1974 Maine gubernatorial election, Campaign, Independent candidate
Longley had been a lifelong Democrat, but due to earning a maverick reputation acting in a non-partisan role on the cost-cutting commission and because he inadvertently missed the filing deadline for party candidates, he ran as an independent. Some Maine observers believed he knew he would be unable to beat both former Muskie adviser George Mitchell and state Senator Joseph Brennan in a Democratic primary, causing him to not file with the party. He ran on the slogan "Think About It", a phrase he often used with insurance customers to get them to consider his products.


1974 Maine gubernatorial election, Campaign, The issues
In 1974, the economy was volatile and inflation was high. Maine's economy was in a weak position with high unemployment and low wages, and all three candidates focused on this economic uncertainty in their respective campaigns. Issues such as oil prices, health care, the environment and care for the elderly were also major themes that dominated the debate by the candidates.


1974 Maine gubernatorial election, Campaign, The issues
Longley campaigned on a platform of cutting government and making it more efficient, hoping to capitalize on the reputation he had earned with the commission. However, he struggled to get attention in the race, as most media outlets focused on Mitchell and James Erwin (who had run for governor the previous cycle as well). Toward the tail end of the campaign, however, increased attention was focused on Longley, with newspapers profiling his candidacy and speculating that he was on par with the other two candidates. When the Bangor Daily News issued an endorsement of Longley, many observers believe it gave Longley instant legitimacy.


1974 Maine gubernatorial election, The election
An Associated Press poll three days before the election showed Mitchell and Erwin running neck and neck, with Longley trailing by double digits. However, that same poll noted that 37 percent of the electorate was still undecided, leaving open the possibility that they could swing any direction at the last minute.


1974 Maine gubernatorial election, The election
On Election Day, Longley won with 39 percent of the vote, followed by Mitchell at 36 percent, and Erwin with 23 percent.


1974 Maine gubernatorial election, The election
Mitchell attributed his loss to "distrust and cynicism about politics and politicians", "widespread concern over the economy", and "the fact that James Longley had conducted a very excellent campaign."


1974 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
The 1974 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 45th playing of the midsummer classic between the all-stars of the American League (AL) and National League (NL), the two leagues comprising Major League Baseball. The game was held on July 23, 1974, at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania the home of the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League. The game resulted in the National League defeating the American League 7–2.


1974 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
This marked the third time the Pirates had been host for the All-Star Game (the first two having been in 1944 and the first game in 1959). This would be the first of two times that the game would be played at Three Rivers Stadium, with the stadium hosting again in 1994.


1974 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, American League roster
The American League roster included 10 future Hall of Fame players, denoted in italics.


1974 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, National League roster
The National League roster included 7 future Hall of Fame players, denoted in italics.


1974 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Starting lineups
While the starters were elected by the fans, the batting orders and starting pitchers were selected by the managers.


1974 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary
The National League took a 1–0 lead in the bottom of the second off of AL starter Gaylord Perry. With two outs, Steve Garvey singled, and then scored on Ron Cey's double.


1974 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary
The American League responded immediately, scoring twice off of NL starter Andy Messersmith in the top of the third inning. Thurman Munson led off with a double to open the inning, and advanced to third base on a successful sacrifice bunt by Gaylord Perry. Rod Carew walked. The next batter, Bert Campaneris, struck out as Carew stole second base. Carew immediately advanced to third base on the throwing error by NL catcher Johnny Bench, which also allowed Munson to score. Reggie Jackson walked. Dick Allen singled sending Jackson to second base, and scoring Carew. This ended the scoring for the American League.


1974 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary
The NL retook the lead with a two-run bottom of the fourth inning off of AL relief pitcher, Luis Tiant. Johnny Bench led off with a single, and advanced to third base when Jimmy Wynn singled in the next at-bat. Steve Garvey doubled, scoring Bench, and sending Wynn to third base. Ron Cey grounded out, permitting Garvey to advance to third base and scoring Wynn.


1974 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary
In the bottom of the fifth inning, the NL added an unearned run. Pinch hitter Lou Brock singled. With Joe Morgan batting, Brock stole second base, and advanced to third base on a throwing error by AL catcher Thurman Munson. Morgan hit a sacrifice fly to the outfield, permitting Brock to tag up and score from third base, and extend the NL lead to 4–2.


1974 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary
In the bottom of the seventh inning, with Catfish Hunter in his second inning of relief pitching for the AL, Reggie Smith led off with a home run to push the NL lead to 5–2.


1974 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary
The NL closed out the game's scoring in the bottom of the eighth inning facing the new AL relief pitcher, Rollie Fingers. With one out, Mike Schmidt walked, and then scored on Don Kessinger's triple. With Mike Marshall batting, Kessinger scored when Fingers threw a wild pitch. The final two runs brought the final score to 7–2.


1974 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records
Ken Brett was credited with the win. Luis Tiant was credited with the loss.


1974 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records
Dick Williams was manager of the American League squad by virtue of having been manager of the 1973 American League Champion Oakland Athletics. Williams left the team after the season, and was signed to manage the California Angels.


1974 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records
Steve Garvey's name was omitted from the ballots given to fans. He was elected to the NL squad by virtue of a successful write-in campaign.


1974 Major League Baseball draft, First round selections
The following are the first round picks in the 1974 Major League Baseball draft.


1974 Major League Baseball draft, Background
With the number one pick of the June regular phase, San Diego tabbed infielder Bill Almon from Brown University, one of six shortstops selected in round one. Twelve of the first 13 and a total of 16 first round selections went on to become major leaguers, including Lonnie Smith (Philadelphia), Dale Murphy (Atlanta), Garry Templeton (St. Louis), Lance Parrish (Detroit), Willie Wilson (Kansas City) and Rick Sutcliffe (Los Angeles).


1974 Major League Baseball draft, Background
Three players from the June regular phase were among the ones who got away. Pitcher Bob Welch (Chicago Cubs, 14th round), infielder Paul Molitor (St. Louis, 28th round) and pitcher Eric Show (Minnesota, 36th round) turned down pro offers for college scholarships.


1974 Major League Baseball season
The 1974 Major League Baseball season. The Oakland Athletics won their third consecutive World Series, defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers four games to one.


1974 Major League Baseball season
Two notable personal milestones were achieved during the 1974 season. The first came on April 8, when Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves blasted his 715th career home run, breaking the all-time career home run mark of 714 set by Babe Ruth. Aaron would finish his career with 755 home runs, a record that would stand until Barry Bonds broke it in 2007. The second milestone came on September 10, when the St. Louis Cardinals' Lou Brock stole his 105th base off pitcher Dick Ruthven and catcher Bob Boone of the Philadelphia Phillies. This broke the single-season stolen base record of 104, set by Maury Wills in 1962. Brock stole 118 bases, a record that would stand until 1982, when Rickey Henderson stole 130.


1974 Major League Baseball season, Events
On August 30, Texas Rangers player Dave Nelson steals three bases – 2nd, 3rd and home in the first inning against the Cleveland Indians.


1974 Malaysian general election
A general election was held between Saturday, 24 August and Saturday, 14 September 1974 for members of the 4th Parliament of Malaysia. Voting took place in all 154 parliamentary constituencies of Malaysia, each electing one Member of Parliament to the Dewan Rakyat, the dominant house of Parliament. State elections also took place in 360 state constituencies in 12 (out of 13, except Sabah) states of Malaysia on the same day.


1974 Malaysian general election
This is first and only election for Tun Abdul Razak as Prime Minister since was appointed to the position in 1970 and first general election the Barisan Nasional was new political alliance replacing Alliance Party with Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (PGRM) and People's Progressive Party (PPP) was part of Barisan Nasional.


1974 Malaysian general election
Once Parliament had been dissolved on 31 July 1974, the Election Commission fixed 8 August 1974, as Nomination Day and 24 August 1974, as Polling Day. (In Malaysia, the election campaign must last a minimum of two weeks.)


1974 Malaysian general election
Candidates were returned unopposed in 47 constituencies. The 1,060,871 electors from these constituencies therefore did not cast ballots. Another 88 Front members were later successful, thus enabling their alliance to gain an overwhelming majority in the House. This result was a victory for Barisan Nasional which won 135 of the 154 seats. Voter turnout was 75.1%.


1974 Malaysian general election, Opposition
After the election, Sarawak National Party (SNAP) became the largest opposition party in the Malaysian parliament and James Wong was appointed the opposition leader. After 2 months, he was detained under Internal Security Act. Datuk Seri Edmund Langgau Anak Saga from the SNAP party later succeeded him. James Wong was detained for almost two years before negotiation led by Datuk Amar Leo Moggie Anak Irok resulting in SNAP joining the Barisan Nasional.


1974 Malaysian state elections
State assembly elections were held in Malaysia between  24 August and 14 September 1974 in all states except Sabah.


1974 Maldivian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in the Maldives in September and October 1974. All candidates ran as independents.


1974 Maldivian parliamentary election, Electoral system
The People's Majlis had 54 seats, of which 46 were elected and eight appointed by the President. Eight of the elected members were from Malé, with two from each of the 19 districts.


1974 Maldivian parliamentary election, Aftermath
When the newly elected Majlis convened in February 1975, it re-elected Ahmed Zaki as Prime Minister. However, the following month, president Ibrahim Nasir declared a state of emergency and removed Zaki from office. The post of Prime Minister was subsequently abolished.


1974 Malian constitutional referendum
A constitutional referendum was held in Mali on 2 June 1974, following the 1968 military coup. The new constitution would allow for a directly elected president (previously the post had been elected by the National Assembly) who would serve five-year terms, together with a unicameral National Assembly. It also proposed that the country be run for the next five years by the Military Committee for National Liberation.


1974 Malian constitutional referendum
The new constitution was reportedly approved by 99.66% of voters with a 92.2% turnout.


1974 Marshall Thundering Herd football team
The 1974 Marshall Thundering Herd football team was an American football team that represented Marshall University as an independent during the 1974 NCAA Division I football season. In its fourth and final season under head coach Jack Lengyel, the team compiled a 1–10 record and was outscored by a total of 291 to 110. Allen Meadows and Jesse Smith were the team captains. The team played its home games at Fairfield Stadium in Huntington, West Virginia.


1974 Maryland Terrapins football team
The 1974 Maryland Terrapins football team represented University of Maryland in the 1974 NCAA Division I football season. The Terrapins offense scored 316 points while the defense allowed 104 points. Led by head coach Jerry Claiborne, the Terrapins appeared in the Liberty Bowl.


1974 Maryland Terrapins football team, 1975 NFL Draft
The following players were selected in the 1975 NFL Draft.


1974 Maryland gubernatorial election
The 1974 Maryland gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1974. Incumbent Democrat Marvin Mandel defeated Republican nominee Louise Gore with 63.50% of the vote.


1974 Massachusetts elections
The 1974 Massachusetts general election was held on November 3, 1974, throughout Massachusetts. Democratic and Republican candidates were selected in party primaries held September 10, 1974.


1974 Massachusetts elections
The Democratic primary in this election was notably competitive, with formidable challenges to two incumbent Democrats (Secretary of the Commonwealth John Davoren, who lost, and Treasurer Robert Q. Crane, who narrowly won) and two open primaries (for Governor and Attorney General).


1974 Massachusetts elections
In the general election, Democrats swept the statewide offices quite easily. Republican support may have been held down by the weight of the ongoing Watergate scandal and the resignation of President Richard Nixon.


1974 Massachusetts elections, Governor and Lieutenant Governor
Democrats Michael Dukakis and Thomas P. O'Neill III were elected Governor and Lieutenant Governor, respectively, over Republican incumbents Francis W. Sargent and Donald R. Dwight.


1974 Massachusetts elections, Secretary of the Commonwealth
Secretary of the Commonwealth John Davoren was defeated in the Democratic primary by Paul Guzzi. Guzzi went on to defeat Republican State Senator John M. Quinlan in the general election.


1974 Massachusetts elections, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Republican primary, Results
Following Burton's withdrawal, Quinlan was unopposed for the Republican nomination.


1974 Massachusetts elections, Attorney General
Attorney General Robert H. Quinn declined to run for re-election and instead ran for Governor. In the open primary to fill his seat, former Lt. Governor Francis X. Bellotti won the Democratic nomination.


1974 Massachusetts elections, Attorney General
Bellotti defeated Republican nominee Josiah Spaulding in a close race.


1974 Massachusetts elections, Treasurer and Receiver-General
Incumbent Treasurer and Receiver-General Robert Q. Crane defeated Charles Mark Furcolo in the Democratic Primary.


1974 Massachusetts elections, Treasurer and Receiver-General
Erna Ballantine ran an unsuccessful sticker campaign for the Republican nomination.


1974 Massachusetts elections, Auditor
Incumbent Auditor Thaddeus M. Buczko was unopposed in the Democratic primary and the general election.


1974 Massachusetts elections, United States House of Representatives
All of Massachusetts' twelve seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2018.


1974 Massachusetts elections, United States House of Representatives
The 3rd District seat was won by Joseph D. Early, who succeeded retiring Democrat Harold Donohue. The 5th District seat was won by Democrat Paul Tsongas, who defeated incumbent Republican Paul W. Cronin.


1974 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
The 1974 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1974. Michael Dukakis was elected to a four-year term, from January 4, 1975 until January 4, 1979. He defeated incumbent Governor of Massachusetts Francis W. Sargent in the general election.


1974 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Lieutenant Governor
Incumbent Lieutenant  Governor Donald R. Dwight was unopposed in the Republican Primary.


1974 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, General election
Dukakis defeated Sargent by 207,931 votes. It was the first gubernatorial victory for the Massachusetts Democratic Party since 1962.


1974 Masters Tournament
The 1974 Masters Tournament was the 38th Masters Tournament, held on April 11–14 at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.


1974 Masters Tournament
Gary Player won the second of his three Masters titles at 278 (−10), two strokes ahead of runners-up Dave Stockton and Tom Weiskopf. It was the seventh of his nine major championships. Player did not enter the previous year's tournament due to leg and abdominal surgery; it was the only Masters that he missed in 53 years.


1974 Masters Tournament
Defending champion Tommy Aaron missed the cut by two strokes. Jack Burke Jr., the 1956 champion, competed at the Masters for the final time.


1974 Masters Tournament, Field
Tommy Aaron (8,12), George Archer, Gay Brewer (8,12), Jack Burke Jr., Billy Casper (8,11,12,13), Charles Coody, Doug Ford, Bob Goalby (8), Herman Keiser, Jack Nicklaus (2,3,4,8,9,10,11,12), Arnold Palmer (8,9,12), Gary Player (4,9,11), Sam Snead, Art Wall Jr.


1974 Masters Tournament, Field
William C. Campbell (a), Henri DeLozier (a), Vinny Giles (6,7,a), Downing Gray (a), Billy Kratzert (a), Dick Siderowf (6,7,a), Craig Stadler (6,a), David Strawn (a)


1974 Masters Tournament, Field
Frank Beard, Ben Crenshaw (11), Gardner Dickinson, Bob Dickson, Lou Graham (11), Hubert Green (11), Paul Harney, Babe Hiskey, Jim Jamieson, Gene Littler (11), Bobby Nichols (11), Phil Rodgers, Chi-Chi Rodríguez (12), Mason Rudolph (10), J. C. Snead (10,12), Kermit Zarley


1974 Masters Tournament, Field
Julius Boros, Jim Colbert, Al Geiberger, Jerry Heard (11), Ralph Johnston, John Schlee, Lanny Wadkins (10,11), Larry Ziegler


1974 Masters Tournament, Field
Sam Adams, Buddy Allin, Miller Barber, Homero Blancas (12), Bert Greene, Dave Hill, Hale Irwin (12), John Mahaffey, John Schroeder, Ed Sneed, Leonard Thompson


1974 Masters Tournament, Field
Isao Aoki, Hugh Baiocchi, Maurice Bembridge, Bob Charles (9,11), Bruce Crampton (10,11), Bruce Devlin (8), Trevor Homer (6,a), Tony Jacklin (2,3), Graham Marsh, Peter Oosterhuis, Masashi Ozaki (8)


1974 Maureen Connolly Brinker International
The 1974 Maureen Connolly Brinker International  was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hardcourts at the Brookhaven Country Club in Dallas, Texas in the United States that was part of the 1974 USLTA Women's Circuit. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from March 5 through March 10, 1974. First-seeded Chris Evert won the singles title and earned $10,000 first-prize money.


1974 Maureen Connolly Brinker International, Finals, Doubles
Isabel Fernández de Soto /  Martina Navratilova defeated  Karen Krantzcke /  Virginia Wade 6–3, 3–6, 6–3


1974 Meath Intermediate Football Championship
The 1974 Meath Intermediate Football Championship is the 48th edition of the Meath GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for intermediate graded teams in County Meath, Ireland. The tournament consists of 22 teams. The championship starts with a group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.


1974 Meath Intermediate Football Championship
Ballinlough returned to the middle grade for the first time in 19 years since relegation from the S.F.C. the previous year.


1974 Meath Intermediate Football Championship
Kilcloon and Gibbstown were promoted after claiming the 1973 Meath Junior Football Championship title and runners-up spot respectively.


1974 Meath Intermediate Football Championship
On 13 October 1974, St. John's claimed their 1st Intermediate championship title when they defeated St. Vincent's 2-3 to 0-5 in the final in Pairc Tailteann, and thus entered the top flight of Meath club football for the first time as the Wolfe Tones (they amalgamated with neighbours Gibbstown for the 1975 season).


1974 Meath Intermediate Football Championship
Boardsmill, Enfield and Killalon were relegated to the 1975 J.F.C. while Drumree opted to be regraded to the 1975 J.B.F.C. (or Division II as it was known at the time)


1974 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Team changes
The following teams have changed division since the 1973 championship season.


1974 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Group stage
There are 4 groups called Group A, B, C and D. The top two finishers in each group will qualify for the quarter finals.


1974 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Knock-out Stages
The teams in the Quarter-Finals are the first and second placed teams from each group.


1974 Meath Senior Football Championship
The 1974 Meath Senior Football Championship is the 82nd edition of the Meath GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Meath, Ireland. The tournament consists of 15 teams, with the winner going on to represent Meath in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.


1974 Meath Senior Football Championship
This season saw Bohermeen's return to the top flight after claiming the 1973 Meath Intermediate Football Championship title.


1974 Meath Senior Football Championship
Navan O'Mahonys were the defending champions after they defeated Ballivor in the previous years final, however they failed to make it passed the group stage this season.


1974 Meath Senior Football Championship
On 13 October 1974, Summerhill won their first Meath S.F.C. title when they defeated Bohermeen 0-9 to 0-7 in the final in Pairc Tailteann. Austin Lyons raised the Keegan Cup for the 'Hill.


1974 Meath Senior Football Championship, Team Changes
The following teams have changed division since the 1973 championship season.


1974 Meath Senior Football Championship, Knock-out Stages, Finals
The winners and runners up of each group qualify for the semi-finals.


1974 Meistaradeildin, Overview
It was contested by 6 teams, and Havnar Bóltfelag won the championship.


1974 Melia Trophy
The 1974 Melia Trophy, also known as the Madrid Open, was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Real Sociedad Hípica Española Club de Campo in Madrid, Spain. The men's tournament was classified as Group A category and was part of the 1974 Grand Prix circuit. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from 7 October until 13 October 1974. Ilie Năstase and Helga Masthoff won the singles titles.


1974 Melia Trophy, Finals, Men's Singles
Ilie Năstase defeated  Björn Borg 6–4, 5–7, 6–2, 4–6, 6–4


1974 Melia Trophy, Finals, Men's Doubles
Patrice Dominguez /  Antonio Muñoz defeated  Brian Gottfried /  Raúl Ramírez 6–1, 6–3


1974 Melia Trophy, Finals, Women's Doubles
Lesley Charles /  Sue Mappin defeated  Cora Creytd /  Helga Masthoff 6–2, ret.


1974 Melia Trophy, Finals, Mixed Doubles
Virginia Ruzici /  Ion Țiriac defeated  Mark Farrell /  Lesley Charles 7–6, 4–6, 6–3


1974 Memorial Cup
The 1974 Memorial Cup occurred May 5–12 at the Stampede Corral in Calgary, Alberta. It was the 56th annual Memorial Cup competition, organized by the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) to determine the champion of major junior A ice hockey. Participating teams were the winners of the Ontario Hockey Association, Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and Western Hockey League which were the St. Catharines Black Hawks, Quebec Remparts and Regina Pats. Regina won their 4th Memorial Cup, defeating Quebec in the final game.


1974 Memorial Cup, Teams, Quebec Remparts
The Quebec Remparts represented the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League at the 1974 Memorial Cup. The Remparts had a very strong season in 1973-74, finishing in second place in the East Division with a 52-16-2 record, earning 106 points. In an unusually high scoring season, the Remparts scored 531 goals, which ranked second in the league. Quebec allowed 314 goals, which was the second fewest in the QMJHL. In the post-season, the Remparts swept the Shawinigan Dynamos in the QMJHL quarter-finals, winning the series in four games.


1974 Memorial Cup, Teams, Quebec Remparts
Quebec then defeated the Laval National four games to two in the QMJHL semi-finals, setting up a matchup against the league leading Sorel Éperviers in the finals. The Remparts defeated Sorel four games to two in the QMJHL finals, winning the President's Cup and earning a berth at the 1974 Memorial Cup.


1974 Memorial Cup, Teams, Quebec Remparts
The high-scoring Remparts were led offensively by Real Cloutier, who scored 93 goals and a team high 216 points in 69 games. Cloutier emerged as a top prospect for the upcoming 1974 WHA Amateur Draft, and would be drafted ninth overall by the Quebec Nordiques. In the post-season, Cloutier scored a league high 26 goals, and added 24 assists for 50 points in 16 games. Jacques Locas scored a team high 99 goals as he also broke the 200 point plateau, as Locas had 206 points in 63 games.


1974 Memorial Cup, Teams, Quebec Remparts
Locas finished with a league high 51 points in 16 playoff games. Rich Nantais narrowly missed reaching 200 points, as he scored 64 goals and 194 points in 67 games. Daniel Beaulieu scored 45 goals and 104 points in 70 games, as Quebec had five players with 100+ points during the season. Michel Lachance scored nine goals and 72 points in 70 games to lead the defense in scoring. The Remparts goaltending duties were split up between Michel Corcoran and Maurice Barrette.


1974 Memorial Cup, Teams, Quebec Remparts
The 1974 Memorial Cup was the Remparts second consecutive appearance at the tournament. In 1973, the Remparts lost in the final game to the Toronto Marlboros. Quebec also appeared at the 1971 Memorial Cup, which they won over the Edmonton Oil Kings.


1974 Memorial Cup, Teams, Regina Pats
The Regina Pats represented the Western Canada Hockey League at the 1974 Memorial Cup. The Pats finished the 1973-74 with the best record in the league, with a 43-14-11 record, earning 97 points. Regina won the Scotty Munro Memorial Trophy for their regular season success. The Pats were a high scoring team, leading the WCHL with 377 goals. They were also the best defensive team in the league, allowing a league low 225 goals. In the post-season, Regina defeated the Saskatoon Blades four games to two in the East Division semi-finals. In the East Division finals, the Pats beat the Swift Current Broncos four games to two, earning the right to compete for the WCHL championship. In the final round, Regina swept the Calgary Centennials in four games, capturing the President's Cup and a berth into the 1974 Memorial Cup.


1974 Memorial Cup, Teams, Regina Pats
The Pats offensive was led by Dennis Sobchuk, who finished second in WCHL scoring with 68 goals and 146 points in 66 games. Sobchuk led the Pats in post-season scoring, scoring 10 goals and 31 points in 16 playoff games. Top prospect Clark Gillies scored 46 goals and 112 points in 65 games. Gillies would later be drafted with the fourth overall pick by the New York Islanders at the 1974 NHL Entry Draft. Defenseman Greg Joly, known as the best prospect since Bobby Orr, scored 21 goals and 92 points in 67 games during the season. Joly would become the first overall pick in the 1974 NHL Entry Draft by the Washington Capitals. In goal, Ed Staniowski played a majority of the games. He finished the season with a 39-12-9 record with a 3.00 GAA and a .905 save percentage.


1974 Memorial Cup, Teams, Regina Pats
The 1974 Memorial Cup would be the Pats thirteenth appearance. The team had previously won the Memorial Cup in 1925, 1928 and 1930.


1974 Memorial Cup, Teams, St. Catharines Black Hawks
The St. Catharines Black Hawks represented the Ontario Hockey Association at the 1974 Memorial Cup. The Black Hawks finished in second place in the OHA during the 1973-74 season with a 41-23-6 record, earning 88 points. St. Catharines scored the second most goals in the league with 358 goals, while the club allowed 278 goals, which ranked them in seventh. In the post-season, the Black Hawks cruised to a nine points to one victory over the Oshawa Generals in the OHA quarter-finals. In the OHA semi-finals, St. Catharines swept the defending champion Toronto Marlboros eight points to zero. In the final round against the Peterborough Petes, the Black Hawks easily defeated the Petes nine points to one to win the J. Ross Robertson Cup and earn a berth into the 1974 Memorial Cup.


1974 Memorial Cup, Teams, St. Catharines Black Hawks
The Black Hawks were led by Rick Adduono, who finished in a tie for the league lead in points, winning the Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy. Adduono scored 51 goals and 135 points in 70 games. Dave Gorman scored 53 goals and 129 points in 69 games, winning the Jim Mahon Memorial Trophy, awarded to the highest scoring right winger in the OHA. Gorman followed up with six goals and 31 points in 14 post-season games.


1974 Memorial Cup, Teams, St. Catharines Black Hawks
Wilf Paiement scored 50 goals and 123 points in 70 games as he was one of the top ranked prospects heading into the 1974 NHL Entry Draft. Paiement would be selected second overall by the Kansas City Scouts. Dave Salvian narrowly missed out on the 100 point club, as he scored 36 goals and 97 points in 67 games. Defenseman Rick Hampton led the Black Hawks defense, scoring 25 goals and 50 points in 65 games. Hampton would be selected third overall in the 1974 NHL Entry Draft by the California Seals. Bill Cheropita was the Black Hawks starting goaltender.


1974 Memorial Cup, Teams, St. Catharines Black Hawks
The 1974 Memorial Cup was the third appearance by the Black Hawks franchise at the Memorial Cup. The St. Catharines Teepees won the cup in 1954 and 1960.


1974 Memorial Cup, Winning roster
Bill Bell, Glen Burdon, Drew Callender, Dave Faulkner, Clark Gillies, Jon Hammond, Mike Harazny, Greg Joly, Rob Laird, Bob Leslie, Kim McDougal, Jim Minor, Dennis Sobchuk, Dave Thomas, Rob Tudor, Ed Staniowski, Rick Uhrich, Mike Wanchuk, Mike Wirchowski. Coach: Bob Turner


1974 Memphis State Tigers football team
The 1974 Memphis State Tigers football team represented Memphis State University (now known as the University of Memphis) as an independent during the 1974 NCAA Division I football season. In its third and final season under head coach Fred Pancoast, the team compiled an 7–4 record and outscored opponents by a total of 225 to 148. The team played its home games at Memphis Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee.


1974 Memphis State Tigers football team
The team's statistical leaders included David Fowler with 1,266 passing yards, Reuben Gibson with 493 rushing yards, James Thompson with 395 receiving yards, and James Thompson and Terdell Middleton with 30 points scored each.


1974 Men's British Open Squash Championship
The 1974 Benson & Hedges British Open Championships was held at Abbeydale Park in Sheffield from 31 January - 8 February 1974. Geoff Hunt won his second title defeating Mo Yasin in the final with a walkover. Mohammed Yasin had to concede the final because of a badly sprained ankle and therefore did not compete, this was the first time a final could not be held since 1934. As a consolation the crowd was treated to Hunt against Barrington in an exhibition match.


1974 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship
The 1974 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship was the second edition of the Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship, the quadrennial international men's field hockey championship of Europe organized by the European Hockey Federation. It was held at Club de Campo Villa de Madrid in Madrid, Spain from 2 to 11 May 1974.


1974 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship
The hosts Spain won their first European title by defeating the defending champions West Germany 1–0 in the final. The Netherlands won the bronze medal by defeating England 4–1.


1974 Merton London Borough Council election
The 1974 Merton Council election took place on 2 May 1974 to elect members of Merton London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party gained overall control of the council.


1974 Mestaruussarja
Veikkausliiga (Swedish: Tipsligan) is the premier division of Finnish football, comprising the top 12 clubs of the country. As of 2011 Veikkausliiga is ranked as the 28th best league in Europe. Its main sponsor is the Finnish national betting agency Veikkaus, hence the league's name. Veikkausliiga was founded in 1990; before that the top division was called Mestaruussarja (championship series) since 1930 which was an amateur or semi-professional league.


1974 Mestaruussarja, Overview
It was contested by 12 teams, and KuPS Kuopio won the championship.


1974 Miami DEA building collapse
On August 5, 1974, at 10:24 a.m. EDT, a Federal office building housing the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Miami Field Division office in downtown Miami, Florida, United States, collapsed after the roof caved in, causing the deaths of seven DEA employees and injuries to 15 others.


1974 Miami DEA building collapse
Initial speculation centered on a theory that the cars parked on a six-inch-thick slab of concrete on the roof were too heavy, causing the collapse. Investigations later concluded that resurfacing of the parking lot combined with salt in the sand had eroded the supporting steel structure of the building, weakening it catastrophically.


1974 Miami DEA building collapse, Background
The building had been constructed in 1925, making it 49 years old at the time of the collapse. It had undergone a full engineering inspection in 1968 before the DEA office was cleared to move into the building. The structure underwent some renovations in 1971, the same year that the DEA moved into the building. It was located near the current site of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts at 1201 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami.


1974 Miami DEA building collapse, Background
In 1974, between 125 and 150 people worked in the building, although not all were on site when the building collapsed.


1974 Miami DEA building collapse, Collapse
The collapse occurred at 10:24 a.m. EDT on Monday, August 5, 1974 when the roof caved in, triggering a partial collapse. People in the building thought an explosion or earthquake had occurred. Employees working in the part of the building that did not collapse were quickly told to evacuate the building. Seven people were confirmed dead due to the collapse, and 15 were injured and treated at Jackson Memorial Hospital.


1974 Miami DEA building collapse, Aftermath
Firemen worked through the night to rescue survivors and to recover bodies from the wreckage. Evidence and records related to pending cases were locked in vaults beneath the rubble, keeping them safe. Rescue operations had to proceed slowly because of the danger of a partially-destroyed wall that threatened collapse, potentially burying rescuers and survivors.


1974 Miami DEA building collapse, Aftermath
Initial speculation centered on the cars parked on the roof of the structure overloading the concrete slab they were parked on and causing the collapse, with the number of cars at first being reported as 80 and then 57. Former Miami Herald reporter Edna Buchanan wrote in her book The Corpse Had a Familiar Face that the Miami DEA had recently started parking cars seized from drug dealers in the rooftop garage. However, later investigations found that the supporting steel structure of the building had been eroded and weakened by resurfacing of the parking lot combined with salt in the sand. The concrete slab poured on the roof of the building in 1971 may also have partially contributed to the collapse.


1974 Miami DEA building collapse, Aftermath
The collapse led to Miami-Dade County's mandatory 40-year recertification program for buildings with the hope of avoiding another such collapse. Examining the six tons of rubble left by the collapse, Miami-Dade County engineer John Pistorino concluded that concrete buildings in South Florida have particular risks, as salt in the aggregate rock used when making concrete can corrode reinforcing steel due to the area's humid climate and salty air. This corrosion can expand and crack the concrete, causing it to lose structural capacity.


1974 Miami Dolphins season
The 1974 Miami Dolphins season was the franchise's 5th season in the National Football League, the 9th overall, and the 5th under head coach Don Shula. The team entered the 1974 season as two-time defending Super Bowl champions. They could not improve on their 12-2 record from last season and finished 11-3. Despite this, the Dolphins finished first in the AFC East for the fourth consecutive season, and they finished with the second best record in the NFL. In the playoffs, the Raiders beat the Dolphins in the AFC Divisional Playoff Game in the famous "Sea of Hands" game.


1974 Miami Hurricanes baseball team
The 1974 Miami Hurricanes baseball team represented the University of Miami in the 1974 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Hurricanes played their home games at the original Mark Light Field. The team was coached by Ron Fraser in his 12th season at Miami.


1974 Miami Hurricanes baseball team
The Hurricanes lost the College World Series, defeated by the USC Trojans in the championship game.


1974 Miami Hurricanes baseball team, Hurricanes in the 1974 MLB Draft
The following members of the Miami Hurricanes baseball program were drafted in the 1974 Major League Baseball Draft.


1974 Miami Hurricanes football team
The 1974 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Miami as an independent during the 1974 NCAA Division I football season. Led by Pete Elliott in his second and final year as head coach, the Hurricanes played their home games at the Miami Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida. Miami finished the season with a record of 6–5.


1974 Miami Redskins football team
The 1974 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University during the 1974 NCAA Division I football season. In their first season under head coach Dick Crum, the Redskins won the Mid-American Conference (MAC) championship, compiled a 10–0–1 record (5–0 against MAC opponents), outscored all opponents by a combined total of 303 to 86, defeated Georgia, by a score of 21–10 in the 1974 Tangerine Bowl, and were ranked #10 in the final AP Poll.


1974 Miami Redskins football team
The team's statistical leaders included quarterback Steve Sanna with 724 passing yards, fullback Randy Walker with 873 rushing yards, and Jack Schulte with 352 receiving yards.


1974 Miami Toros season
The 1974 Miami Toros season was the second season of the team, and the club's eighth season in professional soccer. This year, the team earned first place in the Eastern Division. They advanced through the North American Soccer League playoffs to the NASL Final, before losing on penalty kicks to the Los Angeles Aztecs.


1974 Miami Toros season, Competitions, NASL regular season
W = Wins, L = Losses, T= PK Shootout Wins, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, PT= point system


1974 Miami Toros season, Competitions, NASL regular season
6 points for a win,3 points for a tie,0 points for a loss,1 point for each goal scored up to three per game.


1974 Michigan State Spartans football team
The 1974 Michigan State Spartans football team was an American football team that represented Michigan State University in the 1974 Big Ten Conference football season. In their second season under head coach Denny Stolz, the Spartans compiled a 7–3–1 record, finished in third place in the Big Ten, and were ranked No. 12 in the final AP Poll. Quarterback Charley Baggett was selected as the team's most valuable player.


1974 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Michigan
On October 12, 1974, Michigan State lost to Michigan by a 21-7 score. The game, played at Michigan Stadium, attracted a crowd of 104,682, reported to be "the second largest crowd in modern N.C.A.A. history" behind the 1973 Michigan-Ohio State game. Gordon Bell led Michigan's rushing attack with 73 yards on 16 carries, including a 13-yard touchdown run in the first quarter. Dennis Franklin completed five of nine passes for 84 yards, including a 45-yard touchdown pass to Jim Smith in the second quarter, but left the game in the third quarter with bruised ribs. Linebacker Dan Jilek also scored in the second quarter when he forced a fumble on a punt attempt and then recovered it in the end zone.


1974 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Ohio State
Michigan State manages a considerable upset at home, topping then #1 Ohio State, 16-13. Fullback Levi Jackson scores the final points of the game on an 88-yard TD run, followed by a Hans Neilsen point after touchdown. In a tumultuous finish, Ohio State fails to convert at the Spartans' 1-yard line as time expires. Big Ten Commissioner Wayne Duke went to referee Gene Calhoun and the team of officials to confirm that the Buckeyes had not attempted their second-down play before the clock ran out.


1974 Michigan Wolverines football team
The 1974 Michigan Wolverines football team was an American football team that represented the University of Michigan in the 1974 Big Ten Conference football season. In their sixth year under head coach Bo Schembechler, the Wolverines compiled a 10–1 record, outscored opponents 324 to 75, and were ranked #3 in final AP Poll. Michigan won the first ten games of the 1974 season in convincing fashion, including blowout victories over Colorado (31-0), Navy (52-0), Minnesota (49-0), and Purdue (51-0). In the final game of the season, #2 Michigan faced #3 Ohio State. The Wolverines lost by a score of 12-10, as place-kicker Mike Lantry missed a last-minute field goal that would have given Michigan a victory.


1974 Michigan Wolverines football team
On offense, the team was led by quarterback Dennis Franklin who completed 58 of 104 passes for 933 yards and rushed 108 times for 209 yards. Three Michigan running backs combined for 2,510 rushing yards. Gordon Bell led the way with 1,048 rushing yards and 11 touchdowns. Rob Lytle added 802 rushing yards, and Chuck Heater 660 yards. Center Dennis Franks and end Dan Jilek were selected as All-Big Ten Conference players.


1974 Michigan Wolverines football team
On defense, the Wolverines held opponents to 75 points, an average of 6.8 points per game. Cornerback Dave Brown was selected as first-team All-American for the second straight year. Five Wolverine defenders were selected for the All-Big Ten Conference team, including Brown, middle linebacker Steve Strinko, wolfman Don Dufek, left tackle Jeff Perlinger, and middle guard Tim Davis. Strinko led the team in total tackles for the second consecutive year and was selected as the team's most valuable player.


1974 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season
The 1973 Michigan football team compiled a 10–0–1 record. Several key offensive players from the 1973 team returned in 1974, including quarterback Dennis Franklin, a trio of tailbacks in Gordon Bell, Chuck Heater and Rob Lytle, wing back Gil Chapman, end Jim Smith, and center Dennis Franks. Returning players on defense included safety Dave Brown (a 1973 All-American), defensive back Don Dufek, and linebackers Carl Russ and Steve Strinko. Defensive tackle and 1973 All-American Dave Gallagher was lost to graduation.


1974 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season
Perhaps the biggest story surrounding the Michigan football program in the interim between the 1973 and 1974 seasons was the appointment of former Michigan football player Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States in December 1973 and his ascension to the Presidency in August 1974. Ford drew attention to the program as he often had the Naval band play the University of Michigan fight song, The Victors, before state events instead of Hail to the Chief. During Ford's first foreign trip as President in November 1974, Emperor Hirohito of Japan greeted Ford with a military band playing The Victors.


1974 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: Iowa
On September 14, 1974, Michigan opened its season with a 24 to 7 victory over Iowa. Michigan rushed for 315 yards in the game, led by Rob Lytle (86 yards on 14 carries), Chuck Heater (62 yards on 17 carries and a two-yard touchdown run in the first quarter), and Gil Chapman (55 yards on 6 carries). Michigan quarterback Dennis Franklin did not appear in the game due to illness and was replaced by Mark Elzinga, who completed 2 of 11 passes for 34 yards.


1974 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: Iowa
One of Elzinga's two completions was caught by Gil Chapman for a touchdown in the third quarter. Elzinga also ran one yard for Michigan's second touchdown in the first quarter. Kicker Mike Lantry kicked a 30-yard field goal in the fourth quarter and converted all three extra points. Iowa's only touchdown was scored in the final minute of the fourth quarter.


1974 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 2: Colorado
On September 21, 1974, Michigan defeated Colorado by a 31 to 0 score before a crowd of 91,203 at Michigan Stadium. The game matched Bo Schembechler against Colorado head coach Bill Mallory. Both had coached under Woody Hayes at Ohio State, and Mallory had taken Schembechler's place as head coach at Miami (OH) in 1969.


1974 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 2: Colorado
Michigan defensive back Dave Brown opened the scoring two minutes into the game by returning a punt 88 yards from the 12-yard line for a touchdown. After being discharged from the hospital four days before the game, quarterback Dennis Franklin returned against Colorado. Franklin completed 11 of 16 passes for 115 yards with one touchdown (a five-yard pass caught by Greg DenBoer in the fourth quarter) and no interceptions. Franklin also rushed for 69 yards on 13 carries and scored a touchdown in the second quarter after recovering Rob Lytle's fumble in the end zone. After the game, head coach Bo Schembechler said, "I told you guys he was a decent quarterback didn't I? And this was after only three days of practice after lying on his back for 10 days. I thought his performance was remarkable. Why, it was almost an aerial circus!"


1974 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 2: Colorado
Michigan also gained 273 rushing yards. Chuck Heater led the Wolverines in rushing with 74 yards on 16 carries, including a five-yard touchdown run in the third quarter. Lytle added 66 yards on 13 carries and Gordon Bell 49 yards on six carries. Kicker Mike Lantry recovered a fumble on a kickoff, kicked a 19-yard field goal in the fourth quarter and converted all three extra points. Michigan's defense held Colorado to 44 rushing yards on 30 carries.


1974 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Navy
On September 28, 1974, Michigan defeated George Welsh's Navy Midshipmen by a 52-0 score. The game was played at Michigan Stadium before a crowd of 104,232, which included thousands of high school band students participating in the annual band day celebration. Michigan's backs dominated, rushing for 340 yards and six touchdowns on 67 carries. Gordon Bell rushed for 57 yards and three touchdowns on nine carries, Chuck Heater gained 61 yards and two on 13 carries, and Rob Lytle rushed for 101 yards and a touchdown on 15 carries. Dennis Franklin completed five of six passes for 85 yards, including a 29-yard touchdown pass to Jim Smith in the third quarter. Mike Lantry kicked a 31-yard field goal and converted all seven extra points.


1974 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: at Stanford
On October 5, 1974, Michigan defeated Stanford by a 27-16 score at Stanford Stadium. Stanford took a 9-6 lead at halftime as Mike Langford kicked three field goals, and the Stanford defense did not allow a first down during the first quarter. In the second quarter, Gordon Bell scored on a one-yard run, but the kick for extra point failed. Also in the second quarter, Stanford intercepted a pass by Dennis Franklin, marking Michigan's first turnover in 255 plays during the 1974 season. In the third quarter, Franklin rushed for two touchdowns to give Michigan a 20-9 lead.


1974 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: at Stanford
The teams traded touchdowns in the fourth quarter, including a two-yard run by Michigan backup Scott Corbin. Stanford quarterback Jerry Waldvogel completed 21 of 40 passes and 229 yards. The Wolverines rushed for 317 yards on 66 carries, including 96 yard for Rob Lytle and 72 yards each for Franklin and Gordon Bell.


1974 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: Michigan State
On October 12, 1974, Michigan defeated Denny Stolz's Michigan State Spartans by a 21-7 score. The game, played at Michigan Stadium, attracted a crowd of 104,682, reported to be "the second largest crowd in modern N.C.A.A. history" behind the 1973 Michigan-Ohio State game. Gordon Bell led Michigan's rushing attack with 73 yards on 16 carries, including a 13-yard touchdown run in the first quarter. Dennis Franklin completed five of nine passes for 84 yards, including a 45-yard touchdown pass to Jim Smith in the second quarter, but left the game in the third quarter with bruised ribs. Linebacker Dan Jilek also scored in the second quarter when he forced a fumble on a punt attempt and then recovered it in the end zone.


1974 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 6: at Wisconsin
On October 19, 1974, Michigan defeated John Jardine's Wisconsin Badgers by a 24–20 score. The game was played to a record crowd of 78,911 at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin. Michigan gained 265 rushing yards led by Chuck Heater who had 101 yards on 20 carries and a 22-yard touchdown run in the second quarter. Dennis Franklin completed five of seven passes for 71 yards, including an eight-yard touchdown pass to Greg DenBoer in the third quarter. Gordon Bell scored Michigan's third touchdown on a one-yard run in the fourth quarter.


1974 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 6: at Wisconsin
Mike Lantry kicked a 31-yard field goal in the fourth quarter and converted all three extra points. Michigan gave up 206 rushing yards to Wisconsin, prompting coach Schembechler to say, "That's the most anyone has run on us in years. I was surprised they could do that well against us, but their offense is very, very good."


1974 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 7: Minnesota
On October 26, 1974, Michigan defeated Minnesota by a 49-0 score. The game was played at Michigan Stadium before a crowd of 96,284. Michigan rolled to over 600 yards in the game. On the ground, the Wolverines totaled 521 rushing yards, led by Rob Lytle (158 yards on 20 carries) and Gordon Bell (134 yards and a touchdown on 17 carries). Gil Chapman gained 41 yards and scored two touchdowns on six carries. Chuck Heater, Mark Elzinga and Scott Corbin also scored rushing touchdowns. Franklin completed six of seven passes for 99 yards, including a 22-yard touchdown pass to Jim Smith in the third quarter.


1974 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 8: Indiana
On November 2, 1974, Michigan defeated Lee Corso's Indiana Hoosiers by a 21–7 score at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana. After Gordon Bell returned the opening kickoff to the 45-yard line, Michigan drove to Indiana's 13-yard line, but Rob Lytle's fumble ended the drive. In all the Wolverines turned the ball over three times, twice on fumbles by Lytle and once on an interception of a Dennis Franklin pass. Neither team scored in the first quarter, but Gordon Bell ran for two touchdowns in the second quarter to give Michigan a 14-0 lead at halftime.


1974 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 8: Indiana
Michigan totaled 344 rushing yards in the game with gaining 159 yards on 23 carries, Chuck Heater contributing 97 yards on 16 carries, and Lytle rushing for 63 yards on 11 carries. Indiana scored in the fourth quarter to cut Michigan's lead to seven points, but Gil Chapman scored with 36 seconds remaining in the game to extend the score to 21-7.


1974 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 9: Illinois
On November 9, 1974, Michigan defeated Illinois by a 14–6 score at Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois. The Illini played the game in mourning as 20-year-old defensive end Greg Williams was fatally shot at 2:30 a.m. during an altercation at a fraternity party and died eight hours later on the morning of the game. Michigan dominated the first half, scoring twice on runs by Gordon Bell and Dennis Franklin, and out-gaining the Illini, 259 yards to 25. Illinois' defense tightened in the second half. Illini co-captain Revie Sorey noted, "We didn't feel like playing football at first.


1974 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 9: Illinois
Then - quietly, without much talk - we tried at halftime to find our hearts for Greg." Michigan did not score in the second half, and Illinois cornerback Mike Gow returned a punt 45 yards for a touchdown with 2 minutes and 10 second remaining in the fourth quarter. After Gow's touchdown, Illinois succeeded in recovering an onside kick and drove to Michigan's 16-yard line before Michigan's defense held. Ohio State lost to Michigan State, leaving Michigan in sole possession of first place in the Big Ten Conference.


1974 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 10: Purdue
On November 16, 1974, Michigan defeated Purdue by a 51-0 score at Michigan Stadium. The game was Purdue's most lopsided defeat in over 50 years. Michigan gained 581 yards of total offense on 396 rushing yards and 185 passing yards. Gordon Bell led the running game with 166 rushing yards and one touchdown on 23 carries. Rob Lytle added 66 yards and a touchdown, and Chuck Heater contributed 48 yards and a touchdown. Dennis Franklin completed 7 of 12 passes for 149 yards and two touchdowns, as Michigan played with three wide receivers. Backup quarterback Mark Elzinga also threw a 36-yard touchdown pass to Lytle. After the game, Purdue coach Alex Agase said, "Michigan was a great team today. They killed us with skill."


1974 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 11: Ohio State
On November 23, 1974, with the Big Ten championship and a berth in the 1975 Rose Bowl at stake, Michigan played the Ohio State Buckeyes in the sixth year of The Ten Year War between head coaches Bo Schembechler and Woody Hayes. Prior to the game, Michigan was ranked #2 in the Coaches Poll with Ohio State ranked #3. The game was played at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, before a crowd of 88,243 spectators.


1974 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 11: Ohio State
Michigan jumped to a 10-0 lead in the first quarter on a 42-yard touchdown pass from Dennis Franklin to Gil Chapman and a 37-yard field goal by Mike Lantry. Ohio State did not score a touchdown against Michigan, but Tom Klaban kicked three field goals in the second quarter and another in the third quarter to give Ohio State a 12-10 lead. Michigan drove inside Ohio State's 20-yard line in the closing minutes of the game. With 18 second remaining, Lantry attempted a 33-yard field goal which was called wide left by the officials. Ohio State won 12 to 10, and the two teams finished in a tie for the Big Ten championship.


1974 Michigan Wolverines football team, Players, Professional football
The following 26 players from the 1974 Michigan football team were drafted to play and/or actually played professional football in the National Football League (NFL):


1974 Michigan gubernatorial election
The 1974 Michigan gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1974. William Milliken was elected to his second term as Governor of Michigan in a rematch with Sander Levin.


1974 Midlothian District Council election
Elections for the Midlothian District Council took place in 1974, alongside elections to the councils of Scotland's various other districts. These were the first election to the Midlothian District Council, and saw Labour winning 11 of the Councils 15 seats.


1974 Milan–San Remo
The 1974 Milan–San Remo was the 65th edition of the Milan–San Remo cycle race and was held on 18 March 1974. The race started in Milan and finished in San Remo. The race was won by Felice Gimondi of the Bianchi team.


1974 Milwaukee Brewers season
The 1974 Milwaukee Brewers season involved the Brewers' finishing fifth in the American League East with a record of 76 wins and 86 losses.


1974 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1974 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1974 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1974 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1974 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1974 Milwaukee Brewers season, Farm system
The Brewers' farm system consisted of four minor league affiliates in 1974. The Danville Warriors won the Midwest League championship.


1974 Milwaukee Panthers football team
The 1974 Milwaukee Panthers football team represented the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in the 1974 NCAA Division II football season. The Panthers offense scored 208 points while the defense allowed 170 points.


1974 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
The 1974 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1974 Big Ten Conference football season. In their third year under head coach Cal Stoll, the Golden Gophers compiled a 4–7 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 332 to 161.


1974 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
Linebacker Ollie Bakken received the team's Most Valuable Player award. Tackle Keith Simons was named All-Big Ten first team. Bakken and wide receiver Rick Upchurch were named All-Big Ten second team.


1974 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
Total attendance for the season was 225,127, which averaged to 37,521. The season high for attendance was against rival Iowa.


1974 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Season summary, Ohio State
Steve Goldberg broke his own school record for longest field goal in the first quarter.


1974 Minnesota House of Representatives election
The 1974 Minnesota House of Representatives election was held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on November 5, 1974, to elect members to the House of Representatives of the 69th Minnesota Legislature. A primary election was held on September 10, 1974. This was the first partisan election of the House since 1912.


1974 Minnesota House of Representatives election
The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) won a majority of seats, followed by the Minnesota Republican Party. The new Legislature convened on January 7, 1975.


1974 Minnesota Twins season
The 1974 Minnesota Twins finished 82–80, third in the American League West.


1974 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season
Only one Twins player made the All-Star Game, second baseman Rod Carew. Carew won his fourth AL batting title with a .364 average, and set a Minnesota record with 180 singles. Outfielder Bobby Darwin hit 25 HR and drove in 95 runs. Three pitchers had double digit wins: Bert Blyleven (17–17), Joe Decker (16–14), and Dave Goltz (10–10). Bill Campbell showed potential as a reliever, registering 19 saves and 8 relief wins.


1974 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season
Only 662,401 fans attended Twins games, the lowest total in the American League. It was half the number of fans that attended in the 1960s.


1974 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1974 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1974 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1974 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1974 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1974 Minnesota Vikings season
The 1974 season was the Minnesota Vikings' 14th in the National Football League. They won the NFC Central with a 10–4 record, before defeating the St. Louis Cardinals 30–14 in the NFC divisional playoff game, followed by a 14–10 win over the Los Angeles Rams to claim their second consecutive NFC championship. They then lost 16–6 to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl IX at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, becoming the first team to lose consecutive Super Bowls.


1974 Minnesota Vikings season, Playoffs, NFC Divisional Playoff
Aided by the Cardinals' turnovers, the Vikings scored 16 points in less than 7 minutes in the third quarter. On their first possession of the game, St. Louis drove to the Vikings 35-yard line, but lost the ball on a failed 4th-and-1 conversion attempt. St. Louis eventually got onto the scoreboard first with quarterback Jim Hart's 13-yard touchdown pass to receiver Earl Thomas, but Minnesota countered when quarterback Fran Tarkenton completed a 16-yard touchdown pass to John Gilliam. The 7–7 tie would last till the end of the half. The Cardinals had a chance to take the lead with a 56-yard drive to the Vikings 6-yard line, but Jim Bakken missed a 23-yard field goal attempt as time expired.


1974 Minnesota Vikings season, Playoffs, NFC Divisional Playoff
On the third play of the second half, Vikings defensive back Jeff Wright intercepted a pass from Hart and returned it 18 yards to set up Fred Cox's 37-yard field goal, giving his team a 10–7 lead. Exactly 60 seconds later, on the Cardinals' ensuing drive, Terry Metcalf lost a fumble while being leveled by Vikings linemen Alan Page and Carl Eller. Cornerback Nate Wright picked up the loose ball and returned it 20 yards for a touchdown that increased Minnesota's lead to 17–7.


1974 Minnesota Vikings season, Playoffs, NFC Divisional Playoff
A few minutes later, Tarkenton finished off a 16-point quarter with a 38-yard touchdown pass to Gilliam. In the fourth quarter, Vikings running back Chuck Foreman, who finished the game with 114 rushing yards and 5 receptions for 54 yards, recorded a 4-yard touchdown run to give Minnesota a 30–7 lead. By the time Metcalf rushed for an 11-yard fourth-quarter touchdown, the game was already out of reach for the Cardinals.


1974 Minnesota Vikings season, Playoffs, NFC Championship
On an unusually balmy day for December in Minnesota, the Vikings were able to hold onto the ball for the final 5:37 of the game to preserve a 14–10 victory. After a scoreless first quarter, Minnesota quarterback Fran Tarkenton threw a 29-yard touchdown to Jim Lash. Rams kicker David Ray later added a 27-yard field goal to cut the lead to 7–3 before halftime. In the third quarter, Los Angeles advanced the ball from their own 1-yard line to the Minnesota 1-yard line.


1974 Minnesota Vikings season, Playoffs, NFC Championship
The big play on the drive was a 73-yard pass play to Harold Jackson, who was finally pushed out of bounds at the Vikings 2 by safety Jeff Wright. With the ball inside the one-yard line, Rams guard Tom Mack was controversially called for illegal procedure (replays showed Mack did not move). Moved back to the six-yard line, the Rams were forced to pass for a touchdown on third down but the pass was deflected and Vikings linebacker Wally Hilgenberg intercepted the ball in the end zone for a touchback.


1974 Minnesota Vikings season, Playoffs, NFC Championship
Minnesota then went on a 15-play drive that took almost eight minutes off the clock to score on Dave Osborn's 4-yard touchdown run. With 7:15 left to play in the game, the Rams then cut the deficit to 14–10 with Harold Jackson's 44-yard touchdown reception. Then after forcing the Vikings to punt, Los Angeles drove to the Minnesota 45-yard line. But a third down sack forced the Rams to punt again and the Vikings kept the ball to run out the clock.


1974 Minnesota gubernatorial election
The 1974 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 5, 1974. The 1974 election was the first election where the Governor and Lieutenant Governor ran on the same ticket. Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party candidate Wendell Anderson defeated Republican Party of Minnesota challenger John W. Johnson. Anderson won every single county in the election, and was the first person since J.A.A. Burnquist in 1916 to do so. No candidate has done it since.


1974 Minor States Carnival
The 1974 Minor States Carnival, known more formally as the 1974 ANFC Division 2 Championship was an edition of the lower division of Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian rules football interstate competition. The competition was won by Queensland.


1974 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team
The 1974 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team represented Mississippi State University during the 1974 NCAA Division I football season. Led by second-year coach Bob Tyler, the Bulldogs finished 9–3 and qualified for their first bowl game in 11 years. In addition, the Bulldogs finished ranked #17 in the final AP Poll, their first ranked finish in 17 seasons. Quarterback Rockey Felker would be awarded SEC "Player of the Year" by the Nashville Banner. Defensive Tackle Jimmy Webb would be voted to multiple All-American teams.


1974 Missouri Tigers football team
The 1974 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri in the Big Eight Conference (Big 8) during the 1974 NCAA Division I football season. The team compiled a 7–4 record (5–2 against Big 8 opponents), finished in a tie for second place in the Big 8, and was outscored by opponents by a combined total of 217 to 204. Al Onofrio was the head coach for the fourth of seven seasons. The team played its home games at Faurot Field in Columbia, Missouri.


1974 Missouri Tigers football team
The team's statistical leaders included Tony Galbreath with 870 rushing yards, 955 yards of total offense, and 48 points scored, Steve Pisarkiewicz with 828 passing yards, Mark Miller with 522 receiving yards, and Greg Hill with 63 points scored.


1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing
The 1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing (Japanese: 三菱重工爆破事件) was a terrorist bombing of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Tokyo, Japan on 30 August 1974, killing eight people and injuring 376 others. The bombing was committed by the East Asia Anti- Japan Armed Front, a radical far-left anti-Japanese organization, against Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for supplying the United States against North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.


1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing
The 1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing was the deadliest terrorist attack in Japan until the Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995.


1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing, Background
The East Asia Anti- Japan Armed Front (Higashi Ajia Hannichi Busō Sensen, EAAJAF) was a Japanese far-left organization founded in 1972 and espoused a communist Anti-Japaneseism ideology influenced by the New Left movement with anarchist leanings. The EAAJAF viewed the Empire of Japan as the "perfect evil" and condemned the Pacific war as an "aggressive war" committed by Japan. In 1971, the EAAJAF's predecessor organization had launched a campaign of non-fatal bombings against the Japanese state, especially targeting symbols associated with Japanese imperialism, but in 1974 escalated its campaign to include the use of violence.


1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing, Background
On 14 August 1974, the EAAJAF tried to blow up the bridge over which Emperor Hirohito's royal train was travelling, which they code-named the "Rainbow Operation", but this was aborted because a member was spotted shortly before it was to be put into action. The following day Mun Segwang, a Korean-Japanese member of Chongryon and a far-left militant organization tied to the EAAJAF, attempted to assassinate President Park Chung-hee of South Korea.


1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing, Background
Despite Mun's failure to kill Park, the attack soured the already fragile Japanese-Korean relations and encouraged the EAAJAF's Wolf cell into committing new terrorist bombings in sympathy with Mun. The EAAJAF targeted Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, a large Japanese corporation which manufactured military weapons that were later used by the United States against North Vietnam in the Vietnam War in the early 1970s.


1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing, Bombing
Members of the “Wolf” (Ōkami) cell of EAAJAF planted two powerful home-made time bombs (containing 45 kilograms of explosives) in a flower pot at the entrance of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries's head office block in the busy Marunouchi district of Tokyo. The EAAJAF gave a telephone warning to the people inside the building eight minutes before the explosion, but it was dismissed as a joke, and another warning came four minutes later after the first warning was ignored, but the telephone exchange still did not launch an evacuation procedure.


1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing, Bombing
One of the bombs failed to detonate but the other did, exploding at 12:45 p.m. (UTC+9), which was around lunchtime. Eight people died: five people were killed instantly (including two Mitsubishi employees) while another three died after being hospitalized shortly afterwards. An estimated 376 people were injured in the blast, with about 330 people brought to hospital, of which 116 were Mitsubishi employees.


1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing, Bombing
The explosion blasted all of the office block's glass up to eleven stories high, as well as glass from buildings opposite which included the headquarters of Mitsubishi Electric, and was loud enough to be heard from Shinjuku over 5 kilometers away. Vehicles and some trees in the streets were also destroyed.


1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing, Aftermath
The bombing caused a lot more damage than the EAAJAF expected due to the lack of evacuation, causing an outrage among the media. One editor said “This incident is a most atrocious challenge to our society. Society itself was the target and the victim.” The Japan Times incited for a “show of public wrath” against the terrorists. However, rightist Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka as well as leaders of leftist parties remained silent about the incident. Nervousness among the Tokyo population increased following two other bombings carried out by the group in the city in 1974, with the police still not having made arrests.


1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing, Aftermath
The members of EAAJAF were arrested on May 19, 1975. In 1987, Masashi Daidoji and Toshiaki Masunaga were convicted and sentenced to death. Daidoji, leader of the former group's Wolf cell, said during court hearings that the bombing was "a mistake". In May 1999 while on death row, he apologized to the victims for the first time, saying "Our causing casualties is not something I can justify. I would like to apologize from the bottom of my heart." Daidoji died on May 24, 2017 at the Tokyo Detention Center.


1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing, Aftermath
The 1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing was the deadliest terrorist attack defined by modern standards that had occurred in Japan at the time, and remained the deadliest for over two decades until the Tokyo subway sarin attack on 20 March 1995 which killed 12 people.


1974 Molde FK season
The 1974 season was Molde's first year back in the top flight after their promotion from the 1973 2. divisjon, and their 3rd season in total in the top flight of Norwegian football.


1974 Molde FK season
This season, Molde competed in 1. divisjon and the 1974 Norwegian Football Cup. Molde finished as runners-up in the league, one point behind winners Viking.


1974 Molde FK season, Squad
Source:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


1974 Monaco Grand Prix
The 1974 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monaco on 26 May 1974. It was race 6 of 15 in both the 1974 World Championship of Drivers and the 1974 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 78-lap race was won by Lotus driver Ronnie Peterson after he started from third position. Jody Scheckter finished second for the Tyrrell team and Shadow driver Jean-Pierre Jarier came in third.


1974 Mongolian National Championship
The 1974 Mongolian National Championship was the eleventh recorded edition of the Mongolian National Championship for football, with the first tournament taking place in 1955 and no tournament held in 1965. The 1974 national championship was won by Aldar (literally Glory; a team representing the Army sports society) their second recorded title, following their victory in the 1970 championship. Though it would appear however that championships were contested between 1956 and 1963, as sources note that a team called Aldar, the Mongolian Army Sports Club, won the title on numerous occasions during that time. Zamchin, a team representing railway workers finished as runners up, with Darkhan, representing the city of Darkhan, the capital of Darkhan-Uul Aimag, the 1968 champions, finishing third.


1974 Montana Grizzlies football team
The 1974 Montana Grizzlies football team was an American football team that represented the University of Montana in the Big Sky Conference during the 1974 NCAA Division II football season. In their eighth year under head coach Jack Swarthout, the team compiled a 3–6–1 record.


1974 Montana State Bobcats football team
The 1974 Montana State Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Montana State University in the Big Sky Conference during the 1974 NCAA Division II football season. In their fourth season under head coach Sonny Holland, the Bobcats compiled a 7–4 record (4–2 against Big Sky opponents) and finished second in the Big Sky.


1974 Monte Carlo WCT
The 1974 Monte Carlo Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Monte Carlo Country Club in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France. The tournament was part of the Red Group of the 1974 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was the 69th edition of the event and was held from 8 April through 14 April 1974. Unseeded Andrew Pattison won the singles title.


1974 Monte Carlo WCT, Finals, Doubles
John Alexander /  Phil Dent defeated  Manuel Orantes /  Tony Roche 7–6, 4–6, 7–6, 6–3


1974 Montreal Alouettes season
The 1974 Montreal Alouettes finished the season in 1st place in the East Conference with a 9–5–2 record and won the Grey Cup. They defeated their rival Edmonton Eskimos, in the first of five Grey Cups between the two in the 1970s. Sonny Wade came off the bench to lead his team to another Grey Cup on a rain soaked field.


1974 Montreal Expos season
The 1974 Montreal Expos season was the sixth season in the history of the franchise. The Expos finished in fourth place in the National League East with a record of 79–82, 8½ games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates.


1974 Montreal Expos season, Spring training
The Expos held spring training at City Island Ball Park in Daytona Beach, Florida. It was their second season there.


1974 Montreal Expos season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1974 Montreal Expos season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1974 Montreal Expos season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1974 Montreal Expos season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1974 Montreal Expos season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1974 Montreal municipal election
The 1974 Montreal municipal election took place on 10 November 1974, to elect a mayor and city councillors in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Longtime mayor Jean Drapeau was re-elected to another four-year term in office.


1974 Montreal municipal election
Elections were also held one week earlier in suburban communities on the Island of Montreal.


1974 Montserrat Championship
The 1975 season of the Montserrat Championship was the first season of top flight association football competition in Montserrat. Police won the championship.


1974 Moray District Council election
Elections to the newly created Moray District Council were held on 7 May 1974, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections.


1974 Moray District Council election
A new system of regional and district governance had been created by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, with Moray District Council encompassing the bulk of the territory covered by the prior Moray County Council. The election saw Independent candidates winning near total dominance of the council, with only 2 seats being taken by a party affiliated candidate.


1974 Mr. Olympia
The 1974 Mr. Olympia contest was an IFBB professional bodybuilding competition held on October 12, 1974 at the Felt Forum at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. It was the 10th Mr. Olympia competition held.


1974 Munich WCT
The 1974 Munich WCT was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts in Munich, West Germany. The tournament was part of Red Group of the 1974 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was the second edition of the event and was held from 1 April through 7 April 1974. Frew McMillan won the singles title.


1974 Munich WCT, Finals, Doubles
Bob Hewitt /  Frew McMillan defeated  Pierre Barthès /  Ilie Năstase 6–2, 7–6


1974 NAIA Division I football season
The 1974 NAIA Division I football season was the 19th season of college football sponsored by the NAIA and the fifth season of the league's two-division structure.


1974 NAIA Division I football season
The season was played from August to November 1974 and culminated in the 1974 NAIA Division I Champion Bowl, played on December 14, 1974 on the campus of Texas A&I University in Kingsville, Texas. Texas A&I defeated Elon in the Champion Bowl, 34–23, to win their third NAIA national title.


1974 NAIA Division II football season
The 1974 NAIA Division II football season was the 19th season of college football sponsored by the NAIA and the fifth season of play of the NAIA's lower division for football.


1974 NAIA Division II football season
The season was played from August to November 1974 and culminated in the 1974 NAIA Division II Football National Championship, played on December 14, 1974 on the campus of Texas Lutheran University in Seguin, Texas.


1974 NAIA Division II football season
Texas Lutheran defeated Missouri Valley in the championship game, 42–0, to win their first NAIA national title.


1974 NAIA Ice Hockey Championship
The 1974 NAIA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament involved six schools playing in single-elimination bracket to determine the national champion of men's NAIA college ice hockey. The 1974 tournament was the seventh men's ice hockey tournament to be sponsored by the NAIA. The tournament began on March 1, 1974, and ended with the championship game on March 3.


1974 NAIA Ice Hockey Championship
Gustavus Adolphus attended the tournament for the seventh straight year while Bemidji State and Lake Superior State each made the tournament for the sixth time. St. Thomas and Wisconsin-Superior each made their second tournament appearances with Concordia College (Moorhead) making the team's first appearance. Bemidji State hosted the 1974 NAIA championship but fell 4-1 to Rick Comley's Lake Superior State team in the championship game.


1974 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1974 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 37th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format. It would be the last tournament to be played in Municipal until 2002. In 1975 would be held in the new Kemper Arena. Kemper would host the NAIA Tournament until 1993, when the NAIA would move the tournament and its offices to Tulsa.


1974 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament, 1974 NAIA bracket, 3rd place game
The third place game featured the losing teams from the national semifinalist to determine 3rd and 4th places in the tournament. This game was played until 1988.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series
The 1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series was the 26th season of professional stock car racing in the United States and the 3rd modern-era NASCAR Cup series. The season began on Sunday January 20 and ended on Sunday November 24. The first 15 races were shortened 10 percent due to the 1973 oil crisis.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series
Following criticism of the 1972 and 1973 points systems that placed emphasis on completed miles, NASCAR implemented a new points system, that took basic purse winnings, multiplied by number of starts, and divided by 1,000; it was designed to more directly reward winning races, a response to Benny Parsons' championship the previous year with just one win. Richard Petty was Winston Cup champion at the end of the season finishing 567.45 points ahead of Cale Yarborough, while David Pearson finished a strong third in points despite only nineteen starts. Earl Ross was named NASCAR Rookie of the Year.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series
1974 was the final season before Ricky Rudd, Bill Elliott and Dale Earnhardt joined the Winston Cup Grand National tour.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Western 500
Begun on January 20, the Western 500 at Riverside International Raceway was stopped by rain and resumed on January 26. Cale Yarborough led 144 laps but was closely contested by Bobby Allison, who led 33 laps. Allison faltered and finished a distant fifth, while Cale took the win with Richard Petty second. David Pearson finished third in the final eligible race for the Wood Brothers 1971 Mercury Cyclone; the car had won 19 times with Pearson and A. J. Foyt the previous two seasons.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Richmond 500
Bobby Allison grabbed the win, his third with his own team since the start of 1973.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Carolina 500
Cale Yarborough led most of the first half but his car's handling deteriorated throughout the race and Richard Petty dominated the second half en route to the win.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Southeastern 500
Amid periodic snow flurries, a crowd of 18,000 witnessed Cale Yarborough win for the second straight spring Bristol race. Richard Petty was hit in the driver side door in a four-car crash.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Atlanta 500
NASCAR mandated smaller carburators for big-block engines. David Pearson led the most laps in a small block but had to pit late for fuel, giving Cale Yarborough the win.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Rebel 450
Darlington's spring race shaved 10 percent off its race distance as other races did, but did not lop off the opening 36 laps, it simply scheduled the race as a 450-miler. David Pearson took his third straight Rebel race win (and fifth in all). The race was stopped for half an hour when Lennie Pond smashed a guardrail and several posts were pushed off. Cale Yarborough took the point lead.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Gwyn Staley Memorial
Richard Petty debuted a hand-built (by his brother, the team's chief engine builder Maurice) small-block Chrysler engine and won going away. The win put him back into the point lead. Petty stated the small block cost $50,000; “so we’re still in the red right now.”


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Virginia 500
Cale Yarborough lead almost wire to wire and the win gave him back the point lead. Richard Petty finished second despite multiple pitstops.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Winston 500
The lead changed 52 times among 14 drivers as David Pearson edged Benny Parsons. During pitstops at Lap 105 crewman Don Miller lost a leg when he was hit by the spinning car of rookie Grant Adcox.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Music City 420
Rain pushed the second half of the race from Saturday night to Sunday afternoon. Richard Petty took his fourth win of the season and retook the point lead over Yarborough. It was Neil Bonnett's first Winston Cup start.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Mason-Dixon 500
Petty, Pearson, and Yarborough were the only leaders in a race interrupted only three times for yellows. Petty, running the small-block Chrysler engine, led 210 laps but fell out with engine failure while leading with three laps to go. Cale took the win having led 220 laps, while Pearson was second with only 20 laps led.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, World 600
David Pearson edged Richard Petty as the lead changed 37 times, the most for the race to that point of its history. Buddy Baker left Harry Hyde's Dodge team to drive Bud Moore's Ford after Moore released driver George Follmer. Baker led 94 laps before falling out with engine failure; he was signed to drive the rest of the season in Moore's Ford.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Tuborg 400
George Follmer was fired from Bud Moore's team before the 600 and jumped into Roger Penske's AMC Matador; he won the pole but blew his engine after just seven laps. Cale Yarborough edged Bobby Allison for the win, his sixth of the season.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Motor State 400
This was the last race of the season shortened by NASCAR due to the energy crunch. The lead changed 50 times among eight drivers, a new record for the track to that point. Petty edged rookie Earl Ross after Pearson pitted under a late yellow for tires and the green never flew again.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Firecracker 400
David Pearson, the winner of the previous two 400s, pulled an audacious fake as he slammed his brakes to put Petty into the lead on the final lap, then drafted past at the stripe; Pearson's maneuver was such that an angered Petty confronted Pearson in the pressbox after the race; the ensuing dialogue was transcribed by The Charlotte Observer and published the next day (July 5, 1974, edition). Some seven seconds behind them Cale Yarborough and Buddy Baker hit the stripe nose to nose for an official tie for third. Bobby Allison took over Roger Penske's Matador; he led 50 laps but broke an intake valve late in the race and finished fifth. The lead changed 45 times, a race record that stood until 2010.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Volunteer 500
Junior Johnson had purchased his race team from Richard Howard when Carling Breweries joined the #52 of Earl Ross along with Cale Yarborough's #11. In the second race as owner of the team Junior saw Cale dominate but Buddy Baker surged to the lead late. A caution set up a two lap sprint and Cale sideslammed Baker on the final lap for the win. The race saw Neil Bonnett strike the inside pit guardrail, tearing up numerous support posts and requiring a 40-lap caution for repairs.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Nashville 420
Controversy marred Nashville's mid-summer event. Following Richard Petty's crash a scoring controversy ensued involving Cale Yarborough and Charlie Glotzbach; Glotzbach was placed a lap down based on scoring, but Cale stayed on the lead lap. Allison finished just behind Yarborough and drove into victory lane ahead of Yarborough, insisting Cale was a lap down. NASCAR later said a scoring mistake had been made but that the Yarborough win would stand.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Purolator 500
Originally published in NASCAR's schedule, the annual 300-miler at Trenton Speedway was cancelled and replaced by Pocono's Purolator 500. Richard Petty won the race as rain shortened the race by eight laps. Buddy Baker won the pole; he'd also won the pole in late April in Pocono's USAC stock car 500-miler. It was the inaugural race for NASCAR at Pocono, which has become part of the annual schedule since then.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Talladega 500
25 of the event's 50 entries were found sabotaged in the garage area on race morning. NASCAR instituted several competition cautions to allow teams to find previously-undetected sabotage. Buddy Baker fell out after leading 98 laps with rearend failure with three laps to go. Petty sideswiped past Pearson at the stripe ("Pearson tried to cut me off," Petty said; "I'd rather rub fenders with Richard than compete clean with some of the other cats, who are crazy at times," Pearson added); it was Petty's third straight win. Three days before the race A. J. Foyt brought his Coyote Indycar for a speed test; he hit 217 MPH, a closed-course record for the time.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Yankee 400
Pearson won for the first time since Daytona in July, beating Petty by some five seconds. The lead changed 45 times as Cale Yarborough led 60 laps but lost contact with the leaders  after a late tire change backfired with mismatched tires.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Southern 500
Cale Yarborough took his third win in the race after melees eliminated half the field; Richard Petty, Bobby Allison and Buddy Baker were notable crash victims, and rookie Richie Panch was singled out for criticism after being involved in three wrecks. Sophomore Darrell Waltrip took second. NASCAR's 1974 point system, which took purse winnings multiplied by number of starts divided by 1,000, came under fire when Petty wrecked early yet outpointed every car that finished ahead of him except race-winner Yarborough.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Capital City 500
Cale Yarborough led 98 of the first 120 laps but the pavement was grinding up and Cale slipped in loose asphalt and crashed. The wreck put Richard Petty into the lead for the remaining 380 laps. Bobby Allison, originally entered in the race, did not race.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Delaware 500
Petty led 491 laps and put the entire field three laps down while Yarborough fell out with engine failure.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Wilkes 400
Petty and Yarborough swept the front row and led 391 laps. Cale led for 275 laps. Petty lost a lap on late pitstops but unlapped himself; he had to settle for second when a late yellow ended the race under caution.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Old Dominion 500
Earl Ross pulled off the upset win, the first for a rookie since 1965 and first for a Canadian driver ever. The win came after teammate Cale Yarborough crashed.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, National 500
David Pearson made up a lap lost in the first 100 laps of the race and edged Richard Petty, who erased a two-lap deficit despite a pit fire three-quarters into the race; it was the fifth time in the season Pearson and Petty finished together in the top two and Pearson's fourth win in that rivalry. The race was chaotic as a ten-car melee erupted on the third lap and a vicious two-car crash in Turn Four eliminated Grant Adcox and Ramo Stott. The lead changed 47 times, a race record that was tied in 2000, and a track record that lasted until the 1979 World 600, among 11 drivers; it was the sixth race of the season to break 40 official lead changes.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, American 500
Pearson grabbed his seventh win of 1974, edging Cale by two seconds. The surface at North Carolina Motor Speedway proved hard on tires and pitstops became frequent. Buddy Baker led twelve laps but fell out after only eighteen laps with brake failure.


1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Los Angeles Times 500
Originally left off of NASCAR's schedule, the race was added late in the season. Richard Petty led the most laps but fell out late and finished 15th. Bobby Allison took the win in Roger Penske's AMC Matador but was fined $9,100 for unapproved valve lifters in postrace inspection. The race lead changed 38 times officially (a track record for stock cars) while several laps saw up to four lead changes in one circuit.


1974 NBA All-Star Game
The 1974 NBA All-Star Game was played at the Seattle Center Coliseum in Seattle on January 15, 1974.


1974 NBA Finals
The 1974 NBA World Championship Series was the championship round of the 1973–74 National Basketball Association (NBA) season. The Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics defeated the Western Conference champion Milwaukee Bucks 4 games to 3 to win the NBA championship.


1974 NBA Finals, Background, Milwaukee Bucks
The Milwaukee Bucks returned to the NBA Finals after a three-year absence. Some of the cast from the 1971 championship team, such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then Lew Alcindor), Jon McGlocklin, Bob Dandridge and the retiring Oscar Robertson returned for another title run; however, starting guard Lucius Allen, who averaged 17.6 points and 5.2 assists per game, was injured and did not play in the series. The Bucks eliminated the Los Angeles Lakers and the Chicago Bulls in five and four games, respectively, to advance to the Finals.


1974 NBA Finals, Background, Boston Celtics
The Boston Celtics won a franchise record 68 games in the 1972–73 season, but a shoulder injury to John Havlicek quashed their title hopes, as they lost in seven games to the New York Knicks in the conference finals. Havlicek returned healthier for the 1973–74 season, and with Dave Cowens, Paul Silas and Jo Jo White entering the prime of their careers, the Celtics appeared poised for another title run. The Celtics, though winning 12 fewer games than the previous season, made the Finals, defeating the Buffalo Braves in six games before ousting the defending champion New York Knicks in five games.


1974 NBA Finals, Background, Regular season series
These teams split the four-game season series, each winning once at home and on the road.


1974 NBA Finals, Game 1
Before the series started, Bucks point guard Lucius Allen would be lost for the series with a knee injury. In Game 1, the Celtics took advantage, harassing a 35-year-old Oscar Robertson and Allen's replacement, Ron Williams, into frequent turnovers. The Celtics took a 35–19 lead in the first quarter and never looked back on the way to a 98–83 win in Milwaukee. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scored 35 points for the Bucks.


1974 NBA Finals, Game 2
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scored 36 points, but more importantly, he took more of a role in running the Bucks' offense from the post, given their backcourt issues. His passing enabled Bob Dandridge to score 24 points.


1974 NBA Finals, Game 2
On the defensive end, Abdul-Jabbar forced Dave Cowens into shooting 3-of-13 from the floor, including a block of a Cowens shot at the end of regulation to force overtime. The Bucks won 105-96 to even the series at a game apiece as it headed to Boston.


1974 NBA Finals, Game 2
This game, played on April 30, was the last NBA Championship Series game played in the month of April to date.


1974 NBA Finals, Game 3
Sensing he was no match for Abdul-Jabbar in the paint, Dave Cowens decided to shoot more from the outside and scored 30 points, despite foul trouble that reduced him to 32 minutes of playing time. The Celtics' press also turned up the heat, forcing 11 first-quarter turnovers and helping Boston to a 21-point lead. With Cowens in foul trouble, seldom-used 7-footer Henry Finkel did an admirable job of spot defense on Abdul-Jabbar, who finished with 26 points. At game's end, the Bucks had turned the ball over 27 times, enough for a 95–83 Boston win. This would be the last time the home team won in the series.


1974 NBA Finals, Game 4
With Ron Williams unable to handle the Celtics' press and shooting guard Jon McGlocklin nursing a sprained ankle, Bucks coach Larry Costello turned to little-used forward Mickey Davis for help in the backcourt. Davis at 6'7" presented matchup problems on offense for Jo Jo White, forcing Celtics coach Tom Heinsohn to assign Don Chaney to guard him. This enabled Oscar Robertson to more effectively set up the Bucks' offense.


1974 NBA Finals, Game 4
Davis contributed 15 points and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar shredded the Celtics for 34 points and six assists from the low post. Milwaukee got the lead and kept it down the stretch for a 97–89 win at Boston Garden, thereby regaining homecourt advantage.


1974 NBA Finals, Game 5
The Celtics stole the homecourt advantage back with a 96–87 win in Milwaukee. John Havlicek and Dave Cowens scored 28 points each and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scored 37 points. They would have a chance to close it out at home in Game 6.


1974 NBA Finals, Game 6
Dave Cowens got into foul trouble early and watched from the bench as Milwaukee took a 12-point lead in the first half. The Celtics were down by six late in the game, but they came back to force overtime. John Havlicek hit a long jumper to tie it at 86–86 with a little over a minute left, then Oscar Robertson was caught in a 24-second violation as time expired. In the first overtime, Milwaukee led 90-88 when Don Chaney got a steal and passed to Havlicek. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was back on defense and forced Havlicek to take a pull-up jumper. Havlicek missed but got the long rebound and scored to send the game into a second overtime.