1980 Air Force Falcons football team
The 1980 Air Force Falcons football team represented the United States Air Force Academy in the 1981 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was led by second-year head coach Ken Hatfield and played its home games at Falcon Stadium. It finished the regular season with a 2–9–1 overall record and a 1–3 record in Western Athletic Conference games.


1980 Akron Zips football team
The 1980 Akron Zips football team represented Akron University in the 1980 NCAA Division I-AA football season as a member of the Ohio Valley Conference. Led by eighth-year head coach Jim Dennison, the Zips played their home games at the Rubber Bowl in Akron, Ohio. They finished the season with a record of 3–7–1 overall and 2–4–1 in OVC play, placing fifth.


1980 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
The 1980 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA" or "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 86th overall and 47th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Bear Bryant, in his 23rd year, and played their home games at Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa and Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. They finished season with ten wins and two losses (10–2 overall, 5–1 in the SEC) and with a victory over Baylor in the Cotton Bowl.


1980 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
A 6–3 loss to Mississippi State ended Alabama's school record 28-game winning streak and all-time SEC record 27-game conference winning streak, and was Alabama's first loss to Mississippi State since 1957. It also cost the Tide a share of the SEC championship, the first time since 1976 they failed to win the SEC. Despite surrendering 35 points to Ole Miss, the Alabama defense still allowed only 98 points for the entire season.


1980 Alan King Tennis Classic
The 1980 Alan King Tennis Classic, also known as the Alan King-Ceasers Palace Tennis Classic, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, United States. It was the ninth edition of the event and was part of the 1980 Volvo Grand Prix circuit. The tournament was held from April 21 through April 27, 1980. First-seeded Björn Borg won the singles title and the accompanying $60,000 first-prize money. It was Borg's second successive singles title at the tournament.


1980 Alan King Tennis Classic, Finals, Doubles
Bob Lutz /  Stan Smith defeated  Wojciech Fibak /  Gene Mayer 6–2, 7–5


1980 Algerian Cup Final
The 1980 Algerian Cup Final was the 19th final of the Algerian Cup. The final took place on June 19, 1980, at Stade du 5 Juillet in Algiers. EP Sétif beat USK Alger 1-0 to win their fifth Algerian Cup.


1980 Alitalia Open
The 1980 Alitalia Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Florence, Italy that was part of the 1980 Volvo Grand Prix circuit. It was the eighth edition of the tournament and was played from 12 May until 18 May 1980. Sixth-seeded Adriano Panatta won the singles title.


1980 Alitalia Open, Finals, Doubles
Gene Mayer /  Raúl Ramírez defeated  Paolo Bertolucci /  Adriano Panatta 6–1, 6–4


1980 All England Open Badminton Championships
The 1980 All England Championships was a badminton tournament held at Wembley Arena, London, England, from 19–23 March 1980. The event was sponsored by John Player.


1980 All England Open Badminton Championships, Women's singles, Seeds
1-2  Lene Køppen5-8  Karen Bridge Verawaty Wiharjo Ivana Lie Gillian Gilks (knocked out round of 64) Saori Kondo Yoshiko Yonekura Hiroe Yuki


1980 All-Big Eight Conference football team
The 1980 All-Big Eight Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Big Eight Conference teams for the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. The selectors for the 1980 season included the Associated Press (AP).


1980 All-Big Ten Conference football team
The 1980 All-Big Ten Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Big Ten Conference teams for the 1980 college football season.


1980 All-Big Ten Conference football team, Key
AP = Associated Press, selected by the AP's media panel


1980 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship
The 1980 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship was the 49th staging of the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament for boys under the age of 18.


1980 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship
Dublin entered the championship as defending champions, however, they were defeated in the Leinster Championship.


1980 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship
On 21 September 1980, Kerry won the championship following a 3-12 to 0-11 defeat of Derry in the All-Ireland final. This was their ninth All-Ireland title and their first title in five championship seasons.


1980 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship
The 1980 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship was the 50th staging of the All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1928.


1980 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship
Cork entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were beaten by Tipperary in the Munster semi-final.


1980 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship
On 7 September 1980, Tipperary won the championship following a 2-15 to 1-10 defeat of Wexford in the All-Ireland final. This was their 14th All-Ireland title and their first in four championship seasons.


1980 All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship
The All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship of 1980 was the seventh staging of Ireland's secondary hurling knock-out competition. Kildare won the championship, beating London 2-20 to 2-14 in the final at Croke Park, Dublin.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship
The 1980 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship was the high point of the 1980 season. The championship was won by Cork who defeated first time finalists Limerick by a three-point margin in the final in a replay, the first final to be replayed since 1974 and the third in the history of the game. The match drew an attendance of 3,013 including president Paddy Hillery. Limerick had been junior champions in 1977 and qualified for the National Camogie League finals of 1978 and 1979.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Early Rounds
Derry were missing their inspirational midfielder Sarah Ann Quinn for their quarter-final against Limerick. Limerick then surprised Kilkenny in the semi-final.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Final
Ann O'Sullivan scored a last minute goal for Limerick, her second of the day, to draw the final. The fact Limerick grabbed a draw was described by Maol Muire Tynan in the Irish Press as the shock of the camogie season. Ann O'Sullivan scrambled home the equalising goal in the last minute. Tynan wrote


1980 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Final
They should in theory have won. They were probably the better team. But Limerick played with utter determination and can only be admired for their grit.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Replay
Cork's match clinching goal in the replay came in the run-in to half time when Limerick goalkeeper Helen Moynihan attempted to solo out the field tipping the ball on her hurl, but failed to clear and the ball was returned to Mary Geaney who scored against the unguarded goal. Cork were leading by six points in the replay when Helen Mulcaire's free from 60 yards dropped towards goal and in the melee was deflected off Bridget O'Brien's shoulder into the net. Maol Muire Tynan, who had played in the 1979 final, wrote in the Irish Press:


1980 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Replay
With five minutes remaining Helen Mulcaire struck one of the finest goals I have ever seen on a camogie pitch. It was a marvellous free shot from about 30 yards that left the Cork defence gaping, and rose the spirits of a disenchanted crowd of Limerick supporters. Trailing by two points Limerick tried frantically to make up for lost time. Their hopes were finally dashed when Cork got another free from fairly close range and Mary O'Leary pointed again. Time had run out for Limerick. Their attack was too late and on the day the best team won.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final
The 1980 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final was the 49th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1980 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, an inter-county camogie tournament for the top teams in Ireland.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final
The first game was very close, a dubious Pat Moloney point giving Cork a three-point lead with two minutes left, but straight from the puckout Ann O'Sullivan scored an equalising goal. In the replay, Cork led 1-6 to 0-1 with fifteen minutes left, and a late Limerick rally with goals from Geraldine O'Brien and Helen Mulcaire couldn't stop a Cork win.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
The 1980 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship final was a hurling match played at Páirc Tailteann on 1 June 1980 to determine the winners of the 1979–80 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, the tenth season of the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, a tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association for the champion clubs of the four provinces of Ireland. The final was contested by Castlegar of Galway and McQuillan's of Antrim, with Castlegar winning by 1-11 to 1-8.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The 1980 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 94th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament. The championship began on 11 May 1980 and ended on 21 September 1980.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
On 21 September 1980, Kerry won the championship following a 1-9 to 1-6 defeat of Roscommon in the All-Ireland final. This was their 26th All-Ireland title and their third in succession.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Offaly's Matt Connor was the championship's top scorer with 5-31. Kerry's Jack O'Shea was named as the Texaco Footballer of the Year.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Munster Championship format change
Following a number of one-sided results in the Munster Championship in the late 1970s, the Munster Council changed the format in 1980. Kerry, long regarded as the standard bearers in the province, were given a bye to the Munster final. Cork, who had been second to Kerry since 1975, were given a bye to a lone semi-final. The other four "weaker" teams (Clare, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford) were paired against each other in two preliminary round games. The winners of these two games faced each other in a lone quarter-final with the winners of that game qualifying to meet Cork in the lone semi-final. This format was previously used in 1941 and lasted only one season.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
The 1980 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 93rd All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1980 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
Roscommon went five points up early on, John 'Jigger' O'Connor getting a goal after 35 seconds. Mikey Sheehy pegged a goal back and in a very scrappy game (64 frees) the more experienced Kerry team ran out three-point victors.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
It was the first of five All-Ireland football titles won by Kerry in the 1980s.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
The 1980 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was the 94th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county hurling tournament. The draw for the 1980 fixtures took place in September 1979. The championship began on 25 May 1980 and ended on 7 September 1980.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
Kilkenny were the defending champions but were defeated by Offaly in the Leinster final. Laois re-entered the Leinster Championship, having won the All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship the previous year.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
On 7 September 1980, Galway won the championship following a 2–15 to 3–9 defeat of Limerick in the All-Ireland final. This was their second All-Ireland title, their first in fifty-seven championship seasons.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
Limerick's Éamonn Cregan was the championship's top scorer with 5-18. Galway's Joe Connolly was the choice for Texaco Hurler of the Year.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format
After a series of disappointing Munster finals in previous years, the Munster Council took the risk of a repetition and decided to stick with an open draw for the 1980 championship. Similarly, the Leinster Council decided to abandon their policy of seeding Kilkenny and Wexford on opposite sides of the draw in favour of an open draw.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Broadcasting
The following matches were broadcast live on television in Ireland on RTÉ.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final
The 1980 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 93rd All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1980 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match took place at Croke Park, Dublin, on 7 September 1980, between 1979 runners-up Galway and 1973 winners Limerick, and it was refereed by Noel O'Donoghue from Dublin.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Background
The All-Ireland final was only the second ever meeting of Galway and Limerick in a championship decider. Galway triumphed on that occasion to claim their second All-Ireland title. Limerick were lining out in their fourteenth All-Ireland final and were seeking their eight title, their first since defeating Kilkenny in 1973. Galway were appearing in their eleventh All-Ireland decider and their second in succession since losing to Kilkenny in 1979.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Pre-match, Referee
Dublin-based referee Noel O'Donoghue was named as the referee for the 1980 All-Ireland final. Although a talented rugby union player at schools' level, O'Donoghue was also a founder-member of the St. Begnet's club in Dalkey. This was the first All-Ireland senior final for the 40-year-old referee. O'Donoghue's other experience includes the All-Ireland minor final of 1979, Railway Cup finals, provincial finals, county finals and National Hurling League finals. He was also very active in administrative affairs as secretary of the Dublin referees committee.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Broadcasting
The All-Ireland final was broadcast in Ireland on RTÉ 1 with Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh and Michael O'Hehir providing the commentary. The programme ran from 1.20pm until 5.00pm and included basic coverage of both the All-Ireland minor and senior finals. An hour of highlights of the games were shown on The Sunday Game on the same channel at 9.15pm.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match, First half
The match began at a quick pace. After just two-and-a-half minutes the ball broke loose about 25 yards out from the Limerick goal. Bernie Forde collected and went on a solo-run before kicking the ball past Tommy Quaid and into the Limerick net for the first goal of the day. Five minutes later Joe Connolly was fouled just outside the 21-yard line. He pointed from the resultant free to give Galway a four-point lead.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match, First half
It was all Galway at this early stage as Michael Connolly sent in a good cross to the far post from the Hogan Stand side where it was collected by an unchallenged P. J. Molloy. He made no mistake in sending the ball into the net to put Galway 2-1 to no score up. Limerick's response was immediate. A high lob towards the left of the square saw Éamonn Cregan get in a neat overhead strike to send the ball into the net for his sides' first goal of the game.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match, First half
Two minutes later Cregan added a point from a free to put Limerick back on track. Cregan was a one-man show at this stage. A minute later a great ball out of defence by Mossie Carroll found Cregan down on the left wing. A cheeky dummy fooled full-back Conor Hayes before Cregan popped over a point from 45 yards. Galway responded with a succession of neat points. John Connolly and Noel Lane all got their names on the score sheet. Cregan stepped up again to respond for Limerick with a point from 55 yards.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match, First half
Joe Connolly negated this point almost immediately. His brother John then got one of the scores of the day when he pointed from 50 yards out on the touch line. Brian Carroll, who had just entered the play, then popped up to become Limerick's second scorer with a point. Both sides exchanged points in the final minute, courtesy of Cregan and Lane. At half-time the score read Galway 2-7, Limerick 1-5.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final
The 1980 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final was the seventh All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1980 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship, an inter-county ladies' Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.


1980 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final
Cavan dominated the game but couldn't get the needed scores.


1980 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship
The 1980 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship was the 17th staging of the All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1964.


1980 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship
Down entered the championship as defending champions, however, they were defeated by Tyrone in the Ulster final.


1980 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship
On 12 October 1980, Cork won the championship following a 2-8 to 1-5 defeat of Dublin in the All-Ireland final. This was their third All-Ireland title overall and their first in nine championship seasons.


1980 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship
The 1980 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship was the 17th staging of the All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1964.


1980 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship
On 14 September 1980, Tipperary won the championship following a 2-9 to 0-14 defeat of Kilkenny in the All-Ireland final. This was their fourth All-Ireland title in the under-21 grade and their second in succession.


1980 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final
The 1980 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship final was a hurling match that was played at Walsh Park, Waterford on 14 September 1980 to determine the winners of the 1980 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, the 17th season of the All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, a tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association for the champion teams of the four provinces of Ireland. The final was contested by Tipperary of Munster and Kilkenny of Leinster, with Tipperary winning by 2-9 to 0-14.


1980 All-Pacific-10 Conference football team
The 1980 All-Pacific-10 Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Pacific-10 Conference teams for the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season.


1980 All-Pro Team
The 1980 All-Pro Team is composed of the National Football League players that were named to the Associated Press, Newspaper Enterprise Association, Pro Football Writers Association, Pro Football Weekly, and The Sporting News All-Pro Teams in 1980. Both first- and second- teams are listed for the AP and NEA teams. These are the five teams that are included in Total Football II: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League. Pro Football Weekly chose a nose tackle due to the proliferation of 3-4 defenses in the NFL. They, and The Sporting News chose two inside linebackers.


1980 All-Pro Team, Key
AP = Associated Press All-Pro team; AP-2 Associated Press Second-team All-Pro; PFWA = Pro Football Writers Association All-Pro team; NEA = Newspaper Enterprise Association All-Pro team. ; NEA-2 Newspaper Enterprise Association Second-team All-Pro ; PFW = Pro Football Weekly All-Pro team; TSN = The Sporting News All-Pro team; t = players tied in selection


1980 All-SEC football team
The 1980 All-SEC football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) chosen by various selectors for the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season.


1980 All-SEC football team, Key
Bold = Consensus first-team selection by both AP and UPI


1980 Allan Cup
The 1980 Allan Cup was the Canadian national senior ice hockey championship for the 1979-80 Senior "A" season. The event was hosted by the Spokane Flyers in Spokane, Washington. The 1980 playoff marked the 72nd time that the Allan Cup has been awarded.


1980 Allan Cup
The 1980 Allan Cup was the fourth Allan Cup championship to be hosted by an American city.


1980 Allsvenskan, Overview
The league was contested by 14 teams, with Östers IF winning the championship.


1980 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Downhill, Final point standings
In Men's Downhill World Cup 1979/80 the best 5 results count. Seven racers had a point deduction, which are given in ().


1980 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Giant Slalom, Final point standings
In Men's Giant Slalom World Cup 1979/80 the best 5 results count. Eight racers had a point deduction, which are given in brackets. Ingemar Stenmark won the cup with maximum points. He won his sixth Giant Slalom World Cup in a row.


1980 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Giant Slalom, Final point standings
Overall | Downhill | Giant Slalom | Slalom | Combined


1980 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Slalom, Final point standings
In Men's Slalom World Cup 1979/80 the best 5 results count. Six racers had a point deduction, which are given in brackets. Ingemar Stenmark won the cup with maximum points. He won his sixth Slalom World Cup in a row.


1980 Amateur World Series
The 1980 Amateur World Series was the 26th Amateur World Series (AWS), an international men's amateur baseball tournament. The tournament was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation (which titled it the Baseball World Cup as of the 1988 tournament). The tournament took place in Japan, the first time outside the Americas or Europe, from August 22 to September 5, and was won by Cuba – its 16th AWS victory.


1980 America's Cup
The 1980 America's Cup was held in September 1980 at Newport, Rhode Island. The US defender, Freedom, skippered by Dennis Conner, defeated the Australian challenger, Australia, skippered by James Hardy, four races to one. This was the last successful defence of the cup by the New York Yacht Club and the last defender designed by the naval architectural firm Sparkman & Stephens. It was the sixth unsuccessful challenge by Australia and the third by Alan Bond.


1980 America's Cup
Freedom had beaten Courageous and Clipper to become the defender. Australia had beaten France III, Lionheart and Sverige to become the challenger.


1980 America's Cup, Crew
Freedom's crew included skipper Dennis Conner, navigator Halsey Herreshoff, tactician Dennis Durgan, trimmer John Marshall, grinders Rives Potts and Kyle Smith, mastman Robert "Bobbie" Campbell, pitman Donald Kohlmann, bowman Lexi Gahagan, Jonathan Wright and Tom Whidden.


1980 America's Cup, Crew
Australia's crew included skipper James Hardy, Noel Robins, tactician Ben Lexcen, port trimmer John Bertrand, Scott McAllister, John Longley and Kenneth Judge.


1980 American League Championship Series
The 1980 American League Championship Series featured the Kansas City Royals facing the team that had defeated them three straight years in the ALCS from 1976–78, the New York Yankees.


1980 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
The series opener saw the Yankees throw their ace, Ron Guidry, against the Royals' Larry Gura. In the top of the second, the Bronx Bombers jumped out to a 2–0 lead when Rick Cerone and Lou Piniella smacked back-to-back home runs. However, in the bottom of the inning, the Royals struck back. Amos Otis singled to center and stole second, and John Wathan walked. A wild pitch moved Otis to third and Wathan to second, and Frank White doubled both men home to tie the game.


1980 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
The Royals moved ahead in the third, when George Brett walked and moved to third on a ground-rule double by Otis. A single by Willie Aikens plated both Brett and Otis, chasing Guidry from the game. Brett added a home run off Ron Davis in the seventh, and a Willie Wilson double off Tom Underwood in the eighth scored Darrell Porter and White to give Kansas City a 7–2 lead. The Yankees, meanwhile, could not score against Gura after the back-to-back home runs of the second inning, and the Royals' hurler went the distance as his team drew first blood in the series with a 7–2 victory.


1980 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
Game 2 proved to be much more exciting after the Royals blowout of Game 1. For this contest, the Yankees sent Rudy May to the hill to face the Royals' Dennis Leonard.


1980 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
Kansas City opened the scoring in the bottom of the third, as Darrell Porter and Frank White reached base with consecutive singles. Willie Wilson followed with a triple to right to bring both runners in, and then scored himself on a double to center field by shortstop U L Washington. The Yankees came back with two in the fifth, with Graig Nettles hitting an inside-the-park home run and Willie Randolph lashing a double to right to score Bobby Brown.


1980 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
The eighth inning, however, proved to be the most memorable inning of the game, with the Royals clinging to their 3–2 lead and the Yankees threatening. Willie Randolph singled, and with two outs Bob Watson ripped a liner to deep left field. Confident in Randolph's speed, Yankee third base coach Mike Ferraro decided to wave Randolph home. Left fielder Willie Wilson overthrew his cutoff man, Washington, but third baseman George Brett made a heads-up play by backing up Washington. He then whirled and threw Randolph out at the plate. Television cameras panned the stands where Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner and General Manager Gene Michael were sitting. A furious Steinbrenner appeared to shout Ferraro's name as he turned to Michael. The Royals ended up winning that game by a 3–2 margin and Steinbrenner continued to fume over the play.


1980 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
With a 2–0 series lead, the Royals headed to Yankee Stadium for Game 3. The Royals led 1-0 on Frank White's fifth-inning homer until the bottom of the sixth inning when Oscar Gamble hit a ground ball up the middle with Reggie Jackson on second. Eventual ALCS MVP Frank White ranged far to his right to field the ball, and knowing he could not throw out Gamble at first, attempted an off balance throw to third to hopefully catch Jackson rounding the bag.


1980 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
However, the throw by White, a multiple Gold Glove winner, was too high and Royals third baseman George Brett could not catch it. Jackson scored on the play and Gamble was given third base after the ball rolled into the dugout. Gamble later scored on a single by Rick Cerone and the Yankees gained a  2–1 advantage.


1980 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
Holding on to a 2–1 lead in the seventh inning, pitcher Tommy John gave up a two-out double to Willie Wilson. Yankee manager Dick Howser brought in hard-throwing Goose Gossage, who gave up a single to U L Washington, bringing up George Brett. Brett had wowed the majors during the year, flirting with a .400 batting average, holding an average above .400 as late as September 19 before finishing the year at .390. Brett blasted a Gossage fastball into the upper deck, a three-run home run which stunned the Yankee Stadium crowd. The Royals had a 4–2 lead with All-Star reliever Dan Quisenberry on the mound.


1980 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
The Yankees mounted a major threat in the eighth, loading the bases with no one out. Quisenberry then got Rick Cerone to line into a double play and the next batter to ground out to close out the inning. The ninth went one-two-three as the Royals and the long-suffering Kansas City baseball fans finally won the American League Pennant, getting revenge on the team that had eliminated them for three straight years.


1980 American League Championship Series, Composite box
1980 ALCS (3–0): Kansas City Royals over New York Yankees


1980 American League Championship Series, Aftermath
Dick Howser was fired shortly after the conclusion of the 1980 ALCS. Ironically, Howser would go on to win the 1985 World Series as manager of Kansas City.


1980 American League Championship Series, Aftermath
After losing the 1981 World Series to the Los Angeles Dodgers (whom they had beaten in consecutive World Series in 1977 and 1978 after besting the Royals for the American League crown), the Yankees would not again appear in the Fall Classic until winning in 1996 under veteran manager Joe Torre—in a coincidental twist, their best subsequent opportunity prior to 1996 was also during a strike-shortened season: when the 1994 season prematurely ended, the Yankees had the best record in the American League, which was also the second best in baseball.


1980 American League Championship Series, Aftermath
This would also be the last time the Yankees would be swept in a postseason series for 32 years.


1980 American League Championship Series, Aftermath
Four men involved with the 1980 ALCS — Yankees manager Dick Howser, outfielder Bobby Murcer, and catcher Johnny Oates; and Royals pitcher Dan Quisenberry — subsequently died of brain cancer. (Tug McGraw and John Vukovich of the Philadelphia Phillies, who defeated the Royals in that year's World Series, also succumbed to the disease, as did Ken Brett, who pitched for Kansas City in the 1980–81 regular seasons.)


1980 Amherst, Massachusetts water shortage
The 1980 Amherst, Massachusetts, water shortage was a water crisis in Amherst, Massachusetts, that amongst other things closed the University of Massachusetts Amherst for three days. It came at a time when communities across the state were experiencing water crises of their own in the region's worst drought since 1965.


1980 Amherst, Massachusetts water shortage, Background
The summer of 1980 was a dry summer for much of the state of Massachusetts. After weeks of drought, the town's reservoirs started to fall below their normal levels. Precipitation totals since the beginning of July had been half of what they usually were and temperatures were higher than normal. The Atkins Reservoir in nearby Shutesbury was six feet below normal, while the Hills Reservoir in nearby Pelham was thirteen feet below normal,  with its output reduced by half. A third reservoir in the same town was two and a half feet under normal levels.


1980 Amherst, Massachusetts water shortage, Background
On August 31, the school opened for the fall semester and students began arriving on campus. Labor Day weekend brought more challenges to the system, as temperatures climbed into the 80s and demand for water by Labor Day soared to 4.5 million US gallons (17,000 m3), 700,000 US gallons (2,600,000 L) more than the previous record. Normally, the school uses half of the 3.4 million US gallons (13,000 m3) that the town produces in an average day.


1980 Amherst, Massachusetts water shortage, Background
By Tuesday, Amherst Town Manager Louis Hayward had a dilemma. Compounding the problem was the fact that in South Amherst, construction of a new well in Lawrence Swamp was still at least a month from completion. This issue then caused the Amherst Board of Selectmen on the following Monday to declare a water emergency, with the aim of cutting water usage by one quarter by banning all outside use of water. Additionally, authorization was given to selectman to approach the neighboring town of Hadley and purchase water from them.


1980 Amherst, Massachusetts water shortage, Background
University officials were also placed on a state of alert and asked to cut back water use, something that was asked for two years earlier by the school when they put up signs asking students to help with water conservation. During the morning, the fire department was also notified by the town's department of public works to the fact that alarms on the town's four storage tanks were showing signs that levels had dropped to forty feet, well below the normal level of sixty-two feet. This caused an increase in pumping of water into the tanks.


1980 Amherst, Massachusetts water shortage, Background
The first signs of trouble came the next morning when a resident of William M. Cashin House on the northern end of campus called the school's maintenance to report low water levels. A plumber was dispatched and, after checking that the filters weren't clogged, determined it was a supply problem. A call was placed into the local water department. By early afternoon, notices were posted in the dorm advising students on the fifth through eighth floors that there was no water available. Complaints began to trickle in from the Sylvan, Orchard Hill, and Central Residential Areas. All these dorms were on a hill relative to the rest of campus. Health services then went out to local markets and purchased distilled water and secured two fifty-five gallon drums from a Holyoke company.


1980 Amherst, Massachusetts water shortage, Background
Eventually, plumbers were dispatched to shut off water, first to the individual floors, then entire buildings. By six that night, the Physical Plant director alerted Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance George Beatty about the impending crisis. Around forty five minutes later, the town manager was notified of the problem. Around this time, water shortages were beginning to be noticed in the Southwest Residential Area. In the Mildred Pierpont House, toilets wouldn't stop flushing, a consequence of low water pressure. By 9:30 that night, about 3,000 students were without water.


1980 Amherst, Massachusetts water shortage, Background
Chancellor Henry Koffler returned from meetings in Boston and was subsequently warned by Beatty that if the pressure continued to drop, the steam plant would have to be shut down, and research projects, air conditioning, and electrical systems would also have to be turned off. All of this would prove costly. By this time, students were travelling to Puffers Pond in North Amherst to clean up. The chancellor was also urged by Hayward to close the campus.


1980 Amherst, Massachusetts water shortage, Background
In a last-ditch effort an hour and a half later, water was ordered shut off to the Southwest Residential Area, which contained 5,600 residents at the time. Water service to the John W. Lederle Graduate Research Center, Herter, and Tobin Halls, as well as the showers at the Boyden Gym, were also shut off. Reports from the night state that some students began to hoard water in pails before the taps were shut off. By four the next morning, it was determined that the shutdown of water to the area had no effect and so service was restored. As a result of people leaving the faucets on, the bathrooms flooded when service was restored.


1980 Amherst, Massachusetts water shortage, Shutdown and evacuation
At 7:30 that morning, the Chancellor Henry Koffler convened a meeting and reluctantly announced plans to shut down the campus. At ten, campus representatives were informed of the plan, where the only business going on at the school would be "urgent business". Additionally, air conditioning would no longer run at the school. By noon, the campus would close, and, according to notices sent to residence halls, "All students are to leave Amherst as quickly as possible. Only the most difficult cases are to be allowed as exceptions." By the end of the day, seventy percent of the taps in forty-one dorms on campus were dry.


1980 Amherst, Massachusetts water shortage, Shutdown and evacuation
As a result of the campus now being closed, the town of Amherst activated an emergency well on Bay Road, South Amherst, as well as beginning to tap into Hadley's water system. Officials were briefly encouraged when tank levels rose from zero to twenty-one feet by nine that morning, but two hours later, levels began to drop again. As a result of the low water pressure, firefighters began taking a one thousand gallon tanker truck with them when they went on calls.


1980 Amherst, Massachusetts water shortage, Shutdown and evacuation
The mass evacuation of people called for an armada of transportation to suit the needs of students. As a result of this, officials arranged for a group of buses that would transport students to Worcester, Natick, and Boston, beginning at two that afternoon. Calls were soon received from people as far away as Enfield, Connecticut, offering to house the temporarily displaced students. The chancellor even offered to house students, until he realized that his house, perched on the side of Orchard Hill, was also without water.


1980 Amherst, Massachusetts water shortage, Shutdown and evacuation
Eventually, the school's transit service set up tables in the Southwest, Sylvan, and Central residential areas to sell bus tickets to the students. The resulting scene was later described as a "madhouse" by a ticket seller. People who were unable to pay were told that if they supplied their student number, they would be billed later. While one report states that fifty buses were used in the evacuation, another one states that fifty-five buses were used that day.


1980 Amherst, Massachusetts water shortage, Shutdown and evacuation
The mood of the remaining students began to turn festive as a result of them not being affected by water shortages. According to The Daily Collegian, the campus newspaper, several fraternity and sorority organizations began to plan "shower parties", which involved a lot of beer. According to the Boston Globe, two liquor stores in town reported brisk sales to students. By late afternoon, the campus was largely deserted of the 11,000 students that had lived there.


1980 Amherst, Massachusetts water shortage, Official response
Governor Edward J. King, who was visiting a fair in nearby Northampton, instructed the state police to begin to patrol the now empty campus to deter looters. The campus also promised to beef up police presence. As the campus remained in twenty four-hour lockdown, only six hundred students remained on campus, including three hundred international students in Walter E. Prince Hall, and three hundred and sixty residential assistants. Some student athletes also remained behind. The national guard also brought in eight tanks of water and purchased hundreds of empty cider jugs from a local farm. The dining commons also switched to paper plates and plastic utensils and water was shut off to the dorms by the Physical Plant.


1980 Amherst, Massachusetts water shortage, Return to normalcy
Soon after, the town began to refill its tanks and bring new supplies online. Campus officials began to plan to have students back on campus on Sunday. Inevitably, a blame game ensued between town and campus officials, but eventually this settled down as focus shifted on bringing students back. Students were also reimbursed for room and dining commons. Depending on their meal plan, students were reimbursed between $22.89 and $26.76. A plan by the president of the Student Government Association to charter fifteen busses was turned down.


1980 Amherst, Massachusetts water shortage, Return to normalcy
Bathrooms were also cleaned and disinfected to allow for students to come back, and an extension of the add-drop deadline was announced. One entrepreneuing student who stayed behind began to hawk "UMass Evacuation" T-shirts, which showed a dripping faucet labeled "Amherst DPW". All one hundred and sixty-eight shirts were sold within two hours.


1980 Amherst, Massachusetts water shortage, Aftermath
Classes resumed on the next Monday. Town officials then tried to figure out how the crisis developed and why the town manager was never told of the shortage of water. The town also continued to borrow water and use an emergency well until another one was opened up at the end of September. In an interview, the head of the new Amherst Town Water Conservation Project, Chuck Lacey, said, "We are a small town with small reservoirs and if it doesn't rain for six weeks they dry up.


1980 Amherst, Massachusetts water shortage, Aftermath
We've been taking a gamble for years with the expansion of the university." Paul Godfrey, head of the Water Resources Research Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst said that, "...the problem has been coming at us for 15 years. The university kept expanding but nobody did anything about the water.


1980 Amstel Gold Race
The 1980 Amstel Gold Race was the 15th edition of the annual road bicycle race "Amstel Gold Race", held on Sunday April 5, 1980, in the Dutch province of Limburg. The race stretched 238 kilometres, with the start in Heerlen and the finish in Meerssen. There were a total of 146 competitors, and 66 cyclists finished the race.


1980 Amílcar Cabral Cup
The 1980 Amílcar Cabral Cup was held in Banjul, Gambia.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum
A referendum on the initiative of the Andalusian autonomy process was held in Andalusia on Thursday, 28 February 1980. Voters were asked whether they ratified a proposed initiative for the provinces of Almería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga and Seville to organize themselves into an autonomous community of Spain throughout the legal procedure outlined in Article 151 of the Spanish Constitution of 1978.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum
The referendum resulted in 94.2% of valid votes in support of the bill on a turnout of 64.2%. However, the "Yes" vote failed to reach the required 50% majority in the province of Almería—garnering 42.3% of the electorate under a turnout of 51.1%—resulting in a deadlock of several months until an inter-party agreement resulted in legal amendments allowing the autonomy process to continue as envisaged under Article 151.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Legal framework
Articles 143 and 151 of the Spanish Constitution of 1978 provided for two ordinary procedures for regions to access autonomy status:


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Legal framework
Once initiated, failure in securing the requirements laid out in each of these procedures determined a five-year period during which the corresponding provinces or islands would not be able to apply for autonomy under the same Article.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Legal framework
Additionally, Article 144 provided for an exceptional procedure under which the Cortes Generales could, because of "national interest reasons": a) Authorize the constitution of an autonomous community when its territorial scope did not exceed that of a province and did not meet the requirements of Article 143; b) Authorize the approval of statutes of autonomy for territories not integrated into the provincial organization; and c) Replace the local councils' initiative referred to in Article 143.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Legal framework
The electoral procedures of the referendum came regulated under Royal Decree-Law 20/1977, of 18 March, and its related legal provisions. Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered in the provinces of Almería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga and Seville and in full enjoyment of their civil and political rights. The question asked was "Do you agree to the ratification of the initiative, provided for in Article 151 of the Constitution, for the purpose of transacting it by the procedure provided in that article?" (Spanish: ¿Da usted su acuerdo a la ratificación de la iniciativa, prevista en el articulo 151 de la Constitución, a efectos de su tramitación por el procedimiento previsto en dicho articulo? ).


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Background
The Andalusian autonomic process had its roots in a number of events throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries that fueled Andalusian nationalism: the 1868 Glorious Revolution, the 1873 Cantonal Revolution, the 1883 Federal Constitution for Andalusia (nicknamed as the "Constitution of Antequera") and the Blas Infante-led autonomist movement between 1910 and 1936, with the 1918 Assembly of Ronda adopting a regional flag and emblem, the 1919 Assembly of Córdoba or the Centros Andaluces (English: "Andalusian Centers").


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Background
The proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic led to the 1932 meetings of the Provincial Council of Seville, when a draft statute of autonomy was written to comply with the regulations provided under the Spanish Constitution of 1931; however, this initial process of autonomy died down with the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War and the execution of Infante by Francoist forces.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Background
Prospects for attaining autonomy returned after Francisco Franco's death in 1975 and the start of the Spanish transition to democracy. On 12 October 1977, an Assembly of Parliamentarians was constituted based on that year's general election results in the region—7 seats for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), 7 for the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD), 2 for the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) and 2 for independent progressive groups—with the intent of establishing a pre-autonomic regime for Andalusia.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Background
Massive pro-autonomy demonstrations on 4 December 1977—1.4 million attended throughout the eight Andalusian provinces—set a turning point in the autonomic aspirations of the Andalusian people. After some initial delay, a pre-autonomic Regional Government of Andalusia (Spanish: Junta de Andalucía) was adopted in April 1978, with Socialist Plácido Fernández Viagas being elected as the first president of Andalusia. On 4 December 1978, all political parties committed to achieving the greatest possible level of devolution for Andalusia in the shortest possible timeframe within the scope of the newly-approved Spanish Constitution of 1978, in what was to be known as the "Pact of Antequera" (Spanish: Pacto de Antequera).


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Background
Poor progress on the issue of the Andalusian autonomy resulted in significant gains for the nationalist Socialist Party of Andalusia (PSA) in the 1979 general and local elections, as well as in a change of leadership in the pre-autonomic government, as Fernández Viagas was replaced by PSOE's Rafael Escuredo on 2 June 1979.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Background
Under Escuredo, the region initiated the procedures for applying to autonomy through the "fast-track route" set down in Article 151 of the Constitution, including the drafting of a new statute of autonomy, as well as the approval of the autonomy initiative by the municipalities of all eight Andalusian provinces. By December 1979, 100% of the municipalities of the provinces of Seville, Cádiz, Córdoba and Jaén, 96.03% of Almería's, 94% of Huelva's, 93.37% of Granada's and 92.9% of Malaga's had approved the initiative for applying through the procedure of Article 151.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Background
As the governing UCD's stance started to swing against a general application of Article 151, the PSOE-led regional government launched a campaign in support of Andalusian autonomy and self-government. The obstacles put forward by Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez's party and government to Andalucia accessing autonomy through the route of Article 151 were denounced, such as delaying the date for holding the mandatory referendum on the autonomy initiative, or the questioning of the draft Statute which had been negotiated by the parties.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Background
Finally in January 1980, seeking to "rationalize" the autonomic process of all future autonomous regions over concerns that all would attempt to achieve maximum devolution within a short timeframe, the UCD officially made public its stance not to support the route of Article 151 for regions other than the Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia, instead suggesting the application of the "slow-track" route of Article 143; a decision which included Andalusia.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Date
The date for the referendum on the autonomy initiative to be held was negotiated by the various parties with representation in the pre-autonomic Andalusian institutions, PSOE, UCD, PCE and PSA. Originally scheduled for some point in late 1979, such as 25 October (concurrently with the Basque and Catalan Statute of Autonomy referendums) or 4 December (the second anniversary of the 1977 demonstrations), the date was moved into early 1980, either on 28 February or 1 March.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Date
The UCD government had announced that the date was still dependent on the final approval by the Cortes Generales of the Referendum Law—providing the legal framework for referendums on autonomy initiatives as the one scheduled for Andalusia—with the implication that the referendum could be delayed beyond 28 February, leading Andalusian president Rafael Escuredo to threaten with his resignation, conditional on the referendum not being held as scheduled. Mounting pressure on the national government led to the approval of the Referendum Law in time for the Andalusian vote to be held as scheduled, with plans maintained after UCD's rejection to support the autonomy initiative increasing the hardships for it to be successful.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Date
The referendum was formally called upon the publication of the specific decree in the Official State Gazette on 28 January 1980, with the date being confirmed for Thursday, 28 February.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Campaign
After the UCD's u-turn on the autonomy process in January 1980, when it advocated for voters to either abstain or cast blank ballots in the autonomy initiative referendums held under the provisions of Article 151 of the Constitution, internal differences emerged within the regional party as some members—including former minister of Culture and regional party president Manuel Clavero—came out in support of Article 151 by announcing a "Yes" vote, while others adhered to the national party's stance.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Campaign
The PSOE government of Andalusia came to criticize the UCD over alleged obstacles in the referendum campaign, including the short duration of the propaganda campaign—15 days—the ambiguity of the question (abstent of words such as "autonomy" or "Andalusia", in what would be later described as an attempt to promote confusion and abstention), a shortage in public funding for the institutional campaign and limitations in the allocation and broadcasting of media spaces in the public RTVE corporation, which was seen as discriminatory compared to the campaigns for the Basque and Catalan referendums.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Campaign
The Spanish government defended its position on the referendum question and campaign's duration out of "technical and legal rigor" reasons while justifying the limitations to the use of RTVE broadcasting media over an alleged lack of institutional neutrality of the Regional Government's campaign, oriented in favor of the "Yes" vote. This stance would lead to a three-day hunger strike from President Rafael Escuredo, terminated as a result of a stark worsening in Escuredo's health.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Campaign
Accusations on the UCD national government's attempts to undermine the referendum's logistics would keep going over further limitations in public funding for institutional advertising to 125 million Pta, a delay in the regulation of postal voting and the introduction of a different model of ballot to those used in the Basque and Catalan votes.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Campaign
The Spanish government's decree on complementary regulations for the referendum, approved on 8 February, showed differences with those provided for the Basque and Catalan referendums, such as a limitation of the free spaces awarded to political parties in nationwide media or a restriction in the regional president of Andalusia's possibilities of making use of RTVE media—mainly Televisión Española and Radio Nacional de España—for campaigning in favour of the "Yes" vote.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Campaign
Despite these shortcomings, the Andalusian government organized an institutional campaign under the Vota Andalucía nuestra slogan (English: "Vote, our Andalusia") to encourage turnout in the referendum, including the placement of advertisements and billboards throughout the entire region, informative car caravans in the rural areas and the personal involvement in the campaign of Escuredo himself. Delays in the payment of the promised campaign public funding from the national Treasury were compensated through loans or economic help offered by other institutions.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Campaign
The parties supporting the "Yes" campaign (mainly the PSOE, PCE and PSA) launched a massive effort with more than 1,000 announced rallies, billboards in the eight Andalusian provincial capitals, radio spots, press announcements, posters and distribution of millions of stickers and leaflets, with a particular focus in the easternmost province of Almería, where the success of the "Yes" campaign was more dubious over fears of not meeting the legal electorate requirements for ratification.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Campaign
The Assembly of Parliamentarians had convened on 9 February with the attendance of PSOE, PCE and PSA members and the absence of UCD, ahead of the start of official campaigning, to approve a joint resolution denouncing the national government's policy of boycott to the "Yes" campaign and urging voters to throw their support behind it. UCD and AP, defenders of abstention in the referendum, initially limited their campaigns to the use of their legal rights in the media—mainly their corresponding press, radio and television free spaces—to present their arguments contrary to Article 151. The only party campaigning for the "No" vote was the far-right New Force (FN), which claimed that the proposed autonomy was "marxist and separatist", instead advocating for an "agile and efficient administrative decentralization".


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Campaign
Several UCD members and local groupings unheeded their party's official stance and campaigned for either the "Yes" vote or for encouraging turnout, while others abandoned the party outright—including former UCD regional leader Manuel Clavero—as criticism of the Spanish government's administrative obstacles kept increasing throughout the campaign.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Campaign
Public perception of a "Yes" success increased as the campaign progressed, with the UCD changing its strategy by doubling its advertising against Article 151 and sending about half of its ministers to Andalusia to campaign in favour of abstention, while engaging in a more organized propaganda campaign, increasingly aware that the referendum had turned into an electoral test on the Suárez government as many Andalusian voters, previously indifferent or neutral on the issue of autonomy, were being driven to protest against the tactics of the ruling party against the "Yes" campaign.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Results, Overall
Do you agree to the ratification of the initiative, provided for in Article 151 of the Constitution, for the purpose of transacting it by the procedure provided in that article?


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Aftermath
Despite early predictions of a defeat of the "Yes" campaign in up to four provinces, the higher-than-expected turnout and the early counts confirmed an outright victory for the "Yes" vote in six out of the eight provinces, with doubts over the definitive results in Almería and Jaén.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Aftermath
Initial tallies showing a defeat of the initiative in these two provinces were met with satisfaction within the UCD as an endorsement to their Article 143 policy, whereas the Regional Government of Andalusia regarded the outcome as "a political and moral victory" and the PSOE considered the results as the manifestation of a unanimous desire for broad self-government.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Aftermath
However, later analyses on the high turnout revealed that many UCD voters had not adhered to their party's call for abstention, with results being interpreted as a massive blow to the governing party in Spain, leading to a plummeting of the party's public image in the region. Days after the referendum, the UCD executive committee acknowledged "errors" in the management of its campaign.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Aftermath
The results in Almería and Jaén were contested by the "Yes" supporters: in the former, it was claimed that a large number of deceased people was shown as registered, inflating the census data and thus preventing the success of the initiative; whereas in the later, the closeness of results—with the "Yes" vote at 49.3% of the electorate—led to claims over counted ballots in several wards.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Aftermath
As the UCD sought to initiate procedures for the application of Article 143, "Yes" supporters rejected these plans and advocated for results to be declared void in Almería and for a new vote to be held in the province, with renewed calls after an official recount resulted in the "Yes" vote surpassing the 50% threshold in the province of Jaén.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Aftermath
The deadlock, which threatened to bog down the entire autonomic process, was resolved in October 1980 through two legal amendments under the cover of Article 144 of the Constitution: the first, a modification of the Referendum Law allowing for the approval of the Article 151 autonomy initiative in the provinces having met the 50%-over-electorate threshold, and the possibility to make the initiative extendable to those provinces within the same region not meeting this requirement—such as the case of Almería—as long as it was requested by a majority of the elected members of that province within the Cortes Generales; the second, an organic law approving this mechanism for the province of Almería by applying it retroactively to the 28 February referendum result.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Aftermath
Both amendments would be definitely approved by the Cortes Generales on 11 November 1980, leading to the final phase of negotiations over the draft Statute and its subsequent ratification in the 1981 referendum. Attempts to avoid similar political clashes in the future over the devolution issue led to the so-called "rationalization" of the autonomic process, through the signing of the first autonomic pacts between UCD and PSOE on 31 July 1981, agreeing for a joint calendar of devolution for the remaining regions. This would be embodied through the approval, in 1982, of the Organic Law of Harmonization of the Autonomic Process (LOAPA).


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Aftermath
The outcome of the 1980 referendum would have a long-lasting impact in Andalusia. Despite the UCD later acknowledging its "Andalusian mistake" of rejecting the route of Article 151 for the Andalusian autonomy, the Spanish government's tactics throughout the referendum campaign and the outcome of the vote would see the party's popularity in the region destroyed, never to recover.


1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum, Aftermath
In the Spanish Senate by-elections held on 27 November 1980 in the provinces of Almería and Seville, the UCD vote collapsed as the PSOE emerged as the largest party in both elections, whereas the first Andalusian regional election in May 1982 would see the establishment of a PSOE regional hegemony that would last for decades to come and the obliberation of UCD as a valid government alternative. 28 February would be institutionalized as the new Andalusia Day from 1982 onwards, in remembrance of the referendum outcome and the success of the autonomy process.


1980 Angolan legislative election
Parliamentary elections were held in Angola in 1980, the first elections following independence from Portugal in 1975. The country was a one-party state, with the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola – Labour Party (MPLA-PT) as the sole legal party. Non -party candidates were vetted to ensure that they were not elected to the colleges. As a result, all 229 elected MPs were from the MPLA–PT.


1980 Angolan legislative election, Electoral system
The elections were held on an indirect two-stage basis. Beginning on 23 August, voters elected electoral colleges, which in turn elected 229 candidates to the National Assembly. All Angolan citizens with 18 years of age were eligible to vote in the first stage of the elections, except those who were members of factional groups, had a criminal record and who had not been rehabilitated. Candidates were expected to be answerable to the citizens in public meetings, with their candidature approved by a majority in the province where they were getting nominated.


1980 Angolan legislative election, Results
The 229 representatives included 64 civil servants, 58 workers, 48 peasants, 20 members of defense or security forces, 7 intellectuals, 6 elements of state apparatus and 26 others.


1980 Angolan legislative election, Aftermath
The newly elected parliament convened for the first time on 11 November 1980.


1980 Anguillian general election
General elections were held in Anguilla on 28 May 1980. The result was a victory for the Anguilla United Movement, which won six of the seven seats in the House of Assembly.


1980 Anguillian general election, Results
Connell Harrigan and Euton Smith were appointed as the nominated members.


1980 Angus District Council election
The 1980 Angus District Council election took place on the 1 May 1980 to elect members of Angus District Council, as part of that years Scottish local elections.


1980 Annandale and Eskdale District Council election
Held under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. Annandale and Eskdale was also under the regional council of Dumfries and Galloway.


1980 Annandale and Eskdale District Council election
As with the other two elections, no political parties fielded any candidates.


1980 Antiguan general election
General elections were held in Antigua and Barbuda on 24 April 1980. They were won by the governing Antigua Labour Party. ALP leader Vere Bird was re-elected as Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda. Voter turnout was 77.1%.


1980 Antiguan general election
They were the last elections before Antigua and Barbuda's independence as a Commonwealth realm in 1981.


1980 Antwerp attack
On 27 July 1980, Said Al Nasr, a Syria-born Palestinian, used grenades to attack a group of 40 Jewish children waiting with their families for a bus to take them to summer camp. One boy was killed and 20 other people were wounded in the attack. The attacker was convicted.


1980 Antwerp attack, Attack
The attack took place outside the Agoudath Israel cultural centre in Antwerp. The group of children, aged 10 to 14, originating from Britain, France, the Netherlands, Austria, and Belgium, were accompanied by their families as they waited to board a bus to take them to a summer camp in the Ardennes hills of southern Belgium. The explosion killed one boy, 15-year-old Parisian David Kohane, and wounded 20, aged 8 to 27, eight of whom had to be hospitalized, including a 13-year-old Belgian girl with critical brain injuries and a pregnant woman. 2 young brothers Zevi and Motti Glejser aged 8 and 9 respectively were walking past at the time of the attack and were wounded and hospitalised.


1980 Antwerp attack, Attack
The attacker was arrested after witnesses chased him down. In addition to the thrown grenades, he was carrying a pistol and "several magazines of ammunition" that had not used in the attack.


1980 Antwerp attack, Attack
The attack was among a number of anti-Jewish attacks worldwide in the early 1980s.


1980 Antwerp attack, Perpetrator
Al Nasr is a Syrian-Palestinian, was convicted in Belgium in 1980, for throwing two hand grenades into a group of Jewish children waiting for a bus in Antwerp on 27 July 1980. He was carrying a Moroccan passport at the time of his arrest.


1980 Antwerp attack, Perpetrator
In 1990, the jailed Al Nasr was "traded" for part of the Houtekins-Kets family, a Belgian-French family kidnapped in Libya—a demand of the Abu Nidal group—during the Silco incident.


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


1980 Apulian regional election, Events
Christian Democracy was by far the largest party, while the Italian Communist Party came distantly second. After the election Nicola Quarta, the incumbent Christian Democratic President, formed a new centre-left government (organic Centre-left). In 1983 Quarta was replaced by Gennaro Trisorio Liuzzi, a Christian Democrat who had already served as President of the Region from 1970 to 1975.


1980 Argentine Grand Prix
The 1980 Argentine Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 13 January 1980 at the Autodromo Municipal Ciudad de Buenos Aires in Argentina. It was the opening round of the 1980 Formula One season. The race was the 16th Argentine Grand Prix and the sixth to be held on the #15 variation of the Buenos Aires circuit. The race was held over 53 laps of the 5.81-kilometre (3.61 mi) circuit for a total race distance of 308 kilometres (191 mi).


1980 Argentine Grand Prix
The race was won by Australian driver Alan Jones driving a Williams FW07. It was Jones' sixth World Championship victory. Jones won by 24 seconds over Brazilian driver Nelson Piquet driving a Brabham BT49. It was a prelude of the season to come, as Jones and Piquet would fight out the 1980 season. Another future world champion, Finnish driver Keke Rosberg, finished third driving a Fittipaldi F7.


1980 Argentine Grand Prix
This race was additionally notable for the drivers threatening to boycott the event because of the appalling state of the track, which was breaking up in many spots in the infield thanks to the intense heat of a Buenos Aires summer. The immense grip of the aerodynamic suction created by the ground effect technology and the cars' tyres  and a battle between Gilles Villeneuve (Ferrari 312T5), Alan Jones, Jacques Laffite (Ligier JS11/15) and Nelson Piquet, made even more exciting due to the break-up of the track surface.


1980 Argentine Grand Prix
Piquet finished second, Laffite retired with a blown engine and Villeneuve crashed going through the fast Toboggan complex due to a front suspension failure, although this was most likely exacerbated by a number of times he went off the very slippery track onto the sometimes bumpy and grassy run off area and consistently riding up the apex curbs of the Buenos Aires Autodrome.


1980 Argentine Grand Prix
The grass took out home favorite Carlos Reutemann (who had jumped into 5th at the start from 10th) in his first drive with Williams, who attempted to pass Piquet going into the Ascari chicane after the 2 mile flat out section. Reutemann slid off the track onto the grass run-off area and the 2 radiators in Reutemann's Williams FW07 sucked in grass and were both blocked, and the engines (already running at higher temperatures than normal) were even more prone to blowing up there in Buenos Aires because of the hot weather- a common problem at the Argentine Grand Prix.


1980 Argentine Grand Prix
Multiple drivers spun off the track in the infield section, including Reutemann's teammate Jones, who had a short pitstop to clean his air intakes, but quickly returned to the battle. Reutemann retired with a blown engine soon after his excursion onto the grass.


1980 Argentine Grand Prix
Unsure if he would race again after 1980, the Argentinean was in fact so disconsolate that he sat motionless in his car for a few minutes, then got out of his car, sat on the track next to his car and burst into tears; the patriotic Reutemann had never won his home Grand Prix and would never do so. The rate of attrition allowed Jody Scheckter into third place, but with just a handful of laps left suffered an engine failure in the Ferrari.


1980 Argentine Grand Prix
This allowed Keke Rosberg to score his first ever podium in the same race as Piquet's first, and another future world champion Alain Prost (McLaren M29) scored a point on his Formula One début. It was a famous race of attrition on a terrible surface, where unusually the winner spun off twice and the runner-up once, and lap times were considerably slower than the previous year.


1980 Argentine Primera División
The 1980 Primera División season was the 89th season of top-flight football in Argentina. River Plate won the Metropolitano (20th title) while Rosario Central (3rd title) won the Nacional championship.


1980 Arizona State Sun Devils football team
The 1980 Arizona State Sun Devils football team represented Arizona State University during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season.


1980 Arizona Wildcats baseball team
The 1980 Arizona Wildcats baseball team represented the University of Arizona in the 1980 NCAA Division I baseball season. The team was coached by Jerry Kindall in his 8th season at Arizona.


1980 Arizona Wildcats baseball team
The Wildcats won the College World Series, defeating the Hawaii Rainbows in the championship game.


1980 Arizona Wildcats baseball team, Wildcats in the 1980 MLB Draft
The following members of the Arizona Wildcats baseball program were drafted in the 1980 Major League Baseball Draft.


1980 Arizona Wildcats football team
The 1980 Arizona Wildcats football team represented the University of Arizona in the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their first season under head coach Larry Smith, the Wildcats compiled a 5–6 record (3–4 against Pac-10 opponents), finished in a tie for sixth place in the Pac-10, and were outscored by their opponents, 275 to 215. The team played its home games in Arizona Stadium in Tucson, Arizona.


1980 Arizona Wildcats football team
Despite finishing the season with a 5–6 record, the Wildcats defeated UCLA (who was ranked second at the time), which was a memorable moment in the early part of Smith's tenure at Arizona.


1980 Arizona Wildcats football team
The team's statistical leaders included Tom Tunnicliffe with 1,204 passing yards, Hubert Oliver with 655 rushing yards, and Tim Holmes with 545 receiving yards. Linebacker Jack Housley led the team with 104 total tackles.


1980 Arizona Wildcats football team, Before the season
Arizona finished the 1979 season with a 6–5 record, and lost to Pittsburgh in the Fiesta Bowl. During the offseason, head coach Tony Mason was discovered as being allegedly involved in a cash payment scandal by giving boosters money to players, which was illegal under NCAA rules. As a result, Mason resigned as coach and was replaced by Smith, who was coaching at Tulane. Smith was a former assistant coach at Arizona under Mason's predecessor Jim Young. In a press conference, Smith promised to rebuild the program and bring the team to a winning success.


1980 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Colorado State
Arizona opened the season against ex-WAC foe Colorado State in Smith's debut as Wildcat coach. The Rams converted on a field goal on the last play of the game to win it.


1980 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, California
The Wildcats went on the road to Berkeley to face California. Arizona narrowly defeated the Golden Bears to give Smith not only his first win as Arizona coach, but his first Pac-10 victory as well as his first road win.


1980 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Iowa
The Wildcats traveled to Iowa in their next game against the Hawkeyes. Both Arizona and Iowa's offenses struggled throughout the game, but the Wildcats’ defense dominated and scored a safety early by blocking a punt. Arizona ultimately held on for the victory. It was one of the only games in college football history in which a team won by only scoring exactly five points. It was also Arizona's fifth consecutive win over Iowa dating back to 1970. They would not defeat the Hawkeyes again until 1998.


1980 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, USC
In Smith's first big test as Arizona's coach, the Wildcats took on USC, who was ranked second in the nation. The Trojans would hold the Wildcats to only ten points to win. Smith would become a future coach at USC in 1987.


1980 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Notre Dame
Arizona played Notre Dame for the first time since 1941. At home against the fourth-ranked Fighting Irish, the Wildcats never had a chance against the Fighting Irish, and scored only a field goal.


1980 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Notre Dame
To date, this remains Notre Dame's only visit to Tucson, as the Wildcats believed that it would be too expensive to schedule a home game against a storied non-conference opponent like the Irish, allegedly since Tucson is a smaller market.


1980 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, UCLA
For homecoming, Arizona hosted second-ranked UCLA. The Bruins were poised to get the top ranking with a win, as Alabama lost to Mississippi State earlier that day. However, the Wildcats put those hopes to rest by upsetting the Bruins and finally giving Smith his first home win as coach. It was also Smith's first big win at Arizona. The win by Arizona, combined with Alabama's loss, stunned the college football world as the top two ranked teams lost that day.


1980 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Arizona State
In the rivalry game, Arizona and Arizona State faced each other. For the Wildcats, this was Smith's first matchup against ASU. The more experienced Sun Devils dominated the mistake-prone Wildcats in a blowout. Arizona managed to get on the scoreboard with a touchdown in the third quarter that prevented a shutout.


1980 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Arizona State
The Wildcats finished Smith's first season with a record of 5–6.


1980 Arkansas Razorbacks football team
The 1980 Arkansas Razorbacks football team represented the University of Arkansas during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. A bright spot for the Hogs in 1980 was senior punter Steve Cox. He led college football with an average of 46.5 yards per punt. He won Super Bowl XXII with the Washington Redskins. Cox completed one of only six field goals of 60+ yards in NFL history. Running back Gary Anderson was named MVP of the Hall of Fame Classic.


1980 Arkansas gubernatorial election
The 1980 Arkansas gubernatorial election was only that state's third election since Reconstruction when a Republican candidate won the governorship.


1980 Arkansas gubernatorial election
One-term Democratic Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton was narrowly defeated by Republican Frank D. White, which made Clinton, as he joked, "the youngest ex-governor in the nation." Clinton ran again two years later and regained the governorship, continuing to serve until he was elected to the presidency in 1992. Both the Democratic and Republican primaries were held on May 27.


1980 Arkansas gubernatorial election, Campaign
Schwarzlose's unexpected strong challenge in primaries and his 31 percent of the primary vote foreshadowed that Clinton could be in trouble for the upcoming general election.


1980 Arkansas gubernatorial election, Campaign
Clinton's increase in the cost of automobile registration tags was also unpopular. He was also hurt by President Jimmy Carter's decision to send thousands of Cuban refugees, some unruly, to a detention camp at Fort Chaffee, outside Fort Smith in Sebastian County in western Arkansas. (See Mariel boatlift.)


1980 Arkansas gubernatorial election, Campaign
1980 general election was marked by decisive Republican victories—the GOP won the White House, a majority in United States Senate and 34 seats in the United States House of Representatives. Clinton's narrow loss was viewed as part of Reagan's coattails.


1980 Arkansas gubernatorial election, Effect
Max Brantley said after Clinton lost the election in 1980: "The guy was like a death in the family. He was really destroyed after that election". Rudy Moore also added: "He never blamed anybody else. He accepted the responsibility. He didn't whine about it. In fact, it was within days, we were trying to figure out what we could to do to improve his political life after that"


1980 Arkansas gubernatorial election, Effect
After Clinton was defeated, an opportunity arose in which Clinton would lead the Democratic National Committee through the 1980s to battle Ronald Reagan and the Republicans, instead of running for another term for Governor of Arkansas. When Clinton campaigned for election in 1982 against White, he explained that he had learned the importance of adaptability and compromise from his defeat in two years prior.


1980 Arkansas gubernatorial election, Effect
During the campaign of 1982, Clinton promised to make major strides in education, including a large investment of public money, but he avoided saying he would raise taxes.


1980 Arkansas gubernatorial election, Effect
There was some skepticism on whether Clinton's record on the economy in Arkansas would translate into Democrats losing in upcoming elections. The regular legislative session in Arkansas of 1985 was devoted to economic development. The legislature approved almost all of Clinton's program, which included changes in banking laws, start-up money for technology-oriented businesses, and large tax incentives for Arkansas industries that expanded their production and jobs.


1980 Arkansas gubernatorial election, Effect
Arkansas was one of the best states in new job creation in the next six years, but most of the jobs did not pay high wages, and it remained one of the worst states in average income. Democrats wanted a counter to Reaganomics, but feared Clinton's plan would lead to more unhappy blue collar workers bolting to the Republicans as his plan offered no real solution to stagnant wages.


1980 Army Cadets football team
The 1980 Army Cadets football team was an American football team that represented the United States Military Academy in the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their first season under head coach Ed Cavanaugh, the Cadets compiled a 3–7–1 record and were outscored by their opponents 295 to 204. In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets lost to Navy, 33 to 6.


1980 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
The second elections to the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly were held on 3 January 1980. The election was held simultaneously to the 1980 Lok Sabha election. 30 seats were up for election. A total of 95 candidates contested; 28 from the Indian National Congress (Indira), 28 from the People's Party of Arunachal, 11 from the Indian National Congress (Urs) and 28 independents. The PPA candidate in the Niausa Kanubari constituency, Wanglhu Wangshu, was elected unopposed.


1980 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
INC(I) won 13 seats (with 72,734 votes, 42.58%). The PPA also won 13 seats, with 70,006 votes (40.98%). The remaining four seats went to independents. In total independent candidates mustered 19,716 votes (11.54%). INC(U) failed to win any seats. The party obtained 8,361 votes (4.89%). For the first time a woman, Nyari Welly, was elected to the Assembly. After the election there were massive defections to the INC(I). Gegong Apang was elected Chief Minister after the election.


1980 Ash Wednesday bushfires
The first Ash Wednesday fires were a series of bushfires that began in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia, on Ash Wednesday, 20 February 1980. 51 homes and 25 other buildings were destroyed, including the Anglican Christ Church, Longwood, and 75 farms were affected. 40 people were injured, with 150 left homeless. The fire burnt an area of 3,770 ha (14.6 sq mi), and caused an estimated $34,000,000 damage.


1980 Ash Wednesday bushfires
In 1983, after the Ash Wednesday fires in February that year, the 1980 fire became known in South Australia as the "first" Ash Wednesday, or Ash Wednesday I.


1980 Asia Golf Circuit
The 1980 Asia Golf Circuit was the 19th season of golf tournaments that comprised the Asia Golf Circuit.


1980 Asia Golf Circuit
Golfers from Taiwan again dominated the circuit with six tournament wins from the ten events. Lu Hsi-chuen repeated his performance from 1979 as he won three times and collected the overall circuit prize. American players continued to make inroads, as Kurt Cox finished second in the standings having won in India and Singapore.


1980 Asia Golf Circuit, Tournament schedule
The table below shows the 1980 Asian Golf Circuit schedule. With the return of the Philippine Open, which had been withdrawn from the circuit in 1979, the tour was back up to ten tournaments in 1980.


1980 Asian Junior Women's Volleyball Championship
The 1980 Asian Junior Women's Volleyball Championship was held in Seoul, South Korea from 19 October to 27 October 1980


1980 Asian Table Tennis Championships
The 5th Asian Table Tennis Championships 1980 were held in Calcutta, India from 10 to 18 May 1980. It was organised by the Table Tennis Federation of India under the authority of Asian Table Tennis Union (ATTU) and International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).


1980 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl
The 1980 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game between the Texas Longhorns and the Carolina Tar Heels.


1980 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, Background
The Tar Heels were champions of the Atlantic Coast Conference for the second time in four seasons and the first under Dick Crum. This was their second straight bowl game appearance and first Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl. Texas was in their first Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl since 1975 after finishing fourth in the Southwest Conference.


1980 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, Game summary
Amos Lawrence gave the Tar Heels an early lead on a 59-yard touchdown run. The Tar Heels decided to go for a two-point conversion, which failed, keeping the score at 6–0. Mike Luck gave the Longhorns a 7–6 lead on his touchdown run in the second quarter. Kelvin Bryant gave North Carolina the lead on his go-ahead touchdown run to make it 13–7 at halftime. After allowing 224 yards and 11 first downs in the first half, the Tar Heel defense stiffened up and allowed only two first downs and 36 yards in the second half. They forced a fumbled punt snap later converted into a field goal by Jeff Hayes to make it 16–7 while closing out the scoring and securing the Tar Heel win.


1980 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, Aftermath
The Tar Heels did not return to the Bluebonnet Bowl before its discontinuation and have not won an ACC title since 1980. The Longhorns returned to the Bluebonnet Bowl in 1985 and 1987.


1980 Atlanta Braves season
The 1980 Atlanta Braves season was the 15th season in Atlanta along with the 110th season as a franchise overall.


1980 Atlanta Braves season, Regular season
On August 6, umpire Jerry Dale ruled that Braves shortstop Rafael Ramírez did not step on second base while turning a double play. Manager Bobby Cox argued the call and confronted Dale while tobacco juice streamed out of his mouth. Cox was accused of spitting on the umpire.


1980 Atlanta Braves season, Regular season
Phil Niekro became the only pitcher in the history of the National League to lead the NL in losses for four consecutive seasons.


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


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


1980 Atlanta Falcons season
The 1980 Atlanta Falcons season was the Falcons 15th season and culminated in their first division title in franchise history. After a 3-3 start, the Falcons went on a nine-game winning streak as Quarterback Steve Bartkowski passed for a career-best 3,544 yards while connecting on 31 Touchdown passes. As the NFC's top seed, the Falcons gained home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. The Falcons season ended with a 30-27 divisional playoff loss to the Dallas Cowboys before 60,022 fans at Fulton County Stadium. Atlanta had leads of both 24-10 and 27-17 before falling to Danny White's TD pass to Drew Pearson in the final minute.


1980 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament
The 1980 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament was held in Raleigh, North Carolina from April 22 through April 26. Clemson won the tournament and earned the Atlantic Coast Conference's automatic bid to the 1980 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. The tournament was the first held since 1978, as conflicts with exams caused the cancellation of the 1979 tournament.


1980 Atlantic hurricane season
The 1980 Atlantic hurricane season featured six hurricanes, the most since 1969. The season officially began on June 1, 1980, and lasted until November 30, 1980. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic Ocean. The season was fairly active, with sixteen tropical cyclones forming, eleven of which intensified into a tropical storm. It was the first time since the 1971 season that there were no active tropical cyclones in the Atlantic basin during the month of June. The season occurred during an ENSO-neutral phase, having neither an El Niño nor a La Niña.


1980 Atlantic hurricane season
Three tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean in 1980 were notable. Hurricane Allen was the then-earliest Category 5 hurricane on record, reaching that intensity on August 5. The storm devastated portions of the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States. Overall, Allen caused about $2.57 billion and at least 269 deaths. Tropical Storm Hermine caused significant flooding in Mexico, which resulted in at least 38 fatalities. Hurricane Jeanne was one of only four tropical cyclones at hurricane intensity to enter the Gulf of Mexico and not make landfall.


1980 Atlantic hurricane season, Seasonal summary
The Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, though the first tropical depression did not develop until July 17. During the season, 15 tropical depressions formed. Eight of the depressions attained tropical storm status, and eight of these attained hurricane status. Two of the hurricanes further strengthened to become major hurricanes. Only Allen made landfall at hurricane strength during the season, although Hurricane Charley and tropical storms Danielle and Hermine also caused damage and fatalities. Those three cyclones collectively caused 316 deaths and $1.57 billion (1980 USD) in damage. The last storm of the season, Hurricane Karl, dissipated on November 27, only three days before the official end date of November 30.


1980 Atlantic hurricane season, Seasonal summary
The 1980 Atlantic hurricane season had a rather slow beginning, with only one tropical depression developing prior to the month of August. In contrast, August was an active month, with five tropical cyclones forming, three of which became hurricanes. During that month, Hurricane Allen became the earliest known Category 5 hurricane on August 5, a record later broken by only Hurricane Emily on July 16, 2005. September also had five tropical cyclones, all of which became named storms. Tropical cyclogenesis abruptly halted in October, with only Hurricane Ivan and a tropical depression developing in that month. However, the month of November was considered to be very active, with three storms forming during that month.


1980 Atlantic hurricane season, Seasonal summary
The season's activity was reflected with an accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) rating of 149, which is classified as "above normal". ACE is, broadly speaking, a measure of the power of the hurricane multiplied by the length of time it existed, so storms that last a long time, as well as particularly strong hurricanes, have high ACEs. Its only calculated for full advisories on tropical systems at or exceeding 39 mph (63 km/h), which is the threshold for tropical storm intensity.


1980 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression One
A decaying cold front entered into Gulf of Mexico, and developed a low-pressure area of July 17. Later that day, the low-pressure area developed into Tropical Depression One almost halfway between Louisiana and the Yucatán Peninsula. The depression moved northwestward, and minimal intensification occurred, as it approached the Gulf Coast of the United States. The depression made landfall in Texas near the Galveston area, and dissipated by July 21. Minimal impact was recorded from the depression, and light rainfall was reported in Texas and western Louisiana, peaking at 3.77 in (96 mm) in Refugio, Texas.


1980 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Allen
A tropical wave emerged off the west coast of Africa on July 30 and quickly developed into Tropical Depression Two about two days later. By August 2, the depression had strengthened and was upgraded to Tropical Storm Allen. The storm steadily intensified and became a hurricane on August 3. Thereafter, Allen rapidly deepened, and was a major hurricane only 24 hours later. While it was becoming a Category 3 hurricane, and a Category 4 hurricane, shortly after, Allen passed through the Windward Islands.


1980 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Allen
Upon entering the Caribbean Sea, Allen continued to strengthen and became a Category 5 hurricane on August 5, while about halfway between Puerto Rico and Venezuela. Allen briefly curved northwestward and approached the Tiburon Peninsula of Haiti. Shortly thereafter, Allen weakened significantly on August 6, but was still a Category 4 when it bypassed Jamaica. While paralleling the south coast of Cuba, Allen re-strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane. Later that day, the storm attained its peak intensity with winds of 190 mph (305 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 899 mbar (26.5 inHg).


1980 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Allen
Immediately following peak intensity, Allen entered the Gulf of Mexico and weakened back to a Category 4 hurricane on August 8. On the day next, Allen re-intensified into a Category 5 hurricane while approaching Texas. However, just offshore Allen abruptly weakened to a low-end Category 3 hurricane prior to landfall near Brownsville, Texas on August 10. The storm quickly weakened inland and dissipated about 36 hours after striking land.


1980 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Allen
Although 500 houses were either damaged or destroyed on Barbados, losses totaled to only $1.5 million. Having passed only 8 miles (13 km) south of St. Lucia, Allen produced sustained winds as high as 104 mph (167 km/h) on the island. The storm caused 27 fatalities and $88 million in damage on that island. In addition, one death was reported in Guadeloupe. High winds and flooding in Haiti left 836,200 people homeless. In addition, 220 deaths were reported and damage exceeded $400 million.


1980 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Allen
To the east in Dominican Republic, effects were less severe, though seven deaths were reported and damage was estimated at $47 million. On the island of Cuba, three fatalities occurred and losses were unknown. In northeastern Mexico, heavy rainfall occurred, though damage was minimal and no fatalities were reported. Damage was most significant in the United States, especially in the state of Texas. In Corpus Christi, gravel blew off the roofs, which broke windows throughout the city. Several tornadoes were spawned in Texas, one of which caused at least $50 million in damage in Austin.


1980 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Allen
Rainfall in the state of Texas exceeded 20 inches (510 mm) in some locations. A total of 24 fatalities occurred in the United States – seven in Texas and seventeen in Louisiana – most resulting from the crash of a helicopter evacuating workers from an offshore platform. Damage in United States totaled to $860 million. Overall, Hurricane Allen caused $1.57 billion in losses and caused 290 deaths.


1980 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Four
The third tropical depression of the season developed east of Cape Verde on August 13. However, the National Hurricane Center did not initiate advisories until August 16. As a result, the system was classified as Tropical Depression Four. After forming on August 13, the depression crossed through the Cape Verde Islands. The depression tracked northwestward and strengthened minimally, with winds never exceeding 35 mph (55 km/h). Thereafter, the depression curved and approached the eastern portion of the Azores. Tropical Depression Four moved through the islands shortly later. By early on August 17, the depression dissipated near Santa Maria Island in the Azores.


1980 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Bonnie
Starting on August 13, a tropical wave in the vicinity of the Cape Verde began organizing into a tropical cyclone. Early on the following day, the system had developed into Tropical Depression Three while nearly halfway between the west coast of Africa and the Windward Islands. However, in post-analysis, it was revealed that the previous tropical depression had actually developed before Bonnie. Thus, those two depressions were operationally numbered incorrectly. Two reports of gale-force winds were received from ships later that day. As a result, the depression was re-classified as Tropical Storm Bonnie about twelve hours after developing. Bonnie turned in a general northward direction, possibly due to interaction with nearby Tropical Depression Four.


1980 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Bonnie
Based on satellite estimates, Bonnie was upgraded to a hurricane at 0000 UTC on August 16. The storm strengthened slightly further and attained its peak intensity with winds of 100 mph (155 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 975 mbar (28.8 inHg). After attaining peak intensity on August 16, Bonnie slowly weakened as it continued in an unusual northward direction. On the following day, Bonnie weakened slightly to a minimal Category 1 hurricane. The storm remained at that intensity for 72 hours as it accelerated northward across the open Atlantic. By 1800 UTC on August 19, Bonnie transitioned into an extratropical cyclone while almost halfway between the southern tip of Greenland and the Azores.


1980 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Charley
An extratropical low pressure system was centered over the Mid-Atlantic United States, though it tracked southeastward and emerged into the Atlantic on August 20. Later that day, satellite imagery indicated that a well-defined low-level circulation. As a result, it was determine that the system developed into a subtropical depression at 1200 UTC, while located about 150 miles (240 km) east-northeast of Hatteras, North Carolina. Initially, the depression tracked east-southeastward, though it curved east-northeastward by August 21. Shortly thereafter, the depression strengthened into a subtropical storm. By early on August 23, the storm had intensified and acquired enough tropical characteristics to be re-classified as Hurricane Charley.


1980 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Charley
At 1200 UTC on August 23, Charley attained its peak intensity with winds of 80 mph (130 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 989 mbar (29.2 inHg). Following peak intensity, Charley completed a cyclonic loop and began weakening as it headed almost due-east. Charley was downgraded to a tropical storm early on August 24. The storm continued eastward and by August 26, Charley became unidentifiable as it merged with an intense extratropical cyclone, while located about 790 miles (1,270 km) southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland. While a tropical cyclone, Charley produced rip currents along the Outer Banks of North Carolina, which drowned seven people.


1980 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Six
A tropical wave exited the west coast of Africa and emerged into the Atlantic Ocean on August 22. The system developed into Tropical Depression Six, while centered to the west of Cape Verde at 0000 UTC on August 25. The depression tracked westward with minimal intensification. By 1800 UTC on August 26, the depression reached 35 mph (55 km/h) and did not strengthen further. On the following day, the depression curved northwestward and slowly began to weaken. The depression degenerated into a tropical wave while well northeast of Puerto Rico on August 29. The remnants of Tropical Depression Six continued westward and interacted with a low-pressure system over Florida. Eventually, the system developed into Tropical Depression Eight on September 4, which later became Tropical Storm Danielle.