two top competitors in the chase for the 500cc motocross world championship. De Coster claimed 12 moto victories to reclaim the title and win his fourth world championship. Mikkola came in second place with 5 moto victories while De Coster's Suzuki teammate, Gerrit Wolsink finished the season in third place.


1975 FIM Motocross World Championship, Summary
Harry Everts won the 250cc title for his first world championship. His victory also marked the only motocross world championship for the Austrian Puch factory. Puch fielded a motorcycle which featured an innovative twin carburetor system. Gaston Rahier dominated the inaugural 125cc world championship, winning 7 out of the first 8 Grands Prix for the Suzuki factory racing team. Honda scored its first-ever overall victory in a motocross world championship Grand Prix when Marty Smith won the 125cc United States Grand Prix. Akira Watanabe became the first Japanese rider to win an overall victory in an FIM Motocross Grand Prix race when he won the 125cc Spanish Grand Prix on August 17.


1975 Family Circle Cup
The 1975 Family Circle Cup was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at Amelia Island, Florida in the United States. The event was part of the 1975 WTA Tour. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from April 21 through April 27, 1975. First-seeded Chris Evert won the singles title, her second consecutive title at the event, and earned $25,000 first-prize money.


1975 Family Circle Cup, Finals, Doubles
Evonne Goolagong /  Virginia Wade defeated  Rosemary Casals /  Olga Morozova 4–6, 6–4, 6–2


1975 Federation Cup (tennis)
The 1975 Federation Cup was the 13th edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. 31 nations participated in the tournament, which was held at the Aixoise C.C., Aix-en-Provence, France, from 5–11 May. Czechoslovakia defeated Australia in the final, giving Czechoslovakia their first title.


1975 Federation Cup (tennis), Draw
All ties were played at the Aixoise C.C., Aix-en-Provence, France, on clay courts.


1975 Federation Cup (tennis), Draw
1st and 2nd Round losing teams play in Consolation Rounds


1975 Fiesta Bowl
The 1975 Fiesta Bowl was the fifth edition of the college football bowl game, played at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona on Friday, December 26. Part of the 1975–76 bowl game season, it matched the sixth-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers of the Big Eight Conference and the undefeated #7 Arizona State Sun Devils of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). The underdog Sun Devils won, 17–14.


1975 Fiesta Bowl
Played at ASU's home venue, this was the Fiesta Bowl's first matchup between teams ranked in the top ten; the next was six years later.


1975 Fiesta Bowl, Teams, Nebraska
The Cornhuskers won their first ten games of the season and climbed to second in the AP poll; they were set up for a Big Eight title and potential national championship until a fourth consecutive loss to rival Oklahoma on November 22. This was Nebraska's first appearance in the Fiesta Bowl; the Huskers had won their previous six bowl games, and the last five were major bowls.


1975 Fiesta Bowl, Teams, Arizona State
The Sun Devils won all eleven games in the regular season to take their fifth WAC title in six years; it was their fourth Fiesta Bowl appearance in five years.


1975 Fiesta Bowl, Game summary
The game kicked off shortly after 1 p.m. MST, following the Sun Bowl, both televised by  CBS.


1975 Fiesta Bowl, Game summary
Placekicker Danny Kush started and ended the scoring in this game that arguably put the Fiesta Bowl on the map. He gave ASU an early lead in the first quarter, but I-back Monte Anthony gave Nebraska the lead in the second quarter with his one-yard touchdown run. With less than a minute remaining in the half, the Sun Devils drove down the field and narrowed the lead to a point with another Kush field goal.


1975 Fiesta Bowl, Game summary
Anthony scored another touchdown in the third quarter to extend Nebraska's lead to 14–6. Wide receiver John Jefferson caught a ten-yard touchdown pass from backup quarterback Fred Mortensen, who had taken over after sophomore starter Dennis Sproul was briefly hurt on a successful sneak on fourth down at the Nebraska thirteen to extend the drive. Head coach Frank Kush opted for a two-point conversion attempt, and wingback Larry Mucker caught a pass from Mortensen at the end zone's left edge to tie the game at fourteen early in the final quarter.


1975 Fiesta Bowl, Game summary
Nebraska punted twice after short drives, with Mortensen throwing an interception in between. Sproul returned at quarterback and he drove the Sun Devils down the field to the Nebraska twelve; Kush kicked a 29-yard field goal for a three-point lead with under five minutes remaining. The Huskers then got their offense going, and with just over a minute remaining, fullback Tony Davis caught a third-down pass over the middle inside the Devils' thirty. He was hit by John Harris and fumbled, ASU's Rocky Mataalli recovered, and the offense ran out the clock.


1975 Fiesta Bowl, Game summary
Arizona State held Nebraska scoreless in the fourth quarter to win their fourth Fiesta Bowl in as many attempts; Jefferson was named offensive MVP with eight receptions for 115 yards. Linebacker Larry Gordon was the defensive MVP, but was ejected early in the fourth quarter for fighting (along with Nebraska's consensus All-American center Rik Bonness). Nebraska led in rushing yards, but ASU outgained them in passing and total yards, had fewer turnovers, and scored just one touchdown.


1975 Fiesta Bowl, Aftermath
Arizona State (12–0) was second in the final AP poll, their best finish ever; Nebraska (10–2) dropped to ninth. ASU won another WAC title in 1977 and moved to the Pac-10 in 1978. Both teams returned multiple times to the Fiesta Bowl, Nebraska five times (next in January 1986) and ASU twice (next in December 1977).


1975 Finnish motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1975 Finnish motorcycle Grand Prix was the tenth round of the 1975 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 25–27 July 1975 at the Imatra Circuit.


1975 Finnish parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 21 and 22 September 1975.


1975 Finnish parliamentary election, Background
Prime Minister Kalevi Sorsa's Social Democratic Party government survived until June 1975. It resigned because of internal disagreements over the ways to combat Finland's recession, which had largely been caused by the 1973 oil crisis, as well as the government's increased spending and taxes. The Social Democrats and Centre Party also disagreed on regional policy over the extent to which the national government should re-distribute power and tax revenues to cities, towns and administrative provinces.


1975 Finnish parliamentary election, Background
President Urho Kekkonen had gradually become dissatisfied with the performance of Prime Minister Sorsa, Finance Minister Johannes Virolainen and Foreign Minister Ahti Karjalainen: either they were not competent, diligent or courageous enough, or they spent too much time in partisan disputes, or - in Virolainen's case, especially - their foreign policy ability or understanding was not good enough.


1975 Finnish parliamentary election, Background
Although Helsinki was to host the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) at the end of July and at the start of August 1975, Kekkonen did not worry about the possibly negative effect on Finland's international image of having a caretaker government. He appointed it, and chose Keijo Liinamaa of the Social Democratic Party as Prime Minister, who was the state labour disputes mediator.


1975 Finnish parliamentary election, Campaign
The opposition parties campaigned with varied slogans; the Finnish People's Democratic League claimed to be loyal supporters of Kekkonen's foreign policy towards the Soviet Union and to be even more faithful defenders of the working class than the Social Democrats; the National Coalition Party promised voters lower taxes and more security; the Finnish Rural Party bitterly condemned Kekkonen's allegedly authoritarian presidency, and his "servile" foreign policy towards the Soviet Union.


1975 Finnish parliamentary election, Campaign
The right-wing Constitutional People's Party accused Kekkonen of violating the Constitution's spirit by forcing Parliament to re-elect him as President through an exceptional law in 1973, and the Finnish Christian League kept opposing abortion, pornography, the sale of beer in grocery stores, and the public mocking of Christian values.


1975 Finnish parliamentary election, Aftermath
Government formation in the midst of a quickly deepening recession and after an inconclusive election proved very painstaking. Veteran Centrist politician Martti Miettunen finally succeeded, with the help of Kekkonen's strongly-worded televised speech, in forming a centre-left majority "emergency" government in November 1975. It lasted until September 1976, when the Social Democrats and Finnish People's Democratic League left it. Miettunen then formed a centrist minority government.


1975 Five Nations Championship
The 1975 Five Nations Championship was the forty-sixth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the eighty-first series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 18 January and 15 March. It was contested by England, France, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The championship was won by Wales, the team's eighteenth title (excluding another nine shared championships).


1975 Five Nations Championship
The game between Scotland and Wales at the Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh on 1 March attracted a World Record rugby attendance of 104,000 fans. This record would not be broken until a Bledisloe Cup game between Australia and New Zealand attracted 107,042 to the Sydney Olympic Stadium in 1999. The attendance at Murrayfield remains the Championship's record crowd, the record attendance in Europe and the third highest rugby attendance in history. With Scotland winning 12-10 it was the only loss for the Welsh during the 1975 Five Nations.


1975 Florida Gators football team
The 1975 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1975 NCAA Division I football season. The season was Doug Dickey's sixth and most successful season as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. Dickey's 1975 Florida Gators finished with a 9–3 overall record and a 5–1 Southeastern Conference (SEC) record, tying for second among ten SEC teams. The team featured consensus All-American linebacker Sammy Green.


1975 Florida State Seminoles baseball team
The 1975 Florida State Seminoles baseball team represented Florida State University in the 1975 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Seminoles played their home games at Seminole Field. The team was coached by Woody Woodward in his first season at Florida State.


1975 Florida State Seminoles baseball team
The Seminoles reached the College World Series, their sixth appearance in Omaha, where they finished tied for seventh place after recording losses to Eastern Michigan and Seton Hall.


1975 Florida State Seminoles football team
The 1975 Florida State Seminoles football team represented Florida State University in the 1975 NCAA Division I football season. Led by head coach Darrell Mudra in his second season, the Seminoles finished the season with a record of 3–8.


1975 Football Cup of Ukrainian SSR among KFK
The 1975 Football Cup of Ukrainian SSR among KFK  was the annual season of Ukraine's football knockout competition for amateur football teams.


1975 Football League Cup Final
The 1975 Football League Cup Final took place on 1 March 1975 at the old Wembley Stadium. It was contested between Aston Villa and Norwich City. To date it is the only major domestic Cup Final played at Wembley Stadium between two clubs outside the top-flight (although both teams were promoted at the end of the season). Aston Villa won 1–0, to claim their second League Cup final victory. Ray Graydon scored the only goal of the game, following up after goalkeeper Kevin Keelan had saved his penalty onto the post.


1975 Football League Cup Final
The victorious Aston Villa manager, Ron Saunders, appeared in his third successive League Cup Final with his third different club, having been a losing manager with Norwich City in 1973 and Manchester City in 1974.


1975 Formula 750 season
The 1975 Formula 750 season was the third season of the FIM Formula 750 Prize. The series consisted of 17 races held at nine events. Jack Findlay won the series although he didn't win any races.


1975 Formula 750 season, Points system
All events except Daytona consisted of two races and points were awarded by aggregate times of the two:


1975 Formula 750 season, Points system
Only the five best results achieved by a rider counted towards the championship standings.


1975 Formula Atlantic season
The 1975 Player's Canadian Formula Atlantic Series season was contested over 6 rounds. In this one-make engine formula all drivers had to use Ford engines.


1975 Formula Atlantic season, Final points standings, Driver
For every race the points were awarded: 30 points to the winner, 24 for runner-up, 19 for third place, 15 for fourth place, 12 for fifth place, 10 for sixth place, 9 seventh place, winding down to 1 point for 15th place. No additional points were awarded. All results count.


1975 Formula One season
The 1975 Formula One season was the 29th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 1975 World Championship of F1 Drivers and the 1975 International Cup for F1 Manufacturers which were contested concurrently from 12 January to 5 October over fourteen races. The season also included three non-championship Formula One races and a nine race South African Formula One Championship.


1975 Formula One season
After a strong finish to the 1974 season, many observers felt the Brabham team were favourites to win the 1975 title. The year started well, with an emotional first win for Carlos Pace at the Interlagos circuit in his native São Paulo. However, over the season tyre wear frequently slowed the cars, and the initial promise was not maintained.


1975 Formula One season
Niki Lauda often referred to 1975 as "the unbelievable year". In his second year with Ferrari, the team provided him with the Ferrari 312T – a car that was technically far superior to any of the competition. He won his first world title with five wins and a huge margin over second place in the championship.


1975 Formula One season
American Mark Donohue died in August, two days after a practice run crash for the Austrian Grand Prix. After the season in late November, an Embassy Hill airplane crashed in England and all six aboard were killed, including team owner Graham Hill and driver Tony Brise.


1975 Formula One season, Drivers and constructors
The following drivers and constructors and contested the 1975 World Championship of F1 Drivers and the 1975 International Cup for F1 Manufacturers.


1975 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes
The Spanish Grand Prix was moved from Jarama to Montjuïc, in keeping with the event-sharing arrangement between the two circuits.


1975 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes
The Belgian Grand Prix and Monaco Grand Prix swapped places on the calendar so that the Monaco round follows the Belgian Grand Prix.


1975 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes
The French Grand Prix was moved from Dijon-Prenois to Paul Ricard Circuit.


1975 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes
The British Grand Prix was moved from Brands Hatch to Silverstone, in keeping with the event-sharing arrangement between the two circuits.


1975 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes
The Canadian Grand Prix was originally schedule to be the last race but one in 1975 but was cancelled due to a dispute between two rival breweries, Labatt and Molson in sponsoring the race.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 1: Argentina
The drivers went to Argentina to start the season, and it was Jean-Pierre Jarier in the Shadow who took pole position with the Brabhams of Carlos Pace and Carlos Reutemann second and third on the grid. However, poleman Jarier could not even start the race because his transmission failed on the parade lap. Home hero Reutemann took the lead from teammate Pace, with Niki Lauda's Ferrari third.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 1: Argentina
Pace passed teammate Reutemann to take the lead but then spun off and dropped to seventh. James Hunt in his Hesketh soon overtook Lauda and then Reutemann, much to the chagrin of the crowd. By then, reigning world champion Emerson Fittipaldi in his McLaren was past Lauda and up to third, and soon took Reutemann for second as well. Fittipaldi closed in on Hunt and took the lead with 18 laps left. Pace recovered to fourth after his spin, but it was to no avail as his engine blew up. Fittipaldi started his title defence with a win, Hunt was a superb second, and Reutemann third in front of his home crowd.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 2: Brazil
The second round was in Brazil, and Jarier took pole position again with Fittipaldi alongside and Reutemann third. Reutemann, just like in Argentina, took the lead at the start from Jarier and Pace was up to third, whereas home driver Fittipaldi dropped to seventh. Jarier retook the lead from Reutemann on lap 5 and then pulled away. Reutemann struggled with handling issues and dropped well down the order then, with Pace up to second, Clay Regazzoni's Ferrari third and Fittipaldi recovering to fourth. Jarier's engine stopped with seven laps left and Pace took the lead. Regazzoni was up to second but dropped behind Fittipaldi and Jochen Mass in the second McLaren as he too suffered handling issues. Pace took a home victory, with countryman Fittipaldi second and Mass third.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 3: South Africa
A month after the Brazilian race, the field went to South Africa and Pace followed up his win with pole, with Reutemann alongside as Brabham locked out the front row, and home hero Jody Scheckter was third in the Tyrrell. Pace led at the start, with Scheckter second, and Ronnie Peterson in his Lotus jumped up from eighth to take third. However, the Swede did not have the pace of the front runners and dropped back down the order. Scheckter took the lead from Pace on the third lap, to the delight to the fans. Pace kept second until he struggled with tyres and was passed by Reutemann and the second Tyrrell of Patrick Depailler. Scheckter took an emotional home victory, with Reutemann and Depailler completing the podium.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 4: Spain
Nearly two months after the third round, the European season began in Spain at the very fast Montjuic street circuit in Barcelona. The Grand Prix Drivers Association was not happy with the state of the barriers, which were not bolted properly, and the drivers threatened not to take part. Mechanics from the teams went around the entire circuit to attempt to repair/fasten down the barriers. After work was done on the circuit, the drivers agreed that the circuit was still not safe enough.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 4: Spain
Reigning world champion and championship leader Emerson Fittipaldi had no intention to race because of the condition of the barriers, and went home on Sunday morning. The organisers of the event then locked the cars and motorhomes inside the circuit confines for breach of contract and threatened to keep them there. This being incompatible with the timeschedule for the next race at Monaco, the teams decided to cater for the organisers wishes and raced anyway.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 4: Spain
The rest of the drivers were there for qualifying, and Ferrari took the front row, with Lauda on pole from Regazzoni, and Hunt third in the Hesketh. There was chaos at the start when Mario Andretti in his Parnelli tapped the car of polesitter Lauda, sending it into the sister car of Regazzoni and knocking both Ferraris out of contention. Hunt gratefully took the lead, and Andretti, whose car was undamaged was second. Hunt led until he crashed after spinning on oil on the track, leaving Andretti leading from John Watson in the Surtees and Rolf Stommelen's Hill. Watson then had to pit with a vibration and the leader Andretti retired after a suspension failure sent him into the guardrail. This promoted  Pace to second and Peterson to third, but the Swede retired after colliding with backmarker François Migault while lapping him.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 4: Spain
On lap 26, Stommelen's rear wing broke, and the car bounced into the barriers and flew back onto the road, hitting the barrier on the other side but the momentum of the car was enough for it to fly over the barrier where spectators were watching. The car hit some of them, and five spectators were killed, and Stommelen and other spectators were injured. Pace also crashed while trying to avoid the Hill as it bounced back off the road. The race went on for the moment, with Jochen Mass passing Jacky Ickx's Lotus to lead. The organizers stopped the race on lap 30 due to the debris on the track caused by Stommelen's crash. Mass was declared the winner, with Ickx second and Reutemann third. Only half points were awarded as the race was stopped before it had run 75% of its full course.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 5: Monaco
After the chaotic and tragic Spanish GP, the race on the streets of Monaco was next. Lauda took pole ahead of the Shadow of Tom Pryce, with Pryce's teammate Jarier third. Rain before the race meant that it was started on a damp track. Lauda took off into the lead and Jarier climbed up to second but crashed on the first lap. Peterson was up to second, and Pryce was third. Pryce spun off after 20 laps, giving third to Scheckter. The field soon pitted for dry weather tyres and this shuffled up the order, with Scheckter dropping back after pitting too late. Fittipaldi was up to second behind Lauda, and Pace jumped up to third. That is how it stayed, with Lauda winning, Fittipaldi second and Pace third.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 5: Monaco
It was the last weekend for Graham Hill in Formula One.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 6: Belgium
The next race took place in Belgium, and Lauda was on pole with Pace with him on the front row, and Vittorio Brambilla in the March a surprising third. It was Pace who got the better of Lauda at the start, to lead into the first corner. Pace was leading from Lauda and Brambilla at the end of the first lap, but Brambilla was on the move, and shocked everyone by overtaking both the front-row starters to lead. But this spurred Lauda into action, and after almost immediately passing Pace, he took the lead from Brambilla on the sixth lap. Scheckter was also on the move and was up to second, after passing Brambilla on lap 9. Brambilla held third until he was forced to pit with  tyre troubles. Lauda won, becoming the first driver to take two wins this season, with Scheckter second and Reutemann third.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 7: Sweden
In Sweden, it was Brambilla who took his first career pole, with Depailler second and Jarier third on the grid. The order was unchanged at the start, with Brambilla leading but Reutemann was up to third after three laps. Brambilla continued to lead, whereas second-placed Depailler dropped out of contention with brake problems. Reutemann was up to second, and now took the lead from Brambilla. Brambilla had to pit for new tyres almost immediately. Jarier ran second now, but his engine blew up and this gave the position to Pace until he spun off and retired. Lauda was now second, and towards the end of the race Reutemann began to suffer from oversteer, allowing Lauda to take the lead with 10 laps left. Lauda went on to win, with Reutemann and Regazzoni completing the podium.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 8: Netherlands
The first race in the second half of the season took place in the Netherlands, and pole went to Lauda as usual, with teammate Regazzoni alongside, and Hunt's Hesketh third. The race started on a damp track and Lauda took the lead, with Scheckter up to second ahead of Regazzoni. The order was unchanged until the drivers had to pit for dry tyres. Hunt and Jarier pitted early, and their gamble paid off as they were first and second, with Lauda, Scheckter and Regazzoni third, fourth and fifth respectively.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 8: Netherlands
Lauda passed Jarier for second midway through the race, and started closing on Hunt. Jarier almost immediately retired with a tyre failure, and Scheckter who inherited third had his engine blow up with just 12 laps left. Hunt held off Lauda to take his first career win, with Regazzoni completing the podium.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 9: France
France was host to the 9th round of the season, and it was Lauda on pole ahead of Scheckter and Hunt. The top three maintained their starting positions into the first corner. In the early laps, Regazzoni was on a charge, and got up to second on the sixth lap but his engine blew up and he had to retire. Scheckter soon faded away, giving Hunt second. That was how it ended, with Lauda winning to take a large championship lead, Hunt finishing second and Mass third.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 10: Great Britain
The tenth round was held at the Silverstone airfield circuit in Great Britain, and Tom Pryce took a home pole position, with Pace second and championship leader Lauda third. Pace beat Pryce into the first corner, with Regazzoni third ahead of Lauda. After 10 laps, Regazzoni passed Pryce for second, and soon both of them passed Pace. It soon began to rain, and Regazzoni was pulling away until he spun off, hit a barrier and damaged his rear wing. He rejoined two laps down. Pryce now led, but he crashed out as well, two laps later. Scheckter had meanwhile passed both Lauda and Pace, and he was now leading.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 10: Great Britain
Scheckter pitted for wet tyres from the lead, and most drivers followed suit. Hunt (after passing Pace) was the leader from Pace and Emerson Fittipaldi as they had not pitted for dries. Scheckter and Jarier both caught and passed the trio, but the track was drying out, and both had to pit for dries soon after. Hunt began to lose power in his engine, and was passed by Fittipaldi, and then Pace, and even a recovering Scheckter. On lap 56 out of 70, the rain fell again, in a massive shower with the whole field on dries.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 10: Great Britain
Nearly all the drivers spun off and crashed, and race was stopped. Only 6 drivers were left (notably Fittipaldi). The race was stopped, and the results were declared on the lap before the storm struck. Fittipaldi was the winner, and Pace and Scheckter, despite crashing out, were given second and third.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 10: Great Britain
The result meant that Fittipaldi closed within 14 points of Lauda with five races left.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 11: West Germany
The drivers had to go to West Germany, in the legendary Nordschleife track, for round 11- and this proved to be the most crucial round in the championship (the German Grand Prix often was). Lauda was on pole, lapping the 14.2 mi (22.8 km) circuit in under 7 minutes- becoming the first driver to accomplish this feat. Pace was on the front row, and the two Tyrrell drivers Scheckter and Depailler third and fourth respectively. At the start, Lauda led from Pace, with Depailler getting third from his teammate Scheckter, who made a dreadful start and dropped to 20th.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 11: West Germany
Depailler was past Pace early on, but by midway through the race, both drivers were out of contention, Pace retiring with a puncture, and Depailler having to pit after a suspension failure. Lauda continued to lead with Regazzoni up to second, until the latter's engine failed. Lauda then suffered a puncture and a damaged spoiler and had to pit, leaving Reutemann to lead from Hunt and Pryce.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 11: West Germany
Hunt was next to retire, with a wheel hub failure on the straight behind the pits, and Pryce took second, but only briefly as he had to back off towards the end with fuel-feed troubles. At the front, Reutemann took his first win of the season, with Jacques Laffite's Williams second, and Lauda recovering to third.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 12: Austria
The Austrian GP on 17 August had a very large attendance, as Lauda had a chance of getting close to the championship at his home race. Lauda did not disappoint them, as he took pole position, with Hunt second and Fittipaldi third. His chief rival, Reutemann, was only 11th. On a morning practice lap, Mark Donohue's March slid off the track after a tyre failure and hit two marshals. Donohue died two days later, and one of the marshals also died.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 12: Austria
It began to rain just before the race started, but it did not deter Lauda, who led from Hunt and Depailler. Depailler soon dropped back, and it was Vittorio Brambilla who was up to third. Lauda also began to struggle as the rain became heavier, and Hunt took the lead and Brambilla second on lap 15. Brambilla went to take the lead from Hunt four laps later when they were lapping a backmarker, whereas Pryce passed Lauda for third.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 12: Austria
Conditions became so bad that the organizers showed the chequered flag early, with Brambilla the winner (he spun off on the slowing down lap and crashed, and drove around to the pits waving to the fans with a badly damaged car), Hunt second and Pryce completing the podium. Only half points were given, as the race was stopped early, just like in Spain.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 13: Italy
The penultimate round was in Italy, and after the cancellation of the Canadian GP, Lauda needed only half a point to be the 1975 world champion. The Ferrari fans were very happy as their team locked out the front row, with Lauda on pole from Regazzoni, and Fittipaldi third. Regazzoni took the lead at the start, with Lauda and Mass following. Soon Reutemann was up to third, but he needed to win to keep any faint hopes alive. However, he was passed by Fittipaldi, and towards the end, Lauda backed off and let Fittipaldi through. It was Regazzoni who won the race, with Fittipaldi second, and Lauda's third was enough to seal the championship.


1975 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 14: United States
The final round took place in the US, and it was no surprise that at the spectacular Watkins Glen track in upstate New York (which had a new chicane at the Esses introduced), new World Champion Lauda took pole again, with Fittipaldi alongside and Reutemann third. Lauda led into the first corner from Fittipaldi, and it was Jarier in third. Lauda and Fittipaldi drove away from the rest of the field, whereas Jarier retired with a wheel failure one-third into the race. This left Hunt in third, but Mass had other ideas and took the place midway through the race. Lauda went on to win, his fifth of the season, as he signed off in style, with Fittipaldi close behind in second, and Mass also on the podium.


1975 Formula One season, Results and standings, World Drivers' Championship standings
Points were awarded on a 9–6–4–3–2–1 basis to the first six finishers at each Grand Prix. Only the six best results from the first seven races and the six best results from the last seven races counted towards the World Championship.


1975 Formula One season, Results and standings, International Cup for F1 Manufacturers standings
Points were awarded on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis to the first six finishers at each Grand Prix, but only one car per constructor could score points at each Grand Prix. Only the six best results from the first seven races and the six best results from the last seven races counted towards the International Cup for F1 Manufacturers.


1975 Formula One season, Results and standings, Non-championship races
Other Formula One races were also held in 1975, which did not count towards the World Championship.


1975 France rugby union tour of South Africa
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1975 France rugby union tour of South Africa
The 1975 France rugby union tour of South Africa was a series of matches played by the France national rugby union team in South Africa in May and June 1975. The French team played eleven matches, of which they won six, lost four and drew one. They lost the Test Series 2–0 to the Springboks.


1975 France rugby union tour of South Africa, Touring party, Three-quarters
Jean-Charles Amade, Jean-Luc Averous, Christian Badin, Roland Bertranne, Maurice Dupey, Jean-Martin Etchenique, Dominique Harize, Francois Sangali


1975 France rugby union tour of South Africa, Touring party, Forwards
Yves Brunet, Gerard Cholley, Jean Costantino, Jean-Pierre Decrae, Joel Forestlier, Alain Guilbert, Francis Haget, Jean-Luc Joinel, Michel Julian, Serge Lassoujade, Robert Paparemborde, Patrice Peron, Daniel Revaillier, Marc Rousett, Jean-Claude Skrela, Michel Yachvili


1975 French Grand Prix
The 1975 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Paul Ricard on 6 July 1975. It was race 9 of 14 in both the 1975 World Championship of Drivers and the 1975 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. It was the 53rd French Grand Prix and the third to be held at Paul Ricard. The race was held over 54 laps of the 5.8-kilometre (3.6 mi) circuit for a race distance of 313 kilometres (194 mi).