1985 Stockholm municipal election
The Stockholm municipal election of 1985 was held on 15 September 1985 concurrently with the 1985 Swedish parliamentary election. This election used a party-list proportional representation system to allocate the 101 seats of the Stockholm City Council (Stockholms stadsfullmäktige) amongst the various Swedish political parties. Voter turnout was 85.2%.


1985 Stockholm municipal election
The Swedish Centre Party received only 2.9% of the votes in this election, less than half of the 6.3% they received in 1982, and thus the Centre Party was not allocated any seats as a result of this election. This marks their first failure to achieve a mandate since they first entered the Stockholm City Council in 1966.


1985 Strabane District Council election
Elections to Strabane District Council were held on 15 May 1985 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 15 councillors.


1985 Strabane District Council election, Districts results, Derg
1985: 2 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Nationalist


1985 Strabane District Council election, Districts results, Glenelly
1985: 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin


1985 Strabane District Council election, Districts results, Mourne
1985: 2 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Nationalist


1985 Sudanese coup d'état
The 1985 Sudanese coup d'état was a military coup that occurred in Sudan on 6 April 1985. The coup was staged by a group of military officers and led by the Defense Minister and Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief, Field Marshal Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, against the government of President Gaafar Nimeiry.


1985 Sudanese coup d'état, Background
In 1983, President Gaafar Nimeiry declared all Sudan an Islamic state under Sharia law, including the non-Islamic majority southern part of the country. The Southern Sudan Autonomous Region was abolished on 5 June 1983, terminating the Addis Ababa Agreement of 1972, which ended the First Sudanese Civil War. This move directly initiated the Second Sudanese Civil War in 1983.


1985 Sudanese coup d'état, Coup
The Sudanese Armed Forces took control of the country on 6 April 1985 after more than a week of civil unrest, caused by increasing food prices and growing dissatisfaction with the government of President Nimeiry, who himself came to power in the 1969 coup d'état. Nimeiry was in the United States at the time of the coup.


1985 Sudanese coup d'état, Coup
The coup was announced over the radio. The radio studios in Omdurman were heavily guarded by soldiers, who withdrew only after the announcement was made.


1985 Sudanese coup d'état, Coup
Reportedly, there were two casualties during the coup, killed in a brief shootout as soldiers seized the state security headquarters in the capital Khartoum.


1985 Sudanese coup d'état, Coup, Announcements from the new government
In a military communique read on the radio on 7 April, Dahab claimed the military had seized control of the country because of "the worsening situation and the political crisis, which worsens continuously".


1985 Sudanese coup d'état, Coup, Announcements from the new government
In a later communique read on the Radio Omdurman, Dahab promised political, economic and social changes. He also guaranteed freedom for the press, political organizations and religious communities. In the same communique, Dahab also promised the opening of a "direct dialogue" with the rebels in the south (predominantly Christian and animist), and the achievement of national unity "within the framework of equality in rights and duties".


1985 Sudanese coup d'état, Coup, Announcements from the new government
Dahab had issued a seven-point program which dismissed President Nimeiry and his government, suspended the Constitution and the Parliament (Central People's Assembly), dissolved the governing SSU party and declared a "temporary" state of emergency and martial law. Dahab said that the military had seized control of the country for a limited period of time, and that power would be returned "back to the people" within six months.


1985 Sudanese coup d'état, Reactions
Following the announcement of the coup, tens of thousands of people poured into the streets of Khartoum, celebrating the coup. The red, green, white and black flag that Nimeiry made the flag of Sudan after the 1969 coup was pulled down by demonstrators; they also destroyed pictures of Nimeiry, including one in the reception area of the Khartoum Hilton Hotel.


1985 Sudanese coup d'état, Reactions
Shortly after the coup, Nimeiry left Washington, D.C. and arrived in Cairo. He was met at the Cairo International Airport by senior Egyptian officials (President Hosni Mubarak, Prime Minister Kamal Hassan Ali and Defense Minister Field Marshal Abd Al-Halim Abu-Ghazala). Initially intending to try to return to Khartoum, Nimeiry had been dissuaded from doing that by the pilot of his Boeing 707 presidential jet and by Mubarak, on the grounds that the trip would be too dangerous.


1985 Sudanese coup d'état, Reactions
While Egyptian officials said that they were "very concerned" about the situation, the new military government of Sudan was quickly recognized by the government of Libyan Arab Jamahiriya under Col. Muammar Gaddafi, a foe of pro-Western Nimeiry. Ba'athist Syria under the presidency of Hafez al-Assad also welcomed Nimeiry's ouster.


1985 Sugar Bowl
The 1985 Sugar Bowl was the 51st edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Tuesday, January 1. Part of the 1984–85 bowl game season, it matched the fifth-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers of the Big Eight Conference and the #11 LSU Tigers of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The teams had met two years earlier in the Orange Bowl. Favored Nebraska trailed early, but rallied to win 28–10.


1985 Sugar Bowl, Game summary
The game kicked off shortly after 7 p.m. CST, televised by ABC, at the same time as the Orange Bowl on NBC, which matched #2 Oklahoma and #4 Washington.


1985 Sugar Bowl, Game summary
In the first quarter, Ronnie Lewis kicked a 37-yard field goal to give LSU an early lead. In the second quarter, Tiger running back Dalton Hilliard scored on a two-yard touchdown run and LSU led 10–0. Nebraska quarterback Craig Sundberg threw a 31-yard touchdown pass to I-back Doug DuBose as Nebraska closed the gap to 10–7 at the half.


1985 Sugar Bowl, Game summary
In the third quarter, Sundberg scored on a nine-yard run to give the Huskers a 14–10 lead. In the fourth quarter, Sundberg threw touchdown passes of 24 and 17 yards to tight end Todd Frain as Nebraska won 28–10. For his four touchdowns (three passing, one rushing) Sundberg was named the game' MVP.


1985 Sugar Bowl, Aftermath
Nebraska climbed one spot to fourth in the final AP poll, and LSU fell to fifteenth.


1985 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
The 1985 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup was the second edition of field hockey tournament the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup.


1985 Summer 500
The 1985 Summer 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race that took place on July 21, 1985, at Pocono International Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania.


1985 Summer 500, Background
Pocono Raceway is one of six superspeedways to hold NASCAR races; the others are Daytona International Speedway, Michigan International Speedway, Auto Club Speedway, Indianapolis Motor Speedway ,and Talladega Superspeedway. The standard track at Pocono Raceway is a three-turn superspeedway that is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) long. The track's turns are banked differently; the first is banked at 14°, the second turn at 8° ,and the final turn with 6°. However, each of the three straightaways is banked at 2°.


1985 Summer 500, Race report
Two hundred laps were completed spanning 500 miles (800 km). David Pearson would lead the final two laps of his career at this race. In a racing-style that is reminiscent of the 1974 Daytona 500, this race had the most lead changes all season at only 36 compared to 75 in the 1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. Mike Stolarcyk would make his only NASCAR Winston Cup Series start at this event; he was from Whitney Point, New York. While Stolaryck started the race in 37th-place; he would only improve his finishing position to 32nd-place.


1985 Summer 500, Race report
The race took three hours and forty-two seconds to complete with Bill Elliott defeating Neil Bonnett by five seconds. There were six cautions for 24 laps. Bill Elliott won the pole with a qualifying speed of 151.973 miles per hour (244.577 km/h) while the average speed of the race was 134.008 miles per hour (215.665 km/h). Elliott's 1985 Thunderbird was the same size as Rudd's, Kyle Petty's and Cale's Thunderbirds. They all fit the 1985 Thunderbird NASCAR templates that were standard for the 1985 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season.


1985 Summer 500, Race report
Notable crew chiefs who participated in this race included Junie Donlavey, Robin Pemberton, Joey Arrington, Jake Elder, Waddell Wilson, Bud Moore, Harry Hyde, Kirk Shelmerdine and Darrell Bryant. The most dominant drivers in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series during the 1980s were Bill Elliott, Darrell Waltrip, Terry Labonte, Bobby Allison and Dale Earnhardt. Earnhardt blew up his vehicle after 11 laps during the course of the race, thus threatening his dominance of NASCAR during the 1985 season in favor of Bill Elliott and Darrell Waltrip.


1985 Summer 500, Race report
Geoff Bodine was the first driver to win the pole, but was stripped of his time shortly after first round qualifying for having illegal fuel. Darrell Waltrip would inherit the award but was stripped for using illegal fuel two weeks after the race was finished. Bill Elliott ended up getting the award instead. There were 40 drivers in the race; 39 of them were American-born while Trevor Boys was born in Canada.


1985 Summer 500, Race report
J.D. McDuffie would finish last due to an engine problem on lap 10. This would be one of three starts that year for J.D. McDuffie in a Ford, who rarely ran anything but GM products from 1972 onwards. Bill Elliott's win for Melling Racing would earn him $44,025 in total winnings ($105,935 when adjusted for inflation) while last-place finisher McDuffie would walk away with $2,675 for McDuffie Racing ($6,437 when adjusted for inflation).


1985 Summer 500, Race report, Qualifying
Failed to qualify: Steve Gray (racing driver), Mike Potter (#68), George Wiltshire, Bob Park (#19), Bill Scott (#53)


1985 Summer Deaflympics
The 1985 Summer Deaflympics, officially known as the 15th Summer Deaflympics, is an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from July 10 to July 20, 1985, in Los Angeles, California United States.


1985 Summer Universiade
The 1985 Summer Universiade, also known as the XIII Summer Universiade, took place in Kobe, Japan.


1985 Summer Universiade, Mascot
The mascot of the Kobe Universiade, "Unitan", designed by Osamu Tezuka, is a red-crested white crane, symbolic of Japan and a good omen. The name was chosen from some 8,000 suggestions received from throughout the country. The name is derived from a combination of 'uni' from 'Universiade' and 'tan' from the Japanese name for red-crested crane, namely 'tancho-tsuru'.


1985 Summer Universiade, Gender test
The sex chromatin test was used at these games to decide on participants' gender; Spanish hurdler Maria José Martínez-Patiño was declared a man and thus ruled ineligible for the women's events. In agreement with officials who suggested she fake an injury so she could withdraw without publicity, she complied. She later fought, successfully, to have that diagnosis reversed.


1985 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1985 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 1–3 at the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Virginia.


1985 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Top-seeded VCU defeated rival Old Dominion in the championship game, 87–82, to win their third Sun Belt men's basketball tournament.


1985 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The Rams, in turn, received an automatic bid to the 1985 NCAA Tournament. They were joined in the tournament by fellow Sun Belt members UAB and Old Dominion, both of whom received at-large bids.


1985 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
No changes were made to the tournament format. All eight conference members were placed into the initial quarterfinal round, and each team was seeded based on its regular season conference record.


1985 Sun Bowl
The 1985 Sun Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game between the Georgia Bulldogs and the Arizona Wildcats.


1985 Sun Bowl, Background
The Bulldogs finished 5th in the Southeastern Conference in their sixth straight bowl season and first Sun Bowl since 1969. The Wildcats finished tied for 2nd in the Pacific-10 Conference in their first bowl appearance since 1979 and first Sun Bowl since 1968.


1985 Sun Bowl, Game summary
Steve Crumley gave Georgia a 3-0 lead on his 37 yard field goal, though he re-injured a pulled muscle in his leg, keeping him out the rest of the game. Max Zendejas tied it on a 21 yard field goal to make it 3-3. Less than five minutes into the second half, Zendejas made it 6-3 on field goal from 51 yards out. Martin Rudolph returned an interception 35 yards for a touchdown to make it 13-6. Backup Davis Jacobs made it 13-6 on his 44 yard field goal with 13:20 left.


1985 Sun Bowl, Game summary
Running back James Debow fumbled the ball at the 23 to give the ball back to the Bulldogs with 12:35 remaining. Georgia would score three minutes later on a Lars Tate touchdown run. With 1:14 remaining, Jacobs missed a field goal from 44 yards to keep it 13-13. The Wildcats drove to the 22, calling timeout to set up a 39 yard attempt by Zendejas. However, his kick went wide, keeping the game a tie. Despite this, he was named MVP. This remains the final tie in Sun Bowl history (since 1996, games cannot end in a tie). Alfred Jenkins went 13-of-22 for 133 yards for Arizona. Tate went 71 yards on 22 carries for Georgia. Zendejas was named MVP on his 2 for 3 success in attempting field goals.


1985 Sun Bowl, Aftermath
The Wildcats went to the Aloha Bowl the following year, in Smith's last season with the team. Neither team has been to the Sun Bowl since this game.


1985 Sunkist WTA Championships
The 1985 Sunkist Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Championships was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Amelia Island Plantation on Amelia Island, Florida, United States. The tournament was part of the Category 4 tier of the 1985 WTA Tour. It was the sixth edition of the tournament and was held from April 15 through April 21, 1985. Zina Garrison won the singles title and earned $32,000 first-prize money.


1985 Sunkist WTA Championships, Finals, Doubles
Rosalyn Fairbank /  Hana Mandlíková defeated  Carling Bassett /  Chris Evert-Lloyd 6–1, 2–6, 6–2


1985 Super Bowl of Poker
The Super Bowl of Poker (also known as Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl of Poker or SBOP) was the second most prestigious poker tournament in the world during the 1980s. While the World Series of Poker was already drawing larger crowds as more and more amateurs sought it out, the SBOP "was an affair limited almost exclusively to pros and hard-core amateurs."


1985 Super Bowl of Poker
Prior to 1979, the only high dollar tournament a person could enter was the WSOP. 1972 WSOP Main Event Champion and outspoken ambassador for poker Amarillo Slim saw this as an opportunity. "The World Series of Poker was so successful that everybody wanted more than one tournament," he said. Slim called upon his connections and friendships with poker's elite to start a new tournament in the February 1979.


1985 Super Bowl of Poker
Before the SBOP had developed a reputation of its own, many of the most respected names in poker attended the tournament "more to support Slim and take advantage of the very fat cash games the event would obviously inspire." Slim modeled his SBOP after the WSOP with several events and a $10,000 Texas Hold'em Main Event.


1985 Super Bowl of Poker
One of the principal differences between the WSOP and the SBOP was the prize structure. The WSOP's prize structure was flat ensuring more people received smaller pieces of the prize pool. The SBOP typically used a 60-30-10 payout structure. In other words, only the first three places received money and generally in the ratio of 60% to first place, 30% to second place, and 10% to third. This payment schedule predominated the SBOP for the first 5 years of the event, but as the event grew the number of payouts increased while keeping the payout schedule top heavy.


1985 Super Bowl of Poker, 1985 Tournament
Poker Hall of Famers Chip Reese and Billy Baxter both made runs at various titles, but neither succeeded in winning their events. The only member to win a tournament that year was Johnny Chan in the $1,000 Omaha event. In order to win the title, he had to defeat two other Hall of Fame caliber players in Dewey Tomko who was inducted into the Hall in 2008 and 1993 recipient Jack Keller. Tomko went on to win the $5,000 Seven-Card Stud event.


1985 Supercopa de España
The 1985 Supercopa de España was a two-legged Spanish football match between Barcelona (winners of the league) and Atlético Madrid (cup winners); it was played on 9 October and 30 October 1985, with the latter team winning 3–2 on aggregate.


1985 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
The 1985 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira was the 7th edition of the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, the annual Portuguese football season-opening match contested by the winners of the previous season's top league and cup competitions (or cup runner-up in case the league- and cup-winning club is the same). The 1985 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira was contested over two legs, and opposed Benfica and Porto of the Primeira Liga. Porto qualified for the SuperCup by winning the 1984–85 Primeira Divisão, whilst Benfica qualified for the Supertaça by winning the 1984–85 Taça de Portugal.


1985 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
The first leg, which took place at the Estádio da Luz, saw Benfica defeat Porto 1–0. The second leg, which took place at the Estádio das Antas, saw a 0–0 scoreline (1–0 on aggregate), which granted the Águias a second Supertaça.


1985 Swedish Golf Tour
The 1985 Swedish Golf Tour was the second season of the Swedish Golf Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments held in Sweden.


1985 Swedish Golf Tour, Schedule
The season consisted of nine events played between May and September.


1985 Swedish Open
The 1985 Swedish Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts held in Båstad, Sweden and was part of the Grand Prix circuit of the 1985 Tour. It was the 38th edition of the tournament and was held from 15 July 15 until 21 July 1985. Mats Wilander won the singles title.


1985 Swedish Open, Finals, Doubles
Stefan Edberg /  Anders Järryd defeated  Sergio Casal /  Emilio Sánchez 6–0, 7–6.


1985 Swedish general election
General elections were held in Sweden on 15 September 1985. The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party in the Riksdag, winning 159 of the 349 seats. Its leader, Olof Palme, kept his position as Prime Minister. He would retain this position successfully until his assassination in 1986.


1985 Swedish general election, Campaign
At a campaign meeting in Sundsvall on 22 August, Minister of Social Welfare Sten Andersson promised to increase the state pensions as a compensation for the price increases following the devaluation of the krona in 1982. The Social Democrat (Socialdemokraterna) government also stressed that it had managed to decrease the budget deficit from 90 billion to 60 billion kronas. The Social Democrats also promised not to increase taxes or lower the quality of the welfare system.


1985 Swedish general election, Campaign
The Centre Party had a technical cooperation with the Christian Democrats. The Christian Democrats always received fewer votes than the 4% threshold for gaining seats to the Riksdag. The cooperation was criticized within the Centre Party. The aim was for both parties to gain votes, but in the end the Centre Party's share of the votes decreased in comparison to the previous election in 1982. The Christian Democrats only gained one seat in parliament for its leader, Alf Svensson.


1985 Swedish general election, Campaign
The political debate was dominated by the Moderate Party and the Social Democrats. In January 1985, the Moderate Party had proposed in parliament a detailed plan with tax cuts and cuts in spending. The Social Democrats' leader Olof Palme managed to turn this against the Moderate Party by repeating the negative effects this would have on junior soccer teams. The Moderate Party was supported by 30 percent in an opinion poll by SIFO in June 1985,  but its support decreased during the campaign.


1985 Swedish general election, Campaign
The Liberal People's Party had chosen Bengt Westerberg as its party leader in October 1983; he had had trouble getting his message through, not least because of the party's small size in parliament and its only receiving 5.9 percent support in the 1982 election. However, in August Westerberg became viewed by the public as a calm and honest politician, in comparison to the constantly arguing Adelsohn and Palme. The Liberal People's Party was the big winner of the 1985 election, increasing its support to 14.2 percent.


1985 Swedish general election, Results
The Centre Party and Christian Democratic Unity (CDU) ran a joint list known as Centre. One CDU candidate was elected on the Centre list, the first time the party had had parliamentary representation.


1985 Swedish general election, Results by municipality
Votes by municipality. The municipalities are the color of the party that got the most votes within the coalition that won relative majority.


1985 Swedish general election, Results by municipality
Cartogram of the map to the left with each municipality rescaled to the number of valid votes cast.


1985 Swedish general election, Results by municipality
Map showing the voting shifts from the 1982 to the 1985 election. Darker blue indicates a municipality voted more towards the parties that formed the centre-right bloc. Darker red indicates a municipality voted more towards the parties that form the left-wing bloc.


1985 Swedish general election, Results by municipality
Votes by municipality as a scale from red/Left-wing bloc to blue/Centre-right bloc.


1985 Swedish general election, Results by municipality
Cartogram of vote with each municipality rescaled in proportion to number of valid votes cast. Deeper blue represents a relative majority for the centre-right coalition, brighter red represents a relative majority for the left-wing coalition.


1985 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1985 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix was the eleventh round of the 1985 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 9–11 August at the Scandinavian Raceway.


1985 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix
This was the last victory for the American Freddie Spencer.


1985 Swiss Indoors
The 1985 Swiss Indoors was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland that was part of the 1985 Nabisco Grand Prix. It was the 16th edition of the tournament and was held from 14 October through 21 October 1985. Second-seeded Stefan Edberg won the singles title.


1985 Swiss Indoors, Finals, Doubles
Tim Gullikson /  Tom Gullikson defeated  Mark Dickson /  Tim Wilkison 4–6, 6–4, 6–4


1985 Swiss referendums
Twelve referendums were held in Switzerland in 1985. The first four were held on 10 March on abolishing primary school fees (approved), abolishing the government contribution to healthcare spending (approved), a federal resolution on education fees (rejected) and a popular initiative on extending paid leave (rejected). The next set of four was held on 9 June on the "right to life" popular initiative (rejected), abolishing the cantonal share of profits from banks' stamp duty (approved), a federal resolution on the taxation raised from the sale of spirits (approved), and the abolition of grants for the self-supply of breadstuffs (approved).


1985 Swiss referendums
A further three referendums were held on 22 September on a popular initiative to co-ordinate the start of the school year (approved), a federal resolution on giving small and medium enterprises an advantage in cases on innovations (rejected), and amendments to the Swiss Civil Code (approved). The final referendum was held on 1 December on a popular initiative to ban vivisection, which was rejected.


1985 Syracuse Orangemen football team
The 1985 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University during the 1985 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was led by fifth-year head coach Dick MacPherson and played their home games in the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, New York. Syracuse finished with a 7–5 record and played in the 1985 Cherry Bowl against Maryland, where they lost, 18–35.


1985 Syracuse Orangemen football team
Notable players included Tim Green, who earned unanimous All-American honors at defensive tackle and was a finalist for the Lombardi Award. Green was drafted 17th overall in the 1986 NFL Draft, ending his career at Syracuse as the school's all-time leader in sacks with 45.5, a record that he still owns.


1985 Syrian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Syria on 10 February 1985. There was only one candidate, Hafez al-Assad, with voters asked to approve or reject his candidacy. A reported 99.99% of voters voted in favour, with a turnout of 94.5%.


1985 São Paulo FC season
The 1985 season was São Paulo's 56th season since club's existence.


1985 São Toméan legislative election
Parliamentary elections were held in São Tomé and Príncipe on 30 September 1985. The country was a one-party state at the time, with the Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe as the sole legal party. It therefore won all 51 seats in the National People's Assembly. Members of the Assembly were elected by the People's District Assemblies, which had been directly elected between 16 and 20 August.


1985 TAAC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1985 Trans America Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament (now known as the Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball Tournament) was held March 2–4 at Hanner Fieldhouse in Statesboro, Georgia.


1985 TAAC Men's Basketball Tournament
Mercer defeated Arkansas–Little Rock in the championship game, 105–96, to win their second TAAC/Atlantic Sun men's basketball tournament. The Bears, therefore, received an automatic bid to the 1985 NCAA Tournament.


1985 TAAC Men's Basketball Tournament
Nicholls State and Northwestern State departed the TAAC for the Southland Conference prior to the season, keeping the total membership of the conference at eight. In turn, this was Georgia State's first TAAC tournament.


1985 TANFL season
The 1985 Tasmanian Australian National Football League (TANFL) premiership season was an Australian rules football competition staged in Hobart, Tasmania over twenty roster rounds and four finals series matches between 30 March and 21 September 1985. The League was known as the Winfield League under a commercial naming-rights sponsorship agreement with Winfield tobacco company and was to be the final season of the original TANFL (as it had been known since 1928) with the competition switching from a regional to statewide format from 1986. The TANFL was also the governing body of the sport within Tasmania and it was liquidated in January 1986 to form the TFL Statewide League.


1985 TANFL season, Roster Season, Round 16
Glenorchy 29.17 (191) v New Norfolk 14.5 (89) - Att: 2,136 at KGV Football Park


1985 TANFL season, Roster Season, Round 17
Note: Wayne Fox (New Norfolk) kicks his 100th goal for the season.


1985 TCU Horned Frogs football team
The 1985 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University (TCU) in the 1985 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Horned Frogs finished the season 3–8 overall and 0–8 in the Southwest Conference. The team was coached by Jim Wacker, in his third year as head coach. The Frogs played their home games in Amon G. Carter Stadium, which is located on campus in Fort Worth, Texas.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season
The 1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season was the franchise's 9th season in the National Football League the 9th playing their home games at Tampa Stadium and the 1st season under head coach Leeman Bennett. The team failed to improve on a 6-10 season. And once again finishing at 2-14, their worst since 1983.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season
In week 1, Tampa Bay held a 28-17 halftime lead over the eventual Super Bowl winners the Chicago Bears. In fact, both games vs the Bears provided Tampa Bay halftime leads. Young won his first start against the Detroit Lions before the losses started to pile on, including playing in a foot of snow in Green Bay. The Buccaneers failed to improve on their 6-10 record, and finished 2-14, the worst in the NFL. The Bucs lost their first 9 games before shutting out the Cardinals at home 16-0 to finally get in the win column.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season
One week later, the Buccaneers were humiliated, 62-28, in New York by the Jets. The 62 points allowed during the game were the most points allowed by any team during the 1980s and are the most allowed in franchise history. After a win in overtime against the Lions, the Buccaneers would then lose 3 straight games to end the season.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, The Hiring of Leeman Bennett
Former Atlanta Falcons coach Leeman Bennett was named by owner Hugh Culverhouse as the replacement for retired head coach John McKay. Other candidates interviewed included Buccaneer defensive coordinator Wayne Fontes, Seattle Seahawks defensive coordinator Tom Catlin, former Michigan Panthers head coach Jim Stanley, former New England Patriots head coach Ron Meyer, Washington Redskins quarterback coach Jerry Rhome, former Pittsburgh Steelers defensive coordinator Bud Carson, and former Florida Gators coach Charley Pell. Bennett was an unexpected choice, as Fontes had long been considered to be the leading candidate and had the near-unanimous support of the players and existing staff.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, The Hiring of Leeman Bennett
Culverhouse almost gave Fontes the job without conducting an interview process, before having second thoughts and soliciting recommendations from McKay, Tex Schramm, and Dan Rooney. Described as "heartbroken", Fontes learned while attending a scouting combine in Arizona that he had been passed over for the job. Bennett indicated that nobody who had been a candidate for the head coaching job would be hired as an assistant, ending speculation that he might retain Fontes or bring in his former assistant Jim Stanley. Fontes eventually accepted the defensive coordinator position with the Detroit Lions.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, The Hiring of Leeman Bennett
Bennett had served as the Los Angeles Rams' offensive coordinator under Chuck Knox before taking the Falcons job, where he became the only coach to lead that franchise to the playoffs. He did so three times, and was fired after their third playoff appearance, when the owners felt that a change was necessary in order for the Falcons to advance further. The Falcons finished in last place in the NFC West in both of the years following Bennett's firing.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, The Hiring of Leeman Bennett
Twice named NFC Coach of the Year, Bennett was well respected as a coach, with the only knock against him being a reputation as possibly "too nice". Although Bennett was one of the candidates recommended by McKay, his easygoing style was considered to be a complete opposite to McKay. He vowed to keep the 3–4 defensive alignment with which Tampa Bay had been so successful, and said that the team would be a playoff contender in 1985. He believed that they had a good nucleus of players, although he admitted to knowing little about their personnel.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, The Hiring of Leeman Bennett
Jerry Glanville, the coordinator of the league-leading 1977 Falcons defense, indicated that he would be unavailable due to his contractual ties to the Houston Oilers. The offensive coordinator position was filled by Jimmy Raye, a former Bennett assistant who had been holding the same position with the Rams. Offensive line coach Kim Helton and linebackers coach Howard Tippett were the only assistants to be retained by the new regime. Rams assistant Vic Rapp was brought in as the running backs coach. Former Michigan Panthers defensive coordinator Dick Roach was brought in as the defensive backfield coach. Longtime trainer Tom Oxley was replaced by former Falcon trainer Jay Shoop.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, Personnel Moves
Although he and Jimmie Giles had been hoping that the staff turnover would restore their playing time, Richard Wood was not re-signed. Maurice Harvey and Jeff Komlo were also released. Re -signed were: Michael Morton, Adger Armstrong, Leon Bright, Cedric Brown, Robert Thompson and Glenn Bujnoch. Morton eventually rejected his contract offer, and signed with the Washington Redskins. Vagas Ferguson, a former star running back at Notre Dame and a one-time 1st-round draft choice of the New England Patriots, was signed as a free agent.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, NFL Draft
This was the first time in three years that the Buccaneers held a first-round pick on draft day, and they indicated that they needed much defensive help. The defensive line and linebacker positions lacked depth, and the secondary was aging. Of the three premier defensive ends available, Bruce Smith had already been signed by the Buffalo Bills, who held the first overall choice, and Ray Childress was expected to be taken by the Houston Oilers, leaving University of Washington defensive end Ron Holmes as Tampa Bay's most likely selection with the eighth overall pick. Director of player personnel Jim Gruden described his as having the combination of size and speed, versatility, and a productive college career that the Buccaneers desired.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, NFL Draft
The Buccaneers' 2nd-round pick went to the Denver Broncos as part of the trade for Steve DeBerg. Their 5th-round pick went to the New York Jets for running back Scott Dierking. Their 6th-round pick was traded to the Cincinnati Bengals for tackle Don Swafford. The second 12-round pick came from the Los Angeles Rams in exchange for defensive end Booker Reese.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, NFL Draft, Draft Selections
Holmes was chosen over Eddie Brown, who was not expected to have been available with the eighth-overall pick. Bennett decided that, with the passing game already performing well, it was more important to select for defense. The Buccaneers envisioned Holmes as a starting end, opposite of Lee Roy Selmon and with Dave Logan at nose tackle. Holmes was named first-team All-America by five different organizations, and was once much-coveted by Memphis State and DePaul as a basketball recruit. Ervin Randle was a versatile linebacker who had also played defensive end and nose tackle at Baylor.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, NFL Draft, Draft Selections
Mike Heaven, a Delray Beach, Florida, native, was a defensive back who was expected to provide immediate help to a secondary that had aging safeties and struggling young cornerbacks. Likewise, Mike Prior was the Missouri Valley Conference career leader in interceptions as well as a former Baltimore Orioles draftee. He turned down a contract offer from the Los Angeles Dodgers to sign with Tampa Bay. Phil Freeman was the University of Arizona starting tailback until suffering a broken leg in 1982, but was projected as a wide receiver with what Bennett called "rare speed".


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, NFL Draft, Draft Selections
Steve Calabria was the leading quarterback in Colgate history, with a strong arm and the ability to throw while rolling out. He claimed to already have signed a letter of agreement with Tampa Bay Bandits owner John Bassett, although it was unclear whether the Bandits would still be in existence, or whether they would be part of the USFL or part of a new spring league that Bassett was proposing. Calabria had been expected to be drafted as high as the fourth round, until rumors of his USFL agreement (which the Buccaneers were unaware of) began to circulate.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, NFL Draft, Draft Selections
By the time the ailing Bassett released Calabria from his contract, mini-camp was already over, and he was unprepared for preseason competition. Donald Igwebuike was a soccer player who tried football at the encouragement of his fellow Nigerian and Clemson teammate Obed Ariri, against whom he would now be competing for the kicking job. James Melka was a second-team All-Big Ten selection at linebacker who had been expected to be drafted much higher than the twelfth round.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, NFL Draft, Draft Selections
The team followed the draft by signing 22 free agents, including Southern tight end Calvin Magee, LSU quarterback Alan Risher, and cornerback Irvin Phillips, who had been obtained via trade from the Los Angeles Raiders the previous year, but had been waived after failing a physical.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, Steroid Controversy
Guard Steve Courson was unable to participate in a team mini-camp due to a heart rate of 160. Attributing this to his heavy use of anabolic steroids, he quit using them, and detailed his experience in a Sports Illustrated article. He later stated that he did not believe that steroid use was really as rampant as he indicated in the article, in which he estimated that 75% of NFL linemen use steroids and 95% have tried them, and alleged that amphetamine use was also common.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, Steroid Controversy
He said that he began using them in an attempt to gain strength, to avoid being dominated by larger defensive linemen in the NFL and at the University of South Carolina. He did not name any other players who used them, other than to say that Rocky Bleier had publicly admitted to it. Former trainer Tom Oxley estimated that the team had three to six steroid users in any given year, and that most were linemen.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, Steroid Controversy
Oxley said that the team did not provide steroids to players, but that the team medical staff had almost prescribed them to Doug Williams to maintain weight when a 1978 broken jaw left him unable to eat. The article touched off controversy, as numerous players denied its allegations. Steroid use was at the time discouraged, though not prohibited, by the NFL.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, Steve Young
The Los Angeles Express of the United States Football League had been operating without an owner since the previous fall, and speculation began to be raised in April that the team might be disbanded. The Buccaneers had acquired the NFL rights to Express quarterback Steve Young in a special draft held the previous spring. With the franchise struggling financially, agent Leigh Steinberg said that a delay in payments to Young's annuity voided his contract with the team, and USFL Commissioner Harry Usher granted Young permission to negotiate with an NFL team.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, Steve Young
Usher indicated that if Young were to change teams, his contract would need to be bought out. The Buccaneers expressed reservations, as they were unsure of Young's physical condition due to the beating he'd taken over the past year with the Express. Negotiations intensified toward the end of preseason, with the major sticking points being the $1.5 million repayment the USFL demanded on the remaining two years of Young's contract, and the requirement that Young clear USFL waivers.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, Steve Young
Steinberg was able to renegotiate the payment with the USFL, and Young signed a series of six one-year contracts with the Buccaneers on September 10. The financial details were not disclosed, but Steinberg said that Young's contract was comparable to those of John Elway, Warren Moon, and Bernie Kosar, who were all paid roughly $1 million per year. A star at BYU, Young would have been the first overall pick in the 1984 draft, but instead signed a 40-year (due to much of the payment being in the form of annuities), $43 million contract with the Express.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Offseason, Steve Young
Young had a sub-par 1985 season in Los Angeles, but was still able to complete over 50% of his passes while playing behind an injury-riddled offensive line. Bennett indicated that the team would be content to bring Young along slowly, and that he would serve as DeBerg's backup for at least the time being. The signing put an end to the team's interest in veteran quarterback Jim Zorn.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Preseason, Defensive end problems
A soreness in Lee Roy Selmon's back that became apparent shortly after the Pro Bowl was originally thought to be a muscular injury, but turned out to be a herniated disc. With uncertainty over how to treat the injury or whether he would ever recover enough to be able to play again, Selmon postponed any decisions about his future plans and was lost to the team for the season. This meant that instead of Selmon and Ron Holmes playing as bookend pass-rushers, Holmes would now become Selmon's replacement.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Preseason, Defensive end problems
However, contract negotiations went so slowly that Holmes' agent, Leigh Steinberg, began to question whether the team had any intention of signing him, to the point that he asked negotiator Phil Krueger if they intended to trade him. Holmes was eventually signed after a two-week holdout, which caused him to miss much practice time. Selmon eventually chose non-surgical rehabilitation for his back, although he would consider the microsurgery recommended by the team, but only as a last resort.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Preseason, Defensive end problems
The other two remaining original Buccaneers joined Selmon on the injured list during the preseason. Steve Wilson suffered a broken leg in a preseason game against the Washington Redskins, which left Redskins safety Curtis Jordan as the only remaining original Buccaneer active in the NFL. Safety Mark Cotney had earlier suffered two broken neck vertebrae while trying to tackle Gerald Riggs during an earlier game against the Falcons. Former Michigan Panthers All-USFL safety David Greenwood was signed to add depth after Cotney's injury, and wound up as the opening-day starter at strong safety.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Preseason, Preseason play
Although preseason games had no importance in the standings, Bennett spoke of the importance of setting a winning tone for the season. Bennett had to abandon his plans of using a two-back offense, due to a lack of any quality running backs other than James Wilder Sr. With no second running back standing out in practice, he instead chose to use a single-back offense that would enable tight ends Jimmie Giles and Jerry Bell to be on the field at the same time.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Preseason, Preseason play
The team was not able to find a reliable backup to Wilder until the early-season signing of former Dallas Cowboys fullback Ron Springs. Problems with the pass defense were exposed in the first preseason game, in which the reserves turned a 20–0 lead into a 42–27 defeat. Bennett expressed concern over the lack of a pass rush, and the way that Steelers receivers were able to jump inside of Buccaneer defenders on slant routes. Pittsburgh third-string quarterback Scott Campbell connected twice with Weegie Thompson for touchdowns on such routes, once burning Anthony Washington for 34 yards.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Preseason, Preseason play
Ron Holmes debuted in the following week's loss to Atlanta, although the pass defense saw little improvement. The special teams performed well, but quarterback Jack Thompson struggled in his attempt to reclaim the starting job. The team's first win under Bennett came in New Orleans, the site of the franchise's first victory. The defense played better, while DeBerg led the team on two long touchdown drives. By the end of preseason, Bennett began to back off of his original assessment of the team as a playoff contender, with linebacker being the only position on the team he expressed confidence in. He was uncharacteristically silent following the final preseason game, a 20–7 loss to the Washington Redskins that was marked by a dismal offensive effort.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Preseason, Preseason personnel moves
Gene Sanders, the offensive tackle who had shouldered much of the criticism for the offensive line's performance in recent seasons, was moved to Steve Courson's guard spot. Ken Kaplan took Sanders' place, with Courson still in contention for the starting guard spot. Needing depth in the secondary, the team traded former starting right tackle Kelly Thomas to the Redskins in return for Anthony Washington, the starting cornerback in Super Bowl XVIII; and sent an eighth-round draft pick to the Rams for safety Ivory Sully, conditional on his making the team.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Preseason, Preseason personnel moves
Sully was a Pro Bowl alternate as a special teams player, but had been unable to break into the starting lineup, playing behind Nolan Cromwell and Johnnie Johnson. He became one of the team's opening-day starters, originally slated at strong safety, but moved over to free safety with the signing of David Greenwood. Jay Carroll, a tight end who had played in all 16 games as a rookie in 1984, announced his retirement from football, as did backup fullback Scott Dierking.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Preseason, Preseason personnel moves
Fourth-round draft pick Mike Heaven, who was having difficulty with the transition to strong safety, was released with the second round of cuts. The cut to sixty players saw Cedric Brown, the team's all-time leader in interceptions, released. Numerous players who had been expected to contend, or even to have the inside track for starting jobs, were released at the end of preseason.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Preseason, Preseason personnel moves
These included team kicking leader Obed Ariri, beaten out by childhood friend Donald Igwebuike, to whom Ariri had introduced the sport of football; defensive end Byron Braggs, who had been considered a candidate for the starting right defensive end spot until his lack of pass rush became a liability; preseason starters Glenn Bujnoch and Danny Spradlin; Fred Acorn, a third-round selection the previous year who had started some late-season games; and Anthony Washington, a speedy and experienced player who nonetheless failed to live up to expectations. Jack Thompson, the previous season's opening-day starting quarterback, and starting safety Beasley Reece were also released.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season
Bennett said that, given the Buccaneers' record over the past two seasons, it was "automatically a rebuilding year". The squad began play as a young team, with 17 players who had not been there the previous year, and ten of the previous year's opening-day starters out of the starting lineup. The season began with a second-half collapse in a loss to the Chicago Bears, in which Bennett noted a lack of concentration and attention to detail.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season
He admitted to being unable to explain the reason for the large number of errors, which in the first two games alone included 20 penalties, 4 interceptions (two returned for touchdowns), 3 fumbles, 2 blocked punts (one returned for a touchdown), and a missed extra-point and field goal attempt. Special teams coach Howard Tippett pointed out that the Buccaneers weren't making any mistakes that other teams didn't, but that the Buccaneer mistakes tended to get magnified and repeated. Linebacker Chris Washington attributed the defense's problems to a young, inexperienced team trying to learn a new system.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season
Even as the losses mounted, opponents reported surprise, both from studying game films and playing the team on the field, at the Buccaneers' record. The Buccaneers frequently held halftime leads and lost by a touchdown or less; through the first 9 games, they were outscored 77–17 in the third quarter. In one game, Jimmie Giles was congratulated despite having turned over the ball by fumbling, because the 44-yard reception that preceded the fumble was a rare example of a player making something happen in the third quarter.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Off-field problems
The early season was marked by off-the-field problems with players. Hugh Green had told Jeff Davis on the first day of practice that the new defense wasn't going to work. As the season began, he became critical of the defensive schemes, saying that they were not "molded to the individual talents of the players", and that he was just "trying to survive this season". He then walked out of camp for a day. It came to light that this had occurred regularly over the past four seasons, but that John McKay had kept the matter away from the press.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Off-field problems
Seeing Green's attitude as a negative influence on the team, and unsure of why Green was unhappy, Bennett traded him to the Miami Dolphins for their 1986 first-round draft choice, and the second-round pick obtained from Minnesota in the Anthony Carter trade. Team owner Hugh Culverhouse also required Green to repay $335,000 of the signing bonus from his 1984 two-year contract, which was believed to be the first such buyout in NFL history. The trade was thought to be the Dolphins' biggest-ever trade for a defensive player, with Green considered to be second-only to Lawrence Taylor as an NFL linebacker. Green's disgruntlement was attributed to a combination of the team's losing record, and the new defensive scheme that did not give him the opportunity to freelance. The trade put Keith Browner back into the starting lineup, despite Bennett's criticism of his lack of effort.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Off-field problems
Meanwhile, former Dallas Cowboys fullback Ron Springs was offered a contract on the very day that a Dallas police officer testified that she believed him to have been on drugs the night that he was arrested for aggravated assault on a police officer at a Dallas-area topless nightclub. He was eventually sentenced on the reduced charge of resisting arrest, following a trial marked by character testimony from Springs' teammates. Shortly afterward, it was revealed that Springs was one of several Cowboys players under investigation by the NFL and the FBI, for suspicion of shaving points in return for cocaine. The FBI eventually concluded that there was no basis to the allegations.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Quarterback controversy
As the loss column incremented, fans began to clamor for Steve Young. Bennett insisted that he would not play Young until he felt that he was ready, and at one point was booed for inserting Alan Risher into a game as Steve DeBerg's replacement. While DeBerg's statistics were not bad, he had difficulty completing long passes, even though receivers Kevin House and Gerald Carter had combined for the third-most catches of any receiving duo in the NFL the previous year.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Quarterback controversy
Although Bennett insisted that the timing was unrelated, Young's first start was announced one day after one of the team's worst-ever losses, a 62–28 blowout against the New York Jets. Bennett said that he felt comfortable enough with Young's progress to give him the start, but Young admitted to having taken only "10 or 12" snaps in practice, and had never run any of the Buccaneers' plays. Starting behind an injury-battered offensive line against a blitzing Detroit Lions team, Young struggled for three quarters before rallying the team for a victory. Although Young's statistics were not especially impressive, Bennett noted that he had little practice time and no training camp, and that he performed well enough through his first three starts that Bennett would consider modifying the next season's offense to take better advantage of Young's abilities.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Snow Bowl
The Snow Bowl was played on December 1, 1985, against the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The game was played in a record snowfall, with a foot of snow on the field, and four more inches falling during the game. It was nearly delayed, as the tarp protecting the field was frozen to the ground, and could not be removed until shortly before kickoff. The 35-mph wind produced a wind-chill factor of zero.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Snow Bowl
According to an employee who had been to every Packer home game in their history, it was the worst weather ever at Lambeau Field. The attendance of 19,856, and the 36,586 unused tickets, were the lowest in both Buccaneer and Lambeau Field history. The Packers gained 512 yards to the Buccaneers' 65, as Tampa Bay lost their 18th consecutive road game.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Snow Bowl
Speaking after the season of the team's future plans, Bennett would not immediately say how the next year's first-round pick would be spent, but offered that he'd seen enough of the team's one-back offense that featured Wilder and no supporting players. John McKay announced that he would step down as team president, though he would maintain a part-time advisory role with the team.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 1: at Chicago Bears
The Buccaneers scored a team-record 28 first-half points against the Bears' defense, which had been ranked first in the league the previous season. James Wilder's 105 first-half rushing yards was higher than the average the 1984 Bears had allowed per game. The Bears got no sacks, and Steve DeBerg was able to complete eight passes for three touchdowns, repeatedly able to fool the Bears with fake handoffs. After halftime adjustments, the Bears held the Buccaneers scoreless for the remainder of the game, while scoring three touchdowns to take the lead.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 1: at Chicago Bears
The turning point of the game was considered by Bennett to be a DeBerg pass that was deflected by Richard Dent, and returned by Leslie Frazier for a touchdown. The Bears clinched the game when a blocked punt led to a 1-yard Jim McMahon touchdown run. Phil Freeman returned a kickoff 58 yards, the longest in Buccaneer history. Walter Payton rushed for 120 yards, his 64th career 100-yard rushing game. On-field temperatures were recorded at 121 degrees.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs Minnesota Vikings
The Minnesota Vikings took advantage of Buccaneer turnovers; intercepting Steve DeBerg twice, recovering two James Wilder fumbles, and blocking a punt. Joey Browner returned one of the interceptions for a touchdown, and the blocked punt set up a 1-yard Alfred Anderson touchdown run. Wilder rushed for 113 yards and a touchdown, while catching 13 passes for 71 yards.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 3: at New Orleans Saints
Sep 22, 1985 at the Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 3: at New Orleans Saints
Preparing for a matchup between two 0–2 teams, a New Orleans radio station invited a voodoo priestess to hold an on-air ritual to remove the hex that had prevented the team from having a winning season in any of its 18 years. Three New Orleans offensive linemen suffered injuries in a 12-minute span, but Dave Wilson was still able to pass for 246 yards, and touchdowns to tight ends Hoby Brenner and Larry Hardy. Morten Andersen contributed two field goals, while Terry Hoage forced a James Wilder fumble and intercepted a Steve DeBerg pass. Wilder's 114 yards left him as the NFL's leading rusher, and through three games the only Buccaneer running back with a carry.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 4: at Detroit Lions
The Buccaneers were held without a touchdown for the first time in 21 games, despite two first-and-goal situations inside the Lions' five-yard line. The first resulted in a field goal which gave them only their second lead of the season. The Buccaneers committed three fumbles, while allowing 315 yards to the Lions' 27th-ranked offense. Buccaneer pass-rushers got four sacks, almost as many as their total in the first three games, but the secondary was victimized for numerous big plays. Karl Morgan forced Eric Hipple to fumble on one of his two sacks, while Dave Logan and Hugh Green also got to Hipple. Mark Nichols beat Jeremiah Castille twice for touchdowns.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs Chicago Bears
The Buccaneers were unable to obtain a victory over the Chicago Bears, despite holding a lead in a dominant first half against what was widely considered to be the best team in football, and lackluster games from Jim McMahon and the Bears' defense. The Bears held James Wilder to 29 yards, preventing him from tying an NFL record by joining O. J. Simpson and Earl Campbell as the only backs with seven consecutive 100-yard rushing games. In doing so, they allowed Steve DeBerg to have his best passing day as a Buccaneer, with 346 yards.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs Chicago Bears
Jimmie Giles and Kevin House both had over 100 yards receiving. Giles' 112 yards came on 7 catches, his career high. The game was sealed with a daring, late-game bomb to Willie Gault that set up a 9-yard Walter Payton touchdown run. Payton scored his 100th and 101st touchdowns, making him the sixth NFL player to reach the 100-touchdown mark. It was the Bears' sixth consecutive victory over Tampa Bay.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs Los Angeles Rams
For the second consecutive week, the Buccaneers lost, despite holding a halftime lead against an unbeaten team. The Buccaneers' defense played well in their first game without Hugh Green, and they recovered three Ram fumbles in the first half. The Rams also committed eight first-half penalties. In the second half, LeRoy Irvin and Carl Ekern returned interceptions for touchdowns to edge past the Buccaneers. DeBerg's four interceptions gave him a season total of 13, the most in the NFL.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 7: at Miami Dolphins
For the third week in a row, the Buccaneers suffered a close loss to one of the NFL's best teams. This time, it was a final-period rally in which the Buccaneers outscored the Dolphins 17–3. Don Shula said of Jimmie Giles, "I can't remember any other tight end dominating us that way", after Giles caught 7 passes for 116 yards and 4 touchdowns against the Dolphins' man-to-man coverage. Giles' 4 touchdowns and 24 points scored remain, as of 2010, the all-time Tampa Bay records. James Wilder evaded Hugh Green on Tampa Bay's first touchdown, a 10-yard run.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 7: at Miami Dolphins
Green reported playing "the worst game of my career" and feeling lost in Miami's defensive scheme, although he produced the Dolphins' only interception of the day. With starting linebackers Jeff Davis and Scot Brantley out with injuries, and Green no longer with the team, the Buccaneers were defenseless against the Dolphins' attack. Fuad Reveiz scored the winning field goal with 6 seconds remaining. The loss, combined with an Atlanta Falcons victory, left the Buccaneers as the league's only winless team at 0–7.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs New England Patriots
The Buccaneers took a 14–0 lead on a 1-yard James Wilder run, but barely crossed midfield for the rest of the game. Wilder's touchdown was his 33rd and gave him 198 career points, which made him the franchise scoring leader ahead of Bill Capece, with 196. Injuries were again a problem, with starting linebackers Brantley and Davis leaving the game for the second week in a row, along with starting tackle George Yarno and kick returner Leon Bright. Bright's knee injury required surgery. Injured guard Sean Farrell did not play at all. The game eliminated the Buccaneers from the NFC Central Division race, and had the second-smallest home attendance in team history, 34,661.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 9: at New York Giants
Nov. 3, 1985 at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 9: at New York Giants
Freshly signed kicker Eric Schubert kicked five field goals to help the highly favored New York Giants to edge past the Buccaneers. Four times, the Giants had possession of the ball in the red zone, but were held to field goals. Heavy Buccaneer blitzes failed to stop Joe Morris from rushing for 132 yards, making Morris the first Giant in two years to have consecutive 100-yard games.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 9: at New York Giants
A last-minute rally appeared to have brought the Buccaneers in position to attempt a game-winning field goal, but a holding penalty on Sean Farrell erased Adger Armstrong's reception at the Giants' 38-yard line, and Terry Kinard intercepted a DeBerg pass on the next play. Farrell criticized the call at the time, but Bennett later confirmed that it was correct, although he questioned why the only holding penalty of the entire game would be called in that situation. Craig Curry started at safety, leaving David Greenwood on the bench. U-back (a second tight end position) Jerry Bell suffered a season-ending knee injury. His backup, Calvin Magee, also went out with an injured knee, although it didn't require immediate surgery.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. St. Louis Cardinals
Donald Igwebuike kicked three field goals as the Buccaneers recorded their first victory under Leeman Bennett. James Wilder rushed for 120 yards, while Steve DeBerg passed for 196 yards and a touchdown to Adger Armstrong. The Cardinals' offense was ineffective without injured starters Ottis Anderson and Roy Green. It was the Buccaneers' first shutout since their division-clinching 3–0 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs on Dec. 16, 1979. The game was attended by a crowd of 34,736, the third-smallest in team history. Players afterward expressed relief, rather than joy, at getting their first win. Igwebuike, Wilder, and David Logan were presented with game balls after the game, the first ever awarded by the Buccaneers.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 11: at New York Jets
Nov. 17, 1985 at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 11: at New York Jets
After the Buccaneers took a 14–0 lead on a recovery of a Ken O'Brien fumble and Steve DeBerg touchdown passes to Kevin House and Calvin Magee, the Jets' offense caught fire, scoring a team-record 62 points. Players afterward denied that they were thinking about revenge for the previous season's "Buc Flop" incident, in which James Wilder was approaching an NFL record, and the Buccaneer defense allowed the Jets to score a touchdown in an attempt to get the ball back so that Wilder could get more carries. O'Brien passed for 367 yards and 5 touchdowns, with Al Toon catching 6 of his passes for 133 yards. Mickey Shuler tied a Jets record with three touchdown receptions. Jeremiah Castille intercepted an O'Brien pass, but then fumbled it back to Wesley Walker.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs Detroit Lions
Donald Igwebuike kicked a field goal to force overtime with a minute remaining in regulation, and then kicked another with 2:29 remaining in overtime to secure the victory in Steve Young's NFL debut. The Buccaneers were aided by the decision of Lions coach Don Rogers, who as a former college coach in the NFL for the first time had no experience with overtime, to punt on fourth-and-inches from the 50-yard line in hopes that Young's inexperience would give the Lions the ball back with good field position.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs Detroit Lions
The Lions blamed the 80-degree heat, and crowd noise that drowned out several audibles, for a series of fourth-quarter breakdowns that allowed the Buccaneers to erase a 16–6 deficit. Fatigued Lions defenders allowed James Wilder to gain 42 yards on his last 9 carries. Young's scrambling style gained zero net passing yards through the first three-quarters, but when he switched to a dropback style of passing in the fourth quarter, he began to find success completing long passes. The Buccaneers scored on a 6-yard Wilder run, while the defense held the Lions scoreless, and Young drove the team into field goal range twice. Young became the first Buccaneer quarterback to win in his first start.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Green Bay Packers
The Buccaneers' 65 net yards and their average gain of 1.6 yards per play were both team lows. It was the lowest offensive total by any Packers opponent since a game against the Atlanta Falcons on Oct 1, 1967. Having difficulty finding open receivers, Steve Young ran 7 times for 31 yards, and was sacked 5 times for 42 yards. He completed no passes longer than 10 yards, and reported trouble keeping a grip on the ball. James Wilder was held to 23 yards rushing.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Green Bay Packers
Anticipating bad weather, the Packers prepared for the game by moving their practices outdoors during the week. Several Buccaneers reported loss of feeling in their extremities. Lynn Dickey passed for 299 yards and a touchdown, James Lofton caught passes for 106 yards, Eddie Lee Ivery rushed for 109 yards, and Gerry Ellis rushed for 101 yards and a touchdown. Alphonso Carreker got four of the Packers' five sacks. It was the Buccaneers' 18th consecutive road loss, tying the 2nd-longest such streak in NFL history, and their 25th consecutive road loss in an outdoor stadium.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 14: at Minnesota Vikings
Dec 8, 1985 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 14: at Minnesota Vikings
An attempted rally from a 19–0 deficit died when a holding penalty called back a Kevin House pass reception at the Vikings' 3-yard line. The Buccaneers committed 10 penalties in all, for a total of 76 yards. In a 1:42 stretch of the third quarter, the two teams combined for five turnovers in nine plays, with James Wilder afterward fumbling on his next possession. Wilder became the first Buccaneer to pass the 4,000-yard rushing mark, but could not savor it, due to the injury-filled loss. Kick returner Phil Freeman broke a wrist and linebacker Dennis Johnson bruised a shoulder, both while making tackles. Craig Curry suffered an eye injury, and Scot Brantley injured a shoulder.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs Indianapolis Colts
Steve Young threw for a career-high 251 yards, but threw two late-game interceptions that ended the team's chances for a rally. The game opened with a 59-yard pass to Kevin House, the team's longest pass in 30 games. The attendance of 25,577 shattered the team's previous record-low attendance, and the 17,419 no-shows were also a record. The 55-degree weather was also a record, the coldest-ever for a game in Tampa Stadium. In only their fourth win of the season, the Colts rushed for 257 yards, and scored 14 fourth-quarter points to come from behind for the win.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs Indianapolis Colts
Along with the interceptions, they were aided by two fourth-quarter fumbles. Randy McMillan led Colts rushers, with 108 yards. George Wonsley rushed for two touchdowns, and Albert Bentley one. The loss assured the Buccaneers of the following year's first-overall draft pick, as the strength of schedule gave the Buccaneers the advantage over the Atlanta Falcons, the only other team that could potentially win as few as 3 games.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs Indianapolis Colts
(The Buffalo Bills would finish with two wins, but their first-round pick had already been traded away and spent on Bernie Kosar in a supplemental draft the previous season, leaving the 1986 NFL Draft with only 27 first-round picks). Of his defense's performance, Bennett could only say, "That team shouldn't have scored 31 points on us".


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs Green Bay Packers
Thanks to a missed Donald Igwebuike field goal attempt late in the fourth quarter, the Packers edged Tampa Bay in a game full of turnovers and errors. David Greenwood fumbled the ball back to the Packers on a return of an intercepted Jim Zorn pass, a John Holt fumble recovery was called back due to an offside penalty, and Calvin Magee fumbled the ball back to the Packers on the first play following a Jeremiah Castille interception. Gerry Ellis fumbled the second-half kickoff for the Packers. The Buccaneers' first touchdown was set up by a Mark Murphy pass interference penalty in the end zone. With a glut of aging quarterbacks, the Packers used the fourth quarter to get a look at Randy Wright, who led the team to their winning points.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs Green Bay Packers
Wide receiver Theo Bell, noted for his team leadership and for his contributions to the community, retired from a 10-year NFL career following the game.


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Awards and records, Postseason honors
Jimmie Giles, Pro BowlJames Wilder, Pro Bowl alternateJames Wilder, team Most Valuable PlayerTheo Bell, the NFL Alumni Tampa Bay Buccaneers Chapter Ricky Bell Award for contributions on and off the field


1985 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Awards and records, Team and Individual records
Most team records set this season tended to be either of the individual variety, or related to the Nov. 17 game against the New York Jets:


1985 Tanduay Rhum Makers season
The 1985 Tanduay Rhum Makers season was the 11th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).


1985 Tanduay Rhum Makers season, Notable dates
October 10: The Rhum Makers won for the second straight time since new coach Arturo Valenzona took over from Orly Castelo in the second round of eliminations in the third conference. Tanduay overcame a 12-point halftime deficit and turn the game around in the final period, outscoring the Coffee Makers by 20 points in a 133-119 victory over Great Taste. Import Ronnie Valentine topscored with 49 points while Ramon Fernandez added 30 points.


1985 Tanduay Rhum Makers season, Notable dates
October 17: Tanduay enters the quarterfinal round with its fourth win against eight losses and eliminates Shell Bugbusters following a 133-124 win over Ginebra San Miguel. The Rhum Makers had a big third quarter run that gave them a 15-point lead entering the final period. Ronnie Valentine scored 41 points and Ramon Fernandez hit the 30-point mark for the second time as a Rhum Maker with 31 points.


1985 Tanduay Rhum Makers season, Occurrences
Merlin Wilson, who was Tanduay's import back in 1979, returns after six years and played for the Rhum Makers in their first two games (only one game officially when their second outing vs Ginebra was ordered replayed) in the Open Conference. He was replaced by David Pope.


1985 Tanduay Rhum Makers season, Occurrences
After the first round of eliminations in the Third Conference with Tanduay having only one win in six games, a blockbuster trade took place sending their center Abet Guidaben to Manila Beer in favor of Ramon Fernandez. On October 1, Fernandez debut in Tanduay uniform in the Rhum Makers' 106-112 loss to Magnolia.


1985 Tanduay Rhum Makers season, Occurrences
Coach Orly Castelo was assigned by the ballclub to be the team's athletic director going into their last five games in the elimination round of the Third Conference, he was replaced by former Gilbey's coach Arturo Valenzona.


1985 Tanzanian general election
General elections were held in Tanzania on 27 October 1985. The country was a one-party state at the time, with the Chama Cha Mapinduzi as the sole legal party. For the National Assembly election there were two candidates from the same party in each constituency, whilst the presidential election was effectively a referendum on CCM's candidate Ali Hassan Mwinyi, who succeeded Julius Nyerere as president.


1985 Tanzanian general election
Several changes were made to the elections, including increasing the number of constituencies from 106 to 119, scrapping the 20 regional seats elected by MPs, and the introduction of 15 reserved seats for women. The voting age was reduced from 21 to 18 by the 1985 Elections Act, and a constitutional amendment the previous year had limited the president to two terms.


1985 Tanzanian general election
Voter turnout was 74% in the National Assembly election and 75% in the presidential election.


1985 Taça de Portugal Final
The 1985 Taça de Portugal Final was the final match of the 1984–85 Taça de Portugal, the 45th season of the Taça de Portugal, the premier Portuguese football cup competition organized by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). The match was played on 10 June 1985 at the Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, and opposed two Primeira Liga sides: Benfica and Porto. Benfica defeated Porto 3–1 to claim the Taça de Portugal for a nineteenth time.


1985 Taça de Portugal Final
In Portugal, the final was televised live on RTP. As a result of Benfica winning the Taça de Portugal, the Águias qualified for the 1985 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira where they took on their cup opponents and 1984–85 Primeira Divisão winners Porto.


1985 Team Ice Racing World Championship
The 1985 Team Ice Racing World Championship was the seventh edition of the Team World Championship. The final was held on ?, 1985, in Inzell, Germany. Sweden won their first title.


1985 Tel Aviv Open
The 1985 Tel Aviv Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts that was part of the 1985 Nabisco Grand Prix. It was the sixth edition of the tournament and was played at the Israel Tennis Centers in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat HaSharon, Israel from October 14 through October 21, 1985. First-seeded Brad Gilbert won the singles title.


1985 Tel Aviv Open, Finals, Doubles
Brad Gilbert /  Ilie Năstase defeated  Michael Robertson /  Florin Segărceanu 6–3, 6–2


1985 Tel Aviv Open – Doubles
Peter Doohan and Brian Levine were the defending champions, but did not participate this year.


1985 Tel Aviv Open – Doubles
Brad Gilbert and Ilie Năstase won the title, defeating Michael Robertson and Florin Segărceanu 6–3, 6–2 in the final.


1985 Tel Aviv Open – Singles
Aaron Krickstein was the defending champion, but did not participate this year.


1985 Tel Aviv Open – Singles
Brad Gilbert won the tournament, beating Amos Mansdorf in the final, 6–3, 6–2.


1985 Temple Owls football team
The 1985 Temple Owls football team was an American football team that represented Temple University as an independent during the 1985 NCAA Division I-A football season. In its third season under head coach Bruce Arians, the team compiled a 4–7 record and outscored opponents by a total of 233 to 223. The team played its home games at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia.


1985 Temple Owls football team
The team's statistical leaders included Lee Saltz with 1,875 passing yards, Paul Palmer with 1,516 rushing yards and 60 points scored, and Willie Marshall with 893 receiving yards.


1985 Tennent's Sixes
The 1985 Tennents' Sixes was the second staging of the indoor 6-a-side football tournament at Ingliston Showground near Edinburgh on 20 and 21 January. It was again televised on BBC Scotland.


1985 Tennent's Sixes
The format had changed from 3 groups of 3 teams to 2 groups of 10 with all from the 1984-85 Scottish Premier Division season except Celtic. First Division club Airdrieonians replaced them.


1985 Tennent's Sixes
The two group winners and runners-up qualified to the semi-finals and Hearts beat Morton 4-1 in the final.


1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team
The 1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team (variously "Tennessee", "UT" or the "Vols") represented the University of Tennessee in the 1985 NCAA Division I-A football season. Playing as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the team was led by head coach Johnny Majors, in his ninth year, and played their home games at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee. They finished the season with a record of nine wins, one loss and two ties (9–1–2 overall, 5–1 in the SEC), as SEC champions and with a victory over Miami in the 1986 Sugar Bowl. The Volunteers offense scored 325 points while the defense allowed 140 points. At season's end, the Volunteers ranked fourth in both the AP Poll and the Coaches' Poll.


1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team
Known to fans as the Sugar Vols for their Sugar Bowl victory, the 1985 squad is frequently recalled as one of the most memorable and beloved teams in UT football history, and has been credited with restoring the program to national prominence. The team's SEC Championship was the first for the program in 16 years, and its top ten ranking was the program's first in 13 years.


1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team
After a strong start to the season, Tennessee suffered a major setback when star quarterback and Heisman Trophy candidate Tony Robinson suffered a season-ending knee injury in a close game against Alabama. The team rallied to finish 6–0–1, however, led by backup quarterback Daryl Dickey, and a defense– nicknamed the "Orange Crush"– that allowed just four touchdowns in its final seven games. The 1986 Sugar Bowl has been ranked among the team's ten greatest victories of all time.


1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Before the season
The 1984 Tennessee squad had managed a 7–4–1 record, ending with a narrow 28–27 loss to Maryland in the Sun Bowl. While they had defeated rival Alabama 28–27, they lost important games to Auburn and Florida, and had been upset by Kentucky.


1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Before the season
Prior to the 1985 season, long-time athletic director Bob Woodruff announced his retirement. Head coach Johnny Majors expressed interest in serving as both coach and athletic director, but the university hired former coach Doug Dickey.


1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Before the season, Returning players and roster changes
Quarterback Tony Robinson entered the 1985 season as a candidate for the Heisman Trophy. During the 1984 season, he had completed 156 of 253 passes for 1,963 yards, falling just short of his predecessor Alan Cockrell's single-season record of 2,021 yards (set in 1983). His 61.7% completion percentage had broken the single-season record set by Johnny Majors in 1956. Fifth-year senior Daryl Dickey, Robinson's backup, would start the final seven games after Robinson suffered a season-ending knee injury. Three redshirt freshmen were competing for the third-string quarterback slot: Jeff Francis, Randy Sanders, and Greg Hargis.


1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Before the season, Returning players and roster changes
All-American prospect Tim McGee was the leading returning wide receiver, having caught a school record 54 passes in 1984. McGee entered the 1985 season needing 45 catches, 828 yards, and 5 touchdowns to set school career records in all three categories, a feat which he would accomplish. McGee was joined in the starting lineup by junior college transfer Eric Swanson (20 catches for 186 yards in 1984), while junior Joey Clinkscales and sophomore Vince Carter would see significant playing time. Olympic sprinter Sam Graddy joined the team as a receiver during spring practice. Senior Jeff Smith (6'3", 235 pounds), who had caught 26 passes for 416 yards in 1984, was the team's starting tight end, while Tim Hendrix (6'5", 223) would see significant playing time.


1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Before the season, Returning players and roster changes
The running back slot was wide open following the graduation of 2nd-team All American Johnnie Jones. Sophomore Charles Wilson began the season as the starter, and was joined by redshirt freshman Keith Davis and junior Pete Panuska. One notable addition to the running back corps was Jeff Powell, a member of the track team who had been awarded the football team's final scholarship at the end of spring practice. Fullback duties were handled by 250-pound junior Sam Henderson, 225-pound sophomore William Howard and 230-pound junior Jim Miller.


1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Before the season, Returning players and roster changes
The offensive line had lost Raleigh McKenzie and Bill Mayo to graduation, but returned future NFL players David Douglas (6'4", 266 pounds), Bruce Wilkerson (6'5", 258), Daryle Smith (6'5", 257), John Bruhin (6'4", 273), and Harry Galbreath (6'1", 260). Todd Kirk (6'3", 257) was the starting center. Tony Williams (6'3", 272) would also see playing time.


1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Before the season, Returning players and roster changes
On defense, the Vols had lost three linebackers to the NFL Draft: Carl Zander, Alvin Toles, and Reggie McKenzie. The key returning linebacker was Dale Jones, who had registered 109 tackles in 1984, and had garnered a reputation for making big plays. Jones was joined by senior Lavoisier Fisher, junior Tyrone Robinson, sophomores Kelly Ziegler and Darrin Miller, and freshman Bryan Kimbro. The defensive line was led by senior Richard Brown (6'1", 263 pounds) and junior Robby Scott (6'1", 274), while sophomores Mark Hovanic (6'3", 245), Fred Bennett (6'0", 258) and Richard Cooper (6'6", 272) had shown promise as freshmen.


1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Before the season, Returning players and roster changes
The Vols' secondary was considered the strongest part of the defense at the beginning of the season, with Tommy Sims and Terry Brown registering strong seasons in 1984. They were joined by junior Charles Davis and sophomores Terry McDaniel, Andre Creamer and Victor Peppers. Chris White, a fifth-year senior who had seen scant playing time prior the 1985 season, would come off the bench to lead the team with 9 interceptions and receive All-American honors.


1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Before the season, Returning players and roster changes
The Vols' special teams were also dealing with inexperience, having lost kicker Fuad Reveiz and punter Jimmy Colquitt to the NFL. Carlos Reveiz, Fuad's younger brother, stepped in at kicker, while sophomore Bob Garmon was named the starting punter. Joel Farmer was the team's long snapper, while Randy Sanders was the primary holder. Tim McGee and Andre Creamer handled punt returns, while Pete Panuska, Keith Davis, and Jeff Powell handled kick returns at various times during the season.


1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Coaching staff
Head coach Johnny Majors had compiled a 108–82–5 record during his 17 years as a head coach, which included five seasons with Iowa State (1968–1972), four with Pittsburgh (1973–1976), and eight with Tennessee (1977–1984). His record at UT at the start of the 1985 season was 51–39–3. While he had taken the Vols to four consecutive bowl games, he had yet to win an SEC Championship.


1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Coaching staff
The most notable addition to the Tennessee coaching staff was Ken Donahue, who had worked as an assistant coach under Alabama's Bear Bryant for 21 years. Donahue was initially hired as a defensive line coach in February 1985, but was promoted to defensive coordinator in March after Larry Marmie announced he was leaving for Arizona State. Prior to Spring practice, long-time Vol assistant George Cafego retired. In late March, the Vols hired Tennessee Tech defensive coordinator Dick Bumpas to coach linebackers.


1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Coaching staff
Four members of the 1985 staff later became head coaches at Division I programs: Walt Harris, Phillip Fulmer, David Cutcliffe and Ron Zook. Kippy Brown has worked as an assistant coach in the NFL, and was briefly UT's interim head coach following the abrupt departure of Lane Kiffin in January 2010. Gerald Brown, an administrative assistant, later became the running backs coach for the Atlanta Falcons.


1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Coaching staff
Bruno Pauletto, the Vols' strength coach, was an Olympic shot putter who won the gold medal for the Canadian team at the 1982 Commonwealth Games, and was a member of the Canadian team at the 1984 Olympics.


1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Schedule
The Vols opened the 1985 campaign hosting #10 UCLA, which was coming off a 9–3 season in 1984, and had defeated defending national champion BYU in their first game of the 1985 season. Bruins coach Terry Donahue entered the game needing one win to become UCLA's all-time winningest football coach. The Bruins' offense featured running back Gaston Green, two future NFL receivers, Willie "Flipper" Anderson and Mike Sherrard, and All-American kicker John Lee. Matt Stevens and David Norrie were vying for time at quarterback.


1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Schedule
Following a bye week, the Vols hosted the Auburn Tigers, who entered the game ranked #1 in the nation, and had defeated the Vols in the teams' previous three meetings. The Tigers' offense was led by eventual Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson, who had averaged 247.5 yards per game and nearly 10 yards per carry in his first two games of the season. Auburn struggled with uncertainty at quarterback, however, with Jeff Burger, Bobby Walden, and Pat Washington all vying for the starting position.


1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Schedule
After hosting Wake Forest, the Vols traveled to Gainesville to play the Florida Gators. Florida coach Galen Hall entered the game with an 11–0–1 record, having shut out LSU the previous week. Florida's offense featured the school's all-time leading rusher Neal Anderson and John L. Williams in the backfield, quarterback Kerwin Bell, and future NFL receiver Ricky Nattiel. Many Gator fans saw this game as an opportunity for revenge, as they blamed Tennessee for leading the movement to strip the Gators of their 1984 SEC Championship for rules violations committed under Hall's predecessor, Charley Pell.


1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Schedule
In the fifth game of the season, the Vols visited Alabama for the "Third Saturday in October" rivalry. The Tide entered the game 4–1 following a 19–17 loss to Penn State in the previous week. The Vols had won the teams' previous three meetings, and desperately needed a win to stay in contention for the SEC Championship. The Tide was led by quarterback Mike Shula (the son of NFL coach Don Shula) and future All-American running back Bobby Humphrey on offense, and All-American linebacker Cornelius Bennett on defense.


1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Schedule
Tennessee hosted Georgia Tech for its sixth game of the season. The Yellow Jackets entered the game 4–2 following a narrow loss to Auburn in the previous week. The Vols had edged Georgia Tech 24–21 the previous year, but were playing without star quarterback Tony Robinson, who had suffered a season-ending knee injury against Alabama. The Yellow Jackets' offense was led by All-ACC quarterback John Dewberry and receiver Gary Lee, though leading rushers Cory Collier and Jerry Mays were out with injuries. Linebacker Ted Roof and lineman Pat Swilling led the Jackets' elite "Black Watch" unit on defense.


1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Schedule
After playing Rutgers in Knoxville and visiting Memphis State, the Vols began their final conference stretch by hosting Ole Miss. A tie between Alabama and LSU the previous week had left Tennessee and Florida tied for first place in the conference, and with Florida ineligible, the Vols needed only to win their final three games to win the SEC Championship. The Rebels were led by freshman quarterback Chris Osgood (starting in place of the injured Kent Austin), running back Nathan Wonsley, and receiver J.R. Ambrose.


1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Schedule
In the next-to-last game of the regular season, the Vols traveled to Lexington to play Kentucky in the annual Battle for the Barrel. Kentucky entered the game 5–5 under fourth-year head coach Jerry Claiborne, and had won the teams' previous meeting in Knoxville, 17–12. In the final game of the regular season, the Vols played host to Vanderbilt, which entered the game 3–6–1.


1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Schedule
As SEC champions, Tennessee received an automatic berth in the 1986 Sugar Bowl, played on New Year's Day in New Orleans. Their opponent, Miami, entered the game with a 10-game winning streak, which was capped by a 58–7 blowout of Notre Dame. Ranked #2 in the nation, Miami needed a win over Tennessee and a loss by Penn State in the Orange Bowl to lay claim to the national title.


1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Schedule
Under second-year coach Jimmy Johnson, the Hurricanes featured numerous future NFL players, including quarterback Vinny Testaverde, running backs Alonzo Highsmith, Warren Williams, and Mel Bratton, receivers Michael Irvin and Brian Blades, All-American tight end Willie Smith, and a defense led by linemen Jerome Brown and Kevin Fagan, linebacker Winston Moss, and defensive back Bennie Blades. The Vols would go on to destroy the overconfident Miami Hurricanes 35-7.


1985 Teterboro collision
The 1985 Teterboro collision occurred on November 10, 1985, when a Dassault Falcon 50 executive jet belonging to Nabisco Brands Inc. and a Piper Cherokee collided overTeterboro Airport in New Jersey. Six people died in the accident: all five aboard both aircraft and one person on the ground; another eight were injured.


1985 Teterboro collision, Accident
At approximately 5:22 p.m. the Dassault Falcon 50 and the Piper Cherokee collided as the jet approached for landing at Teterboro Airport and the Piper was flying over the airport on a west to east course. The Dassault was cleared for a standard instrument approach in visual meteorological conditions and made a left turn to position itself on the downwind leg to runway 19. The collision occurred at approximately 1,500 feet, and the two aircraft fell into the residential areas of Fairview and Cliffside Park, New Jersey.


1985 Teterboro collision, Investigation
The National Transportation Safety Board investigation concluded the accident was caused by a breakdown in coordination among FAA air traffic controllers and the inability of the crew of the jet to see and avoid the other aircraft, because of misleading information from air traffic control and oncoming darkness. The NTSB recommended that the FAA improve communication procedures among controllers and provide training for its personnel at Teterboro to qualify the airport for an upgrade to a radar approach control system.


1985 Texas A&M Aggies football team
The 1985 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented Texas A&M University in the 1985 NCAA Division I-A football season as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC). The team was led by head coach Jackie Sherrill, in his fourth year, and played their home games at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas. They finished the season with a record of ten wins and two losses (10–2, 7–1 SWC), as Southwest Conference champions and with a victory over Auburn in the Cotton Bowl Classic.


1985 Texas Longhorns baseball team
The 1985 Texas Longhorns baseball team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1985 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Longhorns played their home games at Disch–Falk Field. The team was coached by Cliff Gustafson in his 18th season at Texas.


1985 Texas Longhorns baseball team
The Longhorns reached the College World Series final, but were eliminated by Miami (FL).


1985 Texas Longhorns football team
The 1985 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1985 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Longhorns finished the regular season with an 8–3 record and lost to Air Force in the Bluebonnet Bowl.


1985 Texas Rangers season
The Texas Rangers 1985 season involved the Rangers finishing 7th in the American League west with a record of 62 wins and 99 losses.


1985 Texas Rangers 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


1985 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team
The 1985 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University in the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1985 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their fifth and final season under head coach Jerry Moore, the Red Raiders compiled a 4–7 record (1–7 against SWC opponents), outscored opponents by a combined total of 249 to 240 (largely on the strength of a 63-7 victory over TCU), and finished in eighth place in the conference. The team played its home games at Clifford B. and Audrey Jones Stadium in Lubbock, Texas.


1985 Texas–Arlington Mavericks football team
The 1985 Texas–Arlington Mavericks football team was an American football team that represented  the University of Texas at Arlington in the Southland Conference during the 1985 NCAA Division I-AA football season. In their second year under head coach Chuck Curtis, the team compiled a 4–6–1 record. At the conclusion of the season on November 25, UTA President Wendell Nedderman announced the football program was to be discontinued citing financial concerns.


1985 Thailand Masters
The 1985 Thailand Masters was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament held in September 1985 in Bangkok, Thailand.


1985 Thailand Masters
Eight players entered into two groups four phase with each group winner progressing to the final. Dennis Taylor won the tournament, defeating Terry Griffiths 4–0 in the final.


1985 The Citadel Bulldogs football team
The 1985 The Citadel Bulldogs football team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 1985 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Tom Moore served as head coach for the third season. The Bulldogs played as members of the Southern Conference and played home games at Johnson Hagood Stadium.


1985 The Winston
The 1985 The Winston, the inaugural running of the NASCAR All-Star Race, was a stock car racing competition that took place on May 25, 1985. Held at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, the 70-lap race was the second exhibition race in the 1985 NASCAR Winston Cup Series. Darrell Waltrip of Junior Johnson & Associates won the race and US$200,000.


1985 The Winston
The race featured one two-tire pit stop between laps 30 and 40, and was held the day before the Coca-Cola World 600. Both Labonte and Gant won a purse bonus of US$10,000 for leading the twentieth and fiftieth lap of the race.


1985 The Winston, Background
The Winston was open to race winners from the 1984 season. The pole position was awarded to the defending Winston Cup champion while the rest of the field was determined by the total number of wins from last season, with driver's points used as the tiebreaker.


1985 The Winston, Race summary
The Winston was a 70-lap exhibition race with a combined purse of US$500,000. The earnings were as follows:


1985 The Winston, Race summary
In addition, a purse bonus of US$10,000 was given to the drivers who led laps 20 and 55.


1985 The Winston, Race summary
Chevrolet Monte Carlo drivers Terry Labonte and Darrell Waltrip led the field on the green flag. Despite having an advantage in aerodynamics, the Ford Thunderbird drivers struggled to keep up with the Chevys, which were in the top five. By lap 8, Dale Earnhardt slipped out of the top five as Cale Yarborough and Bobby Allison passed him while Waltrip and Labonte battled for the lead. On lap 14, Geoff Bodine entered pit road and retired from the race due to engine failure, becoming the only DNF in the race.


1985 The Winston, Race summary
Labonte passed Waltrip on the start/finish line to lead lap 20 and earn US$10,000 before surrendering the lead back to Waltrip. Harry Gant caught up with Waltrip before the two-tire pit stops began on lap 30. By lap 38, Gant took the lead from Waltrip and earned US$10,000 for leading lap 50. Gant dominated the race by leading 31 laps, but Waltrip regained momentum and took back the lead on lap 69 to win the race and US$200,000 just before his engine expired.


1985 Three Days of De Panne
The 1985 Three Days of De Panne was the 9th edition of the Three Days of De Panne cycle race and was held on 26 March to 28 March 1985. The race started in Tielen and finished in De Panne. The race was won by Jean-Luc Vandenbroucke.


1985 Timaru by-election
The Timaru by-election of 1985 was a by-election for the electorate of Timaru during the term of the 40th New Zealand Parliament. It was triggered by the death of Sir Basil Arthur (who had held the seat since 1962) on 1 May 1985. Sir Basil was Speaker of the House, and had inherited the rank of baronet from his father in 1949.


1985 Timaru by-election
The by-election was held on 15 June 1985 and was won by Maurice McTigue of the National Party with a majority of 1,492 votes.


1985 Timaru by-election, Campaign
David Lange recalled a meeting during the by-election campaign when Labour general secretary Tony Timms manhandled a noisy heckler out of the building. He said that the Labour candidate Jan Walker was a good lawyer (and was later a Family Court judge), but that the Labour Party organisation (i.e. head office) insisted on the selection of a candidate who "did not live in Timaru and her opinions, and even her appearance, were at odds with the conservative character of the electorate"; although Jim Anderton predictably (and publicly) blamed the defeat on "the government’s abandonment of traditional Labour policy".


1985 Timaru by-election, Campaign
New Zealand Party founder Bob Jones (who had already achieved his primary goal of ending the Muldoon government) was disappointed by his party's performance in the by-election came to the decision to put the party into recess.