1977 Düsseldorf International
The 1977 Düsseldorf International was a men's Grand Prix tennis circuit tournament held in Düsseldorf, West Germany and played on outdoor clay courts. It was the eighth edition of the tournament and was held from 16 May until 22 May 1977. First-seeded Wojciech Fibak won the singles title.


1977 Düsseldorf International, Finals, Doubles
Jürgen Fassbender /  Karl Meiler defeated  Paul Kronk /  Cliff Letcher 6–3, 6–3


1977 E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
The 1977 E3 Harelbeke was the 20th edition of the E3 Harelbeke cycle race and was held on 26 March 1977. The race started and finished in Harelbeke. The race was won by Dietrich Thurau.


1977 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1977 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 16th tournament in league history. It was played between March 8 and March 12, 1977. 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 New Hampshire received invitations to participate in the 1977 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


1977 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.


1977 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


1977 East Carolina Pirates football team
The 1977 East Carolina Pirates football team was an American football team that represented East Carolina University as an independent during the 1977 NCAA Division I football season. In their fourth season under head coach Pat Dye, the team compiled a 8–3 record.


1977 East Lothian District Council election
Elections for East Lothian Council took place in May 1977, alongside elections to the councils of Scotland's various other districts.


1977 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1977 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament was the first edition of the men's basketball postseason competition now known as the Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament. It was organized by the Eastern Collegiate Basketball League, popularly known as the "Eastern 8", an NCAA Division I basketball-only conference that was formally founded in 1975 and began competition in the 1976–77 season. The conference added sports other than basketball starting with the 1977–78 school year, changing its name to the Eastern Athletic Association, and adopted its current name of Atlantic 10 Conference in 1982.


1977 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team
The 1977 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team represented Eastern Illinois University as an independent during the 1977 NCAA Division II football season. The Panthers played their home games at O'Brien Stadium in Charleston, Illinois. Led by third-year head coach John Konstantinos Eastern Illinois compiled a record of 1–10.


1977 Eastern Michigan Hurons football team
The 1977 Eastern Michigan Hurons football team represented Eastern Michigan University in the 1977 NCAA Division I football season. In their second and final season under head coach Ed Chlebek, the Hurons compiled an 8–3 record (4–3 against conference opponents), finished in fourth place in the Mid-American Conference, and outscored their opponents, 239 to 195. The team's statistical leaders included Steve Raklovits with 1,784 passing yards, Bobby Windom with 1,322 rushing yards, and James Hall with 646 receiving yards.


1977 Eastwood District Council election
Elections for the Eastwood District Council took place on 1 May 1977, alongside elections to the councils of Scotland's various other districts.


1977 Eastwood District Council election
The Conservatives maintained their dominance of the council, winning all but 2 of the Districts seats.


1977 Edmonton municipal election
The 1977 municipal election was held October 19, 1977 to elect a mayor and twelve aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council, nine trustees to sit on the public school board, and seven trustees to sit on the separate school board.


1977 Edmonton municipal election
This was the first election in which a nine-member public school board was elected instead of the seven member board that had previously existed. It was also the last election to use only four wards; beginning in 1980, two aldermen were elected from each of six wards.


1977 Edmonton municipal election, Voter turnout
There were 116,525 ballots cast out of 305,342 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 38.2%.


1977 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Mayor
(William Hawrelak had been elected mayor in the 1974 election, but had died in office. Cavanagh was selected by council to replace him.)


1977 Egypt Cup Final
1977 Egypt Cup Final, was the final match of 1976–77 Egypt Cup, when Zamalek played Ismaily, Zamalek won the game 3–1.


1977 Egyptian bread riots
The Egyptian "bread riots" of 1977 (Arabic: إنتِفاضة الخُبز, intifāḍhat-ul-khobz, “The Bread Intifada”) affected most major cities in Egypt from 18–19 January 1977. The riots were a spontaneous uprising carried out by hundreds of thousands of lower-class people protesting World Bank and International Monetary Fund-mandated termination of state subsidies on basic foodstuffs. As many as 70 people were killed and over 550 injured in the protests, which only ceased with the deployment of the army and the re-institution of the subsidies.


1977 Egyptian bread riots, Lead up to riots
The riots' origin lay in president Anwar Sadat's Infitah (openness) policy, which had—since he took power at the beginning of the decade—sought to liberalise the economy. In 1976, he sought loans from the World Bank in an effort to relieve the country's debt burden. The bank criticised the state's policy of subsidising basic foodstuffs, and Sadat announced in January 1977 that it was ending subsidies on flour, rice, and cooking oil and that it would cancel state employee bonuses and pay increases. The new policies resulted in a rise in the price of food by up to 50%.


1977 Egyptian bread riots, Food riots
Popular rejection of the announcement was not long in coming: On 18 and 19 January, rioting by lower-class people who would have been hardest hit by the cancellation of the subsidies erupted across the country, from Aswan in Upper Egypt to Alexandria. For two days, rioters attacked targets that symbolised the prosperity of the middle class and the corruption of the regime, shouting slogans like, "Ya baṭal el-'obūr, fēn el-fotūr?" ("Hero of the Crossing, where is our breakfast?") and "Thieves of the Infitah, the people are famished." There were also shouts of "Nasser, Nasser," in reference to Sadat's predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser. The rioting ended when the state abruptly cancelled the new policies. 79 people died in the riots, 556 were injured, and over 1,000 people were arrested.


1977 Egyptian bread riots, Food riots
The riots had a strong impact upon the Egyptian government's subsequent willingness to enact unpopular economic policies. After the riots, according to David Seddon, the Egyptian government was "extremely cautious of provoking popular protest and political unrest through the introduction of drastic austerity measures, and it approached the IMF proposals with care." Though Egypt signed an Extended Fund Facility in 1978, the government's failure to adhere to IMF-imposed policy conditions resulted in only a small amount of funds being released. Not until it had paid back most of its debt to the IMF in 1987 did Egypt return to the IMF for a one-year arrangement.


1977 Egyptian protection of national unity referendum
A referendum on "the protection of national unity" was held in Egypt on 10 February 1977. It was approved by 99.4% of voters, with a turnout of 96.7%.


1977 Emperor's Cup, Overview
It was contested by 28 teams, and Fujita Industries won the championship.


1977 Emperor's Cup Final
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1977 Emperor's Cup Final
1977 Emperor's Cup Final was the 57th final of the Emperor's Cup competition. The final was played at National Stadium in Tokyo on January 1, 1978. Fujita Industries won the championship.


1977 Emperor's Cup Final, Overview
Fujita Industries won their 1st title, by defeating Yanmar Diesel 4–1.


1977 Encino helicopter crash
On August 1, 1977, a Bell 206 news helicopter piloted by Francis Gary Powers ran out of fuel and crashed into a field near Encino, California, killing Powers and the aircraft's only passenger, cameraman George Spears.


1977 Encino helicopter crash, Accident
The Bell 206 JetRanger was operating under Federal Aviation Regulation Part 91 on a noncommercial flight and departed Hollywood Burbank Airport in Burbank on the morning of August 1, 1977, to provide aerial coverage and record video after a wildfire in Santa Barbara, 86 nautical miles (160 km; 100 mi) to the west. At approximately 12:25 pm PDT, Powers contacted KNBC and stated he had completed gathering footage, was returning to Burbank, and believed he had enough fuel for the return trip. A few minutes later, Powers radioed the control tower at Van Nuys Airport requesting clearance to land there due to low fuel; permission was granted, but the aircraft failed to arrive.


1977 Encino helicopter crash, Accident
The helicopter was now at 800 feet (240 m) above ground level (AGL) and almost out of fuel. Realizing he would not make the airport, Powers began searching for a spot to land in the heavily built-up area. At 12:35 pm, Powers pointed the aircraft towards the Sepulveda Dam Recreational Area and prepared to auto-rotate down to an open area. The Bell 206 has superior autorotation characteristics, but as he descended, it is surmised that Powers saw a group of teenagers playing on a baseball diamond and made an abrupt maneuver to avoid them.


1977 Encino helicopter crash, Accident
Powers' last radio transmission was "TV four just lost -". At approximately 50 feet (15 m) AGL, the tail rotor fell off and Powers was ejected from the helicopter. At 12:36 pm, the aircraft hit the ground about 50 yards (45 m) from where the boys were playing, gouged a trench twenty feet (6 m) long in the earth, and flipped upside-down. Powers and Spears were both killed, but nobody on the ground was hurt.


1977 Encino helicopter crash, Aircraft
The helicopter involved in the accident was a Bell 206B JetRanger serial number 433 built in 1969.


1977 Encino helicopter crash, Aircraft
It was powered by a single Allison model 250-C20B turboshaft engine, rated at 420 shaft horsepower. The aircraft Certificate Issue Date was September 19, 1974, and it had been modified with the addition of an externally mounted 360-degree video camera and video recording equipment. Registered as N4TV, it was commonly referred to as the "Telecopter."


1977 Encino helicopter crash, Crew
The helicopter pilot was 47-year-old Francis Gary Powers, who began flying the JetRanger when he joined KNBC in November 1976. Best known for piloting an unsuccessful reconnaissance mission over the Soviet Union in 1960, Powers held a valid commercial pilot's license and was instrument rated with 7,193 total flight hours, including 381 in the Bell 206.


1977 Encino helicopter crash, Aftermath and investigation
The half-million dollar helicopter was completely destroyed during the crash. When firefighters arrived, they removed the helicopter's smoking battery from the fuselage for safety. The wreckage was moved to the Wayne Airframe Aviation Company in Van Nuys. Found insidethe helicopter were the video recorder and four video cassettes. The investigators hoped the tapes might have clues to the reason for the crash but apparently the recorder had not been operating at the time of the incident. The aircraft had not been equipped with a flight data recorder (FDR) or a cockpit voice recorder (CVR).


1977 Encino helicopter crash, Aftermath and investigation
During the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigation, no evidence of failure or malfunction of the aircraft or any of its systems prior to the crash was found. Further examination of the engine found approximately five fluid ounces of jet fuel in the entire fuel system and that the engine had flamed out due to fuel starvation. The final report from the NTSB lists the probable causes as improper in-flight decisions and mismanagement of fuel by the pilot in command which led to fuel exhaustion. Also listed was improper operation of flight controls during the power-off autorotation.


1977 Encino helicopter crash, Aftermath and investigation
According to one report, the helicopter's fuel gauge had been reported faulty by Powers. The improperly operating fuel gauge would indicate empty when the fuel tank contained enough fuel for 30 minutes flying time. It has been alleged the gauge was repaired to function correctly without Powers being notified. This is a possible explanation why an experienced pilot such as Powers could have run out of fuel.


1977 English Greyhound Derby
The 1977 Spillers Greyhound Derby took place during June with the final being held on 25 June 1977 at White City Stadium. The winner was Balliniska Band and the winning owner Raphael Bacci received £17,500. The competition was sponsored by the Spillers.


1977 English Greyhound Derby, Final result, Distances
2½, 4½, ½, 1¼, 1¼ (lengths)The distances between the greyhounds are in finishing order and shown in lengths. One length is equal to 0.08 of one second.


1977 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report
The 1977 Derby entries included the defending champion Mutts Silver and Westmead Champ. The ante-post favourite was Glen Rock, who had set a new world record for 525 yards and held the White City track record of 29.16 sec in addition to winning the 1976 Irish Puppy Derby.


1977 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report
The qualifying round ended with 96 greyhounds left in the betting. Glen Rock was eliminated in the very first round in a heat won by Pat Seamur. Balliniska Band lost to Westmead Special in round one and Mutts Silver was beaten by Gaily Noble but both progressed. In the second round Greenfield Fox and Westmead Champ both went out but Ger McKenna's leading entry Red Rasper won well as did Balliniska Band. Balliniska Band then won again in the quarter finals recording 29.24 but Red Rasper was eliminated.


1977 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report
The first semi-final saw Balliniska Band lead out of the traps pursued by El Cavalier, Pat Seamur did well to take third place especially as Balliniska Band equalled the time he had set in the previous round. The second semi ended the hopes of Mutts Silver after he stumbled during the race and finished last behind the victor Westmead Manor, the deposed champion was retired to stud a few days later.


1977 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report
In the final Balliniska Band forced Saucy Buck to check up when going past him, and then he showed good early pace to draw clear. He beat El Cavalier by 2 1⁄2 lengths in a track-record-equalling 29.16 sec. He was owned by Raphael Bacci and trained by Eddie Moore.


1977 English National Badminton Championships
The 1977 English National Badminton Championships were held in Luton, from 10–11 December 1976. The event was sponsored by the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society.


1977 English cricket season
The 1977 English cricket season was the 78th in which the County Championship had been an official competition. It was played out in the aftermath of the Kerry Packer affair. Geoffrey Boycott returned to Test cricket and managed to score his 100th career century in the Headingley Test. An Australian team that was clearly affected by Packer proved to be no match for an England side that stayed together despite the controversy. The County Championship title was shared for only the third time in history after Middlesex and Kent finished on the same points.


1977 English cricket season, Annual reviews
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1977 Estonian SSR Football Championship
The 1977 Estonian SSR Football Championship was won by Narva Baltika.


1977 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup
The 1977 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup, taking place in London, was the fourth edition of Europe's premier field hockey club competition. It was won by hosts and defending champions Southgate Hockey Club from London.


1977 European 300 m Rifle Championships
The 1977 European 300 m Rifle Championships was the 2nd edition of the 300 m rifle competition, European 300 m Rifle Championships, organised by the International Shooting Sport Federation as a stand alone championships after 18 years from the first editoon held in 1959.


1977 European Amateur Boxing Championships
The 1977 European Amateur Boxing Championships  were held in Halle, East Germany from 28 May to 5 June. The 22nd edition of the bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA. There were 146 fighters from 23 countries participating.


1977 European Amateur Team Championship
The 1977 European Amateur Team Championship took place 22–26 June at Royal The Hague Golf & Country Club in Wassenaar, 10 kilometres north of the city center of  The Hague, Netherlands. It was the tenth men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.


1977 European Amateur Team Championship
The course was designed in 1938, by Harry Colt and C.H. Alison and is situated in an undulating dune landscape.


1977 European Amateur Team Championship
Each team consisted of 6 players, playing two rounds of stroke-play over two days, counting the five best scores each day for each team.


1977 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. Teams were allowed to use six players during the team matches, selecting four of them in the two morning foursome games and five players in to the afternoon single games. Games all square at the 18th hole were declared halved, if the team match was already decided.


1977 European Amateur Team Championship
The eight teams placed 9–16 in the qualification stroke-play formed flight B, to play similar knock-out play to decide their final positions.


1977 European Amateur Team Championship
Defending champions Scotland won the gold medal, earning their second title, in their fourth consecutive final beating Sweden 5–2. Scottish team member Ian Hurcheon, individual leader at the previous championship two years ago as well as at the 1976 Eisenhower Trophy, did not play in the final because of an injury.


1977 European Amateur Team Championship
Team France, earned the bronze on third place, after beating  Denmark 5–2 in the bronze match.


1977 European Amateur Team Championship
There was no official award for the lowest individual score in the opening 36-hole stroke-play qualifying competition, but individual leader  was Peter McEvoy, England, with a score of 4-under-par 140, four strokes ahead of nearest competitor. He scored the only sub-70-round of the first day, carding a 69. In the match-play rounds in flight A, McEvoy won all his five games.


1977 European Amateur Team Championship
The best score of the second round belonged to Jan Lindberg, Denmark, also scoring a 3-under-par 69 round.


1977 European Amateur Team Championship
Future professional two-time major winner, Sandy Lyle, at 19 years of age, represented England and finished tied 7th individually.


1977 European Amateur Team Championship
Fritz Porstendorfer, team Austria, made a hole-in-one on the 12th hole.


1977 European Amateur Team Championship, Teams
16 nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of six players.


1977 European Amateur Team Championship, Results
* Note: In the event of a tie the order was determined by the best total of the two non-counting scores of the two rounds.


1977 European Amateur Team Championship, Results
Note: There was no official award for the lowest individual score.


1977 European Aquatics Championships
The 1977 European Aquatics Championships were held at the swimming complex Rosenlundsbadet in the southern Swedish city of Jönköping, from 14 August to 21 August. Besides swimming there were titles contested in diving, the women's event of synchronized swimming and the men's event of water polo.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships
The 8th European Athletics Indoor Championships were held in San Sebastián, a city in Spain, on 12 and 13 March 1977.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 1500 metres
The men's 1500 metres event  at the 1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 and 13 March in San Sebastián.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 1500 metres, Results, Heats
First 3 from each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres
The men's 3000 metres event  at the 1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 and 13 March in San Sebastián.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres, Results, Heats
First 3 from each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 400 metres
The men's 400 metres event  at the 1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 and 13 March in San Sebastián.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 400 metres, Results, Heats
First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 400 metres, Results, Semifinals
First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres
The men's 60 metres event  at the 1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 March in San Sebastián.


1977 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.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres, Results, Semifinals
First 3 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres hurdles
The men's 60 metres hurdles event  at the 1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 13 March in San Sebastián.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres hurdles, Results, Heats
First 3 from each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.


1977 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.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 800 metres
The men's 800 metres event  at the 1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 and 13 March in San Sebastián.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 800 metres, Results, Heats
First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 800 metres, Results, Semifinals
First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's high jump
The men's high jump event  at the 1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 13 March in San Sebastián.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's long jump
The men's long jump event  at the 1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 13 March in San Sebastián.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's pole vault
The men's pole vault event  at the 1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 March in San Sebastián.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's shot put
The men's shot put event  at the 1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 13 March in San Sebastián.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's triple jump
The men's triple jump event  at the 1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 March in San Sebastián.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 1500 metres
The women's 1500 metres event  at the 1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 13 March in San Sebastián.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 400 metres
The women's 400 metres event  at the 1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 and 13 March in San Sebastián.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 400 metres, Results, Heats
First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres
The women's 60 metres event  at the 1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 13 March in San Sebastián.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres, Results, Heats
First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres hurdles
The women's 60 metres hurdles event  at the 1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 March in San Sebastián.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres hurdles, Results, Heats
First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 800 metres
The women's 800 metres event  at the 1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 and 13 March in San Sebastián.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 800 metres, Results, Heats
First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's high jump
The women's high jump event  at the 1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 March in San Sebastián.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's long jump
The women's long jump event  at the 1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 13 March in San Sebastián.


1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's shot put
The women's shot put event  at the 1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 13 March in San Sebastián. Helena Fibingerová's winning mark of 21.46 metres as of 2019 is the longest standing European Athletics Indoor Championships record.


1977 European Athletics Junior Championships
The 1977 European Athletics Junior Championships was the fourth edition of the biennial athletics competition for European athletes aged under twenty. It was held in Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union between 19 and 21 August.


1977 European Baseball Championship
The 1977 European Baseball Championship was held in the Netherlands and was won by Italy for the second time in a row. The Netherlands finished as runner-up.


1977 European Cup (athletics)
The 1977 European Cup was the 6th edition of the European Cup of athletics.


1977 European Cup Final
The 1977 European Cup Final was an association football match between Liverpool of England and Borussia Mönchengladbach of West Germany on 25 May 1977 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy (the venue was decided in Bern by the UEFA Executive Committee on 17 September 1976). The showpiece event was the final match of the 1976–77 season of Europe's premier cup competition, the European Cup. Both teams were appearing in their first European Cup final, although the two sides had previously met in the 1973 UEFA Cup Final, which Liverpool won 3–2 on aggregate over two legs.


1977 European Cup Final
Each club needed to progress through four rounds to reach the final. Matches were contested over two legs, with a match at each team's home ground. Liverpool's victories varied from close affairs to comfortable victories. They beat the previous season's runners-up Saint-Étienne by a single goal over two legs, while they defeated FC Zürich 6–1 on aggregate in the semi-final. Borussia Mönchengladbach's route to the final was more difficult; all but one of their ties were won by a margin of just one goal.


1977 European Cup Final
Watched by a crowd of 52,078, Liverpool took an early lead through Terry McDermott, but Allan Simonsen equalised for Mönchengladbach early in the second half. Liverpool regained the lead midway through the second half with a headed goal from Tommy Smith. A penalty by Phil Neal ensured Liverpool won the match 3–1 to secure their first European Cup. The victory was a year after they had won the UEFA Cup, which meant that Bob Paisley became the first manager to win the UEFA Cup and European Cup in successive seasons.


1977 European Cup Final, Route to the final, Liverpool
Liverpool were the reigning UEFA Cup champions, they had beaten Belgian team Club Brugge 4–3 on aggregate to win the 1975–76 UEFA Cup. Liverpool entered the competition as English champions having won the 1975–76 Football League First Division. They were drawn against the Northern Irish champions Crusaders in the first round. The first leg was a home tie at Anfield, which Liverpool won 2–0 courtesy of a Phil Neal penalty and a John Toshack goal. The second leg away at Seaview, was won 5–0 by Liverpool.


1977 European Cup Final, Route to the final, Liverpool
Four of the goals were scored within nine minutes of the end of the match, to make the scoreline seem more one-sided than the match actually was. Liverpool won the tie 7–0 and were drawn against Turkish champions Trabzonspor in the second round. The first leg was played in Turkey at Hüseyin Avni Aker Stadium. Liverpool's plan was to try to avoid defeat, however that plan failed when Trabzonsor were awarded a penalty midway through the second half. Trabzonspor converted the subsequent penalty and won the match 1–0. Liverpool recovered in the second leg at Anfield. Three goals early in the first half meant they won the match 3–0 to win the tie 3–1 on aggregate and progress to the quarter-finals.


1977 European Cup Final, Route to the final, Liverpool
Liverpool's opponents in the quarter-finals were the previous year's beaten finalists Saint-Étienne of France. The first leg was at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard. As in the previous round Liverpool lost the away leg 1–0. The return leg at Anfield is considered one of Liverpool's most memorable European matches. Liverpool scored in the second minute of the match through Kevin Keegan to level the tie. Early in the second half Saint-Étienne equalised through Dominique Bathenay.


1977 European Cup Final, Route to the final, Liverpool
The goal meant that the tie was 2–1 in the French team's favour and due to the away goals rule, Liverpool needed to score two goals to progress to the semi-finals. Liverpool scored again midway through the second half to make the score 2–2 on aggregate. With 18 minutes remaining David Fairclough replaced John Toshack. After 12 minutes on the pitch, the "supersub" had struck... again. Liverpool went on to win the match 3–1 and the tie 3–2 to progress to the semi-finals. Liverpool's opponents in the semi-finals were Swiss champions FC Zürich. The first leg at the Letzigrund was won 3–1 by Liverpool, after they had initially gone a goal behind. Liverpool won the second leg at Anfield 3–0 to win the tie 6–1 on aggregate and ensure their participation in the final.


1977 European Cup Final, Route to the final, Borussia Mönchengladbach
Borussia gained entry to the competition as a result of winning the 1975–76 Bundesliga. Their opposition in the first round were Austrian champions Austria Vienna. The away leg at the Franz Horr Stadium ended in a 1–0 defeat for Borussia. The return leg at the Bökelbergstadion saw Borussia win 3–0 courtesy of goals from Uli Stielike, Rainer Bonhof and Jupp Heynckes. A 3–1 aggregate victory meant that Borussia would face Italian champions Torino in the second round. Borussia won the first leg away from home at the Stadio Olimpico di Torino 2–1. The second leg finished 0–0, which was enough for Borussia to progress to the quarter-finals courtesy of a 2–1 aggregate victory.


1977 European Cup Final, Route to the final, Borussia Mönchengladbach
Borussia's opposition in the quarter-finals was Belgian champions Club Brugge. The first leg at the Bökelbergstadion saw Borussia concede two goals in the first half. However, they scored two goals in the second half courtesy of Christian Kulik and Allan Simonsen to secure a 2–2 draw. Despite this, Club Brugge had the advantage due to them having two away goals. Borussia knew that they had to score in the second leg at the Jan Breydel Stadium to have any chance of progressing to the semi-finals.


1977 European Cup Final, Route to the final, Borussia Mönchengladbach
The first half was goalless, and with six minutes of the second half remaining Wilfried Hannes scored the goal Borussia needed. The match finished 1–0 and a 3–2 aggregate victory meant they progressed to the semi-finals. Their opposition were Soviet champions Dynamo Kyiv. The first leg at the Central Stadium was won 1–0 by Dynamo. Borussia again needed to score to stay in the competition. Midway through the second half, Rainer Bonhof scored to make the tie 1–1 on aggregate. With eight minutes remaining and the tie heading for extra time, Hans-Jürgen Wittkamp scored to give Borussia a two-goal lead. The score remained the same and Borussia progressed to their first European Cup final with a 2–1 aggregate victory.


1977 European Cup Final, Match, Summary
The 1977 final was the first time Liverpool and Borussia Mönchengladbach had reached the showpiece match. The clubs had faced each other before in the final of a European competition: the 1973 UEFA Cup Final, a match which Liverpool won 3–2 on aggregate. Despite this being both clubs' first European Cup final they had both won European competitions. In addition to their UEFA Cup victory over Borussia, Liverpool had won the previous season's UEFA Cup, beating Club Brugge 4–3 on aggregate. Borussia were successful in the 1974–75 UEFA Cup; they beat FC Twente of the Netherlands 5–1 on aggregate.


1977 European Cup Final, Match, Summary
Liverpool entered the match as English champions; they had won the 1976–77 Football League for a record tenth time by a single point from Manchester City and Ipswich Town. Liverpool had also progressed to the final of the 1976–77 FA Cup against Manchester United. Liverpool had the opportunity to win an unprecedented Treble of League, FA Cup and European Cup. However, it was not to be as Liverpool lost the FA Cup final 2–1. Borussia entered the match as German champions; they had won the 1976–77 Bundesliga by a single point from Schalke and Eintracht Braunschweig. Borussia were aiming to become the second German team to win the European Cup after Bayern Munich had won the three previous finals.


1977 European Cup Final, Match, Summary
The first chance of the match was for Borussia; Rainer Bonhof saw his shot come back off the post. In the 24th minute, Borussia player Herbert Wimmer suffered an injury and had to be replaced by Christian Kulik. Three minutes later Ian Callaghan won the ball in midfield and passed to Steve Heighway on the right wing. Heighway cut inside from a wing and passed into space for Terry McDermott who scored the opening goal of the match. Borussia began to exert more of an influence on the game after Liverpool's goal, however they were unable to equalise before the end of the first half.


1977 European Cup Final, Match, Summary
Seven minutes after the restart Borussia had equalised. A stray Jimmy Case pass was picked up by Allan Simonsen, who advanced towards goal and scored to level the match at 1–1. Moments later, Liverpool thought they had won a penalty when Kevin Keegan seemed to have been brought down by Berti Vogts, however the referee waved play on. Five minutes after their goal, Simonsen crossed the ball from the wing, it was met by Uli Stielike whose shot was saved by Liverpool goalkeeper Ray Clemence. Two minutes later Liverpool regained the lead.


1977 European Cup Final, Match, Summary
They won a corner on the left side of the pitch and Heighway delivered the ball into the penalty area. It was met at the near post by Tommy Smith whose header gave Liverpool a 2–1 lead in what was his 600th appearance for the club. Soon afterwards, Bonhof appeared to have brought Heighway down in the penalty area, but the referee again waved play on. However, in the 82nd minute Liverpool were awarded a penalty when Vogts brought Kevin Keegan down. Phil Neal scored the penalty to give Liverpool a 3–1 lead. No further goals were scored and Liverpool won their first European Cup.


1977 European Cup Winners' Cup Final
The 1977 European Cup Winners' Cup Final was a football match contested between Hamburger SV of West Germany and the defending champions, Anderlecht of Belgium. It was the final match of the 1976–77 European Cup Winners' Cup tournament and the 17th European Cup Winners' Cup final in history. The final was held at Olympisch Stadion in Amsterdam, Netherlands (the venue was decided in Bern by the UEFA Executive Committee on 17 September 1976). Hamburg won the match 2–0 thanks to goals by Georg Volkert and Felix Magath.


1977 European Figure Skating Championships
The 1977 European Figure Skating Championships was a senior-level international competition held in Helsinki, Finland. 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.


1977 European Formula Two Championship
The 1977 European Formula Two season was contested over 13 rounds. Frenchman René Arnoux was the season champion, driving a Martini-Renault/Gordini for Ecurie Renault Elf.


1977 European Formula Two Championship, Calendar
Race 3, 10 and 11 were held in two heats, with results shown in aggregate.


1977 European Formula Two Championship, Calendar
Race 6 originally scheduled over 73 laps, but stopped early due to heavy rain.


1977 European Formula Two Championship, Calendar
Race 3 and 4 was won by a graded driver, all graded drivers are shown in Italics


1977 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.


1977 European Formula Two Championship, Final point standings, Driver
Only drivers which were not FIA graded, were able to score points.


1977 European Judo Championships
The 1977 European Judo Championships were the 26th edition of the European Judo Championships, and were held in Ludwigshafen, West Germany on 14 May 1977. Championships were subdivided into eight individual competitions, and a separate team competition. The separate European Women's Judo Championships were held in Arlon, Belgium, in October of the same year.


1977 European Judo Championships, Medal overview, Teams
Evgeny PogorelovAmiran ObgaidzeVladimir NevzorovDilar KhabulianiAlexey VolosovTengiz KhubuluriDzhibilo NizharadzeOleg ZurabianiValery DvoinikovShota Chochishvili


1977 European Junior Badminton Championships
The 1977 European Junior Badminton Championships was the fifth edition of the European Junior Badminton Championships. It was held in Ta' Qali, Malta, in the month of April. English players dominated by winning five out of six matches which includes the mixed team championships as well. Danish team won the  Boys' doubles title. Kevin Jolly, the English player who was scheduled to play in three final showdowns suffered foot injury, preventing him from contesting all the matches. Thus, matches for only Girls' singles and Girls' doubles were played on final day. The large-scale final day had to be saved with some show matches. In these show matches, Sweden's Ulf Johansson beat Andy Goode, England, who was named champion in singles, while Jesper and Niels in doubles beat Nigel Tier & Gary Reeves, England, 18-13, 15-11.


1977 European Karate Championships
The 1977 European Karate Championships, the 12th edition of the European Karate Championships, was held in the sports complex of Coubertine Hall in Paris, France from May 2 to 4, 1977.


1977 European Super Cup
The 1977 European Super Cup was an association football match played over two-legs between German team Hamburger SV and English team Liverpool. The first leg was played at the Volksparkstadion, Hamburg on 22 November 1977 and the second leg was played on 6 December 1977 at Anfield, Liverpool. The match was for the European Super Cup, an annual contest between the winners of the European Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup. Both teams were appearing in the competition for the first time.


1977 European Super Cup
The teams qualified for the competition by winning the European Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup. Hamburg won the 1976–77 European Cup Winners' Cup beating Belgian team Anderlecht 2–0 in the final. Liverpool qualified by winning the 1976–77 European Cup. They beat German team Borussia Mönchengladbach 3–1 in the final.


1977 European Super Cup
Watched by a crowd of 16,000 at the Volksparkstadion, Hamburg took the lead in the first half of the first leg when Ferdinand Keller scored. A David Fairclough goal in the second half levelled the match at 1–1, which remained the score when the match finished. A crowd of 34,391 saw Liverpool take the lead in the second leg when Phil Thompson scored in the 21st minute. A hat-trick from Terry McDermott and a goal each from Kenny Dalglish and Fairclough secured a 6–0 win for Liverpool. Thus, Liverpool won 7–1 on aggregate to win their first European Super Cup.


1977 European Super Cup, Background
The European Super Cup was founded in the early 1970s, as a means to determine the best team in Europe and serve as a challenge to Ajax, the strongest club side of its day. The proposal by Dutch journalist Anton Witkamp, a football match between the holders of the European Cup and Cup Winners' Cup, failed to receive UEFA's backing, given the recent Cup Winners' Cup winners Rangers had been banned from European competition. Witkamp nonetheless proceeded with his vision, a two-legged match played between Ajax and Rangers in January 1973. The competition was endorsed and recognised by UEFA a year later.


1977 European Super Cup, Background
Liverpool qualified for the Super Cup as winners of the 1976–77 European Cup. They had beaten German team Borussia Mönchengladbach 3–1 in the final to win the European Cup for the first time. It was Liverpool's first appearance in the Super Cup. Hamburger SV had qualified for the competition as winners of the 1976–77 European Cup Winners' Cup. A 2–0 victory against Anderlecht ensured they won the European Cup Winners' Cup for the first time. Hamburg were also appearing in their first Super Cup match.


1977 European Super Cup, Background
Both teams were midway through their respective domestic campaigns at the time of the matches. Liverpool's last game before the first leg was against Bristol City, which they drew 1–1. This result left Liverpool sixth in the 1977–78 Football League. Hamburg played Borussia Dortmund in the 1977–78 Bundesliga in their last match before the first leg, which they lost 2–1. A subplot to the matches was that Hamburg striker Kevin Keegan, would be playing against the club that he left the previous season. Keegan joined Hamburg for £500,000 following Liverpool's European Cup success. Keegan was confident in Hamburg's chances going into the match: “We’re beginning to run into form, Liverpool, on the other hand, are tired physically and mentally. People don’t realise they are only human. I would probably have lost the edge if I had stayed.”


1977 European Super Cup, First leg, Summary
Neither side created many chances in what Patrick Barclay, writing in The Guardian described as "a banal, unadventurous first half." Liverpool had chances to score through Jimmy Case, Ray Kennedy and David Fairclough but they were unable to convert them. Ferdinand Keller was unable to convert a headed chance into goal, but he did score in the 29th minute. Klaus Zaczyk passed to Keller whose shot went beyond Liverpool goalkeeper, Ray Clemence, to give Hamburg a 1–0 lead. Three minutes later, Joey Jones was replaced by Tommy Smith after he picked up a thigh injury from attempting a long-range shot.


1977 European Super Cup, First leg, Summary
The first chance of the second half fell to Fairclough when he was put through on the left hand side of the pitch but he was unable to score. Following this, midfielder Jimmy Case was replaced by striker David Johnson in the 58th minute. Hamburg made two substitutions in the 63rd and 64th minutes with Andreas Karow and Horst Bertl replacing Manfred Kaltz and Felix Magath respectively. A minute later, Liverpool had equalised.


1977 European Super Cup, First leg, Summary
Bertl's first touch of the ball was a header from a cross by Kenny Dalglish, which caught out Hamburg goalkeeper, Jürgen Stars, and allowed Fairclough to head the ball into Hamburg goal and level the match at 1–1. Barclay stated the goal "roused Hamburg to their most animated spell" with Clemence saving a shot by Arno Steffenhagen. Stars stopped a chance from Dalglish, and Johnson was unable to convert Dalglish's cross from 5 yards (4.6 m) as his shot went over the crossbar.


1977 European Super Cup, First leg, Summary
After the game, Liverpool manager, Bob Paisley, was satisfied with the result: "In the end, I was quite pleased. It was an encouraging performance. But I do not rate Hamburg and I did not rate them when we played them in August in a pre-season friendly." Keegan was not so positive about Hamburg's performance: "We were pathetic. The last two weeks we have played well but we were terrible tonight. Liverpool played quite well and got better as the game went on. I have mixed feelings about my return to Anfield now. If we had a 5–0 lead I would have loved it. I am still looking forward to it, but not so much."


1977 European Super Cup, Second leg, Summary
Liverpool opened the scoring to the match in the 21st minute when, following a corner by Steve Heighway, the ball fell to Phil Thompson whose shot went in off the post to give Liverpool the lead. Liverpool extended their lead in the 40th minute when Terry McDermott chested down a pass by Kennedy and scored from the right-hand side of the penalty area. Heighway was replaced by Johnson at the start of the second half, and ten minutes later Liverpool had scored a third.


1977 European Super Cup, Second leg, Summary
McDermott scored again as he intercepted the ball and ran down the right-hand side of the pitch before his shot went into the top-right corner of the Hamburg goal. A minute later, McDermott scored his third and Liverpool's fourth off the match after he received a pass from Kennedy down the left-hand side of the pitch. McDermott became the first player to score a hat-trick in the Super Cup. Liverpool added a further two goals in the final minutes as Fairclough scored with a header and Dalglish scored a sixth goal two minutes later. Liverpool won the match 6–0 and a 7–1 aggregate victory meant they won their first European Super Cup.


1977 European Super Cup, Post-match
Keegan praised his former team after the second leg: "I'd heard Liverpool hadn't been doing too well but from where I was stood watching there didn't seem to be much wrong with them, there were no cracks and they look as strong, if not stronger, than they ever were." McDermott was adamant that his performance in the second leg was a turning point in his Liverpool career: "Someone was injured, I think it may have been Ian Callaghan. I was moved in rather than be out wide on the right. I scored a hat-trick and I always remember John Toshack saying: 'That's your position'. I got the confidence from John Toshack saying a thing like that. He probably won't remember, but I do."


1977 European Super Cup, Post-match
Following the Super Cup, Liverpool were still competing in the 1977–78 European Cup. They reached the final where they faced Club Brugge, a match they won 1–0 to retain the title they had won the previous season. They were unable to win the 1977–78 First Division finishing second, seven points behind eventual winners Nottingham Forest.


1977 European Super Cup, Post-match
Hamburg were eliminated in the second round of the 1977–78 European Cup Winners' Cup by eventual winners, Anderlecht of Belgium. They finished the 1977–78 Bundesliga in tenth, fourteen points behind winners, 1. FC Köln.


1977 European Tour
The 1977 European Tour was a series of golf tournaments that comprised the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) European Tournament Players’ Division circuit. It is officially recognised as the sixth season of the PGA European Tour.


1977 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, with the Tournament Players’ Division reaching an agreement to join with their continental counterparts, the Continental Tournament Players' Association, in December 1976 and as a result added the word "European" to their name for the 1977 season. The title of the circuit was changed to the PGA European Golf Tour in 1979.


1977 European Tour
The Order of Merit was won by Spain's Seve Ballesteros.


1977 European Tour, Schedule
The table below shows the 1977 European Tour schedule which was made up of 22 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.


1977 European Tour, Schedule
There were several changes from the previous season, with the addition of the Callers of Newcastle and the Tournament Players Championship, which replaced the Piccadilly Medal. Two events not counting for the Order of Merit, the Phillip Morris Nations Cup and the Sumrie Better-Ball, originally pencilled in for May, were cancelled.


1977 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.


1977 European Weightlifting Championships
The 1977 European Weightlifting Championships were held in Stuttgart, West Germany from September 17 to September 25, 1977. This was the 56th edition of the event. There were 128 men in action from 24 nations. This tournament was a part of  1977 World Weightlifting Championships.


1977 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The 11th European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in Prague.


1977 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Romanian Withdrawal
The Romanian team walked out the competition during the beam finals. According to the Romanian federation, this decision was taken "as a result of some technical deficiencies and of some methods appeared in the referees' actions which altered the results".


1977 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Romanian Withdrawal
Ironically, the Romanian withdrawal happened right after Nadia Comăneci's performance, for which she received a perfect 10. If she had not left the building, she would have won the gold medal in the beam finals.


1977 European Wrestling Championships
The 1977 European Wrestling Championships was held from 26 – 29 May 1977 in Bursa, Turkey.


1977 FA Charity Shield
The 1977 FA Charity Shield was the 55th 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 13 August 1977 at Wembley Stadium and contested by Liverpool, who had won the 1976–77 First Division, and Manchester United, who had won the 1976–77 FA Cup. The teams played out a goalless draw and shared the Charity Shield.


1977 FA Cup Final
The 1977 FA Cup Final was the final match of the 1976–77 FA Cup, the 96th season of England's premier cup football competition. The match was played on 21 May 1977 at Wembley Stadium, London, and it was contested by Manchester United and Liverpool. United won the game 2–1. All three goals came in a five-minute period early in the second half. Stuart Pearson opened the scoring when he latched onto a long ball forward and drove a hard shot past Ray Clemence.


1977 FA Cup Final
Liverpool equalised through Jimmy Case soon after, as he turned and hooked a right foot half-volley into the top corner, giving Stepney no chance. However, just three minutes later, United regained the lead when Lou Macari's shot deflected off teammate Jimmy Greenhoff's chest and looped into the net past Clemence and Phil Neal on the line. Jimmy Greenhoff's brother Brian was also in the United line up, making them the first pair of brothers to play in a winning FA Cup final team since George and Ted Robledo played for Newcastle United in 1952.


1977 FA Cup Final
Liverpool had already won the league title, which meant Manchester United qualified for the 1977–78 European Cup Winners' Cup regardless of the result. Liverpool then won the European Cup four days later, so United's victory prevented them from becoming the first club to win the continental treble of League, FA Cup, and European Cup titles – United would instead achieve this feat 22 years later.


1977 FAI Cup Final
The 1977 FAI Cup Final was the final match of the 1976–77 FAI Cup, a knock-out association football competition contested annually by clubs affiliated with the Football Association of Ireland. It took place on Sunday 1 May 1977 at Dalymount Park in Dublin, and was contested by Dundalk and Limerick. Dundalk won 2–0 to win the cup for the fifth time.


1977 FAI Cup Final, Background
The two sides' two previous meetings that season had been in the League, with one win for Dundalk and a draw. Limerick had come off a poor 1976–77, finishing 12th in the League, but had won that season's Munster Senior Cup. They had won their most recent cup final in 1971. To reach the 1977 final they had overcome Sligo Rovers, Waterford, and Drogheda United.


1977 FAI Cup Final, Background
Defending league champions Dundalk had finished fifth, and were in their first FAI Cup final since winning in 1958. They had already won the Leinster Senior Cup that season. To reach the final, they had defeated non-League Pegasus (2–1), Cork Celtic (1–0), and St Patrick's Athletic (1–0 in a replay, following a 1–1 draw).


1977 FAI Cup Final, Background
The match was not broadcast live. Highlights were shown that evening on the RTÉ show Sports Scene.


1977 FAI Cup Final, Match, Summary
Going into the match Dundalk were seen as strong favourites. Limerick started the match strongly, however, creating a succession of chances – Limerick's Dave Kirby hitting the crossbar and Dundalk's Synan Braddish having to clear off the line with his head, with goalkeeper Richie Blackmore stranded. An injury to Limerick winger John Walsh in the 25th minute, which saw him withdrawn in the 31st, appeared to distract them, however. Dundalk took a 33rd-minute lead against the run of play, when player-manager Jim McLaughlin crossed for Terry Flanagan to tap home.


1977 FAI Cup Final, Match, Summary
Thereafter, Limerick lost their composure and the final was settled three minutes from time, when Flanagan headed home a Seamus McDowell corner. The match was stopped briefly in the second half due to stone and bottle throwing by Limerick fans, but an intervention from Limerick manager Frankie Johnston cooled the situation.


1977 FAMAS Awards
The 24th Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards Night was held in 1977. This was for the outstanding achievements in films in 1976.


1977 FAMAS Awards
A Nora Aunor film, Minsa'y isang gamu-gamo from Premiere Productions, was the most nominated with eight nominations and the most awarded with five wins including FAMAS Award for Best Picture and the Best Director for Lupita Aquino-Kashiwahara. However, Aunor was not nominated for this film but she did win for another film, Tatlong taong walang Diyos, her first award from FAMAS after five nominations. Christopher de Leon won his second best actor trophy from FAMAS making it only the second time a husband and wife had won the major acting awards in FAMAS history.


1977 FESPIC Games
The 2nd FESPIC Games was a multi-sport event for Far East and South Pacific athletes with a disability held in Parramatta, Australia.


1977 FESPIC Games
The Games were opened on November 20, 1977 by Right Honourable Malcolm Fraser, Prime Minister of Australia and closed on November 26, 1977 by Honourable Neville Wran, Premier of New South Wales.


1977 FESPIC Games, Participation
Fifteen countries participated - Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Japan, Burma, India, Fiji, Singapore, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Philippines, Korea and Malaysia.


1977 FESPIC Games, Participation
There were 310 athletes - 42 blind or visually impaired, 82 amputees and 185 wheelchair.


1977 FESPIC Games, Administration
The FESPIC Executive granted Sydney the right to host the 2nd FESPIC Games during its meeting held during the 1976 Toronto Paralympic Games. The Organising Committee only had just over a year to organise the second international disability sporting event in Australia. The first event was the 1962 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games held in Perth, Western Australia. Dr John Grant, the President of the Australian Wheelchair Sports Federation, was the Chairman of the Organising Committee. Funding for the Games was provided by the Australian Government, New South Government, City of Parramatta, City of Holroyd, Baulkham Hills Shire, Merrylands Council, Red Cross and several sporting organisations.


1977 FESPIC Games, Facilities
The Games Village was the William Thompson Masonic School in Baulkham Hills which had closed down in 1972. There was an enormous amount of work devoted to making the old school habitable for athletes and their escorts.


1977 FESPIC Games, Sports
Thirteen sports were held during the Games - archery, athletics, dartchery, lawn bowls, FITA round bowls, powerlifting, shooting, slalom, snooker, swimming, table tennis, wheelchair basketball and wheelchair fencing.


1977 FIA European Formula 3 Championship
The 1977 FIA European Formula 3 Championship was the third edition of the FIA European Formula 3 Championship. The championship consisted of 14 rounds across the continent. The season was won by Italian Piercarlo Ghinzani, with Anders Olofsson second and Nelson Piquet in third. Points were awarded in 9-6-4-3-2-1 fashion to the first six well-placed drivers.


1977 FIBA Africa Championship for Women
The 1977 FIBA Africa Championship for Women was the 5th FIBA Africa Championship for Women, played under the rules of FIBA, the world governing body for basketball, and the FIBA Africa thereof. The tournament was hosted by Senegal from December 25, 1976, to January 2, 1977.


1977 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship
The 1977 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (known at that time as 1977 European Championship for Cadets) was the 4th edition of the FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship. The cities of Le Touquet and Berck, in France, hosted the tournament. Turkey won their first title.


1977 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, Preliminary round
The twelve teams were allocated in two groups of six teams each.


1977 FIBA Intercontinental Cup
The 1977 FIBA Intercontinental Cup William Jones was the 11th edition of the FIBA Intercontinental Cup for men's basketball clubs. It took place at Madrid. From the FIBA European Champions Cup participated Real Madrid as host club and title holder, Mobilgirgi Varèse, and Maccabi Elite as European Champions. From the South American Club Championship participated Atlética Francana.


1977 FIBA Intercontinental Cup
Dragones de Tijuana took part from the Mexican Basketball Circuit, and from the Division I (NCAA) participated the Providence Friars.


1977 FIFA World Youth Championship
The 1977 FIFA World Youth Championship was the inaugural staging of the FIFA World Youth Championship and was held in Tunisia from 27 June to 10 July 1977. The tournament took place in three venues — Tunis, Sousse and Sfax — where a total of 28 matches were played, the smallest number in its history. The winner was the USSR, who beat Mexico in a penalty shootout, in the final held at Tunis's Stade El Menzah.


1977 FIFA World Youth Championship
The Tournament Committee was chaired by FIFA Vice-President Harry Cavan, who had spearheaded the creation of the World Youth Championship.


1977 FIFA World Youth Championship, Squads
For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1977 FIFA World Youth Championship squads


1977 FIFA World Youth Championship, Goalscorers
Guina of Brazil won the Golden Shoe award for scoring four goals. In total, 70 goals were scored by 49 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.


1977 FIFA World Youth Championship squads
Below are the rosters for the 1977 FIFA World Youth Championship tournament in Tunisia. Those marked in bold went on to earn full international caps.


1977 FIFA World Youth Championship squads, Group D, Austria
(17) Karl Meister MF Lask Linz Austria 02/24/1958 (18) Johann Gross FW Rapid Wien Austria 12/21/1959


1977 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup
The 1977 Artistic Gymnastics World Cup was held in Oviedo, Spain in 1977.


1977 FIM Motocross World Championship
The 1977 FIM Motocross World Championship was the 21st F.I.M. Motocross Racing World Championship season.


1977 FIM Motocross World Championship, Summary
Heikki Mikkola rejoined the 500cc class in 1977 after winning the 1976 250cc world championship. Now riding for the Yamaha factory racing team, he continued his old rivalry with Suzuki's Roger De Coster. Mikkola won 12 motos to clinch the title ahead of Suzuki teammates De Coster and Gerrit Wolsink. Brad Lackey switched to the Honda racing team and became the first American to score an overall victory in a 500cc motocross world championship Grand Prix when he won the British Grand Prix.


1977 FIM Motocross World Championship, Summary
Bengt Åberg competed in the 500cc world championship on a highly modified four stroke Yamaha XT500 built in collaboration with former world champions Torsten Hallman and Sten Lundin. Åberg rode the bike to a victory in the first moto of the 1977 500cc Luxembourg Grand Prix and ended the season ranked 9th in the final world championship standings. After five seasons racing in the 250cc class, Håkan Andersson competed in the 500cc class for Montesa and finished the season in fifth place.


1977 FIM Motocross World Championship, Summary
Guennady Moisseev won his second 250cc world championship as KTM swept the top three positions with Vladimir Kavinov finishing in second place and André Malherbe taking third place in the final standings. Suzuki's Gaston Rahier won the 125cc class for a third consecutive year.


1977 FIM World Motorcycle Trials Season
The 1977 World trials season consisted of twelve trials events. It began on 12 February, with round one in Newtownards, Ireland and ended with round twelve in Oberiberg, Switzerland on 25 September.


1977 FIM World Motorcycle Trials Season, Season summary
Yrjo Vesterinen would claim his second World trials championship in 1977, repeating his 1976 title.


1977 FIM World Motorcycle Trials Season, 1977 World trials season calendar, Scoring system
Points were awarded to the top ten finishers. All twelve rounds counted for the World Trials class.


1977 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup
The 1977 FIVB Men's World Cup was held from 17 to 29 November 1977 in Japan. It was the 3rd edition of the competition.


1977 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup
The FIVB Men’s World Cup made its final breakthrough when the decision was taken to hold the competition in Japan from that point on. The tournament was held there for the first time in 1977, and the mix of competitors from around the world was the most varied it had ever been. Only three of the twelve participating teams were from Europe. Soviet Union won their second title of World Cup.


1977 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship
The 1977 FIVB Women's U20 World Championship was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil from September 5 to 14, 1977. 14 teams participated in the tournament.


1977 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship, Qualification
A total of 14 teams qualified for the final tournament. In addition to Brazil, who qualified automatically as the hosts, another 13 teams qualified via four separate continental tournament.


1977 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup
The 1977 FIVB Women's World Cup was held from 8 to 15 November 1977 in Japan.


1977 Falkland Islands general election
The Falkland Islands general election of 1977 was held on Thursday 6 October 1977 to elect members to the Legislative Council. Six Councillors were elected through universal suffrage, one from each constituency.


1977 Falkland Islands general election
The election took place just over a year after the last so that the changes to the Legislative Council under the new constitution could be implemented. The new constitution, which came into force under Falkland Islands (Legislative Council) (Amendment) Order 1977, abolished the remaining appointed members Councillors and increased the number of elected Councillors to six. The constitution also created three new constituencies (Camp, East Stanley and West Stanley) to add to the existing three (Stanley, East Falkland, West Falkland).


1977 Falkland Islands general election, Results
Candidates in bold were elected. Candidates in italic were incumbents.


1977 Family Circle Cup
The 1977 Family Circle Cup was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Sea Pines Plantation on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina in the United States. The event was part of the AAA category of the 1977 Colgate Series. It was the fifth edition of the tournament and was held from March 28 through April 3, 1977. First-seeded Chris Evert won the singles title, her fourth consecutive title at the event, and earned $25,000 first-prize money.


1977 Family Circle Cup, Finals, Doubles
Rosemary Casals /  Chris Evert defeated  Françoise Dürr /  Virginia Wade 1–6, 6–2, 6–3


1977 Family Circle Cup – Singles
Chris Evert was the reigning singles champion at the Family Circle Cup tennis tournament, and defended her title, defeating Billie Jean King in the final, 6–0, 6–1. The draw consisted of 32 players of which 8 were seeded.


1977 Federation Cup (tennis)
The 1977 Federation Cup was the 15th edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. The tournament was held at Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club in Eastbourne, United Kingdom, from 13–18 June. The United States defended their title, defeating Australia in their seventh final.


1977 Federation Cup (tennis), Draw
All ties were played at Devonshire Park in Eastbourne, United Kingdom, on grass courts.


1977 Federation Cup (tennis), Draw
1st and 2nd Round losing teams play in Consolation Rounds


1977 Fermanagh District Council election
Elections to Fermanagh District Council were held on 18 May 1977 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used five district electoral areas to elect a total of 20 councillors.


1977 Fermanagh District Council election, Districts results, Area A
1973: 2 x Unity, 1 x Independent Unionist, 1 x Independent Nationalist1977: 1 x Unity, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent1973-1977 Change: Independent gain from Unity, Independent Unionist joins UUP and Independent Nationalist joins SDLP


1977 Fermanagh District Council election, Districts results, Area B
1973: 3 x UUP, 1 x Unity1977: 2 x UUP, 1 x UUUP, 1 x SDLP1973-1977 Change: UUUP and SDLP gain from UUP and Unity


1977 Fermanagh District Council election, Districts results, Area C
1973: 2 x UUP, 1 x Unity, 1 x Independent Nationalist1977: 1 x UUP, 1 x Unity, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent Nationalist1973-1977 Change: SDLP gain from UUP


1977 Fermanagh District Council election, Districts results, Area D
1973: 2 x SDLP, 2 x UUP1977: 2 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x UUUP1973-1977 Change: UUUP gain from UUP


1977 Fermanagh District Council election, Districts results, Area E
1973: 2 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Unionist1977: 2 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x UUUP1973-1977 Change: UUUP gain from Independent Unionist


1977 Fiesta Bowl
The 1977 Fiesta Bowl was the seventh edition of the college football bowl game, played at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona on Sunday, December 25. Part of the 1977–78 bowl game season, it matched the eighth-ranked Penn State Nittany Lions and the #15 Arizona State Sun Devils of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). Favored Penn State took an early lead and won 42–30 on the Sun Devils' home field.


1977 Fiesta Bowl, Teams, Penn State
Penn State was ranked as high as fourth until a home loss to #16 Kentucky in early October, but then won seven straight. It was their first Fiesta Bowl appearance.


1977 Fiesta Bowl, Teams, Arizona State
In the Sun Devils' final year in the WAC, they were co-champion for the seventh and last time, and appeared in their fifth Fiesta Bowl. They were invited after co-champion BYU backed out due to the bowl being slated to play on a Sunday. ASU's sole loss in the WAC was at Colorado State in a snowstorm.


1977 Fiesta Bowl, Game summary
The game kicked off on Christmas Day (Sunday) shortly after 1 p.m. MST, televised by CBS. There were no other bowl games on this day, and the NFL divisional playoffs were on a day either side of it; the AFC on Saturday, and the NFC on Monday.


1977 Fiesta Bowl, Game summary
Joe Lally blocked a punt and returned it 21 yards to give Penn State the lead early in the first quarter. Bob Torrey caught a touchdown pass from Chuck Fusina to make it 14–0. Arthur Lane caught a touchdown pass from Dennis Sproul to narrow it to 14–7. Bahr made it 17–7 with a field goal. Ron Washington caught a touchdown pass from Sproul to narrow it to 17–14 at halftime.


1977 Fiesta Bowl, Game summary
An 18-yard touchdown run by halfback Steve Geise made it 24–14 at the end of the third, and a three-yard run by fullback Matt Suhey increased the lead to seventeen points early in the fourth. Washington caught another touchdown pass from Sproul to narrow it to 31–21, but Bahr kicked another field goal to make it 34–21. Arizona State's George Perry ran in from a yard out to close the gap to 34–28, but Suhey's second touchdown run and a deliberate safety late in the game sealed the game for Penn State, who won their first-ever Fiesta Bowl.


1977 Fiesta Bowl, Aftermath
Penn State's next Fiesta Bowl was three years later; Arizona State returned in January 1983 as a member of the Pacific-10 Conference.


1977 Fijian constitutional crisis
Fiji's parliamentary election of March 1977 precipitated a constitutional crisis, which was the first major challenge to the country's democratic institutions since independence in 1970.


1977 Fijian constitutional crisis
Politics in the years before and after independence had been dominated by the conflicting interests of the ethnic Fijian and Indo-Fijian communities. At that time, Indo-Fijians slightly outnumbered ethnic Fijians, but by holding a virtual monopoly of the ethnic Fijian vote and by making significant inroads into the Indo-Fijian electorate (taking almost a quarter of their votes in the election of 1972), Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara's Alliance Party had maintained its grip on power. A split in the indigenous vote in 1977, however, resulted in a narrow win for the Indo-Fijian-dominated National Federation Party (NFP). Sidiq Koya, the NFP leader, was expected to become Prime Minister.


1977 Fijian constitutional crisis
Instead, the Governor-General, Ratu Sir George Cakobau, called on Mara to form a caretaker government, pending new elections scheduled for September. The events that led to his decision, and his reasons for it, are still mired in controversy, with different parties involved telling different versions of the situation, and conspiracy theories have abounded. What is known is that a leadership struggle immediately following the election seriously fractured the NFP. It failed to name a Cabinet for three days, and a crisis began to develop.


1977 Fijian constitutional crisis
A prominent NFP parliamentarian, Jai Ram Reddy, wondered aloud on national radio whether his party was ready to form a government, and whether it would in fact be able to do so. Ratu Mara claimed in his 1996 autobiography, The Pacific Way, that NFP politicians had approached him and asked him to remain in office, but with an NFP Cabinet; he claimed to have refused.


1977 Fijian constitutional crisis
Some accused Reddy of sabotaging the formation of a government in order to challenge Koya for the leadership of the party, a charge that has never been proven. Other possible traitors within the NFP were also named. Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry claimed in his 2004 book, "Children of the Indus", that parliamentarians Chand Ramrakha and Irene Jai Narayan had betrayed their own leader by telling the Governor-General that not all NFP caucus members would support Koya for Prime Minister.


1977 Fijian constitutional crisis
"There is also some basis to the story that Karam Ramrakha and Irene Jai Narayan had informed Ratu George secretly that Koya did not enjoy the support of all NFP parliamentarians. Regrettably, at the hour of his triumph Koya had been stabbed in the back by his own people," he wrote. Ramrakha, now a lawyer based in Sydney, Australia, sued for defamation, saying that the claim was false and had damaged his reputation.


1977 Fijian constitutional crisis
Others, both in Fiji and abroad, accused the Governor-General, a high chief in the Fijian chiefly hierarchy, of deliberate bias, and took his usurping of a popular election to preserve the government of his fellow-chief (and distant cousin), Ratu Mara, as an indication that the indigenous Fijian elite would not tolerate an Indo-Fijian-led government. Proponents of this theory point to the coups of 1987 and of 2000, both of which toppled governments dominated or led by Indo-Fijians, as evidence of their belief. Whether this controversial opinion is true or not, few doubt that Cakobau was pleased to be able to reappoint the government dominated by indigenous Fijians.


1977 Fijian constitutional crisis
In a public statement, Ratu Cakobau defended his actions thus:


1977 Fijian constitutional crisis
In the recent general election, the people of Fiji did not give a clear mandate to either of the major political parties. It therefore became the duty of the Governor-General under the Constitution to appoint as Prime Minister the Member of the House of Representatives who appeared to him best able to command the support of the majority of the Members of the House. The Governor-General has not been able to act sooner as it was not until this afternoon that he was informed who had been elected leader of the National Federation Party.


1977 Fijian constitutional crisis
The Governor-General, after taking all relevant circumstances into account, has come to the firm conclusion that the person best able to command support of the majority of the Members is the Leader of the Alliance Party, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara. In compliance with the Constitution and acting in his own deliberate judgment the Governor-General has accordingly appointed Ratu Sir Kamisese as Prime Minister.


1977 Fijian constitutional crisis
The September election called to resolve the impasse resulted in a landslide win for the Fijian Alliance, which remained in power for another decade.


1977 Finnish motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1977 Finnish motorcycle Grand Prix was the eleventh round of the 1977 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 31 July 1977 at the Imatra circuit.


1977 Firecracker 400
The 1977 Firecracker 400 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race that took place on July 4, 1977, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.


1977 Firecracker 400
For the first time since 1949, three women raced in an official NASCAR Cup Series race: Italian Lella Lombardi, Belgian Christine Beckers, and American Janet Guthrie. Lella Lombardi was the only woman to score points in F1 and NASCAR. Lombardi is actually the only F1 driver ever to have a career total of less than one point. One driver scored one-seventh of a point in one season (for sharing a fastest lap, recorded only down to the second, with six others) but scored 51 more in other years.


1977 Firecracker 400, Race report
A racing grid of 41 drivers competed in this race; including Belgian driver Christine Beckers and Italian Lella Lombardi. D.K. Ulrich would finish last due to an engine problem on the fourth lap. Janet Guthrie was the only American-born female driver on the grid. While A. J. Foyt, Cale Yarborough, Richard Petty and Darrell Waltrip would lead the opening laps of the race, Donnie Allison and Richard Petty would fight it out for supremacy in the crucial final laps.


1977 Firecracker 400, Race report
Lombardi and Beckers were invited by NASCAR with the idea to pit the three women against each other on the track. Lella Lombardi and Christine Beckers raced as teammates in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, finishing just outside the top-10 in their Ford-powered entry, three weeks before this race then raced against each other here.


1977 Firecracker 400, Race report
Richard Petty would go on to defeat Darrell Waltrip by 18 seconds in front of 65,000 people; marking the final win for Richard Petty in his trusty 1974 Dodge Charger. Engine problems knocked most of the drivers out of the race. Neil Bonnett would win the pole position with a qualifying speed of 187.191 miles per hour (301.255 km/h) while the speed of the race was 147.216 miles per hour (236.921 km/h).


1977 Firecracker 400, Race report
There was two-hour rain delay two laps before halfway. There was a storm covering from the tri-oval over the first and second turns for about two hours while the third and fourth turns were in sunshine due to the incessant hot and humid weather of Florida during the summer months.


1977 Firecracker 400, Race report
Most of the vehicles at this event were Dodge or Chevrolet with some Ford vehicles and a single entry by an AMC Matador. Winnings for this race ranged from $19,075 ($81,464 when adjusted for inflation) for the winner to $1,390 for last-place. ($5,936 when adjusted for inflation). Ramo Stott would retire from professional stock car racing after this event.


1977 Fischer-Grand Prix
The 1977 Fischer-Grand Prix was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria that was part of the 1977 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from 24 October through 30 October 1977. Brian Gottfried won the singles title.


1977 Fischer-Grand Prix, Finals, Doubles
Bob Hewitt /  Frew McMillan defeated  Wojciech Fibak /  Jan Kodeš 6–4, 6–3


1977 Fischer-Grand Prix – Doubles
Bob Hewitt and Frew McMillan were the defending champions and won in the final 6–4, 6–3 against Wojciech Fibak and Jan Kodeš.


1977 Fischer-Grand Prix – Singles
Wojciech Fibak was the defending champion but lost in the final 6–1, 6–1 to Brian Gottfried.


1977 Five Nations Championship
The 1977 Five Nations Championship was the forty-eighth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the eighty-third series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 15 January and 19 March.


1977 Five Nations Championship
France won the championship for the sixth time outright. Including shared titles this was France's tenth championship overall. France won the Grand Slam for the second time and did so with the same fifteen players in all four matches (a unique feat for a Grand Slam winner) and without conceding a try. England, in 1913, are the only other Grand Slam winners not to concede a try. France also registered the lowest points total, 58, of any Grand Slam winner in the four point-try era (1972–92). Wales won the Triple Crown for the second consecutive season and the fourteenth time overall, equalling England's record of Triple Crown wins. They were the first Triple Crown winners to finish as runners-up in the championship.


1977 Five Nations Championship
The third game of the tournament — France v. Wales in Paris — was the subject of the 1978 film Grand Slam; the ending had to be rewritten when Wales unexpectedly lost.


1977 Florida Federal Open
The 1977 Florida Federal Open was a women's singles tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Palm Harbor, Florida in the United States. The event was part of the A category of the 1977 Colgate Series. It was the fifth edition of the tournament and was held from September 26 through October 2, 1977. Unseeded Virginia Ruzici won the title and earned $6,000 first-prize money.


1977 Florida Federal Open, Finals, Doubles
Linky Boshoff /  Ilana Kloss defeated  Brigitte Cuypers /  Marise Kruger 7–6(7–4), 6–3


1977 Florida Gators football team
The 1977 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1977 NCAA Division I football season. The season was Doug Dickey's eighth as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. Dickey's 1977 Florida Gators finished with a 6–4–1 overall record and a 3–3 Southeastern Conference (SEC) record, placing fifth among ten SEC teams.


1977 Florida Gators football team, Game summaries, Rice
In the season's opener, a 48–3 win over Rice, Cris Collinsworth hit Derrick Gaffney on a record 99-yard touchdown pass. 1 of his 2 passes on the day.


1977 Florida Gators football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State
In the second week of play, Florida edged Mississippi State 24–22.yepremian junior kicker comes through  again keeping Florids hopes alive


1977 Florida Gators football team, Game summaries, LSU
Louisiana State beat Florida 36–14. Wes Chandler had 146 yards receiving, including an 85-yard reception from Terry LeCount.


1977 Florida Gators football team, Game summaries, Tennessee
The Gators called a timeout in the final seconds of a 27–17 win over the Tennessee Volunteers. Tennessee coach Johnny Majors was furious, and the post-game handshake ritual  became a shoving match between coaching staffs.


1977 Florida Gators football team, Game summaries, Utah
The Gators ran over the Utah Utes for 531 yards and won 38–29.


1977 Florida Gators football team, Game summaries, Florida State
Bobby Bowden got his first win over the Gators, as Florida State beat Florida 37–9.


1977 Florida State Seminoles football team
The 1977 Florida State Seminoles football team represented Florida State University in the 1977 NCAA Division I football season. The team was coached by Bobby Bowden and played their home games at Doak Campbell Stadium.


1977 Florida State Seminoles football team, Season summary, at Southern Miss
Florida State settled down in the 2nd half and rolled to a 35–6 victory over a stunned Southern Mississippi. The Seminoles were scoreless until a minute remained in the first half, when Ron Simmons blocked a punt and Scott Warren picked up the ball and ran it 2 yards for a touchdown that put the Noles on top to stay at 7–3. Florida State stretched it out to 14–6 in the third period, then exploded for three fourth quarter touchdowns. Jimmy Jordan threw two touchdown passes, one to Greg Lazzaro (34 yards) and one to Kurt Unglaub (8 yards). Mark Lyles scored from 1 yards out and Greg Ramsey caught a 12-yard TD pass from Wally Woodham.


1977 Florida State Seminoles football team, Season summary, at Kansas State
Larry Key ran for 120 yards and became the first Florida State football player ever to go over the 2,000 mark in career yardage. It was defense that did it as the Seminoles struggled to an 18–10 victory over Kansas State. The defense held K-State to just seven first downs and 173 total yards. Jimmy Jordan passed nine yards to a wide open Mike Shumann for a touchdown. The Seminoles went for two points, Jordan again hitting Shumann, making it 8–7.


1977 Florida State Seminoles football team, Season summary, at Kansas State
In the early going of the last quarter K-State regained the lead, 10–8 on a 19-yard field goal by Kris Thompson. With 6:58 to go in the game the Seminoles capped an 80-yard drive with Dave Cappelen's 27 yard field goal, moving back up 11–10. Then, with 2:27 left, Jordan hit Shumann at the goal line for a 26-yard touchdown.


1977 Florida State Seminoles football team, Season summary, Miami (FL)
Down 17–10, Miami ripped off 13 points in the final nine minutes and ended the Seminoles' five-game winning streak 23–17. Behind 10-0 after the 1st quarter, the Seminoles rallied to go ahead 11–10, then 17–10. Kenneth McMillian threw a 3-yard TD pass to Karl Monroe. Chris Dennis tied it 17–17 with 8:46 left. The next series saw a Jordan pass intercepted and Dennis kick the first of two 47 yard field goals for a 20-17 Miami lead as the clock showed 5:02. Then, with 4:11 remaining, Florida State gambled with a fourth-down pass at its 40. The pass missed. Miami took over, and got another Dennis field goal, for 23–17 with 2:09 left. Miami's fifth interception of the game spoiled FSU's last possession of the football.


1977 Florida State Seminoles football team, Season summary, at Oklahoma State
With Larry Key and Wally Woodham leading the way, Florida State patched-up its tattered offense and stuck it to Oklahoma State 25–17. Down 17–3 in the early minutes of the last half, the surprising Seminoles erupted for 22 point in a hurry. Key ran a school-record 32 times, including 14 times in the closing quarter. Key gained 127 yards running, 72 more on three pass receptions, and 60 on his single kickoff return. Woodham took over for starter Jimmy Jordan at quarterback late in the first half, the Seminoles trailing 10–0.


1977 Florida State Seminoles football team, Season summary, at Oklahoma State
With Woodham in, Florida State got points on the board four out of the five times it had the football. He completed nine of his 16 passes for 145 yards. Dave Cappelen kicked 36 and 30 yard field goals, the last one put FSU ahead to stay 18–17 with 6:36 left. Mark Lyles ran 2 yards for a touchdown and Wally Woodham ran 2 yards for a touchdown and threw a 18-yard TD pass to Larry Key.


1977 Florida State Seminoles football team, Season summary, Cincinnati
The Seminoles put down a rather pedestrian Cincinnati team 14–0. Wally Woodham threw for 265 yards and two touchdown passes, one to Mike Shuman (15 yards) and one to Roger Overby (36 yards) to lead the Seminoles to victory. The Seminole defense forced six turnovers, 4 interceptions and 2 fumble recoveries.


1977 Florida State Seminoles football team, Season summary, Auburn
Auburn traveled to Tallahassee to play #18 ranked Florida State at Doak Campbell Stadium. The Seminoles led 10–3 at halftime as the Tigers had trouble holding on to the ball. Larry Key led the charge in the 2nd half as the Noles held on for a 24–3 victory. Key had 170 yards rushing and ran for two touchdowns.


1977 Florida State Seminoles football team, Season summary, Auburn
With Ron Simmons and Willie Jones putting the spurs to a spectacular clutch defense, Florida State rolled over North Texas State 35–14. Florida State had drove 78 yards to a 7–0 lead on the game's opening series, Wally Woodham scoring from the one. North Texas tied it 7–7 in the second quarter as Mike Jones scored from the one, capping an 85-yard drive. The Seminoles scored two touchdowns within a span of 44 playing seconds without a single offensive play from scrimmage.


1977 Florida State Seminoles football team, Season summary, Auburn
With 3:08 left in the first half, Bobby Butler blocked a punt that Ivory Joe Hunter picked up and took 19 yards for a touchdown. That made it 14–7. Ken Smith came in at quarterback for the Mean Green and on the first play, an attempted draw, saw a bobbled handoff at the goal line, and Willie Jones claimed the ball in the end zone for an FSU touchdown that brought it to 21–7 at halftime. Simmons sacked the quarterback five times during the game for a total yardage loss of 51.


1977 Florida State Seminoles football team, Season summary, at Virginia Tech
A 29-yard field goal by Dave Cappelen finally beat Virginia Tech 23–21 on a wet, grey homecoming afternoon before 36,500 folks at Lane Stadium in Blacksburg. Just moments before, Tech had drove 77 yards, all on the ground, for a 21–20 lead. A 39-yard pass by Mike Shumann off a reverse set up the winning 3 pointer, with Roger Overby on the receiving end. Cappelen had three field goals for the afternoon, the other two coming from 42 and 26 yards out. Trailing 14–3, Wally Woodham threw a 10-yard TD pass to Mike Shuman. Woodham sneaked in from the one yard line to give the Noles a 17–14 lead. Cappelen kicked two field goals, the game winner coming with 4:57 remaining in the game.


1977 Florida State Seminoles football team, Season summary, Memphis State
With a stinging defense that threw Memphis State backs for losses at least 15 times, Florida State ground out a 30–9 victory. Nose Guard Fred Igaz sacked Memphis quarterbacks three times. Just before halftime the Noles struck for a 10–0 lead. Dave Cappelen capped an 83-yard drive with a 30-yard field goal. Moments later, Willie Jones tackled a Memphis back and Jimmy Heggins hopped on the fumble at the Tiger 30. Woodham passed 27 yards to Mike Shumann for the touchdown. In the early moments of the fourth quarter, Bowden inserted Jimmy Jordan at quarterback.


1977 Florida State Seminoles football team, Season summary, Memphis State
Jordan promptly directed a 50-yard drive for a touchdown. Mark Lyles scored from the four for a 20–3 lead. With Jordan still in there, the Seminoles got points on their next two series, Cappelen booting a 21-yard field goal and Greg Lazzaro grabbing a 13-yard TD pass, extending it to 30–3.


1977 Florida State Seminoles football team, Season summary, at San Diego State
Unable to cope with the brilliant dropback passing of Joe Davis, error-ridden Florida State fell to San Diego State 41–16. In the first half, a mishandled punt, a fumble, a blocked punt and an interception gave San Diego the football at FSU's 13, 12, 17 and 48. That led to 24 Aztec points. Florida State got a 22-yard field goal from Dave Cappelen late in the first quarter to cut the score to 14–3. Early in the second period Wally Woodham threw a 42-yard TD pass to Mike Shumann to narrow it to 21–10. But later Woodham fumbled at his 12 when blind-sided, and the Aztecs moved to a quick TD to make it 28–10. Trailing 41–10, Jimmy Jordan threw a 19-yard TD pass to Roger Overby for the final points of the game.


1977 Florida State Seminoles football team, Season summary, at Florida
Florida hosted the Seminoles at Florida Field and Bobby Bowden and his Seminoles broke a 9-game losing streak to Florida with a 37-9 thumping of the Gators. The Seminoles rolled up 578 yards of total offense while holding the Gators to 200 yards of total offense. Berj Yepremian kicked three field goals for all of the Gators points. The Noles quarterbacks, Wally Woodham and Jim Jordan operated the FSU offense with smooth efficiency all game as they combined to pass for 344 yards. The pair was affectionately known as the Seminoles two-headed quarterback, Wally Jim Jordham.


1977 Florida State Seminoles football team, Season summary, Texas Tech (Tangerine Bowl)
Jimmy Jordan threw 18-of-25 for 311 yards and three touchdowns on the way to an MVP effort. Florida State had 22 first downs to Texas Tech's 21 first downs. Tech had 99 rushing yards (on 44 carries) while the Seminoles had 85 (on 37 carries). Florida State threw for 455 passing yards while the Red Raiders threw for 379. The Seminoles had two turnovers, but the Red Raiders turned it over four times.


1977 Florida State Seminoles football team, Season summary, Texas Tech (Tangerine Bowl)
While Florida State had 10 penalties for 130 yards, they managed to convert their opportunities into points, whereas Tech did not do as such, at least until the second half where it was too late. Roger Overby caught two touchdown passes and Larry Key returned a kickoff 93 yards for a touchdown for the Seminoles.


1977 Football Cup of Ukrainian SSR among KFK
The 1976 Football Cup of Ukrainian SSR among KFK  was the annual season of Ukraine's football knockout competition for amateur football teams.


1977 Football League Cup Final
The 1977 Football League Cup Final was played between Aston Villa and Everton and required three games to decide the winner, the only time this has happened in the League Cup. The first match took place at Wembley Stadium on 12 March and the game ended in a goalless draw. The replay on 16 March was only marginally better as the teams again played out a draw, this time at Hillsborough the home of Sheffield Wednesday. The game ended 1-1 with both goals scored by Everton players with Bob Latchford's last-minute equaliser nullifying Roger Kenyon's earlier own-goal.


1977 Football League Cup Final
The second replay took place at Old Trafford on 13 April. The game is probably best remembered for a 40-yard goal from Villa centre-half Chris Nicholl, and in a 2010 poll this was voted in the Top 25 of all-time League Cup moments. Brian Little scored his second of the match in dramatic fashion during the dying seconds of the game to give Villa a 3–2 victory. Mick Lyons and Bob Latchford scored for Everton.


1977 Football League Cup Final, Road to Wembley, Aston Villa
Villa defeated top-level teams Manchester City and Norwich City in their first two games, before a 4th round victory over Wrexham moved them into the last eight. Here they defeated second level Millwall 2–0. In the first leg of the semi-final they drew 0–0 at Queens Park Rangers, with the second leg also drawn (2–2), thus setting up a replay. Villa won this game 3–0 on 22 February (at Highbury) courtesy of a Brian Little hat-trick.


1977 Football League Cup Final, Road to Wembley, Everton
Conversely Everton's first two victories came against fourth level teams Cambridge United and Stockport County before a 3–0 fourth round victory over First Division Coventry City. In the quarter-finals they enjoyed a 3–0 win at Manchester United, resulting in a semi-final clash with second level Bolton Wanderers. After drawing the home leg, Everton won 1–0 at Burnden Park on 15 February to book their place at Wembley.


1977 Football League Cup Final, Replay, Match details
For the first replay Villa replaced Cropley with Gordon Cowans, whilst Everton replaced Jones with Mike Bernard and Dobson with Roger Kenyon. Additionally Jim Pearson came on as a substitute for Hamilton. |}


1977 Football League Cup Final, Second Replay, Match details
For the second replay the line-ups were as the original game except for Villa Ray Graydon and Gordon Cowans played instead of Gray and Carrodus, and Gordon Smith came on as a substitute for Gidman. Everton were as the original match except Neil Robinson replaced Jones and Jim Pearson replaced McKenzie, whilst Steve Seargeant came on as a sub for Pearson.


1977 Formula 750 season
The 1977 Formula 750 season was the fifth season of the FIM Formula 750 World Championship and the first season to have full world championship status. Steve Baker was crowned champion, winning five races on aggregate.


1977 Formula Atlantic season
The 1977 CASC Formula Atlantic Labatts Championship Series season was contested over 7 rounds. In this one-make engine formula all drivers had to use Ford engines. 39 different drivers competed in 5 different chassis.


1977 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 for seventh place, winding down to 1 point for 15th place. No additional points were awarded. All results count.


1977 Formula One season
The 1977 Formula One season was the 31st season of the FIA's Formula One motor racing. It featured the 28th World Championship of Drivers and the 20th International Cup for Formula 1 Constructors, which commenced on 9 January 1977, and ended on 23 October after seventeen races, making it the longest Formula One season in the sport's history at the time. The season also included a single non-championship race for Formula One cars, the 1977 Race of Champions.


1977 Formula One season
Niki Lauda won his second championship, despite Mario Andretti winning more races. Jody Scheckter's Wolf won first time out, Shadow took their only victory, and Gunnar Nilsson achieved the only win of a career ended by cancer. Renault entered Grand Prix racing with a turbocharged car which was initially not very successful. The German ATS team took over the Penske cars and the South African Grand Prix was the last race a BRM ever qualified to start. Lauda departed Ferrari even before the season ended, so did not complete the season, having already sealed the title thanks to his consistent form. Ferrari won its third consecutive Constructors' title with new driver Carlos Reutemann having a solid season.


1977 Formula One season
The season was also marred by one of the most horrific accidents in Formula One history. During the South African GP on 5 March, Tom Pryce was unable to avoid hitting 19-year-old race marshal Frederik Jansen van Vuuren, who had tried to cross the track. The latter was killed in the collision, and his fire extinguisher struck and killed Pryce, whose car proceeded to the end of the straight where it collided with Jacques Laffite's Ligier. There was further tragedy as Carlos Pace lost his life in an aviation accident only a couple of weeks after Pryce's accident.