1980 United States presidential election in Oklahoma, Slates of Electors
Democrat: Tobie Branch, Joe Johnson, Marzee Douglas, Sweet Pea Abernathy, Linnie Clayton Spann, Al Tesio, Loretta Jackson, Bert Russell


1980 United States presidential election in Oklahoma, Slates of Electors
Republican: Robert Scott Petty, Lanny Joe Reed, Frank Douglas Stickney Sr, Ronald Neal Allen, Thomas J. Harris, Kenneth Floyd Musick, Grace Ward Boulton, Paul E. Thornbrugh


1980 United States presidential election in Oklahoma, Slates of Electors
Libertarian: Mary Laurent, Fred Bross, Loren Baker, Roger Phares, Anatolly Arutunoff, Thomas Winter, Paul Woodard, Charles Burris


1980 United States presidential election in Oklahoma, Slates of Electors
Independent: Aileen E. Ginther, Juanita L. Learned, Arlie J. Nixon, Linda M. Remer, James Heinicke, John Lowe, Laura Shepperd, John W. Reskovac Sr


1980 United States presidential election in Oregon
The 1980 United States presidential election in Oregon took place on November 4, 1980. All fifty states and The District of Columbia were part of the 1980 United States presidential election. Voters chose six electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1980 United States presidential election in Oregon, Background
Oregon had voted in 1976 for incumbent President Gerald Ford over challenger Carter in the previous election by an extremely narrow margin of just 1,713 votes, but had been George McGovern’s sixth-strongest state during his 1972 2,900-plus-county landslide loss.


1980 United States presidential election in Oregon, Background
Both Carter and Reagan won the Democratic and Republican presidential primaries held during the third week of May 1980. In August early in Carter's campaign, he targeted Oregon as a state he might win despite having supported only one Democrat since 1944, on the basis that independent candidate and Reagan primary rival John B. Anderson would split the GOP vote.


1980 United States presidential election in Oregon, Background
The last week of September saw all three leading candidates visit the Beaver State, and at the end of the month Reagan was shown as ahead by around five percentage points, after having been in the lead in Oregon ever since the first polls were taken in mid-September.


1980 United States presidential election in Oregon, Background
October saw Vice-President Walter Mondale doing extensive campaigning in the state, and with polls showing Anderson winning over fifteen percent of the state's ballots and strong support for the Equal Rights Amendment opposed by Reagan, the Democrats possessed substantial hope in the state. By the last week of October, Carter's spokesmen were confident they could crack a state whose loss four years previously they attributed to the presence of Eugene McCarthy on the ballot, but in the days before the poll sample votes swung towards Reagan again.


1980 United States presidential election in Oregon, Vote
Oregon was ultimately won by former California Governor Ronald Reagan (R) by 9.66%. Reagan dominated in the conservative, populist eastern interior and Rogue Valley, where he won a majority in every county, and Carter, despite carrying four counties, did not win a majority in any due to a strong vote west of the Cascades for Anderson, who reached double figures in all Willamette Valley counties except Columbia and Linn. This was the first time the Republicans had carried Coos County since Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952.


1980 United States presidential election in Oregon, Vote
As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Lane County voted for a Republican presidential candidate.


1980 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
The 1980 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 4, 1980, and was part of the 1980 United States presidential election. Voters chose 27 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1980 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania strongly voted for the Republican nominee, Governor Ronald Reagan, over the Democratic nominee, President Jimmy Carter. Reagan won Pennsylvania by a margin of 7.11%.


1980 United States presidential election in Rhode Island
The 1980 United States presidential election in Rhode Island took place on November 4, 1980, as part of the 1980 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1980 United States presidential election in Rhode Island
The Democratic Party candidate, incumbent President Jimmy Carter, won the state of Rhode Island over former California Governor Ronald Reagan by 43,549 votes, giving him one of just seven victories in the election (other than Rhode Island, Carter also carried Maryland, Minnesota, Hawaii, West Virginia, the District of Columbia and his home state of Georgia). As a result of Rhode Island voting for Carter, it became the only state in New England to vote for a Democratic presidential candidate in 1980.


1980 United States presidential election in Rhode Island
While Carter was able to win Rhode Island by more than 10%, some of his votes were taken away by the strong third party candidacy of John B. Anderson, a liberal Republican Congressman who ran in 1980 as an independent after failing to win the Republican Party's own presidential nomination. Anderson proved very popular with liberal and moderate voters in New England who viewed Reagan as too far to the right and with normally leaning Democratic voters who were dissatisfied with the policies of the Carter Administration.


1980 United States presidential election in Rhode Island
New England overall would prove to be Anderson's strongest region in the nation, with all six New England states giving double-digit percentages to Anderson. In fact, Rhode Island would ultimately prove to be John Anderson's third strongest state in the nation after neighboring Massachusetts and Vermont, his 14.38% of the vote in the state more than double the 6.61% he got nationwide.


1980 United States presidential election in Rhode Island
Nationally, Reagan won the election with 489 electoral votes and 50.75% of the popular vote.


1980 United States presidential election in South Carolina
The 1980 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 4, 1980. All 50 states and The District of Columbia were part of the 1980 United States presidential election. South Carolina voters chose 8 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1980 United States presidential election in South Carolina
South Carolina was won by former California Governor Ronald Reagan (R) by a very slim margin of 1 point and a half.


1980 United States presidential election in South Carolina
The state weighed in for this election as 8% more Democratic than the national average, just 3% less than four years earlier. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which the following counties voted for a Democratic presidential candidate: York, Anderson, Oconee, Cherokee, Greenwood, Laurens, and Saluda.


1980 United States presidential election in South Dakota
The 1980 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 4, 1980. All 50 states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1980 United States presidential election. Voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1980 United States presidential election in South Dakota
South Dakota was won by former California Governor Ronald Reagan (R) by a 29-point landslide. It is a reliably Republican state, and the last Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state was Lyndon Johnson in 1964.


1980 United States presidential election in Tennessee
The 1980 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 4, 1980. All 50 states and The District of Columbia were part of the 1980 United States presidential election. Tennessee voters chose 10 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1980 United States presidential election in Tennessee
Tennessee was won by former California Governor Ronald Reagan (R) by a very slim margin of 0.29%, partly because of President Jimmy Carter's southern roots. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Tipton County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. This is the last time a Republican only carried Tennessee by a plurality.


1980 United States presidential election in Texas
The 1980 United States presidential election in Texas took place on November 4, 1980. All 50 states, and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1980 United States presidential election. Texas voters chose 26 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president of the United States.


1980 United States presidential election in Texas
Texas was won by Ronald Reagan of California, who was running against incumbent President Jimmy Carter of Georgia. Reagan ran with former C.I.A. Director George H. W. Bush of Texas, and Carter ran with Vice President Walter Mondale of Minnesota. Despite Texas‘ 1976 support of Carter, the state supported Reagan by a wide margin in the midst of a national landslide.


1980 United States presidential election in Texas
Notwithstanding Carter’s loss in Texas – which was his weakest state in the South or border states except Virginia and Oklahoma which Ford had narrowly carried in 1976 – the 1980 election is the last when the following counties have voted for a Democratic presidential candidate: Cherokee, Coke, Erath, Kaufman, Leon, Somervell, Van Zandt and Wise. As of 2020, this is the last presidential election in which Texas voted more Democratic than California.


1980 United States presidential election in Utah
The 1980 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 4, 1980. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1980 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president of the United States.


1980 United States presidential election in Utah
Utah was won by former Governor of California Ronald Reagan, the Republican nominee, who was running against incumbent President and former Governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter, the Democratic nominee. Reagan ran with former C.I.A. Director George H. W. Bush of Texas, and Carter ran with Walter Mondale, incumbent Vice President and former senator from Minnesota. Reagan won the election nationally by a landslide.


1980 United States presidential election in Utah
Utah weighed in as the most Republican state in the nation in this election, and Reagan’s win remains the most recent occurrence in which a presidential candidate carried a state by more than 50 percentage points. Reagan won Carbon County by a mere three votes, but comfortably beat Carter, who was widely criticized for his inability to understand issues specific to the West (especially water development) everywhere else. Carter’s next best county was Tooele where Reagan obtained 62 percent of the vote; Reagan surpassed three-quarters of the vote in seventeen of twenty-nine counties.


1980 United States presidential election in Utah
Liberal Republican John B. Anderson ran as a third-party candidate with some success in the Northeast, Western Washington and some college towns; however in conservative, Mormon Utah, Anderson possessed little appeal and could not exceed 9.4 percent of the vote in any county, polling merely three votes in Piute County and only 1.4 percent in Wayne County.


1980 United States presidential election in Vermont
The 1980 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 4, 1980, as part of the 1980 United States presidential election which was held throughout all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1980 United States presidential election in Vermont
Vermont voted for the Republican nominee Ronald Reagan of California and his running mate George H.W. Bush of Texas. Reagan took 44.37% of the vote to incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter’s 38.41%, a victory margin of 5.96%. Independent John Anderson took 14.90%.


1980 United States presidential election in Vermont
While winning in a nationwide electoral landslide, Reagan’s victory in the Green Mountain State was the weakest victory for a Republican nominee in the Green Mountain State since the founding of the GOP, with only Barry Goldwater having performed worse when he lost the state in the 1964 Democratic landslide.


1980 United States presidential election in Vermont
Long a bastion of liberal Republicanism, Vermont was the only state in the nation to swing Democratic in 1980, having delivered a more comfortable 11.20% margin of victory to moderate Republican Gerald Ford just four years earlier in 1976, even as the rest of the nation swung hard toward the GOP in 1980. Whereas Ford had swept every county in the state of Vermont, Reagan narrowly lost two Northwestern counties, Chittenden and Grand Isle, to Carter. The conservative Reagan would bleed a substantial amount of support in the state to John Anderson, who had been a liberal Republican congressman before mounting his independent bid for the presidency.


1980 United States presidential election in Vermont
The already embattled incumbent Democratic president Carter was hurt in the state by the strong third party candidacy of John Anderson, a liberal Republican Congressman who ran in 1980 as an independent after failing to win the Republican Party's own presidential nomination. Anderson proved very popular with liberal and moderate voters in New England who viewed Reagan as too far to the right and with normally leaning Democratic voters who were dissatisfied with the policies of the Carter Administration.


1980 United States presidential election in Vermont
New England overall would prove to be Anderson's strongest region in the nation, with all 6 New England states giving double-digit percentages to Anderson. In fact, Vermont would ultimately prove to be John Anderson’s second strongest state in the nation after neighboring Massachusetts, his 14.9% of the vote in the state more than double the 6.61% he got nationwide.


1980 United States presidential election in Vermont
With Reagan only winning 44.37% of the popular vote, he became the first Republican presidential candidate to win Vermont's popular vote with only a plurality since William Howard Taft on the state with only 37.13% of the vote back in 1912. This marked the second and final time to date that has happened.


1980 United States presidential election in Vermont
This election would mark the beginning of Vermont’s transition from a staunchly Republican state to being one of the most Democratic states. Ronald Reagan represented the ascendency of the conservative movement within the modern Republican Party, a party which would become increasingly dominated by conservatives, Southerners, and Evangelical Christians during and after Reagan's administration. Vermont would consequently begin shifting increasingly toward the Democrats in the years to come. It is a highly Democratic state today, as of 2020, as it has been for over 25 years.


1980 United States presidential election in Vermont
Future Senator Bernie Sanders served as one of three electors for the Socialist Workers Party in Vermont.


1980 United States presidential election in Virginia
The 1980 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 4, 1980. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1980 United States presidential election. Virginia voters chose 12 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president of the United States.


1980 United States presidential election in Virginia
Virginia was won by former California Governor Ronald Reagan with 53.03% of the vote, who was running against incumbent United States President Jimmy Carter of Georgia and Representative John B. Anderson of Illinois. The national election was ultimately won by Reagan with 50.75% of the vote.


1980 United States presidential election in Virginia
As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last occasion when Franklin County, Isle of Wight County, Craig County, Louisa County and Pulaski County have voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. It is also the last time Arlington County and Alexandria City have voted for a Republican presidential candidate.


1980 United States presidential election in Washington (state)
The 1980 United States presidential election in Washington was held on November 4, 1980 as part of the 1980 United States presidential election. Republican candidate Ronald Reagan won the state of Washington with 49.66 percent of the vote, carrying the state's nine electoral votes. During the previous election in 1976, Reagan, who was not on the ballot in any of the fifty states, received one of Washington's electoral votes by faithless elector Mike Padden.


1980 United States presidential election in Washington (state)
Reagan won every county in the state except Gray's Harbor and Pacific Counties, neither of which ever voted Republican between 1956 and 2012. As of the 2020 presidential election, Reagan's 1980 effort remains the last Republican win in Jefferson County and was the last in Cowlitz County until 2016. Third-party candidate John B. Anderson did well in Western Washington, gaining many voters from disaffected major-party supporters and exceeding 14 percent of the vote in Kitsap and San Juan Counties. Anderson was less successful east of the Cascades, apart from college-influenced Whitman County.


1980 United States presidential election in West Virginia
The 1980 United States presidential election in West Virginia took place on November 4, 1980, in West Virginia as part of the 1980 United States presidential election.


1980 United States presidential election in West Virginia
The Democratic Party candidate, incumbent President Jimmy Carter, won the state over former California Governor Ronald Reagan by 33,356 votes, giving him one of just seven victories in the election (other than West Virginia, Carter also carried Maryland, Minnesota, Hawaii, Rhode Island, the District of Columbia and his home state of Georgia).


1980 United States presidential election in West Virginia
Nationally, Reagan won the election with 489 electoral votes and 50.75% of the popular vote.


1980 United States presidential election in West Virginia
As of 2021, this is the last time West Virginia voted to the left of Massachusetts.


1980 United States presidential election in Wisconsin
The 1980 United States presidential election in Wisconsin took place on November 4, 1980. All 50 states and The District of Columbia, were part of the 1980 United States presidential election. State voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1980 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Campaign and vote
In the earliest polls in August, Reagan was well ahead of Carter. Independent candidate John B. Anderson, who had recently chosen former Badger State Governor Patrick Lucey as his running mate, was ahead of Carter in some normally Democratic districts of the state.


1980 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Campaign and vote
Anderson was the first of the three leading candidates to campaign in the state, doing so alongside his running mate early in September, Reagan campaigned in the state during the first week of October, when he was ahead by 5 points in a recent poll, and argued that his tax cuts are necessary to aid business and an economy affected by stagflation. Carter would not campaign in Wisconsin until the second week of October, when he argued against Reagan’s nuclear and military arms positions, arguing that they could lead to interventions that were “jingoistic”, “macho” and “guided by a desire to push everybody around”.


1980 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Campaign and vote
In October, Reagan continued to lead in Wisconsin, although his lead fell as Anderson’s strength dropped below the 20 percent level where it had been during September.


1980 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Campaign and vote
Wisconsin was untimately won by Reagan and running mate and  former C.I.A. Director George H. W. Bush of Texas against incumbent President Carter by 4.72 points, about what had been expected at the beginning of October.


1980 United States presidential election in Wyoming
The 1980 United States presidential election in Wyoming took place on November 4, 1980. All 50 states and The District of Columbia were part of the 1980 United States presidential election. State voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1980 United States presidential election in Wyoming
Wyoming was won by former California Governor Ronald Reagan (R) by a 34-point landslide. Wyoming is a reliably Republican state, and the last Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state was Lyndon Johnson in 1964.


1980 United States presidential election in Wyoming
With 62.64% of the popular vote, Wyoming would prove to be Reagan's fifth strongest state in the 1980 election after Utah, Idaho, Nebraska and North Dakota.


1980 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia
The 1980 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia took place on November 4, 1980. All 50 states and The District of Columbia were part of the 1980 United States presidential election. Washington, D.C. voters chose 3 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1980 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia
Washington, D.C. was won by incumbent President Jimmy Carter (D) by a 61-point landslide.


1980 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia
Carter's 74.9% of the vote represents the lowest vote won by a Democrat in the District of Columbia, while also being the sole presidential election when the Democratic candidate (albeit very narrowly) did not earn at least 75% of the district's vote.


1980 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia
Anderson's 9.3% is also the highest a third party received ever got in D.C.


1980 Upper Voltan coup d'état
The 1980 Upper Voltan coup d'état took place on 25 November 1980 in the Republic of Upper Volta (today Burkina Faso). Following a long period of drought, famine, popular unrest and labour strikes, Colonel Saye Zerbo overthrew President Sangoulé Lamizana, another military leader. Zerbo himself would be overthrown only two years later.


1980 Upper Voltan coup d'état, Background
Upper Volta had gained independence from France in 1960, after which President Maurice Yaméogo set about creating a single-party dictatorship ruled by his own Voltaic Democratic Union. Following several rigged elections and a new austerity budget being instituted, the powerful trade unions rose up against the President, which caused the 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état, in which Lieutenant Colonel Sangoulé Lamizana took power. This marked the beginning of a long era of military rule in Upper Volta and later Burkina Faso.


1980 Upper Voltan coup d'état, Background
Lamizana would go on to rule the country as a military dictator until the Upper Voltan presidential election in 1978, when he was elected as the leader of a civilian regime. During the 1970s, the Lamizana government faced many problems, among them continued opposition from the trade unions, the rise of new political opposition groups, a strong Sahel drought, increasing desertification, and so on. The need for foreign aid reached record levels, in 1979 making up a full 70% of the government budget.


1980 Upper Voltan coup d'état, Background
In February 1979 the major trade unions launched a new anti-Lamizana campaign. In May, two prominent labour leaders were arrested for inciting revolt – week-long protest strikes soon led to their release. Two months later, Lamizana denounced the unionist demands, calling for national unity. By December, the president finally acknowledges the country's dependence on Western aid for survival. On 7 January 1980, a general strike began. It proved brief, but more trouble lay ahead for Lamizana by the end of the year.


1980 Upper Voltan coup d'état, Coup
On 1 October, school teachers started striking, which transformed into a full general strike by early November, putting heavy pressure on the government. On 12 November, President Lamizana survived a motion of no confidence, with a 33–24 vote margin. While the teachers agreed on 22 November to go back to work, the unrest had yet to culminate.


1980 Upper Voltan coup d'état, Coup
On 25 November, Colonel Saye Zerbo led a military coup d'état, overthrowing President Lamizana. The coup proved both bloodless and successful. The riot police, deployed against the striking workers, attempted a counter-coup in support of Lamizana, but failed to reinstate him. Zerbo – a military veteran, former Minister of Foreign Affairs 1974–1976, commander of the army regiment in the capital Ouagadougou, and head of military intelligence – suspended the constitution, and established the Military Committee of Recovery for National Progress (French: Comité Militaire de Redressement pour le Progrès National, CMPRN), a 31-member junta. Several members of the junta were young and radical, among them future presidents Thomas Sankara and Blaise Compaoré. Among the parts of society that supported the coup were the Mossi people and the Upper Voltan Catholics, two groups sidelined by Lamizana, although Zerbo like his predecessor was a Bissa Muslim.


1980 Upper Voltan coup d'état, Aftermath
The new President Zerbo initially had the support of the trade unions, as Lamizana once had after his 1966 coup, winning the support of the striking teachers by giving in to most of their demands. The traditional chieftains also supported Zerbo. On 16 December, he established a 16-member cabinet. This contention didn't last long – the government faced large protests already in May, after Zerbo announced the imposition of mandatory military service and warned the unions to watch their tone towards the regime. Later, after continued unrest, he would ban labour strikes a few weeks ahead of the coup's one-year anniversary.


1980 Upper Voltan coup d'état, Aftermath
After two years of similar actions, Zerbo was overthrown by the military in yet another coup in 1982, making Major Dr. Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo President. Military rule has continued in the country since then, with numerous coups and coup attempts.


1980 Uruguayan Primera División, Overview
It was contested by 14 teams, and Nacional won the championship.


1980 Uruguayan constitutional referendum
A constitutional referendum was held in Uruguay on 30 November 1980. Although the new constitution drafted by the military regime was rejected by voters, some of its proposals were implemented anyway.


1980 Uruguayan constitutional referendum, Background
A military coup in 1973 had led to a civic-military dictatorship. In 1976 the military government issued a series of constitutional decrees that amended the 1967 constitution by creating the Council of the Nation (Consejo de la Nación) to serve as the supreme governmental body, with executive and legislative functions.


1980 Uruguayan constitutional referendum, Background
It consisted of the 30 members of the Council of State (a body created by the regime in June 1973 to act in lieu of the General Assembly, which was dissolved by the regime and the 28 senior officers of the armed forces (sixteen from the army, six from the navy, and six from the air force). The Council of the Nation appointed the President and the members of the Council of State, the Supreme Court of Justice, and the Tribunal of Administrative Claims. Eight institutional acts substituted for many of the functional provisions and guarantees of the 1967 constitution. The Council of the Nation was given the power to appoint the President and to set general policy for the country. In addition, institutional acts deprived previous officeholders and candidates of their political rights and permitted the arbitrary dismissal of public employees.


1980 Uruguayan constitutional referendum, Background
Under the 1976 constitutional amendments, the President exercised executive power, acting with the concurrence of one or more ministers as appropriate or with the National Security Council (Consejo de Seguridad Nacional, COSENA). The COSENA was formed in 1973 and consisted of the commanders of the army, navy, and air force, with an additional senior military officer, and the ministers of national defense, interior, and foreign affairs. It participated in any decision related to the "national security" or in any formulation of overall plans or objectives.


1980 Uruguayan constitutional referendum, Background
The constitutional decrees declared generally that the maintenance of the national security was of "exclusive competence," or the sole prerogative, of the armed forces, and also deprived local governments of all budgetary powers. The Council of State continued to pass laws that the executive normally would have submitted for approval. Only the executive could initiate the procedure for approval of legislation on budgetary or other matters that could be related in any way to national security. The decrees also created the Ministry of Justice, responsible for relations between the executive and judicial powers.


1980 Uruguayan constitutional referendum, New constitution
In 1980 the military regime drew up a charter that would have provided for a strong, continuing role for the military along the lines of the 1976 constitutional decrees, including legitimising the COSENA's new role. The document also would have greatly reduced the roles of the General Assembly and political parties.


1980 Uruguayan constitutional referendum, Aftermath
Despite the rejection by voters, a new 35 member Council of State was installed on 20 August 1981, before President Gregorio Conrado Álvarez took office. Its powers were expanded to include responsibility for calling a constitutional assembly, referendums, and general elections.


1980 Utah State Aggies football team
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1980 Utah State Aggies football team
The 1980 Utah State Aggies football team represented Utah State University during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association (PCAA). The Aggies were led by fifth-year head coach Bruce Snyder and played their home games at Romney Stadium in Logan, Utah. They finished the season with a record of six wins and five losses (6–5, 4–1 PCAA).


1980 Utah Utes football team
The 1980 Utah Utes football team was an American football team that represented the University of Utah during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. Head coach Wayne Howard led the team to a 2–3–1 mark in the WAC and 5–5–1 overall.


1980 Utah gubernatorial election
The 1980 Utah gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1980. Democratic incumbent Scott M. Matheson defeated Republican nominee Bob Wright with 55.16% of the vote. As of 2021, this is the last time a Democrat was elected Governor of Utah.


1980 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
Legislative Assembly elections were held in Uttar Pradesh in 1989. The Indian National Congress remained the largest party, winning 309  of the 425 seats.


1980 V-League
1980 saw the 24th national football championship in Vietnam known locally as the Vietnam National A1 Football Cup.


1980 V-League
17 teams took part in the competition that was played in two stages; a Group stage featuring 3 groups of 6 and 5 teams and a Championship stage featuring the three group winners.


1980 VFA season
The 1980 Victorian Football Association season was the 99th season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the 20th season of second division competition. The Division 1 premiership was won by the Port Melbourne Football Club, after it defeated Coburg in the Grand Final on 21 September by eleven points; it was Port Melbourne's 13th Division 1 premiership, the first of three premierships won in a row between 1980 and 1982, and the fourth of six premierships won in nine seasons from 1974 until 1982. The Division 2 premiership was won by Brunswick; it was the club's second Division 2 premiership, and was won in its first season since relegation from Division 1.


1980 VFA season, Rule changes
The Association introduced a number of on-field and off-field rule changes in the 1980 season.


1980 VFA season, Rule changes, Seconds competition scheduling
For the first time, Association Seconds matches were for the first time played as curtain-raisers to Firsts matches. When the Seconds competition was established in the 1920s, scheduling was such that the Seconds played at the same time as the Firsts, with the Seconds playing at home when the Firsts played away and vice versa. In the 1960s, as the Firsts gradually migrated from a Saturday competition to a Sunday competition, the Seconds had remained a Saturday competition, still playing at home on alternate weekends to the Firsts but on different days. Now, for the first time, the Seconds were played as curtain-raisers; and, also for the first time, the Seconds became a Sunday competition.


1980 VFA season, Rule changes, Seconds competition scheduling
As a result, the Seconds finals became curtain-raisers to the Firsts finals; this had happened previously when both competitions were Saturday competitions. However, one consequence was that the lightning premiership, which had occupied the curtain-raiser time-slot since 1972, was discontinued.


1980 VFA season, Rule changes, Grounds sharing
In the pre-season, Brunswick asked the Association for permission to sublet its home ground, Gillon Oval, to the Juventus soccer club, which was playing in the Victorian soccer competition. Brunswick was struggling financially due to a declining supporter base and sponsorship, and could barely afford to operate; but, it had arranged a deal with the Brunswick Council for a ten-winter lease of Gillon Oval which was financially viable for the club only if it could sublet the ground to Juventus on alternate weekends.


1980 VFA season, Rule changes, Grounds sharing
The Association had historically operated under strict ground control rules which required clubs to have access to their grounds throughout the winter: these rules served the practical purpose of ensuring the Seconds had a venue to use on weekends when the Firsts played away; and, served the strategic purpose of tying up the best suburban venues to maintain a competitive advantage over rival codes, most notably soccer and rugby. These ground control rules were most strictly enforced in 1959 when Prahran was expelled from the Association because the Victorian Rugby Union was given access to Toorak Park.


1980 VFA season, Rule changes, Grounds sharing
Given this history, the notion of allowing ground-sharing with a soccer club would be a significant change in policy for the Association. However, as more Association clubs, particularly in areas like Brunswick with high migrant populations where the popularity of soccer and apathy towards football were at their highest, encountered financial hardships and struggled with ground rent, the Association recognised that it could no longer maintain this hardline approach. As such, on 21 March, the Association voted 16–4 to grant wider permission for ground sharing amongst its clubs.


1980 VFA season, Rule changes, Order-off rule
The Association adopted an order-off rule, allowing umpires to order a player to leave the field as punishment for high severity indiscretions. In practice, players were ordered off for some but not all reportable offences. Under the rules, a player would be ordered from the field for fifteen minutes of game time and could not be replaced, such that the team played one man short over this time – and indeed, in a Seconds match late in the season, Prahran's score was annulled after a headcount revealed that they had erroneously replaced the ordered off player.


1980 VFA season, Division 1
The Division 1 home-and-away season was played over 18 rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system. The finals were played at the Junction Oval.


1980 VFA season, Division 2
The Division 2 home-and-away season was played over eighteen rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system; all finals were played on Sundays at Toorak Park.


1980 VFA season, Notable events, Discussions with the Victorian Football League
During the 1980 season, the Association executive engaged in a series of discussions with Victorian Football League executives over a number of football control issues in Victoria. It was the first time the League and the Association had engaged in any productive collaborative discussion since their relationship soured in the aftermath of North Melbourne's move to Coburg in 1965.


1980 VFA season, Notable events, Discussions with the Victorian Football League
Of primary importance to the League was Sunday football. The Association had begun playing matches on Sundays in 1960, and by 1980, Victorian state government rules allowed for almost all sports except for horse racing and League football to be played on Sunday. The League was keen to break into the Sunday market, and proposed to play a game at both the Melbourne Cricket Ground and VFL Park each Sunday – but the Association gained a lot of value from its status as the highest level Sunday football competition. Both political parties in state government were sympathetic to the Association's cause, so an agreement between the League and Association was the only thing likely to sway the government's opinion. The League brought a number of concessions to the table in its efforts to negotiate with the Association, including:


1980 VFA season, Notable events, Discussions with the Victorian Football League
The Association, which had been suffering a decline in finances and popularity since the mid 1970s, was keen to discuss a number of football control issues and options which it thought could help its viability. Among the agenda items were:


1980 VFA season, Notable events, Discussions with the Victorian Football League
Ultimately, none of these ideas was adopted in the immediate term. The Association discussed the League's proposal for Sunday football at a Board of Management meeting, but voted against it by an overwhelming 22–3 margin, agreeing that Sunday football was one of the Association's only valuable assets and it could not be given up. Negotiation on all other initiatives broke down shortly thereafter.


1980 VFA season, Notable events, Discussions with the Victorian Football League
However, despite its lack of tangible outcomes, the discussions were valuable as signalling an improvement in the relationship between the competitions, and they were notable as the first time that an amalgamation between the League reserves and the Association seniors had been seriously discussed – a structural change which ultimately took place twenty years later, prior to the 2000 season.


1980 VFA season, Notable events, Interleague matches
In 1980, the Association played two of its highest-profile interstate matches for more than a decade, with matches against the Northern Tasmanian Football Association and the South Australian National Football League. The team was captained by Fred Cook (Port Melbourne) and coached by Mick Erwin (Prahran).


1980 VFA season, Notable events, Interleague matches
The Association's 30-point loss against the S.A.N.F.L. impressed many observers, as the latter had been expected to win comfortably.


1980 VFA season, Notable events, Scoreboard rigging controversy
In the final round of the Division 1 home-and-away season, Camberwell Football Club officials caused controversy by intentionally displaying incorrect around-the-grounds scores on their scoreboard. Camberwell hosted Dandenong at the Camberwell Sports Ground in the final round, and both teams needed to win and see other results fall favourably to achieve their goals: for Dandenong, it needed to win and see Prahran lose to Preston to finish fourth; for Camberwell, it needed to win and see Frankston lose to Caulfield to avoid relegation. The Camberwell–Dandenong match was close, and Dandenong led by three points at three-quarter time, but the around-the-grounds scores showed Prahran comfortably ahead of Preston, ostensibly ending Dandenong's chances of reaching the finals. Camberwell 17.14 (116) went on to defeat Dandenong 16.15 (111) by five points.


1980 VFA season, Notable events, Scoreboard rigging controversy
It was only after the game that Dandenong officials discovered that the displayed score of the Preston–Prahran match had been false: Preston had actually led by seven goals at three-quarter time, and ended by winning by 68 points, Preston 32.15 (207) d. Prahran 21.13 (139). Dandenong officials were incensed, with coach Ray Biffin and secretary Lionel Farrow claiming that the false scores had taken away Dandenong's incentive to try its best in the final quarter against Camberwell and, given the close result of the game, probably cost it a finals berth. In response, Camberwell secretary Ron Elleray confirmed the scoreboard rigging was intentional, and was entirely unrepentant, saying "it was gamesmanship, and if they were silly enough to fall for it, that's their bad luck."


1980 VFA season, Notable events, Scoreboard rigging controversy
Prahran's and Dandenong's losses opened the door for Sandringham to secure fourth, which it did with a 20-point win against Geelong West. Despite its win, Camberwell was unable to avoid relegation, as Frankston defeated Caulfield.


1980 VFA season, Notable events, Scoreboard rigging controversy
Frankston officials were also suspected of potential scoreboard rigging, as Frankston Park announcers had announced at three-quarter time that Camberwell led Dandenong by 20 points, when in fact Camberwell trailed by three points; Caulfield officials noted that the announcement may have spurred Frankston, then leading by 17 points, on to its 34-point victory, but Caulfield made no official complaint and Frankston, unlike Camberwell, denied the misinformation was intentional.


1980 VFA season, Notable events, Scoreboard rigging controversy
The Association executive committee was unimpressed with Camberwell's actions. In October, Camberwell was fined $20 for its misconduct, although the Association put on the record that it would have fined the club $500 if its constitution had allowed it to do so.


1980 VFL Grand Final
The 1980 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the   Richmond Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on  27 September 1980. It was the 84th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1980 VFL season. The match, attended by 113,461 spectators, was won by Richmond by a margin of 81 points, marking that club's 10th VFL/AFL premiership victory, and they would not win the premiership again until 2017.


1980 VFL Grand Final, Background
It was Richmond's first appearance in a premiership decider since winning the 1974 VFL Grand Final, while Collingwood had competed in and lost two of the previous three Grand Finals, in 1977 and 1979. The Magpies had not won a flag since the 1958 VFL Grand Final.


1980 VFL Grand Final, Background
Richmond, under coach Tony Jewell, made the decision in the 1980 home-and-away season to move rover Kevin Bartlett to the half-forward flank, leading to him kicking 84 goals. At the conclusion of the season, Richmond had finished third on the VFL ladder (behind Geelong and Carlton) with 16 wins, 5 losses and a draw. Collingwood had finished fifth with 14 wins, 7 losses and a draw. Collingwood was coached by Tom Hafey, who at one time had coached Jewell at Richmond.


1980 VFL Grand Final, Background
In the finals series leading up to the Grand Final, Collingwood defeated North Melbourne in the Elimination Final by 8 points before comfortably beating Carlton by 50 points to progress to the Preliminary Final. There they defeated Geelong by just 4 points to advance to the Grand Final. The Magpies became the first team to reach the Grand Final via the Elimination Final. Meanwhile, Richmond defeated Carlton by 42 points in the Qualifying Final and then Geelong by 24 points in the Second Semi-Final to progress to the Grand Final.


1980 VFL Grand Final, Background
This was the first Grand Final in league history without either of the top two teams on the ladder after the home-and-away season. It wasn't until 2019, 39 years later, that this set of circumstances would be repeated.


1980 VFL Grand Final, Background
In the lead-up to the game, Richmond had key injury concerns with Greg Strachan and David Cloke.


1980 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, First quarter
Both teams struggled for accuracy early, with star Tigers forward Roach missing a set shot from a free kick and for the Magpies Kink's set shot going out on the full (an ominous sign of the poor day he was to have) and Low wasting a golden opportunity running into an open goal. Richmond got the first goal on the board five minutes into the quarter when Jess quickly played on from a 15-metre penalty and passed to Weightman in open space, allowing him to steady and kick truly from a slight angle.


1980 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Second quarter
The first few minutes of the first quarter were a tight affair, with the two teams trading scores. Collingwood led by a point 16 minutes into the game but from then Richmond completely outplayed the Magpies, with the game being effectively over at half time when the Tigers led by 43 points. Their midfield of Geoff Raines, Bryan Wood, Robert Wiley, Mervyn Keane and Dale Weightman dominated the clearances, feeding forwards Kevin Bartlett, Michael Roach and David Cloke.


1980 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath
The Norm Smith Medal was presented by Ron Barassi to Kevin Bartlett, who was unanimously judged best-on-ground for his seven-goal effort by a voting panel consisting of then VFL president Allen Aylett, VFL General Manager Jack Hamilton, Jack Dyer, The Age chief football writer Ron Carter, and ABC commentator Doug Heywood. His goal tally for the 1980 VFL finals was 21 which saw him become just the fourth player in history to kick 20 or more goals in a finals series. Cloke contributed 6 goals and Wiley 3 to the team's winning score.


1980 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath
The match statistics all pointed to Richmond's utter dominance; the 81-point margin set a new record for the biggest win in a VFL Grand Final to date, the Tigers had registered 44 scoring shots to Collingwood's 33, 205 kicks to 193, 120 handpasses to 55 and 74 marks to 52. There was added significance to the win for Richmond with long-time club servant Maurie Fleming ill in hospital and watching the game on television. He was to pass away one week later


1980 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath
In his report for The Age, chief football writer Ron Carter commented that the one-sided nature of the contest had damaged the sport, dashing the VFL's hopes for a Grand Final that had been billed as one for the ages. He also cited Collingwood's tough finals campaign as a key reason they were not at their best on the big day.


1980 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath
This was Collingwood's seventh Grand Final loss since 1958, in the era dubbed "the Colliwobbles".


1980 VFL Grand Final, Teams
The umpiring panel for the match, comprising two field umpires, two boundary umpires and two goal umpires is given below.


1980 VFL Grand Final, Teams
Numbers in brackets represent the number of grand finals umpired, including 1980.


1980 VFL season
The 1980 Victorian Football League season was the 84th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.


1980 VFL season, Night series
North Melbourne defeated Collingwood 8.9 (57) to 7.12 (54) in the final.


1980 VFL season, Grand final
Richmond defeated Collingwood 23.21 (159) to 9.24 (78), in front of a crowd of 113,461 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).


1980 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
The 1980 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University in the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Commodores were led by head coach George MacIntyre in his second season and finished the season with a record of two wins and nine losses (2–9 overall, 0–6 in the SEC).


1980 Venetian regional election
The Venetian regional election of 1980 took place on 8 June 1980.


1980 Venetian regional election, Events
Christian Democracy was by far the largest party, securing a full majority. After the election Christian Democrat Carlo Bernini formed a government which comprised briefly the Italian Democratic Socialist Party (1980–1981).


1980 Venezuelan Primera División season
The 1980 season of the Venezuelan Primera División, the top category of Venezuelan football, was played by eleven teams. The national champions were Estudiantes.


1980 Vermont gubernatorial election
The 1980 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 1980. Incumbent Republican Richard A. Snelling ran successfully for a third term as Governor of Vermont, defeating Democratic candidate M. Jerome Diamond.


1980 Villanova Wildcats football team
The 1980 Villanova Wildcats football team represented the Villanova University during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. The head coach was Dick Bedesem, coaching his sixth season with the Wildcats. The team played their home games at Villanova Stadium in Villanova, Pennsylvania. Future NFL Hall of Famer Howie Long was a senior nose guard on the team. In April 1981 the Villanova University Board of Trustees announced the discontinuation of football effective immediately. The decision was highly controversial and triggered efforts resulting in the restoration of football at the Division I-AA level in 1985.


1980 Virginia Cavaliers football team
The 1980 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Cavaliers were led by fifth-year head coach Dick Bestwick and played their home games at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia. They competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing tied for fourth.


1980 Virginia Tech Gobblers football team
The 1980 Virginia Tech Gobblers football team represented the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team's head coach was Bill Dooley.


1980 Virginia Tech Gobblers football team, Players
The following players were members of the 1980 football team.


1980 Virginia ballot measures
The 1980 Virginia State Elections took place on Election Day, November 4, 1980, the same day as the U.S. Presidential and U.S. House elections in the state. The only statewide elections on the ballot were four constitutional referendums  to amend the Virginia State Constitution. Because Virginia state elections are held on off-years, no statewide officers or state legislative elections were held. All referendums were referred to the voters by the Virginia General Assembly.


1980 Virginia ballot measures, Question 1
This amendment asked voters to authorize the Virginia General Assembly to convene for a limited period of time to consider legislation if it is vetoed by the Governor of Virginia. This makes it slightly easier for the General Assembly to override such vetos.


1980 Virginia ballot measures, Question 2
This amendment asked voters to decrease the maximum debt a local city or town may incur.


1980 Virginia ballot measures, Question 3
This amendment asked voters to give the Virginia General Assembly the ability to permit certain personal property tax exemptions for residents who are at least 65 years old or have a disability.


1980 Volta a Catalunya
The 1980 Volta a Catalunya was the 60th edition of the Volta a Catalunya cycle race and was held from 3 September to 10 September 1980. The race started in Sant Carles de la Ràpita and finished at L'Hospitalet. The race was won by Marino Lejarreta of the Teka team.


1980 Volvo International
The 1980 Volvo International was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in North Conway, New Hampshire in the United States and was part of the 1980 Volvo Grand Prix. The tournament was held from July 27 through August 3, 1980. Jimmy Connors won the singles title.


1980 Volvo International, Finals, Doubles
Jimmy Connors /  Brian Gottfried defeated  Kevin Curren /  Steve Denton 7–6, 6–2


1980 Volvo International – Doubles
Ion Ţiriac and Guillermo Vilas were the defending champions but did not compete that year.


1980 Volvo International – Doubles
Jimmy Connors and Brian Gottfried won in the final 7–6, 6–2 against Kevin Curren and Steve Denton.


1980 Volvo International – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1980 Volvo International – Singles
Harold Solomon was the defending champion but lost in the semifinals to Eddie Dibbs.


1980 Volvo International – Singles
Jimmy Connors won in the final 6–3, 5–7, 6–1 against Dibbs.


1980 Volvo International – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1980 Volvo Masters
The 1980 Masters (also known as the 1980 Volvo Masters for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts and held at the Madison Square Garden, in New York City, New York, United States from January 14 through January 18, 1981. It was the year-end championship of the 1980 Volvo Grand Prix tour. First-seeded Björn Borg won the singles title and earned $100,000 first-prize money.


1980 Volvo Masters, Finals, Doubles
Peter Fleming /  John McEnroe defeated  Peter McNamara /  Paul McNamee 6–4, 6–3.


1980 Volvo Masters – Doubles
Peter Fleming and John McEnroe won in the final 6–4, 6–3 against Peter McNamara and Paul McNamee.


1980 Volvo Masters – Singles
Björn Borg won in the final 6–4, 6–2, 6–2 against Ivan Lendl.


1980 Volvo Masters – Singles, Draw, Group A
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision-


1980 Volvo Masters – Singles, Draw, Group B
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.


1980 Volvo Women's Cup
The 1980 Volvo Women's Cup was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Ramapo College in Mahwah, New Jersey in the United States, It was part of the Colgate Series circuit of the 1980 WTA Tour and classified as a category AA event. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from August 18 through August 24, 1980. Fifth-seeded Hana Mandlíková won the singles title and earned $20,000 first-prize money.


1980 Volvo Women's Cup, Finals, Doubles
Martina Navratilova /  Candy Reynolds defeated  Pam Shriver /  Betty Stöve 4–6, 6–3, 6–1


1980 Vuelta a España
The 35th Edition Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the three grand tours, was held from 22 April to 11 May 1980. It consisted of 20 stages covering a total of 3,225 km (2,004 mi), and was won by Faustino Rupérez of the Zor cycling team.


1980 Vuelta a España
Roberto Visentini won the prologue of the race and kept the leader's jersey for the first five days of the race. Sean Kelly finished second in the prologue and won the next two stages but did not get to wear the leader's jersey. On the first mountain stage, Faustino Rupérez came solo to the finish and took the leader's jersey which he kept until the end of the race. Pedro Torres put in an attack on the penultimate stage on the climb to Puerto de la Morcuera.


1980 Vuelta a España
However Rupérez together with Miguel Mari Lasa bridged up to Torres half way to Alto de Cotos and the leader's jersey was safe. Rupérez won the race ahead of Torres and Claude Criquielion. Criquielion's Splendor teammate Kelly won five stages of the race, the points jersey and finished fourth overall. Marino Lejarreta finished the race fifth overall. Juan Fernández won the Mountains competition.


1980 Vuelta a España, Prologue to Stage 10
The 1980 Vuelta a España was the 35th edition of the Vuelta a España, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Vuelta began in La Manga, with a prologue individual time trial on 22 April, and Stage 10 occurred on 2 May with a stage to Santander. The race finished in Madrid on 11 May.


1980 Vuelta a España, Prologue to Stage 10, Prologue
22 April 1980 — La Manga to La Manga, 10 km (6.2 mi) (ITT)


1980 Vuelta a España, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 1
23 April 1980 — La Manga to Benidorm, 155 km (96 mi)


1980 Vuelta a España, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 2
24 April 1980 — Benidorm to Cullera, 170 km (110 mi)


1980 Vuelta a España, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 3
25 April 1980 — Cullera to Vinaròs, 207 km (129 mi)


1980 Vuelta a España, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 4
26 April 1980 — Vinaròs to Sant Quirze del Vallès, 214 km (133 mi)


1980 Vuelta a España, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 5
27 April 1980 — Sant Quirze del Vallès to La Seu d'Urgell, 200 km (120 mi)


1980 Vuelta a España, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 6
28 April 1980 — La Seu d'Urgell to Viella, 131 km (81 mi)


1980 Vuelta a España, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 7
29 April 1980 — Viella to Jaca, 216 km (134 mi)


1980 Vuelta a España, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 8
30 April 1980 — Monastery of Leyre to Logroño, 160 km (99 mi)


1980 Vuelta a España, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 9
1 May 1980 — Logroño to Burgos, 138 km (86 mi)


1980 Vuelta a España, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 10
2 May 1980 — Burgos to Santander, 178 km (111 mi)


1980 Vuelta a España, Stage 11 to Stage 19
The 1980 Vuelta a España was the 35th edition of the Vuelta a España, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Vuelta began in La Manga, with a prologue individual time trial on 22 April, and Stage 11 occurred on 3 May with a stage from Santander. The race finished in Madrid on 11 May.


1980 Vuelta a España, Stage 11 to Stage 19, Stage 11
3 May 1980 — Santander to Gijón, 219 km (136 mi)


1980 Vuelta a España, Stage 11 to Stage 19, Stage 12
4 May 1980 — Santiago de Compostela to Pontevedra, 133 km (83 mi)


1980 Vuelta a España, Stage 11 to Stage 19, Stage 13
5 May 1980 — Pontevedra to Vigo, 195 km (121 mi)


1980 Vuelta a España, Stage 11 to Stage 19, Stage 14
6 May 1980 — Vigo to Ourense, 156 km (97 mi)


1980 Vuelta a España, Stage 11 to Stage 19, Stage 15
7 May 1980 — Ourense to Ponferrada, 164 km (102 mi)


1980 Vuelta a España, Stage 11 to Stage 19, Stage 16a
8 May 1980 — Ponferrada to León, 131 km (81 mi)


1980 Vuelta a España, Stage 11 to Stage 19, Stage 16b
8 May 1980 — León to León, 22.8 km (14.2 mi) (ITT)


1980 Vuelta a España, Stage 11 to Stage 19, Stage 17
9 May 1980 — León to Valladolid, 138 km (86 mi)


1980 Vuelta a España, Stage 11 to Stage 19, Stage 18
10 May 1980 — Valladolid to Los Ángeles de San Rafael, 197 km (122 mi)


1980 Vuelta a España, Stage 11 to Stage 19, Stage 19
11 May 1980 — Madrid to Madrid, 84 km (52 mi)


1980 WAFL Grand Final
The 1980 WAFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the South Fremantle Football Club and the Swan Districts Football Club, on 27 September 1980 at Subiaco Oval, to determine the premier team of the West Australian Football League (WAFL) for the 1980 season. South Fremantle won the game by 58 points, 23.18 (156) to 15.8 (98), with Maurice Rioli of South Fremantle winning the Simpson Medal as best on ground.


1980 WAFL Grand Final, Season summary
Swan Districts were the dominant team in the first half of the season, winning 13 games straight. Their winning run ended in Round 14 when they lost to South Fremantle at their home ground, Bassendean Oval by 19 points. They would only lose two more home and away season games for the year, to East Perth in round 16 and to South Fremantle in the final round.


1980 WAFL Grand Final, Season summary
South Fremantle's season started with player turmoil, with Collingwood's ruckman Derek Shaw getting a Supreme Court injunction to enable him to play for South Fremantle without a clearance. However, South's centre half-back Joe McKay failed in his Supreme Court bid to be cleared to East Perth. Stephen Michael was also enticed to move to Geelong but rejected their offer. After a loss to East Perth in round 6, coach Mal Brown resigned due to his perception that his personality was affecting the umpiring and the "unreceptive attitude of the players to my advice". He withdrew his resignation the following week. South would lose that week to Swan Districts, but would then only lose one more game for the year, winning 12 in a row to finish the regular season in second place, one game behind Swans.


1980 WAFL Grand Final, Season summary
In the finals, East Perth beat Claremont in the First Semi Final with Paul Arnold kicking 7 goals. The following week in the Second Semi Final, South Fremantle continued their unbeaten streak, beating Swans by 10 points. Swan Districts bounced back in the preliminary final, kicking a finals record 28 goals to beat East Perth by 76 points. Graham Melrose starred with 9 goals and Simon Beasley kicked 7 goals.


1980 WAFL Grand Final, Season summary
The main individual awards were dominated by South Fremantle's captain Noel Carter, who won most of the media awards and Stephen Michael, who won the Sandover Medal with 24 votes, 5 votes ahead of Carter. Warren Ralph won the best first year player award and the goalkicking award with 87 goals for the season, the first debutant to win since Austin Robertson, Jr. in 1962. Billy Duckworth won the best rookie award.


1980 WAFL Grand Final, Grand final
South Fremantle won the toss and kicked into the light wind in the first quarter. Swans started well, kicking the first two goals of the match before South kicked the three goals to go to quarter time with a 10-point lead. However, in the second quarter, South Fremantle dominated, kicking eight goals to one, to lead by 54 points at half time. Swans never recovered, and despite kicking 6 goals in the final 10 minutes, lost by 58 points. Maurice Rioli was awarded the Simpson Medal as the best player on the ground.


1980 WAFL Grand Final, Grand final
It was South Fremantle's tenth premiership, ten years after their previous win.


1980 WAFL season
The 1980 WAFL season was the 96th season of the West Australian Football League in its various incarnations.


1980 WAFL season
The season saw the league drop the word ‘national’ from its official name for the first time in fifty years, reverting to the title in use from 1908 to 1930. It also saw reigning premiers East Fremantle embark on the most rapid slide by any reigning premier since Subiaco went from first to last in 1916.


1980 WAFL season
Handicapped by the loss of Mario Turco to North Melbourne and Doug Green to retirement, along with injuries to Jim Sewell, Graham Carter, Swan Districts recruit Mark Olsen and Rod Lester-Smith and form lapses by Tony Buhagiar and Ian Thomson, the blue and whites also lost classy Essendon recruit Darren “Daisy” Williams who returned to Victoria for personal reasons after two matches.


1980 WAFL season
Old Easts were to win only five matches all season, and were in danger of their first wooden spoon for eighty-two years before a win in their penultimate game put them safely ahead of Subiaco, who had another disastrous season plagued by financial problems whereby calls to “Save Subi” were opposed by calls from opponents to “Flog Subi”, leading to the worst record by any WA(N)FL club for twelve seasons.


1980 WAFL season
In contrast, Swan Districts had the best start to a WAFL season for twenty-one years, winning their first thirteen matches and gaining a $2000 bonus from Marlboro for winning their first twelve – with a further $200 if they could achieve a perfect home-and-away season. Swans were overpowered at the “business end” by the Mal Brown-coached South Fremantle, who were unbeaten apart from a five-game slump between the fifth and ninth rounds.


1980 WAFL season
The Bulldogs’ play late in the season is regarded as some of the finest ever seen in the WAFL, a claim substantiated by their thrashing top VFL club Carlton by 91 points in Escort Championships during March – easily the biggest win by a non-VFL club therein and in fact the biggest loss by a VFL club until the AFC Night Series was restricted thereto. The win over Carlton was impressive due to the fact that Carlton fielded their Premiership team from 1979 and South Fremantle had many young reserve players in their team like Wayne Henwood , Daryl Stokes, John Townsend and others. Brad Hardie was only 16 years old.


1980 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 4
A fine display by the returning Wayne Cormack and improved form by Ken Judge gives East Fremantle a first win and a short-lived hope of moving back to the top. Old Easts jumped the Royals with the first five goals and, despite further injuries that leave Rod Lester-Smith crippled, are never headed.


1980 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 7
In winning their first match, Subiaco record their biggest win against the reigning premier club until 1993, beating 76 points from 1968 They do this despite losing spearhead Peter Munro after kicking five in the first quarter and then Gary Buckenara.


1980 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 9 (Foundation Day)
The presence of the injured Peake and a return to form by their small men gives East Fremantle a desire completely lacking in other games of 1980 and allows them to overpower their Fremantle rivals in a hard-running game – producing unfulfilled hopes of a revival.


1980 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 10
11.6 (72) from Warren Ralph puts paid to hopes of a blue and white revival and reveals a new WAFL star, as the Tigers kick 12.4 (76) to 4.0 (24) after Old Easts drew to within five points early in the final quarter.


1980 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 14
South Fremantle’s supremacy in the wet, with wingman Geoff O‘Brien and Maurice Rioli superb, virtually seals the top two and ends Swans’ hopes of an unbeaten season.


1980 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 15
Subiaco gain their second and last win in a game with no score for twenty minutes in the last quarter - remarkable in such a high-scoring era in fine, if windy, weather.


1980 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 16
Despite a stirring fightback after losing Adamson, Ellen and Logan before the game, West Perth lose by one point for the second successive match and East Perth move within a narrow percentage gap of claiming their place in the four.


1980 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 17
A return to form with 7.6 (48) by Warren Ralph – who had been hopeless in the wet – and the dominance of Moss and Hunter ensure Claremont of a win that puts West Perth out of the four for the first time during 1980.


1980 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 18
Despite having Moss, Jim and Phil Krakouer and Ralph all well held, Claremont are only one point behind early in the last quarter before Swans show their ability under pressure and win well.


1980 WAFL season, Finals, First semi-final
Despite the loss of decorated centreman Phil Kelly, Steve Curtis’ blanketing of Phil Krakouer after the first fifteen minutes and the dominance of key forward Paul Arnold and Grant Campbell gives East Perth a clear win.


1980 WAFL season, Finals, Second semi-final
In a fiery match, South Fremantle show they remained Western Australia’s wet-weather specialists by keeping Swan Districts to 2.9 (21) after half-time as rain began and the pressure intensified.


1980 WAFL season, Grand final
South Fremantle, on a winning streak dating back to Round 10, give what is often regarded as the finest display in any WAFL Grand Final to thrash Swan Districts, playing in their first Grand Final since 1965.


1980 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1980 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 21st conference playoff in league history. The tournament was played between March 7 and March 15, 1980. All games were played at home team campus sites, including each of the two regional final series. By winning the regional tournaments, both Minnesota and North Dakota were invited to participate in the 1980 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


1980 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Though not official designations, Minnesota is considered as the East Regional Champion† and North Dakota as the West Regional Champion‡.


1980 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The top eight teams in the WCHA, according to their final conference standings, were eligible for the tournament and were seeded No. 1 through No. 8. In the first round the first and eighth seeds, the second and seventh seeds, the third and sixth seeds and the fourth and fifth seeds were matched in two-game series where the school that scored the higher number of goals was declared the winner. After the first round the remaining teams were reseeded No. 1 through No. 4 according to their final conference standings and advanced to the second round. In the second round the first and fourth seeds and the second and third seeds competed in an additional two-game, total goal series with the winners of each being declared as co-conference champions.


1980 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format, Conference Standings
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against


1980 WCT Tournament of Champions
The 1980 WCT Tournament of Champions was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City in the United States and part of the 1980 Grand Prix circuit. It was the fourth edition of the tournament and was held from May 5 through May 11, 1980. Vitas Gerulaitis won the singles title.


1980 WCT Tournament of Champions, Finals, Doubles
Peter Fleming /  John McEnroe defeated  Peter McNamara/  Paul McNamee 6–2, 5–7, 6–2


1980 WCT World Doubles
The 1980 WCT World Doubles was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at Olympia in London, Great Britain that was part of the 1980 Volvo Grand Prix. It was the tour finals for the doubles season of the WCT Tour section. The tournament was held from January 2 through January 6, 1980.


1980 WCT World Doubles, Final, Doubles
Brian Gottfried /  Raúl Ramírez defeated  Wojtek Fibak /  Tom Okker 3–6, 6–4, 6–4, 3–6, 6–3


1980 WDF Europe Cup
The 1980 WDF Europe Cup was the 2nd edition of the WDF Europe Cup darts tournament, organised by the World Darts Federation. It was held in Copenhagen, Denmark from October 3 to 4.


1980 WTA Tour
The 1980 Avon Championships World Championship Series was the 10th season since the foundation of the Women's Tennis Association. It commenced on January 7, 1980, and concluded on December 24, 1980, after 36 events. The Avon Championships World Championship Series was the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). The year is divided into two sponsored tours, with the first three months sponsored by Avon Series and the latter part by Colgate Series. It included the four Grand Slam tournaments and a series of other events. ITF tournaments were not part of the tour, although they awarded points for the WTA World Ranking.


1980 WTA Tour, Schedule
The table below shows the 1980 Avon Championships World Championship Series schedule.


1980 WTA Tour, Rankings
Below are the 1980 WTA year-end rankings (December 31, 1980) in singles competition:


1980 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team
The 1980 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest University during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. In its third season under head coach John Mackovic, the team compiled a 5–6 record and finished in a three-way tie for fourth place in the Atlantic Coast Conference.


1980 Warner W. Hodgdon 400
The 1980 Warner W. Hodgdon 400 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on June 8, 1980, at Riverside International Raceway in Riverside, California. The Sharon Hodgdon 200 for Grand American Stock cars was run the same day as this race. Ron Esau was the winner, Roy Smith was second Ray Elder third.


1980 Warner W. Hodgdon 400
By 1980, NASCAR had completely stopped tracking the year model of all the vehicles and most teams did not take stock cars to the track under their own power anymore. Only manual transmission vehicles were allowed to participate in this race; a policy that NASCAR has retained to the present day. Road courses were one of the more attractive features for NASCAR during the 1980 Winston Cup Series season. NASCAR would develop a liking for tracks with a lap duration of a mile and a half by the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.


1980 Warner W. Hodgdon 400
The NASCAR Winston Cup Series was also plagued with top teams running big engines and finishing in third place to avoid inspection around the time that this race was held.


1980 Warner W. Hodgdon 400, Race report
Darrell Waltrip would beat Neil Bonnett by less than half a second in front of 18000 fans in attendance; getting the season sweep at the Riverside road course. There were 18 different changes in the first-place position while there would be five different caution periods for 15 laps. Cale Yarborough would qualify for the pole position with a qualifying speed of 113.792 miles per hour (183.130 km/h) while the average speed of the race would be 101.846 miles per hour (163.905 km/h). Cecil Gordon would earn his last top-ten finish at this race. Other famous drivers who raced here included: Richard Petty, Cale Yarborough, Dale Earnhardt, Bobby Allison, Terry Labonte, and Richard Childress (now the owner of Richard Childress Racing).


1980 Warner W. Hodgdon 400, Race report
D.K. Ulrich would finish last in the race due to an engine issue on the pace laps of this 95-lap race. He would make $1,000 just for qualifying ($3,103 when adjusted for inflation) while Waltrip went home with an extra $22,100 in his bank account ($68,576 when adjusted for inflation). Notable crew chiefs who were actively participating in this race included Junie Donlavey, Joey Arrington, Darel Dieringer, Darrell Bryant, Dale Inman, Bud Moore, Kirk Shelmerdine among others.


1980 Warner W. Hodgdon 400, Race report
The race was named after famous race team owner/sponsor, owner of 12 race tracks, local city redeveloper, and philanthropist Warner Hodgdon.


1980 Warner W. Hodgdon 400, Race report
Roy Smith was the only Canadian to appear in a 36-driver grid of mostly American-born competitors. J.D. McDuffie tallies his third and final top-10 of the season, all of being ninth-place runs. Smith would drive for NASCAR team owner Robert Beadle.


1980 Warner W. Hodgdon 400, Race report
Don Waterman would make his NASCAR Winston Cup Series debut at this race.


1980 Warner W. Hodgdon 400, Race report
The only driver who failed to qualify for the race was Gene Thoensen; an independent driver who was the driver of the unsponsored No. 77 machine.


1980 Washington Diplomats season
The 1980 Washington Diplomats season was the club's ninth season of existence, their ninth season in the North American Soccer League and their ninth season in the then-top tier of American soccer. The Dips played in the NASL's Eastern Division of the National Conference, and finished the season placed second in the division, behind the New York Cosmos.


1980 Washington Diplomats season
The Dips qualified for the 1980 NASL Playoffs, but lost in the first round to the Los Angeles Aztecs in extra time of the second leg.


1980 Washington Diplomats season, Background
During the 1979 season, the Dips finished second the Eastern Conference of the National Division. They compiled a record of 19 wins and 11 defeats with 68 goals for and 50 scored against. Their record earned the Dips a berth into the 1979 NASL Playoffs, where they lost 2–0 in games to the Los Angeles Aztecs.


1980 Washington Diplomats season, Squad
The following players were contracted by the Washington Diplomats for part of the 1980 season.


1980 Washington Huskies football team
The 1980 Washington Huskies football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. In its sixth season under head coach Don James, the team compiled a 9–2 record in the regular season and were Pacific-10 Conference champions at 6–1. They returned to the Rose Bowl, but fell to favored Michigan; for the season Washington outscored its opponents 333 to 198.


1980 Washington Huskies football team
Both regular season losses were at home at Husky Stadium. The sole conference loss was to border rival Oregon, who last defeated the Huskies in 1973; it was the first loss for James against a Northwest team. In his eighteen games against the Ducks, James lost only three; the other two were in 1987 and 1988. The Huskies' winning streak over Washington State in the Apple Cup reached seven with another win in Spokane; it has not been held there since.


1980 Washington Huskies football team
Senior quarterback Tom Flick was selected as the team's most valuable player; Flick, Ken Gardner, Rusty Olsen, and Randy Van Divier were the team captains.


1980 Washington Huskies football team, Season summary, at Washington State
Ken Gardner intercepted a Samoa Samoa pass with 1:05 remaining to preserve the win.


1980 Washington Huskies football team, NFL Draft selections
Five University of Washington Huskies were selected in the 1981 NFL Draft, which lasted twelve rounds with 332 selections.


1980 Washington Redskins season
The 1980 Washington Redskins season was the franchise's 49th season in the National Football League (NFL) and their 43rd in Washington, D.C.. They failed to improve on their 10–6 record from 1979, dropping to 6–10, their only double-digit losing season between 1964 and 1992. This was Jack Pardee's last season as head coach.


1980 Washington Star International
The 1980 Washington Star International was a men's tennis tournament and was played on outdoor Har-Tru clay courts. The event was part of the 1980 Grand Prix circuit. It was the 12th edition of the tournament and was held at Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C. from July 21 through July 27, 1980. Sixth-seeded Brian Gottfried won the singles title and earned $24,500 first-prize money.


1980 Washington Star International, Finals, Doubles
Hans Gildemeister /  Andrés Gómez defeated  Gene Mayer /  Sandy Mayer 6–4, 7–5


1980 Washington State Cougars football team
The 1980 Washington State Cougars football team was an American football team that represented Washington State University in the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their third season under head coach Jim Walden, the Cougars compiled a 4–7 record (3–4 in Pac-10, tied for sixth), and outscored their opponents 287 to 271.


1980 Washington State Cougars football team
The team's statistical leaders included Samoa Samoa with 1,668 passing yards, Tim Harris with 801 rushing yards, and Jim Whatley with 433 receiving yards.


1980 Washington State Cougars football team
This year's Apple Cup is the most recent played at Joe Albi Stadium in Spokane; since 1982, the Cougar home games in the series (even-numbered years) have been held on campus at Martin Stadium. From 1950 thru 1980 (except 1954 in Pullman), the Cougars were 3–12 (.200) in Spokane Apple Cups, while winning five in Seattle.


1980 Washington gubernatorial election
The 1980 Washington gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1980. Incumbent Democratic Governor Dixy Lee Ray ran for a second term, but lost in the primary to State Representative Jim McDermott. McDermott was defeated in the general election by Republican candidate John Spellman, the King County Executive. As of 2021, this is the last time a Republican was elected Governor of Washington and thus beginning of the longest streak for Democrats in any gubernatorial office in the United States.


1980 Wellington City mayoral election
The 1980 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1980, election were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government positions including eighteen city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.


1980 Wellington City mayoral election, Background
The election saw Michael Fowler returned as mayor for a third term as well as the introduction of a third party to contest control of the council. The Rates Reform ticket debuted to challenge the long established council duopoly between the Labour and Citizens' tickets. The group performed poorly however with all candidates receiving far fewer votes than the other tickets' candidates. By the following election the Rates Reform group had merged into the Citizens Association and two of their 1980 candidates (Ruth Gotlieb and Bryan Weyburne) were elected as councillors.


1980 Wells Fargo Open
The 1980 Wells Fargo Open was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the San Diego Sports Arena in San Diego, California in the United States that was part of the Colgate Series of the 1980 WTA Tour. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from July 28 through August 3, 1980. First-seeded Tracy Austin won the singles title, her second consecutive at the event, and earned $20,000 first-prize money.


1980 Wells Fargo Open, Finals, Doubles
Tracy Austin /  Ann Kiyomura defeated  Rosie Casals /  Wendy Turnbull 3–6, 6–4, 6–3


1980 Welsh Cup Final
The 1980 Welsh Cup Final was the final of the 93rd season of the main domestic football cup competition in Wales, the Welsh Cup. The final was contested between Newport County and Shrewsbury Town over two legs. Newport County won 5–1 on aggregate, winning both legs.


1980 Welsh Professional Championship
The 1980 Woodpecker Welsh Professional Championship was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament, which took place in January 1980.


1980 Welsh Professional Championship
Doug Mountjoy won the tournament defeating Ray Reardon 9–6 in the final.


1980 West German federal election
Federal elections were held in West Germany on 5 October 1980 to elect the members of the 9th Bundestag. Although the CDU/CSU remained the largest faction in parliament, Helmut Schmidt of the Social Democratic Party remained Chancellor.


1980 West German federal election, Issues and campaign
Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of the SPD-FDP coalition wanted to be re-elected. The CDU/CSU tried to make their candidate the elected Chancellor, CSU leader Franz Josef Strauß. It was the first time that their candidate was from the CSU. Strauß, immensely popular in Bavaria, found it difficult to appeal to people in other parts of Germany. One important reason for Strauss's unpopularity compared to Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, was his tendency to talk sharply and militantly about his political opponents. Schmidt, by contrast, was still seen by many West German voters as a moderate and practical manager and doer, who focused on getting concrete political and economic results more than on political rhetoric.


1980 West German federal election, Post-election
The coalition between the SPD and the FDP returned to government, with Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor. In 1982, the FDP quit the government, which led to the government's collapse and replacement with a new CDU/CSU – FDP coalition under Helmut Kohl.


1980 West Texas State Buffaloes football team
The 1980 West Texas State Buffaloes football team was an American football team that represented West Texas State University (now known as West Texas A&M University) as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their fourth year under head coach Bill Yung, the team compiled a 5–6 record (2–4 in the MVC).


1980 West Virginia Mountaineers football team
The 1980 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University in the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the Mountaineers' 88th overall season and they competed as a Division I-A Independent. The team was led by head coach Don Nehlen, in his first year, and played their home games at their new stadium, Mountaineer Field in Morgantown, West Virginia. They finished the season with a record of six wins and six losses (6–6 overall).


1980 West Virginia gubernatorial election
The 1980 West Virginia gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 1980, to elect the governor of West Virginia. Incumbent Governor Jay Rockefeller defeated former Governor Arch Moore in a rematch of the 1972 contest.


1980 Western Australian state election
Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 23 February 1980 to elect all 55 members to the Legislative Assembly and 16 members to the 32-seat Legislative Council. The Liberal-National Country coalition government, led by Premier Sir Charles Court, won a third term in office against the Labor Party, led by Opposition Leader Ron Davies.


1980 Western Australian state election
The election produced very little in terms of the balance of the parties in Parliament—Labor won Kimberley from the Liberals in the Assembly, and a North Province seat in the Council, but lost two Council seats to the Liberals—one each in North Metropolitan and South-East Metropolitan. However, Labor received a substantial swing overall, increasing majorities in seats it already held, and reducing Liberal majorities in western suburban seats and pushing the key seats of Bunbury and Pilbara into marginal status. Despite a vigorous campaign against each other, the National Country and National parties, which had split in August 1978, failed to gain any seats off each other, each retaining three seats in the Assembly, and the former retaining one in the Council.


1980 Western Australian state election, Results, Legislative Assembly
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1980 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team
The 1980 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team represented Western Kentucky University in the 1980 NCAA Division I-AA football season and were led by head coach Jimmy Feix. The team won the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) championship, but missed the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs. Instead, second-place finisher Eastern Kentucky was invited despite the fact that Western had beaten them earlier in the season. This perceived snub was a factor in Western Kentucky's decision to leave the OVC in 1982. The Hilltoppers finished the season ranked fifth in final Associated Press poll.


1980 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team
Western Kentucky's roster included future National Football League (NFL) players Pete Walters, Davlin Mullen, John Newby, Phil Rich, Troy Snardon, Brad Todd, Donnie Evans, Ray Farmer, Ronnie Fishback, Tom Fox, Paul Gray, Ricky Gwinn, Ron Hunter, Lamont Meacham, and Mike Miller. Walters and Tim Ford were named to All-American teams and Feix was named OVC Coach of the Year for the third time. The All-Conference Team included Barry Bumm, Evans, Farmer, Jerry Flippin, Gwinn, Lamont Meacham, Rich, Snardon, and Walters.


1980 Western Michigan Broncos football team
The 1980 Western Michigan Broncos football team represented Western Michigan University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their sixth season under head coach Elliot Uzelac, the Broncos compiled a 7–4 record (6–3 against MAC opponents), finished in second place in the MAC, and outscored their opponents, 233 to 179. The team played its home games at Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo, Michigan.


1980 Western Michigan Broncos football team
The team's statistical leaders included Tom George with 644 passing yards, Craig Morrow with 778 rushing yards, and Reggie Hinton with 429 receiving yards. Defensive end Jim Hinkle and tackle Bud Sitko were the team captains. Defensive back George Bullock received the team's most outstanding player award.


1980 Wexford Senior Hurling Championship
The 1980 Wexford Senior Hurling Championship was the 70th staging of the Wexford Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Wexford County Board in 1889.


1980 Wexford Senior Hurling Championship
The final was played on 14 September 1980 at Wexford Park, between Rathnure and Buffers Alley, in what was their first meeting in a final in three years. Rathnure won the match by 2-15 to 1-07 to claim their 12th championship title overall and their second title in succession.


1980 Whitbread Awards
The Whitbread Awards (1971–2005), called Costa Book Awards since 2006, are literary awards in the United Kingdom, awarded both for high literary merit but also for works considered enjoyable reading. This page gives details of the awards given in the year 1980.


1980 Wichita State Shockers football team
The 1980 Wichita State Shockers football team was an American football team that represented  Wichita State as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their second year under head coach Willie Jeffries, the team compiled a 5–5–1 record.


1980 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election
'All-out' elections to the Wigan Council were held on 1 May 1980, following extensive boundary changes and entirely new wards, yet retaining the number of 24 wards with three seats each for a total of 72 seats. The results were comparable to the 1973 election (also an election where all 72 seats were up for vote), with Labour rewarded a crushing majority in seats for approaching 60% of the vote with their main competitors, the Conservatives, falling to under 30%. The Liberals seen their highest representation yet by way of winning all three seats in Langtree.


1980 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election
A former Labour councillor who'd represented the just-abolished ward 19 (encompassing central/north Hindley) since the council's creation fought the Hindley ward as an Independent Labour. Overall turnout fell to the slightly higher than usual number of 36.2% from the general election turnout of 75.7% last year, with all wards recording at least one competitor - although that meant in a number of wards Labour were unopposed for one or two of the seats.


1980 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election result
This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections:


1980 Wightman Cup
The 1980 Wightman Cup was the 52nd edition of the annual women's team tennis competition between the United States and Great Britain. It was held at the Royal Albert Hall in London in England in the United Kingdom. The cup was memorable for the last minute replacement of world no.1 Tracy Austin with Andrea Jaeger who had to fly from Japan to London at very short notice and arrived only hours before her first match, which she won.


1980 Wightman Cup
The BBC chose Chris Evert's victory over Virginia Wade as one of its "100 Greatest Sporting Moments" in recognition of Evert's final set recovery from being 1-5, 0-40 down on Wade's serve. Wade's victory would have squared the match at 3-3, whereas in fact, Evert's recovery secured the cup 4-2 with only the final doubles left to play.


1980 William & Mary Tribe football team
The 1980 William & Mary Tribe football team represented the College of William & Mary as an independent during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. Led by Jimmye Laycock in his first year as head coach, William & Mary finished the season with a record of 2–9.


1980 Wimbledon Championships
The 1980 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from 23 June until 5 July. It was the 94th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the second Grand Slam tennis event of 1980.


1980 Wimbledon Championships, Prize money
The total prize money for 1980 championships was £293,464. The winner of the men's title earned £20,000 while the women's singles champion earned £18,000.


1980 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Men's Singles
Björn Borg defeated  John McEnroe, 1–6, 7–5, 6–3, 6–7(16–18), 8–6


1980 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Men's Doubles
Peter McNamara /  Paul McNamee defeated  Bob Lutz /  Stan Smith, 7–6(7–5), 6–3, 6–7(4–7), 6–4


1980 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Women's Doubles
Kathy Jordan /  Anne Smith defeated  Rosie Casals /  Wendy Turnbull, 4–6, 7–5, 6–1


1980 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Mixed Doubles
John Austin /  Tracy Austin defeated  Mark Edmondson /  Dianne Fromholtz, 4–6, 7–6 (8–6), 6–3


1980 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Singles
Thierry Tulasne defeated Hans-Dieter Beutel in the final, 6–4, 3–6, 6–4 to win the Boys' Singles tennis title at the 1980 Wimbledon Championships.


1980 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Singles, Seeds
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1980 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Singles
Debbie Freeman defeated Susan Leo in the final, 7–6, 7–5 to win the Girls' Singles tennis title at the 1980 Wimbledon Championships.


1980 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


1980 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles
Peter Fleming and John McEnroe were the defending champions but lost in the semifinals to Peter McNamara and Paul McNamee.


1980 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles
McNamara and McNamee defeated Bob Lutz and Stan Smith in the final, 7–6(7–5), 6–3, 6–7(4–7), 6–4 to win the Gentlemen's Doubles title at the 1980 Wimbledon Championships.


1980 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles, Seeds
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1980 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
Four-time defending champion Björn Borg successfully defended his title, defeating John McEnroe in the final, 1–6, 7–5, 6–3, 6–7(16–18), 8–6 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1980 Wimbledon Championships. It was his fifth consecutive singles title at the Championships. The final has often been called one of the greatest and most exciting matches of all time, and was central to the Borg–McEnroe rivalry. A dramatic depiction of the final featured as the conclusion to the 2017 movie Borg vs McEnroe.


1980 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section. Harold Solomon and Yannick Noah withdrew due to injury. They were replaced in the draw by Qualifiers Kevin Curren and Wayne Hampson respectively.


1980 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles Qualifying
Players who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held one week before the event. Several players withdrew from the main draw after qualifying had commenced, leading to the highest ranked players who lost in the final qualifying round to be entered into the main draw as lucky losers.


1980 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles final
The 1980 Wimbledon Men's Singles final was the championship tennis match of the Men's Singles tournament at the 1980 Wimbledon Championships. After 3 hours and 53 minutes of play, the four-time defending champion Björn Borg defeated John McEnroe 1–6, 7–5, 6–3, 6–7(16–18), 8–6 to win the match. McEnroe saved seven championship points during the match but ultimately lost to Borg in what was regarded at the time as the greatest tennis match ever played. It would be another 28 years before it would be rivaled by the 2008 Wimbledon men's singles final between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.


1980 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles final, Match
The match was eagerly awaited as not only was it a clash between the top two seeds, it was also viewed as a meeting of opposites:


1980 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles final, Match
Borg was the Iceman, a ruthless baseliner who used his racket to probe other players' weaknesses like a surgeon wielding a scalpel. McEnroe was the Brat, a modern genius in the old-fashioned craft of serve and volley, who often gave the impression that his real opponent was the umpire, or himself, or anyone other than the person standing on the other side of the net.


1980 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles final, Match
At the start of the final, McEnroe was booed by the crowd as he entered Centre Court, because of the heated exchanges he had had with officials during his semi-final victory over Jimmy Connors.


1980 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles final, Match
In the final's fourth-set tiebreaker that lasted 20 minutes, McEnroe saved five championship points and eventually won 18–16. The tie-break was later described by one reporter as "the most riveting episode in the sport's history". McEnroe, however, could not break Borg's serve in the fifth set, which the Swede won 8–6.


1980 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles final, Significance
This match was called the best Wimbledon final by ESPN's countdown show "Who's Number One?" and "one of the three or four greatest sporting events in history" by ESPN English speaking personality Mike Greenberg. In 1999, it ranked #10 on ESPN's SportsCentury's Ten Greatest Games of the 20th Century. In a 2002 UK poll conducted by Channel 4, the British public voted the match #10 in the list of the 100 Greatest Sporting Moments. The New York Times tennis writer Neil Amdur wrote in 2011: "I covered the 1980 Wimbledon men’s singles final between McEnroe and Borg.