1980 NHL Entry Draft, Selections by round, Round three, Notes (Round 3)
2. * The Quebec Nordiques' third round pick went to the Montreal Canadiens as the result of a trade on June 9, 1979 that Montreal Canadiens promise to take Dan Geoffrion and Alain Cote, rather than Marc Tardif and/or Richard David in 1979 NHL Expansion Draft, from the Quebec Nordiques in exchange for the second round pick in 1981 and this pick. Nordiques promise to take Alain Cote in NHL Expansion Draft.


1980 NHL Entry Draft, Selections by round, Round three, Notes (Round 3)
3. * The Toronto Maple Leafs' third round pick went to the Minnesota North Stars as the result of to a trade on October 5, 1978, that sent Walt McKechnie to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for this pick.


1980 NHL Entry Draft, Selections by round, Round three, Notes (Round 3)
4. * The Calgary Flames' third round pick went to the Washington Capitals as the result of to a trade on June 11, 1980, that sent Tim Coulis, Robert Picard and 26th overall pick to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for Mike Palmateer and this pick. Toronto had acquired the pick previously as the result of a trade on June 10, 1980, that sent 32nd overall pick to the Calgary Flames in exchange for Dave Shand and this pick.


1980 NHL Entry Draft, Selections by round, Round three, Notes (Round 3)
5. * The New York Rangers' third round pick went to the Buffalo Sabres as the result of to a trade on March 12, 1979, that sent Jocelyn Guevremont to the New York Rangers in exchange for the third round pick in 1979 and this pick.


1980 NHL Entry Draft, Selections by round, Round three, Notes (Round 3)
6. * The Minnesota North Stars' third round pick went to the Chicago Black Hawks as the result of to a trade on May 4, 1978, that sent Eddie Mio and Pierre Plante to the Minnesota North Stars in exchange for Doug Hicks and this pick.


1980 NHL Entry Draft, Selections by round, Round four, Notes (Round 4)
1. * The Detroit Red Wings' fourth round pick went to the Chicago Black Hawks as the result of a trade on December 2, 1977, that sent Dennis Hull to the Detroit Red Wings in exchange for this pick.


1980 NHL Entry Draft, Selections by round, Round four, Notes (Round 4)
2. * The Washington Capitals' fourth round pick went to the New York Islanders as the result of to a trade on December 7, 1979, that sent Mike Kaszycki to the Washington Capitals in exchange for Gord Lane and this pick.


1980 NHL Entry Draft, Selections by round, Round seven, Notes (Round 7)
1. * The Pittsburgh Penguins' seventh round pick went to the Winnipeg Jets as the result of a trade on June 9, 1979, that Winnipeg Jets promised not to claim Kim Clackson as a priority selection in the 1979 NHL Entry Draft in exchange for this pick.


1980 NHL Entry Draft, Selections by round, Round ten, Notes (Round 10)
1. * The Edmonton Oilers' tenth round pick went to the Philadelphia Flyers as the result of a trade on June 11, 1980, that sent Barry Dean to the Edmonton Oilers in exchange for Ron Areshenkoff and this pick.


1980 NHRA Winternationals
The 1980 NHRA Winternationals (commonly known as the Winternats) were a National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) drag racing event, held at  Auto Club Raceway  in Pomona, California, on February 3.


1980 NHRA Winternationals, Top Fuel Dragster
Shirley Muldowney qualified her all-new (and later signature) pink digger $6, at 5.90 seconds and 245 mph (394 km/h), and  Connie Kalitta, who turned in a #1-qualifying 5.85 second pass. The field also included Rance McDaniel (with a 5.85 second/249.30 mph (401.21 km/h) pass), John Kimble, Frank Bradley, Chris "The Greek" Karamesines, and Gary Beck; Don Garlits' 6.05/243.24 mph (391.46 km/h) pass was not good enough to qualify.


1980 NHRA Winternationals, Top Fuel Dragster
Kalitta defeated former world champions in all three early rounds:  Rob Bruins, who redlighted; Beck; and Richard Tharp.. Muldowney faced #14 qualifier Mark Oswald in round one, Dave Uyehara (qualified #10) in round two, and #4-qualifier Kimble in round three.


1980 NHRA Winternationals, Top Fuel Dragster
The event win went to Muldowney, who defeated Kalitta in the final, their fourth final round meeting in a row, and Muldowney's fourth win. Muldowney's winning pass was 5.94 seconds at 247.25 mph (397.91 km/h), to Kalitta's 6.03/233.76 mph (376.20 km/h).


1980 NHRA Winternationals, Top Fuel Dragster
Muldowney also claimed Low E.T. (5.83) and Top Speed (249.30 mph (401.21 km/h), tying McDaniel) of the meet for the class Low qualifying e.t. paid Kalitta  $1000 from 7-Up.


1980 NHRA Winternationals, Top Fuel Funny Car
Dale Pulde's War Eagle Dodge Challenger qualified #8, at 6.12/238 mph (383 km/h). In round one, he defeated the Pontiac Firebird of Jim Dunn (qualified #10) in round one, Hank Johnson in round two, and Kenny Bernstein, whose fueller got badly out of shape, in the semi-final. (qualified


1980 NHRA Winternationals, Top Fuel Funny Car
War Eagle suffered chassis cracking, which was repaired with the assistance of every other team in the class, just before the final round.


1980 NHRA Winternationals, Top Fuel Funny Car
In the final, Pulde faced off against Ron Colson, in Roland Leong's Hawaiian Dodge Omni, who qualified #11; Colson was disqualified after crossing the centerline. Pulde recorded a pass of 6.25 seconds at 238.72 mph (384.18 km/h). War Eagle's chassis broke at the end of the winning pass.


1980 NHRA Winternationals, Top Fuel Funny Car
"240 Gordie" Bonin's #13-qualified Firebird took top speed of the meet in class, with a pass of 245.23 mph (394.66 km/h), before hitting a safety net. Low E.T. in class went to Kosty Ivanof's Chevrolet Corvette, at 6.05. Low qualifying e.t. also paid Ivanof $1000 from 7-Up.


1980 NHRA Winternationals, Pro Stock
The event win went to Lee Shepherd, after Jim Meyer was eliminated in round one and gearbox trouble took out Bob Glidden in the second round and a broken chassis claimed Kevin Rotty in the semi-final.


1980 NHRA Winternationals, Pro Stock
Rotty, in a 1980 Camaro owned by Jack Manchester, recorded Low E.T. and Top Speed in class, at 8.49 seconds and 161.57 mph (260.02 km/h). Low e.t. earned Rotty $500 from 7-Up.


1980 NHRA Winternationals, Top Gas Eliminator
The newly-introduced class was won by Bob Tietz, topping a thirty-two car field; at the wheel of a Chevrolet-powered '23 Model T, he defeated Bruce Williams in the final round, with a pass of 9.88 seconds at 117 mph (188 km/h).


1980 NHRA Winternationals, Pro Comp
Pro Comp Eliminator was won by Brian Raymer's gas dragster, with a 6.67/207 mph (333 km/h) pass, defeating an unexpected finalist, Fred Hagen, in the BB/FC Darkhorse.


1980 NSL Cup
The 1980 NSL Cup was the fourth season of the NSL Cup, which was the main national association football knockout cup competition in Australia. All 14 NSL teams from around Australia entered the competition, as well as a further 18 from various state leagues around Australia.


1980 NSWRFL season
The 1980 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the 73rd season of Sydney's professional rugby league football competition, Australia's first. Twelve clubs, including six of 1908's foundation teams and another six from around Sydney competed for the J.J. Giltinan Shield and WD & HO Wills Cup during the season, which culminated in a grand final between the Canterbury-Bankstown and Eastern Suburbs clubs. NSWRFL clubs also competed in the 1980 Tooth Cup and players from NSWRFL clubs were selected to represent the New South Wales team.


1980 NSWRFL season, Season summary
Twenty-two regular season rounds were played from March till August, resulting in a top five of Easts, Canterbury, Wests, St. George and Souths who battled it out in the finals.


1980 NSWRFL season, Season summary
The 1980 season also saw the retirement from the League of future Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame inductee, Arthur Beetson.


1980 NSWRFL season, Season summary
Mid -way through the season, players contracted to NSWRFL clubs were selected to represent the New South Wales team in two games against the Queensland team in 1980. After that the experimental 1980 State of Origin game was played, and NSWRFL clubs' players represented Queensland for the first time.


1980 NSWRFL season, Season summary
The 1980 season's Rothmans Medallist was Newtown prop Geoff Budgen. The inaugural Dally M Award, named in honour of rugby league's first "Master" Dally Messenger, went to South Sydney's Robert Laurie. Rugby League Week gave its player of the year award to Eastern Suburbs' halfback Kevin Hastings.


1980 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand final
Canterbury's loss of long serving fullback Stan Cutler with a broken leg suffered in the major semi-final, and the Roosters' form in the preliminary final resulted in Easts being warm favourites. But the Bulldogs, boasting two sets of brothers in the Hughes and Mortimers came ready to play expansive football. The Roosters began well and Noel Cleal was a constant threat but Canterbury's forwards led by Robinson and Coveney began to get on top. Canterbury's Chris Anderson scored the first try of the match after receiving a blatantly forward pass from Chris Mortimer in the lead up. The Roosters hit back and only desperate cover defence from Steve Mortimer on Easts' winger Steve McFarlane prevented a Roosters try. Ken Wright kicked two penalty goals for the tricolours, resulting in a 7–4 lead to the Bulldogs at half time.


1980 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand final
After the break Steve Gearin edged the Bulldogs clear with three successive goals after aggressive play from the Roosters – led by John Tobin's focus on the Hughes brothers – was penalised by referee Greg Hartley. The final Canterbury try by Gearin has been ranked amongst the best of all-time. Five minutes from full-time Greg Brentnall raced downfield and put up a high kick. Gearin followed through at speed and outjumped opposing winger David Michael, catching the ball on the full to score and secure a Bulldogs victory.


1980 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand final
It was Canterbury's third premiership and had come after a wait of thirty-eight years. It was the last Grand Final to be played on a Saturday afternoon with the deciders since then being played on a Sunday.


1980 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand final
Canterbury-Bankstown 18 (Tries: Anderson, Gearin. Goals: Gearin 6 from 6)


1980 Nairobi hotel bombing
On 31 December 1980, New Year's Eve, a bomb exploded in the Fairmont The Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. It partially destroyed the hotel, killing 20 people and wounding another 87.


1980 Nairobi hotel bombing
The owner of the hotel was a prominent member of the local Jewish community, and it has been suggested that the attack was in retaliation for Kenya providing support to rescue the Israeli hostages in Uganda during Operation Entebbe four years earlier. Among the dead were at least four Kenyans, two Americans, two British children, a Danish employee of KLM, a Frenchman, and a Belgian child. The bomber was said by the Kenyan government to be a Moroccan with a Maltese passport named Qaddura Mohammed Abd Al-Hamid, identified as a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) who departed on a flight to Saudi Arabia on the day of the bombing.


1980 Namita Sunita murder incident
The Namita Sunita murder incident (नमिता सुनिता हत्याकाण्ड) is a controversial, unsolved rape and murder of three girls that took place in 1980. Three girls, Namita Bhandari, Sunita Bhandari and Neera Parajuli, were raped and murdered in Pokhara, Nepal, with a single witness. The witness, Churamani Adhikari, later committed suicide as per the official report and the case went unsolved.


1980 Namita Sunita murder incident, Background
In the summer of 1980, sisters Namita and Sunita Bhandari took a bus to Pokhara to spend their school holidays. Namita and Sunita, along with their relative Neera Parajuli from Bindhyaabasini visited the Seti river bank. There was a Nepal Army camp nearby on the east side of the Mahendra bridge. As the girls reached the river bank, a group of boys nearby started teasing them and turned hostile, then allegedly raped and murdered all three girls and disposed of their bodies in the Seti river.


1980 Namita Sunita murder incident, Aftermath
In June 2001, King Birendra and his family were massacred and Gyanendra was sworn in as the new king. The case drew suspicion when police were asked to close the case just 10 days after his ascension. The case was closed inconclusively in 2003.


1980 National Camogie League
The 1980 National Camogie League, the second most important elite level inter-county competition in the women's team field sport of camogie was won by Kilkenny, who defeated Tipperary in the final, played at Roscrea.


1980 National Camogie League, Arrangements
Kilkenny defeated Limerick, Cork and Galway en route to the final. Tipperary defeated Clare, Down and Wexford by 3-9 to 2-7. Tipperary then defeated Dublin in the semi-final while Kilkenny had a bye to the final. Barbara Redmond was missing from the Dublin team for the League semi-final, the second yearthat a league semi-final involving Dublin went to extra time.


1980 National Camogie League, The Final
Both sides were without their first choice goalkeepers for the final, Mary O'Brien a student at Thomond College having gone to America and Teresa O'Neill on holiday in America. As a contest the final was over early in the second half when Kilkenny led by 3-4 to 0-1, thanks to two goals from Angea Downey and one from Mary Purcell, Tipperary’s only point coming from a placed ball from a thirty. Agnes Hourigan wrote in the Irish Press:


1980 National Camogie League, The Final
From the longest serving members to Anna Whelan from Castlecomer, who was playing in her first final, Kilkenny proved themselves skilled, fast and celevr exponents of the game. Tipperary, who had promised so much in their game with Dublin in the semi-final, did not live up to that performance and must feel very disappointed with how they played.


1980 National Camogie League, Division 2
The Junior National League, known since 2006 as Division Two, was won by Armagh who defeated Kildare in the final.


1980 National Challenge Cup
The 1980 National Challenge Cup was the 67th edition of the USSF's annual open soccer championship. Teams from the North American Soccer League declined to participate. New York Pancyprian-Freedoms defeated Maccabee A.C. in the final game. The score was 3–2.


1980 National Invitation Tournament
The 1980 National Invitation Tournament was the 1980 edition of the annual NCAA college basketball competition.


1980 National Invitation Tournament, Selected teams
Below is a list of the 32 teams selected for the tournament.


1980 National Invitation Tournament, Brackets
Below are the four first round brackets, along with the four-team championship bracket.


1980 National League Championship Series
The 1980 National League Championship Series was played between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Houston Astros from October 7 to 12. It was the 12th NLCS. Philadelphia won the series three games to two to advance to the World Series, eventually defeating the Kansas City Royals for their first World Series Championship.


1980 National League Championship Series
The 1980 National League Championship Series is remembered as the closest, most grueling playoff series in major league history. The series went to its five-game limit, with the final four games requiring extra innings to determine a winner.


1980 National League Championship Series, Background
The 1980 National League pennant races were some of the most exciting races in baseball history, as both divisions came down to the final weekend. The NL East race featured the Pirates, the defending World Series Champions; the Phillies, who were hovering just over a .500 winning percentage and in third place until the middle of August; and the Expos, who were leading the division or within at least four games of first place throughout most of the season. The Pirates would fade at the end of the season and finish 83-79.


1980 National League Championship Series, Background
The Phillies and the Expos were tied in the standings entering the final weekend of the 1980 season with a three game series set between the two clubs at Olympic Stadium. On October 4, with the Phillies holding a one-game lead in the standings, and with the score tied at four heading to the tenth, Mike Schmidt hit a blast deep into the seats in left field to give the Phillies a 6-4 lead and ultimate win to clinch the NL East.


1980 National League Championship Series, Background
The two parties in the NL West race were the Astros and Dodgers. The Astros were a very talented team with the additions of Joe Morgan and Nolan Ryan during the off-season, but inner turmoil threatened to tear the team apart. In his book, Joe Morgan – A Life in Baseball, Morgan recounted how he called a players-only meeting in August after a series against the Padres in San Diego. He challenged his teammates to be less selfish and he singled people out  and it worked.


1980 National League Championship Series, Background
Immediately following the meeting, Houston went on a tear and gained a three game lead in the NL West. Everyone was happy, according to Morgan, except manager Bill Virdon, who felt Morgan had overstepped his bounds. Their relationship changed after that. As the team continued to surge, players would talk about how much of an influence Morgan was which made the problem worse. Virdon began benching Morgan late in games and it would come back to bite them later on.


1980 National League Championship Series, Background
While the Phillies were putting their finishing touches on clinching the NL East during the last weekend of the season, the Astros had a meltdown at Dodger Stadium. All Houston had to do was win one game and they would qualify for their first ever post-season appearance. Instead, they were swept in three games by the second place Dodgers. More than 50,000 people packed Dodger Stadium on Monday, October 6th for the one-game playoff to determine the NL West champion.


1980 National League Championship Series, Background
The Astros sent 19-game winner Joe Niekro to the mound while the Dodgers countered with Dave Goltz, who signed as a free-agent in the 1979-1980 off-season. Goltz recorded double-digit wins for six straight seasons in Minnesota, but his first season in Dodger Blue was a disappointment, as he entered the most important game of the season with a 7-10 record. Houston would knock Goltz out the game early and go on to win 7-1, setting the stage for a Phillies versus Astros NL Championship Series.


1980 National League Championship Series, Rosters, Philadelphia Phillies
Ramón Avilés, Bob Boone, Larry Bowa, Warren Brusstar, Marty Bystrom, Steve Carlton, Larry Christenson, Greg Gross, Greg Luzinski, Garry Maddox, Bake McBride, Tug McGraw, Keith Moreland, Dickie Noles, Ron Reed, Pete Rose, Dick Ruthven, Kevin Saucier, Mike Schmidt, Lonnie Smith, Manny Trillo, Del Unser, George Vukovich.


1980 National League Championship Series, Rosters, Houston Astros
Joaquín Andújar, Alan Ashby, Dave Bergman, Bruce Bochy, Enos Cabell, César Cedeño, José Cruz, Ken Forsch, Danny Heep, Art Howe, Frank LaCorte, Rafael Landestoy, Jeffrey Leonard, Joe Morgan, Joe Niekro, Terry Puhl, Luis Pujols, Craig Reynolds, Vern Ruhle, Nolan Ryan, Joe Sambito, Dave Smith, Denny Walling, Gary Woods.


1980 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
Game 1 was the most ordinary contest of the series. Starters Ken Forsch and Steve Carlton dueled for the first five innings, with only one run scored by Houston in the third on an RBI single by Gary Woods. Philadelphia's Greg Luzinski essentially decided the game in the sixth when he homered after Pete Rose had singled. This was the only home run of the entire series. The Phillies added another run in the seventh on a run-scoring single by pinch-hitter Greg Gross. Tug McGraw relieved Carlton at the start of the eighth and allowed only a walk over the last two innings for the save. Despite pitching fairly well in a complete game effort, Forsch took the loss.


1980 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
The Astros arrived in Philadelphia only hours before the first pitch after defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium in a one-game playoff the previous afternoon to win the Western Division championship. It was the fourth consecutive game in Los Angeles for the club, as the Dodgers swept Houston in the final three games of the regular season to force the playoff.


1980 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
This was the first home postseason win for the Phillies since the Game 1 of the 1915 World Series, ending a ten-game home postseason losing streak.


1980 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
Houston evened the series in Game 2, a seesaw contest that would prove typical of the series as a whole. Houston opened the scoring in the third when Terry Puhl singled home Craig Reynolds after a sacrifice bunt by Nolan Ryan. The Phillies took the lead with two runs in the fourth on RBIs from Greg Luzinski and Garry Maddox. Houston evened the score in the seventh when Ryan walked and was doubled home by Puhl, and went ahead in the eighth after Joe Morgan doubled and scored on a single by José Cruz.


1980 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
After loading the bases in the seventh but failing to score, the Phillies got a run in the eighth to tie the game 3–3 when Maddox singled home pinch-runner Lonnie Smith. The Astros went 1–2–3 in the ninth but the Phillies loaded the bases with one out in their half of the inning on singles by Bake McBride, Mike Schmidt and Smith. But Manny Trillo, who would eventually win the series MVP award, struck out and Maddox fouled out to end the threat.


1980 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
The tenth inning turned disastrous for the Phillies as Houston used three hits to score four runs, with an RBI single by Cruz, a run-scoring groundout by César Cedeño, and a two-run triple by Dave Bergman. The Phillies got an unearned run in the bottom of the inning on an error by Reynolds at shortstop. But Astros reliever Joaquín Andújar came in and held on for the save to tie the series at 1–1.


1980 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
Houston's Astrodome was always known as a pitcher's park, and the domed stadium lived up to its reputation when the series moved there for Game 3. The two teams' pitching staffs combined to yield only 13 hits and one run in the game's 11 innings. Houston's Joe Niekro pitched ten strong innings but missed out on what would have been a win, while Phillies closer Tug McGraw took the loss. Both teams did get men to third on a few occasions: Houston in the first and fourth and Philadelphia in the third.


1980 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
But the staffs held firm until the bottom of the 11th. Joe Morgan led off the inning for the Astros with a triple to right. After two intentional walks Denny Walling hit a sacrifice fly to bring home the game's only run and give Houston the victory. The Astros were now just one win away from the franchise's first appearance in the World Series.


1980 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
In what was by now a familiar pattern, Game 4 turned into a back-and-forth contest that wasn't decided until extra innings.


1980 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
The fourth inning of this game was especially eventful. In the top, Bake McBride and Manny Trillo opened with back-to-back singles off Vern Ruhle. Garry Maddox then hit a low liner back to the mound that Ruhle reached down and appeared to catch (replays were inconclusive). At first, plate umpire Doug Harvey signaled "no catch", but then when Ruhle threw to first baseman Art Howe to either double off Trillo or retire Maddox (according to the call), Harvey called time to confer with the other umpires.


1980 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
Ed Vargo and Bob Engel concurred that Ruhle caught the ball, and Harvey changed his ruling. Howe, seeing McBride at third base, then ran down and touched second for an apparent triple play and the Astros left the field as the inning was apparently over. Phillies manager Dallas Green and the Phillie infielders (especially Pete Rose) heatedly protested that Ruhle trapped the ball. Harvey allowed McBride to return to second, determining that his original ruling of "no catch" caused McBride to run to third.


1980 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
(Trillo was out, of course, having been doubled off first in the normal flow of the play.) Astros manager Bill Virdon protested the decision to declare only two outs and McBride on second, but to no avail. The umpires then consulted with National League President Chub Feeney, who was seated in the first row behind home plate, and Feeney agreed with the ruling. Green and the Phillies then resumed their heated disagreement, and both the Phillies and the Astros decided to play the game under protest. After a total of 20 minutes' worth of arguing from both sides, Larry Bowa grounded out for the third out of the inning.


1980 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
The bottom of the fourth featured two fielding gaffes by Phillie left-fielder Lonnie Smith as the Astros got their first run. Enos Cabell doubled to left on what appeared to be a catchable fly ball. Smith mistakenly turned to face the left field wall as if the ball would carom, but the ball instead dropped on the warning track a few feet away from him. After Joe Morgan grounded Cabell to third, Gary Woods walked. Howe then hit a fly ball to left that Smith caught as both runners tagged. As Smith attempted to throw home to retire Cabell, the ball slipped from his hand and Cabell scored. Woods reached second and attempted to advance to third on the miscue, but Smith recovered the ball and threw him out on a close play as the Astros protested once again.


1980 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
The Astros got another run in the fifth as Luis Pujols tripled and scored on a single by Rafael Landestoy. In what would prove to be critical failings, the Astros loaded the bases in both the sixth and seventh but couldn't add to their lead. In the sixth, a run for the Astros was taken off the board when Woods left third base too early on a sacrifice fly attempt and the Phillies successfully appealed.


1980 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
The Phillies took advantage by going ahead with three runs in the eighth. Pinch-hitter Greg Gross and Smith opened the inning with singles off Ruhle and Rose singled in Gross. Smith advanced to third and Rose to second on the throw to third. Mike Schmidt then beat out a grounder up the middle, scoring Smith to tie it and moving Rose to third. After McBride struck out, Trillo hit a sinking line drive that Jeffrey Leonard made a shoestring catch-on and Rose tagged and scored the go-ahead run. However, on yet another "catch/no catch" controversy, Schmidt was doubled off first (ending the inning), thinking Leonard trapped the ball.


1980 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
The Astros didn't go quietly and leveled the score in the bottom of the ninth on an RBI single by Terry Puhl. But the tenth was ruinous for Houston. With two out and the score tied at 3–3, the Phillies' Greg Luzinski entered as a pinch-hitter and doubled home Rose with the go-ahead run on a close play at the plate, with Rose running over Astros catcher Bruce Bochy. Manny Trillo then singled home Luzinski with an insurance tally. The Astros went 1–2–3 in the bottom of the tenth, and the series was tied. This was Luzinski's second game-winning hit in the Championship Series, coming after a subpar regular season for the slugger.


1980 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
Game 4 of the series was a Saturday afternoon affair that ran into the early evening of October 11. An NCAA football game between the University of Houston and Texas A&M had been scheduled to begin at 7:00 p.m. Rather than move the game to a different day or to another stadium, the schools elected to play the game at the Astrodome as scheduled. The conversion of the Astrodome from baseball to football took several hours and the football game did not kick off until 11:33 p.m. The game ended at 2:41 a.m. with the Houston Cougars taking a 17–13 victory over Texas A&M. The Astrodome crew then began work on converting the Dome back to a baseball setup for Game 5 of the NLCS.


1980 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5
Game 5 capped the series in fitting fashion, with seemingly endless surprises and excitement. The Astros jumped to an early lead in the first on a run-scoring double by José Cruz. Philadelphia bounced back to take the lead on a two-run single by Bob Boone in the second. The Astros saw Luis Pujols and Enos Cabell thrown out at the plate in the second and fifth, but finally broke through to tie the game at 2 on an unearned run in the sixth, due to an error by Philadelphia's LF Greg Luzinski.


1980 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5
Houston took what seemed like a solid 5–2 lead in the seventh on an RBI single by Denny Walling, a wild pitch from Phillies reliever Larry Christenson, and a run-scoring triple by Art Howe. A three-run deficit in the eighth inning against Nolan Ryan seemed insurmountable. But the Phillies would not die. They loaded the bases with nobody out on three straight singles, including an infield hit by Bob Boone and a bunt single by Greg Gross. Two runs came in on a walk to Pete Rose and a ground-out by Keith Moreland. An RBI single by Del Unser tied the game at 5, and then series MVP Manny Trillo put the Phillies ahead with a two-run triple.


1980 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5
The Astros promptly came back to tie the game in the bottom of the eighth, with Rafael Landestoy and José Cruz each singling in a run. Neither team scored in the ninth, but the Phillies got doubles from Unser and Garry Maddox in the tenth to take an 8–7 lead. Philadelphia's Dick Ruthven retired the Astros in order in the bottom of the tenth the last out being a soft liner to Maddox, and the Phillies had won their first pennant since 1950. Philadelphia went on to defeat the Kansas City Royals four games to two in the World Series.


1980 National League Championship Series, Aftermath
The 1980 NL Championship Series is widely regarded as one of the most exciting postseason series in baseball history. The last four of its five games went into extra innings, which is the most extra-inning games of any post-season series. Four of its games featured lead changes, while the one game that did not went 11 innings and ended in a 1–0 Houston victory.


1980 National League Championship Series, Aftermath
"I've never been through such excitement in all my life," said Astros’ outfielder José Cruz after the winner-take-all Game 5. Terry Puhl added, "Everybody thought we [Astros] were a team of destiny. They were wrong. The Phillies were a team of destiny in this series." The Phillies would go on the win their first World Series in franchise history, becoming the last original National League team to win a Fall Classic.


1980 National League Championship Series, Aftermath
The Astros had to wait 25 years before they would make a World Series appearance. In the 2005 World Series, they lost to the White Sox in a four game sweep. By 2013, the Astros had moved to the American League and they wouldn’t win a World Series until they beat the Dodgers in 2017, albeit under controversial circumstances.


1980 National League West tie-breaker game
The 1980 National League West tie-breaker game was a one-game extension to Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1980 regular season, played between the Houston Astros and the Los Angeles Dodgers to decide the winner of the National League's (NL) West Division. The game was played on October 6, 1980, at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California. It was necessary after the Dodgers overcame a three-game deficit in the final three games of the season and both teams finished with identical win–loss records of 92–70. The Dodgers won a coin flip late in the season which, by rule at the time, awarded them home field for the game.


1980 National League West tie-breaker game
The Astros won the game, 7–1, with Houston starter Joe Niekro throwing a complete game. This victory advanced the Astros to the 1980 NL Championship Series (NLCS), in which they lost to the Philadelphia Phillies, ending the Astros' season. In baseball statistics, the tie-breaker counted as the 163rd regular season game for both teams, with all events in the game added to regular season statistics.


1980 National League West tie-breaker game, Background
The Cincinnati Reds won the West division the previous season with the Astros finishing 1.5 games back in second, and the Dodgers 11.5 back in third. However, the Reds went on to lose the 1979 NLCS in three games to the Pittsburgh Pirates, ending their season. The Astros acquired Joe Morgan and Nolan Ryan via free agency during the offseason and the Dodgers signed Dave Goltz. Dave Kindred of The Washington Post, George Vecsey of The New York Times, and Astros' relief pitcher Joe Sambito all credited Morgan's leadership with the Astros' success in 1980.


1980 National League West tie-breaker game, Background
The Reds maintained early success in 1980 with an eight-game winning streak to open the season and held at least a share of first place in the division until April 30. They were not as successful over the remainder of the season, only occasionally taking the division lead and last holding it on August 16. The Astros held the lead for the majority of the season thereafter, including a three-game lead over Los Angeles entering the final series of the season. The series matched the Astros with the Dodgers for three games at Dodger Stadium.


1980 National League West tie-breaker game, Background
The Dodgers won all three games, all by a single run, stopping the Astros from clinching a division championship as the two teams sat tied at 92–70. Kindred described the Astros as losing each game of the series by "fail[ing] to make elementary fielding plays." The final game included a run-scoring pinch hit single by Manny Mota, who had been almost exclusively a coach and not a player that season, and a home run by Ron Cey which also scored Steve Garvey, who had reached base in the previous at bat on an error. The Dodgers needed each of these runs as they won the game 4–3.


1980 National League West tie-breaker game, Game summary
The Astros took their lead early, scoring in the top of the first inning. Terry Puhl led off the game reaching base on an error by the second baseman. Enos Cabell followed Puhl with a single and, while Joe Morgan batted, stole second base to put runners at second and third. Morgan struck out and José Cruz appeared to hit into a fielder's choice but a catching error by the catcher allowed Puhl to score, Cabell to advance to third base, and Cruz to reach safely all with no out recorded. Cabell then scored on a César Cedeño ground out to make the game 2–0. Art Howe singled to advance Cruz to third, but Dodgers' starting pitcher Dave Goltz escaped the inning without further scoring.


1980 National League West tie-breaker game, Game summary
The Astros' Joe Niekro retired the Dodgers in order in the first and second innings. The Astros added to their lead in the top of the third as Cedeño singled, stole second (after Cruz had been caught stealing earlier in the inning), and scored on Art Howe's home run to make the game 4–0. Niekro allowed two successive singles to lead off the bottom of the inning, but proceeded to retire three straight Dodgers without allowing either runner to score.


1980 National League West tie-breaker game, Game summary
The Astros further added to their lead in the fourth, as Puhl singled on a bunt to third base and then stole second and third base while Cabell batted. Both he and Morgan walked to load the bases with one out. Puhl scored on a Cruz sacrifice fly, Cedeño walked to re-load the bases, and finally a Howe single gave the Astros another two runs to make the game 7–0.


1980 National League West tie-breaker game, Game summary
The Dodgers scored their only run in the bottom of the fourth as Dusty Baker singled, advanced to second on an error, and scored on another single. They threatened again in the sixth inning, loading the bases, though they failed to score. That was the only inning after the fourth in which a Dodgers' runner reached scoring position. Niekro steadied again after the sixth, allowing just one baserunner on a two-out ninth-inning single over the remaining three innings.


1980 National League West tie-breaker game, Aftermath
Houston's win clinched the team's first postseason berth in franchise history. The Astros lost the five-game NLCS to the Phillies 3–2, ending their season. Due to the 1981 Major League Baseball strike, the following season was split into halves and the winner of each half advanced to the postseason. The Dodgers won the first half and the Astros the second and so met in the first National League Division Series. The Dodgers won, and went on to win the 1981 World Series. The Astros did not return to the NLCS until 1986 and did not win a NL pennant until 2005, leading to a loss in the 2005 World Series.


1980 National League West tie-breaker game, Aftermath
In baseball statistics, tie-breakers count as regular season games, with all events in them added to regular season statistics. Niekro, for example, reached his 20th win to break a tie with Jim Bibby for the second most wins in the NL that season. Similarly, Steve Garvey played in his 163rd game of the season, leading the league with a figure which could not have been equaled by anyone not on the Astros or Dodgers.


1980 National League West tie-breaker game, Aftermath
Dusty Baker won a Silver Slugger Award and Steve Howe, who pitched the final two scoreless innings of the tie-breaker for the Dodgers in relief, won the Rookie of the Year Award for their performances in the regular season. Additionally six Dodgers (Garvey, Davey Lopes, Bill Russell, Reggie Smith, Jerry Reuss, and Bob Welch) and two Astros (J. R. Richard and Cruz) were named to the National League's All-Star team.


1980 National League West tie-breaker game, Aftermath
In later years, after his retirement in 1996, Lasorda stated he regretted using a 19-year old Fernando Valenzuela out of the bullpen during the October 5th game vs. the Astros, thinking he could have saved Fernando to start in a potential tie-breaker game instead. This decision caused the team to start Dave Goltz in the tie-breaker game. Goltz recorded double-digit wins for six straight seasons in Minnesota, but his first season in Dodger Blue was a disappointment. He entered the most important game of the season with a 7-10 record. Nevertheless, Fernando still pitched in the tie-breaker game and threw two scoreless innings, though at that point, the score was 7-1. A year later, Fernando would have a breakout season, helping lead the Dodgers to a World Championship.


1980 National League season
The 1980 National League was contested as the second division of Speedway in the United Kingdom.


1980 National League season, Summary
The league was increased from 19 teams to 20 from the previous season. Exeter Falcons dropped down from the British League to join the 19 incumbent sides.


1980 National League season, Summary
Rye House Rockets who had been pipped to the title in the previous season in the last meeting, won the title by just one point from Newcastle Diamonds to win their first National League title.


1980 National League season, National League Knockout Cup
The 1980 National League Knockout Cup was the 13th edition of the Knockout Cup for tier two teams. Berwick Bandits were the winners of the competition for the first time, having been runners-up three times in the previous four seasons.


1980 National League season, National League Knockout Cup, Final
Berwick were declared Knockout Cup Champions, winning on aggregate 79–76.


1980 National Panasonic South Australian Open
The 1980 National Panasonic South Australian Open, also known as the National Panasonic Women's  Open, was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the Memorial Drive in Adelaide, Australia that was part of the category AAA of the Colgate Series of the 1980 WTA Tour. It was the inaugural edition of the National Panasonic Open and was held from 8 December through 14 December 1980. First-seeded Hana Mandlíková won the singles title and earned $22,000 first-prize money.


1980 National Panasonic South Australian Open, Finals, Doubles
Pam Shriver /  Betty Stöve defeated  Sue Barker /  Sharon Walsh 6–4, 6–3


1980 National Soccer League
The National Soccer League 1980 season was the fourth season of the National Soccer League in Australia. The champions were Sydney City SC, their second title after winning the 1977 season (as Eastern Suburbs).


1980 National Soccer League (Canada) season
The 1980 National Soccer League season was the fifty seventh season under the National Soccer League (NSL) name. The season began in May, 1980 and concluded in October, 1980 with the NSL Championship final where Toronto Panhellenic defeated St. Catharines Roma. The Toronto Falcons won the regular season title, but were defeated by Toronto Italia for the NSL Cup.


1980 National Soccer League (Canada) season
The NSL was operative in the United States and in Northern Ontario for the final time in the league's history.


1980 National Soccer League (Canada) season, Overview
The decade ushered in a unique era in Canadian soccer as many attempts and proposals at forming a national major soccer league were executed throughout the 1980s. The first notable example occurred in 1980 where several investors presented a nationwide soccer league known as the Canadian Soccer League (CSL) with the intentions of debuting in 1981. Before the commencement of any season the project initially debuted in a tournament known as the Red Leaf Cup, which featured teams from Europe and Brazil. The planned Canadian Soccer League failed to materialize and the next attempt at creating a domestic national league successfully occurred in 1983.


1980 National Soccer League (Canada) season, Overview
Meanwhile, the Ontario centered National Soccer League (NSL) continued having a presence in Northern Ontario with Sudbury Cyclones representing the city of Sudbury, and an American representative from Upstate New York known as the Buffalo Blazers. The membership in the league decreased into twelve clubs as the NSL lost their presence in Quebec, and Detroit, Michigan as the Montreal Stars, Detroit Besa, and Detroit Vardar departed. While the Hamilton Italo-Canadians requested a sabbatical, and returned for the 1981 season. Buffalo was denied participation in the playoffs because of financial and player issues.


1980 National Soccer League (Canada) season, Overview
A friendly tournament known as the Toronto International Soccer Cup was organized with Toronto First Portuguese and Toronto Panhellenic representing the NSL against S.L. Benfica, and Partizan Belgrade. Benfica would win the tournament after defeating Belgrade in the final.


1980 National Soccer League (Canada) season, Cup
The cup tournament was a separate contest from the rest of the season, in which all twelve teams took part. All the matches were separate from the regular season, and the teams were grouped into two separate divisions. The two winners in the group stage would advance in a two-legged match final for the Cup.


1980 National Society of Film Critics Awards
The 15th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 6 January 1981, honored the best filmmaking of 1980.


1980 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Picture
1. Melvin and Howard2. Raging Bull2. Every Man for Himself (Sauve qui peut (la vie))


1980 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Director
1. Martin Scorsese – Raging Bull2. Jonathan Demme – Melvin and Howard3. Jean-Luc Godard – Every Man for Himself (Sauve qui peut (la vie))


1980 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Actor
1. Peter O'Toole – The Stunt Man2. Robert De Niro – Raging Bull3. Robert Duvall – The Great Santini


1980 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Actress
1. Sissy Spacek – Coal Miner's Daughter2. Mary Tyler Moore – Ordinary People3. Goldie Hawn – Private Benjamin


1980 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Supporting Actor
1. Joe Pesci – Raging Bull2. Timothy Hutton – Ordinary People3. Jason Robards – Melvin and Howard


1980 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Supporting Actress
1. Mary Steenburgen – Melvin and Howard2. Debra Winger – Urban Cowboy3. Cathy Moriarty – Raging Bull


1980 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Screenplay
1. Bo Goldman – Melvin and Howard2. John Sayles – Return of the Secaucus 73. Jean Gruault – Mon Oncle d'Amérique


1980 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Cinematography
1. Michael Chapman – Raging Bull2. Freddie Francis – The Elephant Man3. Ghislain Cloquet and Geoffrey Unsworth – Tess


1980 Nations motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1980 Nations motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 1980 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 9–11 May 1980 at the Circuito Internazionale Santa Monica.


1980 Nauruan parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Nauru on 6 December 1980. As there were no political parties, all candidates ran as independents. The election was won by supporters of President Hammer DeRoburt, who re-elected him President on 9 December.


1980 Nauruan parliamentary election, Results
Three prominent MPs lost their seats, Minister of Justice Leo Keke, former President Lagumot Harris and Roy Degoregore.


1980 Nauruan parliamentary election, Aftermath
The newly elected Parliament convened on 9 December. David Gadaroa was re-elected as Speaker, with James Ategan Bop re-elected as Deputy Speaker. Hammer DeRoburt was elected President unopposed after the only other nominee declined to participate. He appointed a new government with Kenas Aroi as Minister for Finance, Joseph Detsimea Audoa as Minister for Justice, Buraro Detudamo as Minister for Works and Minister Assisting the President and Lawrence Stephen as Minister for Education and Health.


1980 Nauruan parliamentary election, Aftermath
In July 1981 René Harris resigned to contest a by-election and test his support. The by-election was held on 18 July and saw Harris re-elected with 111 votes; Samuel Tsitsi received 48, August Detonga Deiye received 28 and Ateo Leslie Will Amram 10.


1980 Navy Midshipmen football team
The 1980 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy (USNA) as an independent during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was led by eighth-year head coach George Welsh.


1980 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
The 1980 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was coached by Tom Osborne and played their home games in Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.


1980 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster
Adams, Joe #64 (Sr.) OGAlberico, Tim (So.) SEAlven, Robert (So.) OGAustin, Jimmy (So.) IBBaker, Kim #41 (Sr.) LBBarnes, Ed (So.) LBBates, Phil #43 (So.) FBBauer, Steve (So.) DBBeaudin, Rick (So.) MGBeideck, John (So.) CBell, Warren #4 (So.) DBBergkamp, Tim (Sr.) PKBess, Donnie #85 (Jr.) DEBoll, Peter #72 (So.) OTBrandl, Matt #58 (So.) OGBrown, Steve (So.) DEBrown, Todd #28 (So.) SEBruce, Mike #76 (Sr.) OTBrungardt, Tim (So.) IBCarlstrom, Tom #78 (Jr.) OTChandler, Rick (So.)


1980 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster
LBClark, David #63 (Sr.) DTCook, Bill (So.) DTCorbeil, Jim (So.) DBCraig, Roger #21 (So.) IBCurry, Tom (So.) WBDamkroger, Steve #35 (So.) LBDaniels, Richard (So.) DBDavies, Steve #82 (Sr.) TEDeLoach, Trey #52 (Sr.) CDerr, Robin (So.) MGDhein, Doug (So.) OTEberspacher, Rex (So.) PKEngebritson, Monte (So.) TEEngland, Gary #70 (Sr.) OGEvans, Brent #48 (Jr.) LBFelici, Tony (So.) DEFinn, Jeff #87 (Sr.) TEFischer, Dan #26 (So.) DBFlorell, Randy #77 (Jr.) LBFranklin, Andra #39 (Sr.) FBFrazier, Russell (So.) QBGary, Russell #9 (Sr.) DBGdowski, Tom #93 (So.) DTGemar, Scott #1 (Sr.) PGlathar, Kurt #69 (So.) OGHaase, David (So.) QBHagerman, Mark (So.) PKHansman, Bob (So.) LBHeath, John (So.) LB


1980 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster
Hendricks, Dennis (Jr.) OGHerrmann, Doug (So.) DTHill, Dan #84 (So.) TEHinds, Tom (So.) OGHineline, Curt #59 (Jr.) MGHolbrook, Tim #23 (So.) DBHolmes, Daryl #94 (Sr.) DEHolmon, Craig (So.) FBHuebert, Randy (Jr.) WBHurley, Dan #73 (Jr.) OTIodence, Brian #14 (Jr.) DBJeffries, Jim (Fr.) DBJohnson, Brad #55 (So.) CJohnson, Craig #30 (Sr.) IBKeeler, Mike #61 (So.) DTKirk, Donnie (Jr.) PKKnoll, Eric (So.) QBKotera, Jim #44 (Sr.) FBKrejci, Jeff #2 (Jr.) DBKrenk, Mitch #89 (So.) TEKwapick, Jeff #57 (So.) OTLandwehr, Randy #27 (Jr.) IBLarsen, Pat #3 (So.) DBLewis, Rodney #5 (Jr.) DBLiegl, David #28 (Sr.) DBLindquist, Ric #15 (Jr.) DBLindstrom, Dan #98 (Sr.)


1980 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster
DELindstrom, Scott (So.) MGLingenfelter, Bruce #71 (Jr.) OGLonowski, Jack #67 (Jr.) DTLyday, Allen (So.) DBMandelko, Mike #68 (So.) OGMann, Ricky (So.) DBMason, Nate #8 (So.) QBMathison, Bruce #19 (So.) QBMauer, Mark #17 (Jr.) QBMcCrady, Tim #24 (Sr.) WBMcCue, Dave #32 (So.) WBMcElroy, Mike (So.) CMcWhirter, Steve #45 (So.) LBMeans, Andy #34 (Sr.) DBMerrell, Jeff #74 (So.) MGMiles, Darwin #91 (So.) DEMoravec, Mark #42 (So.) FBMortensen, Kurt (So.) DBMuehling, Brad (So.) CMurphy, Jim (So.) DBNeil, Eddie (So.) PKNelson, Derrie #92 (Sr.) DENoonan, John #95 (Sr.) SE


1980 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster
O'Hearn, Allan (So.) PKOwen, Keith (So.) DBPatterson, Bill (So.) IBPeterson, Dick #83 (Jr.) TEPraeuner, Wade (So.) DEQuinn, Jeff #11 (Sr.) QBRaridon, Scott (So.) OTRedwine, Jarvis #12 (Sr.) IBRidder, Dave (So.) DTRimington, Dave #50 (So.) CRogan, Dennis (So.) IBRush, Kym (So.) DTSantin, John (So.) LBSchleusener, Randy #53 (Sr.) OGSchmuecker, Dan (So.) OTSchoening, Lynn (So.) PKSculley, Mike (Jr.) MGSearcey, L.G. #37 (Jr.) DBSeibel, Kevin #49 (So.) P/PKSherlock, John (So.) OGSherry, Scott (Jr.) DESimmons, Ricky #7 (So.) WBSims, Sammy #6 (Jr.) DBSmith, Paul (So.) FBSorenson, John (So.) SESpratte, Todd #81 (So.) DESteels, Anthony #33 (Jr.) WBSteinkuhler, Dean (So.)


1980 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster
OGStephens, Greg (So.) TEStromath, Dave #99 (Jr.) DTTheiss, Randy #65 (So.) OTTramner, Mike (So.) MGTrent, Phil #16 (So.) DBVan Lent, Bill #90 (So.) DTVan Norman, Kris #38 (So.) DBVergith, Tom (So.) WBWaechter, Henry #75 (Jr.) DTWalton, Jerry (So.) DBWees, Dennis #62 (So.) MGWehrle, Craig (So.) TEWhite, Felix (So.) MGWilkening, Doug (So.) FBWilliams, Brent #66 (Sr.) LBWilliams, Jamie #80 (So.) TEWilliams, Jimmy #96 (Jr.) DEWilliams, Toby #97 (So.) DTWoodard, Scott #88 (Sr.) SEZutavern, John (Jr.) LB


1980 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Utah
Nebraska racked up 545 yards on the ground, the second-highest total in school history, as IB Jarvis Redwine averaged over 10 yards per carry before leaving the game in the hands of capable reserves. Utah suffered from two interceptions, and the sole Utes touchdown didn't get punched in until Cornhusker backups were on the field in the 4th quarter for playing time.


1980 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa
Nebraska completely shut down Iowa's heralded runner Jeff Brown, putting to rest Iowa's hope for a rushing contest with Nebraska IB Jarvis Redwine. Redwine left the game shortly after halftime after collecting 153 yards on 12 attempts, while Brown added only 51 to his career total during the entire game. Other Iowa rushing attempts went the other way, and the Hawkeye ground total netted only 44 yards as the Cornhuskers allowed Iowa into Nebraska territory only twice in the entire game on their way to delivering a painful 57-0 shutout.


1980 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Penn State
The Blackshirts were the stars of this day in front of a record crowd at State College, as the Nebraska defense sacked Penn State QB Jeff Hostetler eight times for 89 yards, and forced seven turnovers, keeping the Nittany Lions constantly on their heels and away from any hope of an upset. Penn State managed just one touchdown, in the 2nd quarter, and accumulated a net rushing total of only 33 yards.


1980 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Florida State
Trailing by 4 points as the clock wound down under 15 seconds, Nebraska QB Jeff Quinn was hit only three yards from the end zone, forcing a fumble which was recovered by Florida State. The Seminoles escaped Lincoln with a win, and the Cornhuskers lost IB Jarvis Redwine for two weeks due to broken ribs, along with their hopes for an undefeated season.


1980 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas
The temporary loss of IB Jarvis Redwine to injury presented no difficulties to the Big Red Machine, as Nebraska steamrolled Kansas in Lawrence, chalking up 33 points in the 1st half alone. By the end of the game, the Blackshirts had posted another shutout to their stats while the Cornhusker offense rolled up 520 yards of offense and 54 points.


1980 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma State
The Nebraska defense saw their string of touchdown-prevention quarters ended at 8 when Oklahoma State managed to squeak in a touchdown in the 3rd quarter, but that was all that would be heard from the Cowboys on this day since they were held to -13 ground yards compared to the 430 ground yards posted by the Cornhuskers.


1980 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Colorado
The return of Nebraska IB Jarvis Redwine was short-lived, as both he and 2nd string IB Craig Johnson left the game with injuries in the 1st quarter. 3rd string IB Roger Craig was still too much for Colorado as Nebraska swept up the Buffaloes in Boulder while collecting 403 ground yards and a decisive 45-7 win, the 13th Cornhusker win in a row over Colorado, whose only score came in the 4th quarter against Nebraska reserves.


1980 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Missouri
Nebraska created a 15-point lead by halftime and never looked back, though Missouri was not to be trifled with. Where the Cornhuskers made their gains on the ground, the Tigers achieved their yards in the air, but at the end of the game it was still the Cornhuskers well ahead and celebrating their first win over Missouri in Memorial Stadium since 1972.


1980 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas State
Kansas State was demolished in Lincoln in every way, as Nebraska racked up 495 yards on the ground and pushed both the 1st and 2nd string Wildcat quarterbacks backwards for a combined -67 yard net on the day. The normally ground-oriented Cornhuskers also dominated in the air, nearly doubling the Wildcat passing yard total and bringing the Nebraska yardage total to 695. Kansas State scored a single touchdown and capped it with a two-point conversion with just 1:52 left on the clock in garbage time, narrowly avoiding the shutout.


1980 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa State
Compared with the week prior, Nebraska had a slow start, leading by only 14 at the half, and that only when a Cornhusker punt was fumbled by the Cyclone returner into the end zone and recovered by the Cornhuskers to add 7 to the total with 2:28 left in the half. Nonetheless, the Nebraska offense simply kept powering along, wearing down the Iowa State squad until they surrendered another 21 points, while the Blackshirts held the Cyclone offense to just 130 total yards and no points.


1980 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma
The Cornhuskers had a promising start, as IB Jarvis Redwine tore the Sooner defense for an 89-yard touchdown run on Nebraska's first possession and PK Kevin Seibel put a 47 yarder through the uprights to go up by 10, but Oklahoma came to life to lead 14-10 by halftime. Nebraska held the Oklahoma wishbone attack to just 7 yards in the 3rd quarter, but also gave up a couple of turnovers which proved costly as both teams put up only another touchdown each before the game was over with Oklahoma still up by 4 to claim the Big 8 title.


1980 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State
Nebraska marked their 12th consecutive bowl game appearance by striking first with 7 points only 2:30 into the first quarter. It was not a major record-setting day, but consistent production and solid ball control provided the Cornhuskers with ample opportunities to produce points. The Bulldogs found themselves behind 17–0 at the half and never had an opportunity to make any serious threat to the Cornhuskers again.


1980 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, NFL and pro players
The following Nebraska players who participated in the 1980 season later moved on to the next level and joined a professional or semi-pro team as draftees or free agents.


1980 Nemzeti Bajnokság I (women's handball)
The 1980 Nemzeti Bajnokság I is the 30th season of the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, Hungary's premier Handball league.


1980 Nemzeti Bajnokság I (women's handball), Final list
* M: Matches W: Win D: Drawn L: Lost G+: Goals earned G-: Goals got P: Point


1980 Nepalese governmental system referendum
A referendum on the system of government was held in Nepal on 2 May 1980. Voters were offered the choice between a non-partisan panchayat system and a multi-party system. The panchayat system received a slim majority of 54.99%, whereas Multi-Party System only received 45.2% of the total votes. Voter turnout was 66.9%.


1980 Nepalese governmental system referendum, Background
With the backdrop of mass student protests against his rule in the spring of 1979, King Birendra made a public declaration on May 23, 1979, that a referendum with universal adult suffrage with secret vote would be held in which the people of Nepal would be able to choose between introducing a multiparty system or retain the non-party panchayat regime.


1980 Nepalese governmental system referendum, Background
On 21 January 1980, King Birendra published the Referendum Rules, stating that after the referendum 'His Majesty shall make such provisions in the Constitution of Nepal as may deem necessary'.


1980 Nepalese governmental system referendum, Method of voting
Nepalese citizens aged 21 and above were eligible to vote. The voters would mark their choice by stamping either of two colours on the ballot paper, blue for the multiparty system and yellow for the non-party panchayat system. It was speculated at the time that the choice of colours had not been coincidental, since the yellow colour was associated with saintly religious qualities. There is no empirical evidence though, that the choice of colours affected the outcome of the vote.


1980 Nepalese governmental system referendum, Results, By region
The panchayat partyless system option got a majority in 54 out of the 75 districts of Nepal. The highest percentage of pro-panchayat votes was recorded in Dolpo (96.4%), the lowest in Bhaktapur (34.4%). The highest scores for the multiparty system option were recorded in Bhaktapur (65.6%), Udaipur (65.1%), Siraha (64%) and Bardiya (62.1%). In general, the multiparty system option performed better in areas with higher literacy levels.


1980 Nepalese governmental system referendum, Results, By region
The Hindu community was more or less evenly divided between the two options. The Muslim community is said to have voted predominantly in favour of the panchayat system. Ethnic groups like Tamang, Sherpa, Magar, Gurung and Kirati overwhelmingly supported the panchayat option, whilst the Tharu are said to have been predominantly in favour of the multiparty system.


1980 Nevada Wolf Pack football team
The 1980 Nevada Wolf Pack football team represented the University of Nevada, Reno during the 1980 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Nevada competed as a member of the Big Sky Conference (BSC). The Wolf Pack were led by fifth–year head coach Chris Ault and played their home games at Mackay Stadium.


1980 Nevada Wolf Pack football team, Previous season
The Wolf Pack finished the 1979 season 8–4 and 5–2 in BSC play to finish in third place and lost the NCAA Division I-AA Semifinal against the eventual national champion Eastern Kentucky by 30 to 33 in Second Overtime.


1980 New England Patriots season
The 1980 New England Patriots season was the franchise's 11th season in the National Football League and 21st overall. They completed the season with a record of ten wins and six losses and finished second in the AFC East Division. Running Back Sam Cunningham held out all season, so the Patriots turned to rookie Vagas Ferguson to carry the bulk of the rushing game. Ferguson responded by breaking the team's rookie rushing record. The Patriots would sit at 6-1 near the midway point and were about to make the playoffs. However, the Pats collapsed and won just two of their next seven and finished with a 10–6 record that saw them fall just short of a wild-card berth.


1980 New England Patriots season
Bill Parcells, then the linebackers coach with the team, has stated that the players on this Patriots team gave him his famous "Tuna" nickname when he asked, "What do you think I am, Charlie the Tuna?"


1980 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Season summary
The Patriots scored 441 points in 1980, a team record that stood until the 2007 team surpassed it. For the second straight season, they missed the playoffs by one game.


1980 New England Patriots season, Notable games
The game lead tied or changed eight times as Jim Zorn and Steve Grogan combined for 583 passing yards, seven touchdowns, and two picks. Trailing 27–14 after three quarters the Seahawks behind Zorn touchdowns to Steve Largent and Sam McCullum took a 31–30 lead before Grogan found tight end Don Hasselbeck (whose son Matt would quarterback the Seahawks over two decades later) for the game-winning touchdown of a 37–31 final.


1980 New England Patriots season, Notable games
The Patriots opened the first of three Monday Night Football appearances on their schedule hosting the Broncos for the fourth time since the AFL-NFL merger. A Matt Robinson touchdown in the first quarter put the Broncos up 7–0, then the game lead changed three times in the next two quarters behind Patriot scores by Vagas Ferguson, Stanley Morgan, and kicker John Smith and an Otis Armstrong touchdown for the Broncos, before the Patriots inched away in the fourth to a 23–14 win. It was the fourth straight win for the home team in the rivalry and would be the Patriots' last win over the Broncos until 1999.


1980 New England Patriots season, Notable games
The Patriots edged the Jets 21–11, sacking Richard Todd five times. It had been a rough week leading up to the game for Todd, as he broke the little toe on his left foot after accidentally kicking a table at home, then broke the right little toe after his foot was stepped on by Stan Waldemore on a play-action drill during practice – Waldemore was subbing for Randy Rasmussen after Rasmussen was injured earlier in practice.


1980 New England Patriots season, Notable games
The Patriots and Dolphins had split their season series the previous four seasons, and 1980 proved no different. The Patriots hammered the Dolphins at Schaefer Stadium 34–0 as Don Calhoun and Allan Clark had rushing touchdowns, Steve Grogan and Matt Cavanaugh each had a touchdown throw, and kicker John Smith kicked two field goals. The Dolphins had four fumbles and recovered all four, but also threw four picks.


1980 New England Patriots season, Notable games
In their second Monday Night Football game the Patriots fell behind 24–6 at halftime as they faced an Oilers squad that included two players who'd haunted the Pats during their Oakland Raiders days – Ken Stabler and Dave Casper. The Patriots managed four touchdowns in the second half and recovered an onside kick late in the fourth quarter, but Grogan was intercepted in the endzone and thus the Oilers had the game 38–34.


1980 New England Patriots season, Notable games
Steve Grogan started despite injuries to both knees because backup Matt Cavanaugh (a future Niners backup for Joe Montana) was coming off knee surgery. Grogan was picked off six times in a 21–17 loss and "I got crucified in the newspapers, but no one knew I was playing on two bad knees."


1980 New England Patriots season, Notable games
The Dolphins got revenge in a 16–13 overtime win at the Miami Orange Bowl. The Patriots clawed to a 13–6 lead in the fourth quarter, then the Dolphins forced overtime with a David Woodley throw to Nat Moore in the fourth. John Smith attempted to kick the game-winning field goal, but had the kick blocked, then Uwe von Schamann of the Dolphins won it with a 23-yard field goal in the extra quarter. The game, though, wound up taking a back seat to the announcement by Howard Cosell that John Lennon had been shot and killed.


1980 New England Patriots season, Notable games
With a playoff berth out of reach the Patriots outdueled the Saints 38–27 behind three Matt Cavanaugh touchdown throws and rushing scores by Don Calhoun and Mosi Tatupu. Running back Jack Holmes threw a touchdown to fellow RB Jimmy Rogers as the Saints clawed to a 10–0 first quarter lead, but the lead was gone before halftime. Archie Manning threw for 301 yards and a score to Wes Chandler against a Patriots organization his sons Peyton and Eli would battle in another time.


1980 New Hampshire Wildcats football team
The 1980 New Hampshire Wildcats football team was an American football team that represented the University of New Hampshire as a member of the Yankee Conference during the 1980 NCAA Division I-AA football season. In its ninth year under head coach Bill Bowes, the team compiled a 6–4 record (2–3 against conference opponents) and finished fourth out of six teams in the Yankee Conference.


1980 New Hampshire gubernatorial election
The 1980 New Hampshire gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 1980.


1980 New Hampshire gubernatorial election
Incumbent Democratic Governor Hugh Gallen was re-elected to a second term in office, once again defeating former Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr.


1980 New Mexico Lobos football team
The 1980 New Mexico Lobos football team was an American football team that represented the University of New Mexico in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their first season under head coach Joe Morrison, the Lobos compiled a 4–7 record (3–4 against WAC opponents) and were outscored by a total of 364 to 246.


1980 New Mexico Lobos football team
The team's statistical leaders included Robin Gabriel with 1,083 passing yards, Jimmy Sayers with 691 rushing yards, Ricky Martin with 850 receiving yards, and kicker Pete Parks with 58 points scored.


1980 New Mexico State Aggies football team
The 1980 New Mexico State Aggies football team was an American football team that represented New Mexico State University in the Missouri Valley Conference during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their third year under head coach Gil Krueger, the Aggies compiled a 3–7–1 record. The team played its home games at Aggie Memorial Stadium in Las Cruces, New Mexico.


1980 New Orleans Saints season
The 1980 New Orleans Saints season was the team's 14th as a member of the National Football League. The Saints failed to improve on the previous season's output of 8–8, winning only one game. The team missed the playoffs for the fourteenth consecutive season and had the dubious distinction not only of winning only a single game, but winning it by a single point against the similarly struggling Jets, who like the Saints had widely been predicted before the season to advance to their first playoff appearance since 1969.


1980 New Orleans Saints season, Season in review
Disgruntled fans called their team “the Aints”, going so far as to show up to games wearing brown paper bags over their heads after their team was 0–12 and playing the Los Angeles Rams, to whom they lost 27–7 on Monday Night Football. In embarrassment they called themselves the Unknown Fan (a spinoff from The Unknown Comic) in a practice that would become the trademark of disgruntled fans across various sports in the United States. Coach Dick Nolan was fired after this game, replaced by Dick Stanfel, and then a most notable loss occurred in Week 14.


1980 New Orleans Saints season, Season in review
Playing the San Francisco 49ers in Candlestick Park, the Saints charged out to a 35–7 lead at halftime, led by three touchdown passes from Archie Manning and a pair of one-yard touchdown runs from Jack Holmes. However, the 49ers would rally behind quarterback Joe Montana, who would rush for a touchdown and pass for two more. The 49ers would tie the game 35–35 on a fourth-quarter touchdown run by Lenvil Elliott and go on to win in overtime, 38–35, on a Ray Wersching field goal.


1980 New Orleans Saints season, Season in review
The 28-point comeback by the 49ers was, at the time, the greatest comeback in NFL history, and currently remains the greatest comeback in NFL regular season history (the 1992 AFC Wildcard game between the Buffalo Bills and Houston Oilers is currently #1, with the Bills overcoming a 32-point deficit to win).


1980 New Orleans Saints season, Season in review
After equalling the 1976 Buccaneers’ single season losing streak and looking likely to become the first team to finish 0–16 when down 7–13 after three quarters against the New York Jets on a day of 46 miles per hour (74 km/h) winds and a wind chill-adjusted temperature of 5 °F (−15 °C), quarterback Archie Manning threw a touchdown pass into the gale to Tony Galbreath to go ahead 14–13 and then another to win 21–20.


1980 New Orleans Saints season, Season in review
The 2013 Houston Texans matched the 14 game losing streak of both the 1980 Saints and the 1976 Buccaneers after starting 2–0.


1980 New Orleans Saints season, Season in review
The 1980 Saints were the first team to end the season at 1–15.


1980 New Orleans Saints season, Season in review
The 1989 Dallas Cowboys, 1990 New England Patriots, 1991 Indianapolis Colts, 1996 New York Jets, 2000 San Diego Chargers, 2001 Carolina Panthers, 2007 Miami Dolphins, 2009 St. Louis Rams, 2016 Cleveland Browns, and 2020 Jacksonville Jaguars later matched the 1980 Saints by finishing 1–15, but the 2008 Detroit Lions and 2017 Cleveland Browns both exceeded it by finishing with an 0–16 record. The 1991 Colts (vs. Jets) and 2000 Chargers (vs. Chiefs) also won their lone games by a single point.


1980 New South Wales Open
The 1980 New South Wales Open  was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the White City Stadium in Sydney, Australia. The men's event, also known by its sponsored name Nabisco NSW Open, was part of the 1980 Volvo Grand Prix circuitand was held from 15 December through 21 December 1980. The women's event, also known by its sponsored name NSW Building Society Classic, was part of the 1980 Colgate Series and was held from 1 December through 7 December 1980. It was the 88th edition of the event. The singles titles were won by unseeded Fritz Buehning and third-seeded Wendy Turnbull.


1980 New South Wales Open, Finals, Men's Doubles
Peter McNamara /  Paul McNamee defeated  Vitas Gerulaitis /  Brian Gottfried 6–2, 6–4


1980 New South Wales Open, Finals, Women's Doubles
Pam Shriver /  Betty Stöve defeated  Rosie Casals /  Wendy Turnbull 6–1, 4–6, 6–4


1980 New Year Honours
The 1980 New Year Honours were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced on 31 December 1979 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1980.


1980 New Year Honours
Names and titles of recipients are shown as they appeared in this honours list.


1980 New Year Honours, United Kingdom, Royal Victorian Order, Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)
At this time the two lowest classes of the Royal Victorian Order were "Member (fourth class)" and "Member (fifth class)", both with post-nominal letters MVO. "Member (fourth class)" was renamed "Lieutenant" (LVO) from the 1985 New Year Honours onwards.


1980 New Year Honours, United Kingdom, Order of the British Empire, Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
This section fails to include Victorians awarded the MBE - See the listing in the Victorian Gov't Gazette No 2 of 4 January 1980. From a cursory examination of this Wikipedia page, I believe the names of Victorians have been included, incorrectly, in the listing above for OBE.


1980 New Year Honours (New Zealand)
The 1980 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by Elizabeth II on the advice of the New Zealand government to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. The awards celebrated the passing of 1979 and the beginning of 1980, and were announced on 31 December 1979.


1980 New Year Honours (New Zealand)
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.


1980 New York City Marathon
The 1980 New York City Marathon was the 11th edition of the New York City Marathon and took place in New York City on 26 October.


1980 New York City transit strike
A 1980 transit strike in New York City halted service on the New York City Transit Authority (a subsidiary of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority) for the first time since 1966. Around 33,000 members of Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 walked off their jobs on April 1, 1980, in a strike with the goal of increasing the wage for contracted workers. All subway and bus lines in the five boroughs of New York City were brought to a complete standstill for twelve days. The strike was resolved on April 11.


1980 New York City transit strike, History
The transit workers' contract was up for renewal in April 1980. Negotiations began on February 4, with the TWU initially demanding a 21-month contract with a 30% wage increase; they justified the hike by claiming that the cost of living had gone up 53% since the last contract negotiation, and their contract did not account for changes in the cost of living. The negotiations were extremely confrontational. The MTA got a court writ prohibiting the workers from striking, but the TWU announced their intention to violate the writ should the negotiations fail. The MTA responded on March 31 with a proposal of a 34-month contract with a 3% wage increase each year. Negotiations failed early the next morning, and 33,000 workers walked off their jobs.


1980 New York City transit strike, History
In response, the city implemented drastic plans to curb urban traffic. Most significant was a mandatory carpool restriction, in which cars were not allowed to enter the Manhattan central business district during rush hour without at least three passengers. Mass transit riders "scrambled" to find taxis, while some passengers roller-skated, rowed boats, or flew helicopters to work. The first day of the strike, April 1, saw 83% of commuters going to work, compared to 94% on an average day. Residents of transit-deprived parts of New York City started a share taxi service with minibuses and their own private vehicles.


1980 New York City transit strike, History
These "dollar vans", which charged a dollar per passenger per ride, still operate. Commuters were seen bringing around jogging or exercise clothing so they could walk, jog, or bike to and from work. Additionally, the City University of New York canceled classes at three of its campuses as a result of the strike. Workers in the manufacturing and health industries were the most affected by the strike, as they were less likely to be able to afford taxis and other alternative modes of transport.


1980 New York City transit strike, History
Complicating the matter, workers for the Long Island Rail Road, another MTA subsidiary, went on strike on April 2. This was actually the LIRR's second strike in four months, with the first one having occurred in December 1979. This strike also revolved around a lack of pay. Because of the strike, the remaining operating transit agencies in the area, Conrail and PATH, had increased ridership, and bridges and tunnels into Manhattan saw more vehicular traffic than usual.


1980 New York City transit strike, History
By April 4, the fourth day of the strike, the MTA and the workers were deadlocked, and the agency sought to fine the unions $3 million per day in damages. A court hearing was held to determine whether the workers were actually striking, and thus subject to fines. Three days later, the MTA and the workers were preparing for another round of negotiations. The unions softened their demand for a wage raise. On April 9, a New York State Supreme Court justice fined the unions a total of $1 million for striking during the past eight days.


1980 New York City transit strike, History
The MTA reached separate agreements with the LIRR and the NYCTA unions on April 11. The next day, the workers went back to work. The TWU won a 9% raise in the first year and 8% in the second year, along with a cost-of-living adjustment.


1980 New York City transit strike, History
Mayor Ed Koch became a very popular and visible figure to the commuting public. He was widely seen crossing the Brooklyn Bridge, near New York City Hall, with the masses of people commuting on foot, famously asking people "How'm I doing?" He took a hard line against the strike, saying, "I think what the public is saying is, 'Don't give in to strikes and threats.'" This was contrasted with the actions of Mayor John Lindsay during the 1966 strike. While Lindsay had asked most workers to stay home, Koch actively cheered on commuters who walked across the Brooklyn Bridge.


1980 New York City transit strike, Effects
The population of Manhattan is said to have increased by 500,000 people during the strike, primarily corporate employees staying in hotel rooms. Bicycle commutes were popular; they were estimated to have increased by 200,000 people. This was attributed to the warm spring weather that was present when the strike occurred. During the strike, the city lost approximately $2 million a day in taxes and another $1 million a day in overtime expenses for city employees. Companies in the private sector lost approximately $100 million per day, on top of a total of $75 million to $100 million of lost income. Job absenteeism was estimated to be between 15 and 20 percent.


1980 New York City transit strike, Effects
The "sneaker brigade:" women commuters entering and migrating across Manhattan, who continued office jobs during the strike, switched from heels to athletic sneakers with short cotton socks, to walk from the Port Authority Bus terminal and Grand Central Station and across the bridges and down the avenues. This practical fashion accommodation persisted after the strike, even when mass transit resumed.


1980 New York City transit strike, Effects
After the strike, NYCTA fares were increased from 50 cents to 60 cents in order to offset the heavy losses suffered by the MTA during the strike.


1980 New York City transit strike, Effects
The Taylor Law, passed after the 1966 strike, specifically forbids any public union from going on strike. The striking workers were fined $1.25 million and the union lost dues check-off rights for four months. The strike was thus unsuccessful, as it resulted in a net negative impact for the unions. They did not strike again until 2005.


1980 New York City transit strike, Effects
In an unrelated strike in summer 1980, PATH employees went on strike for 81 days. It was one of the longest strikes in the PATH's history.


1980 New York Cosmos season
The 1980 New York Cosmos season was the tenth season for the New York Cosmos in the now-defunct North American Soccer League. The Cosmos completed their third double, finishing 1st in the overall league table and defeating the Fort Lauderdale Strikers 3-0 in Soccer Bowl '80.


1980 New York Cosmos season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


1980 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season
Pld = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points6 points for a win, 1 point for a shootout win, 0 points for a loss, 1 point for each goal scored (up to three per game).


1980 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
The 46th New York Film Critics Circle Awards honored the best filmmaking of 1980. The winners were announced on 30 December 1980 and the awards were given on 25 January 1981.


1980 New York Giants season
The 1980 New York Giants season was the franchise's 56th season in the National Football League. The Giants finished in last place in the National Football Conference East Division with a 4–12 record.


1980 New York Giants season
In the 1980 NFL Draft, the Giants selected defensive back Mark Haynes with their first-round pick, which was eighth overall. New York won its opening game of the season against the St. Louis Cardinals, 41–35, behind a five-touchdown performance by quarterback Phil Simms. Four of those touchdown passes were to Earnest Gray, who set a single-game franchise record for touchdown receptions. The Giants lost the following game to Washington by two points, the start of an eight-game losing streak.


1980 New York Giants season
A Week 10 win over the Dallas Cowboys snapped the streak; a subsequent win over the Green Bay Packers was followed by a pair of defeats. A shoulder injury caused Simms to miss the last three games of the season. Scott Brunner took over as the starting quarterback for those games, during which the Giants went 1–2.


1980 New York Giants season
Simms threw for 2,321 yards in his 13 appearances, and had 15 touchdown passes and 19 interceptions. Brunner threw for four touchdowns and had six interceptions. New York's leading rusher was Billy Taylor, who ran for 580 yards and four touchdowns. Gray had a team-leading 10 touchdown receptions during the season, and caught 52 passes for 777 yards. On defense, Mike Dennis led the Giants with five interceptions. Two Giants players, Dave Jennings and Brad Van Pelt, were selected for the 1981 Pro Bowl.


1980 New York Jets season
The 1980 New York Jets season was the 21st season for the franchise and its eleventh in the National Football League. It began with the team trying to improve upon its 8–8 record from 1979 under head coach Walt Michaels, and being widely predicted to improve further and reach the postseason for the first time since 1969. The Jets finished the season with a record of 4–12.


1980 New York Jets season
During the season, the Jets were the only team to lose to the notorious New Orleans Saints team, dubbed the “Aints”. On a day with a wind-chill temperature of 5 °F (−15 °C) and kicking with a gale of 46 miles per hour (74 km/h; 40 kn), the Jets failed to hold on to a 13–7 lead after three quarters, losing by a single point, 21–20.


1980 New York Jets season
History repeated itself 11 years later, when the Jets lost 28–27 at home to the Indianapolis Colts, the Colts’ lone victory of that season.


1980 New York Mets season
The 1980 New York Mets season was the 19th regular season for the Mets, who played home games at Shea Stadium. Led by manager Joe Torre, the team had a 67–95 record and finished in fifth place in the National League East.


1980 New York Mets season, Offseason, The beginnings of the 1986 team
On January 24, 1980, ownership of the team changed hands. The group that bought the Mets for an estimated $22 million (the largest amount paid for a ball club to that point) was headed by Nelson Doubleday, Jr. and Fred Wilpon. Doubleday was head of the old and distinguished publishing company that bore his name, while Wilpon was a highly successful real-estate developer. The new owners promised to invest money to acquire winning players and develop a competitive club, though it took a few years before the new partners were able to rebuild a solid contender.


1980 New York Mets season, Offseason, The beginnings of the 1986 team
In February, the new owners hired Frank Cashen, who had spent ten years in the front office of the Baltimore Orioles from 1966 to 1976, during which time the Orioles went to four World Series, winning two. During his tenure, the Mets would see what some called a "resuscitation", eventually leading to the team's first World Championship in 17 years. After leaving the Orioles, Cashen worked outside of baseball for three years before joining commissioner Bowie Kuhn's office as administrator of baseball. It was from this job that the Mets wooed him and installed him as executive vice president and general manager.


1980 New York Mets season, Regular season, On the field
Due to their last-place finish in 1979, the Mets had the first pick in the 1980 Major League Baseball Draft. They used it to select an 18-year-old outfielder from Los Angeles, Darryl Strawberry, a key figure of future Mets teams.


1980 New York Mets season, Regular season, On the field
Under Torre, the team suffered their 4th consecutive losing season, 24 games out of first place, although the Mets moved up one place in the standings to fifth. They even flirted with .500 (until losing 38 of their last 49 games), which may have led to attendance jumping nearly 400,000 to almost 1,200,000. The team had the motto "The Magic is Back" during the 1980 season.


1980 New York Mets season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1980 New York Mets season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1980 New York Mets season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1980 New York Mets season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1980 New York Mets season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1980 New York Yankees season
The 1980 New York Yankees season was the 78th season for the franchise in New York, and its 80th season overall. The team finished with a record of 103-59, finishing in first place in the American League East, 3 games ahead of the Baltimore Orioles. The Kansas City Royals swept the Yankees in the ALCS. New York was managed by Dick Howser. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium.


1980 New York Yankees season, Offseason, Spring training
The Yankees played two spring training exhibition games at the Louisiana Superdome over the weekend of March 15 and 16, 1980. 45,152 spectators watched the Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles 9 to 3 on March 15, 1980. The following day, 43,339 fans saw Floyd Rayford lead the Orioles to a 7 to 1 win over the Yankees.


1980 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1980 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1980 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1980 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1980 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1980 New York Yankees season, Awards and honors
Bucky Dent, Goose Gossage, Reggie Jackson, Tommy John, Graig Nettles and Willie Randolph represented the Yankees at the 1980 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.


1980 New York Yankees season, Awards and honors
Randolph earned the inaugural Silver Slugger Award at second base.


1980 New Zealand Grand Prix
The 1980 New Zealand Grand Prix was a race held at the Pukekohe Park Raceway on 13 January 1980. The race had 15 competitors.


1980 New Zealand Grand Prix
It was the 26th New Zealand Grand Prix. The race was won by New Zealander Steve Millen for the first time in the Ralt RT1. The rest of the podium was completed by fellow Kiwi Dave McMillan and Italian Andrea de Cesaris.


1980 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election
On 12 December 1980, a New Zealand Labour Party leadership election was held to determine the leadership of the New Zealand Labour Party. The leadership was retained by former Prime Minister Bill Rowling, who had led the party for the last six years.


1980 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Background
Rowling was already seriously considering resigning from politics altogether. After the 1978 election, it was clear that his days as leader were numbered and a leadership challenge was imminent. Earlier in 1980 Rowling sacked Roger Douglas from his shadow cabinet as consumer affairs and transport spokesperson for releasing an unauthorised alternative budget, fuelling prospects of a leadership challenge from Douglas' friend David Lange. Many were also weary of the fact that Labour was still polling well below National and just barely ahead of the Social Credit Party, who reached their popularity zenith during the East Coast Bays by-election.


1980 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Candidates, Bill Rowling
Bill Rowling had been leader for six years including as Prime Minister in 1974–75 despite Labour defeats in the 1975 and 1978 elections. However, he was able to claim a moral victory in the latter where Labour polled more votes overall than National, although they won fewer seats. His contemporaries argued that Labour’s losses reflected badly on Rowling himself, despite making a substantial effort in rebuilding the party's membership during its time in opposition. Also, the fact that Rowling lacked the backing of the trade unions was crippling in Labour's circles and hampered his leverage in party structure.


1980 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Candidates, David Lange
After entering parliament in a by-election that received much media attention and helped propel him to the deputy leadership of the Labour Party in 1979, Lange became Labour's rising star. Lange was Shadow Minister for Social Welfare from 1978 to 1979 and since 1979 had been Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Shadow Attorney-General, Shadow Minister of Justice and Shadow Minister of Pacific Island Affairs. Lange had always been a critic of Rowling and came "to resent the bloody-mindedness with which he clung to the leadership."


1980 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Result
A caucus vote was held on 12 December 1980 where half the attendees supported a leadership change, and the other half opposed. After a silent pause, Rowling added that he too opposed, bringing the total votes for himself to 19 and enabling him to cling on to the party's leadership by a single vote.


1980 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, How each MP voted
Three MPs were not present. Both Frank O'Flynn and Joe Walding were overseas and Bill Fraser was absent due to illness. Given the closeness of the result, their presence could have changed the result. Walding was a Rowling supporter whilst O'Flynn was likely to back Lange. Fraser was also thought to have favoured a leadership change.


1980 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Aftermath
Rowling remained leader until 1983. He was visibly wounded by the challenge and called Lange's supporters 'nakedly ambitious rats', which he refused to retract. Later, Lange and a group of his core supporters (Roger Douglas, Michael Bassett, Richard Prebble and Mike Moore) became known as the "Fish and Chip Brigade" due to a picture published at the time with the group (minus Prebble) eating Fish and chips in Douglas' office after the vote.


1980 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Aftermath
Lange noted the lack of any ideological motives about the election to be odd, stating "It was a mixture of loyalty, distrust, calculation, idealism and opportunism which decided the vote". Following the coup attempt Lange resigned as deputy leader in January 1981 to offer himself for re-election as a vote of confidence. At Labour's first caucus meeting of the year he was re-elected as deputy leader.


1980 New Zealand National Soccer League
The 1980 New Zealand National Soccer League was the 11th season of a nationwide round-robin club competition in New Zealand football. Mount Wellington became the first club to win back-to-back titles and also the first club to win the league four times, though their winning margin was significantly smaller than in 1979.


1980 New Zealand National Soccer League, Promotion and relegation
Promotion was automatic, with the three lowest placed sides in the 1979 league (Manawatu United, Courier Rangers, and Eastern Suburbs) replaced by the winners of the northern, central, and southern leagues (Hamilton, Gisborne City, and Rangers respectively).


1980 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance
Mount Wellington's win may have been only bo four points (down from the 14 points in 1979), but it was still a heavy victory. No other team looked like serious contenders. The Mount set several league records, notably a 9–1 win over Stop Out in Lower Hutt which was the league's biggest winning margin to that time, and also an unbeaten run of 13 matches which beat the league's previous record. Gisborne City's first season in the top flight since 1976 was successful, and an undefeated season at home enabled them to finish second overall.


1980 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance
Manurewa finished third, and could have finished higher if its home record had been as good as its form on the road. Wellington Diamond United improved from a poor start to the season which saw them briefly at the foot of the table, and they managed to pull themselves up to fourth.


1980 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance
Hanimex North Shore United and the newly promoted Dunedin City rounded out the top half of the table. A poor start to the season by Shore and a mid-season slump from the southerners hindered the two sides from finishing higher up the table. Christchurch United had a poor season by their high standards, finishing in seventh. Their season started strongly with five wins on the trot, but their luck changed dramatically and they only won one of their last 14 games.


1980 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance
Hamilton's second spell as a national league side started with them finishing in a comfortable if not brilliant position in eighth. Their home form was good, but they were let down by their away record, and the defence which had only let in four goals in their 1979 regional season found the national league an entirely different proposition.


1980 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance
Rangers' debut season was forgettable, though they did finish above the drop zone. They never fully recovered from losing five of their first seven games, and it was only a good spell in the middle of the season which enabled them to retain their league status. The three teams which did go down included two founding members of the league, Stop Out and Blockhouse Bay. Stop Out's season was poor but they did have one thing for which it was memorable — the debut of a young Wynton Rufer, later to make his mark both in New Zealand and overseas.


1980 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance
Blockhouse Bay had been inaugural champions of the league in 1970, but a decade on their team was not of the same standard, and they never recovered from 10 defeats in their first 12 matches. Last-placed Nelson United also had a horror start to the season, though a mid-season revival did raise supporters' hopes of survival. It was not to be, however, and the Nelson side slumped to four losses in their last four games.


1980 New Zealand bravery awards
The 1980 New Zealand bravery awards were announced via a Special Honours List on 23 December 1980, and recognised five people for acts of bravery in 1979 or 1980.


1980 New Zealand bravery awards, Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct
For services on the evening of 18 October 1979, when he was confronted by a disturbed man armed with a shotgun. The man had threatened him and other persons. Had it not been for Senior Traffic Sergeant Lenz's coolness and courage there could have been loss of life.


1980 New Zealand bravery awards, Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct
For rescuing from drowning the driver of a motor vehicle, in which he was a passenger, after it had gone out of control and plunged some 50 metres into the Mangawhero River. His prompt action without doubt saved the life of the driver.


1980 New Zealand bravery awards, Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct
For services on the evening of 21 January 1980, when fighting erupted between two rival groups of inmates, some 40 in number, who had armed themselves with sticks, iron bars and other makeshift weapons. Superintendent Wash, Prison Officer Anderson and Second Officer Kirton displayed considerable courage in dealing with a dangerous and difficult situation.


1980 New Zealand rugby league season
The 1980 New Zealand rugby league season was the 73rd season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand.


1980 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
New Zealand lost a series against the touring Australian side 0-2. Coached by Ces Mountford, New Zealand included; Michael O'Donnell, Kevin Fisher, Olsen Filipaina, James Leuluai, captain Dane O'Hara, Gordon Smith, Shane Varley, Mark Broadhurst, Howie and Kevin Tamati, Paul Te Ariki, Barry Edkins, Mark Graham, Graeme West, Lewis Hudson, Dennis Williams and Tony Coll. The second Test match was controlled by referee John Percival, his twenty sixth and last Test match.