1987 Bintaro train crash, Accident
Five minutes later, Djamhari was telephoned by Umrihadi, the officer from Kebayoran Lama Station, informing him that KA 220 Tanah Abang-Merak had departed for Sudimara. Djamhari, shocked seeing KA 225 leaving the station, tried in vain to chase KA 225 while waving the red flag as the train moved at 50km/h. A switcher boarded the rearmost carriage who tries to make it through the train and warn the engineer, to no avail due to the crowded condition. The two crowded trains collided head-on at Km +18.75, causing serious damage. Both locomotives, Henschel-built BB303 and BB306, were also heavily damaged. The death toll came to 139 people, while hundreds more were injured.


1987 Bintaro train crash, Criminal sanctions
The driver of KA 225, Slamet Suradio, survived the crash and was charged with negligence causing death. He received the maximum penalty of 5 years, which he felt was unfair as he was only following the Stationmaster's instructions. He received no pension, despite more than 20 years of work for the rail company. Upon release, he returned to his hometown of Purworejo in Central Java province and became a cigarette seller.


1987 Bintaro train crash, Criminal sanctions
Adung Syafei, the conductor of KA 225, was sentenced 2 years and 6 months in prison. Umrihadi of Kebayoran Lama Station was 10 months in prison.


1987 Bintaro train crash, In popular culture
Iwan Fals wrote a song titled "19/10", referencing the date of the crash. Ebiet G. Ade was inspired by the disaster to write a song "Masih Ada Waktu" ("There's Still Time"). A film based on the collision, Tragedi Bintaro, was released in 1989.


1987 Birthday Honours
Queen's Birthday Honours are announced on or around the date of the Queen's Official Birthday in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The dates vary, both from year to year and from country to country. All are published in supplements to the London Gazette and many are conferred by the monarch (or her representative) some time after the date of the announcement, particularly for those service people on active duty.


1987 Birthday Honours
The 1987 Queen's Birthday honours lists were announced on 13 June 1987.


1987 Birthday Honours
Recipients of honours are shown below as they were styled before their new honour.


1987 Birthday Honours, Antigua and Barbuda, Order of the British Empire, Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
Walter Timothy Murdoch O'Reilly. For services to music and the community.


1987 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)
The 1987 Queen's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of Elizabeth II, were appointments made by the Queen in her right as Queen of New Zealand, on the advice of the New Zealand government, to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. They were announced on 13 June 1987.


1987 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.


1987 Black Dragon fire
The Black Dragon fire, also known as the 1987 Daxing'anling wildfire (Chinese: 大兴安岭特大森林火灾) or the May 6 fire (Chinese: 5·6大火) was a major wildfire that began in the northeast Daxing'anling Prefecture, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China on May 6, 1987. It also spread into the Soviet Union. The burning lasted almost a month, when it was finally stopped on June 2, 1987. The fire covered about 10,000 km2 (2,500,000 acres) of which 6,500 km2 (2,500 sq mi) was forest; it destroyed 7.3 million hectares (18 million acres) of forest, including one-sixth of China's entire timber reserves. About 266 people were wounded and 211 died in the fire leaving 50,000 homeless. It was one of the largest wildfires ever to occur, and the largest to strike China in over 300 years.


1987 Black Dragon fire, The fire
The fire originated in the coniferous Da Hinggan Forests in the Greater Khingan Range, a mountain range in northeastern China. In 1987, the area surrounding the Amur River in the region had been unusually hot and was experiencing a drought, leading to an overabundance of parched vegetation. These conditions were ideal for a large wildfire to occur. Because the area was sparsely populated at the time, the exact cause of the fire was not very clear at first; any small ignition could have turned into a major firestorm in the conditions present.


1987 Black Dragon fire, The fire
Later and widely believed Chinese reports state that the fire was started "when an untrained 18-year-old worker accidentally ignited gas spilled from his brush cutter." According to Harrison Salisbury, the roots of the disaster lay in excessive cutting down of trees without any effort to let the forest regrow, which triggered multiple fires in the region. Whatever the causes were, the resulting firestorm quickly gained momentum, fueled by high winds in the region.


1987 Black Dragon fire, The fire
Workers reported their truck engines stopping as the fire deprived the oxygen supply in the air as well as burning projectiles raining down on them ahead of the fire. A total of 191 people were killed by the fire, and a further 250 were left injured. In addition, 33,000 Chinese were made homeless.


1987 Black Dragon fire, Response
Although both countries were affected heavily by the fire, China and the Soviet Union responded very differently. China, despite its shortage of advanced firefighting equipment, sent over 60,000 soldiers and workers to try and put out the fire. Because the forest was a major source of wood for China as well as the fact that it was close to the Gobi desert and thus a factor in desertification in northern China, China spent much effort on extinguishing the flames.


1987 Black Dragon fire, Response
The Soviet Union, on the other hand, simply let the fire burn out on its side of the border because its vast timber reserves were not seriously threatened by the fire. When the fire finally stopped over a month later, the differences in responses were clear: The Soviet Union had lost more forest (15 million acres compared to 3 million in China), while China was more devastated economically.


1987 Black Dragon fire, Response
In the aftermath, China punished individuals for causing the fire; the aforementioned 18-year-old worker, along with his employer, were jailed. The forestry minister was fired. In addition, a local fire chief who saved his house and left the rest of his town to burn was sentenced to four years in prison.


1987 Black Dragon fire, Response
The lessons learned from the Black Dragon fire helped to improve response to wildfires throughout the world as well as demonstrate the impact that governments can have on the environment. The effect that the fire had on the environment in the region generated new found concern and speculation about the future about the forest's ecology.


1987 Black Dragon fire, Further reading
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1987 Blue Swords
The Blue Swords was an international figure skating competition in East Germany. First time in 1984 the competition was organised only for junior skaters. The 1987 edition with participants from twenty countries was held November 11–14 in  East-Berlin. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles and pair skating.


1987 Bob Jane T-Marts 500
The 1987 Bob Jane T-Marts 500 was the ninth round of the 1987 World Touring Car Championship. The race, which was open to Group A Touring Cars, was held on 11 October 1987 at  Calder Park Raceway in outer Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on the rarely used combined circuit which incorporated both the recently redeveloped (1986) road course and the newly completed, high banked (24°) NASCAR-style “Thunderdome” oval.


1987 Bob Jane T-Marts 500
The combined oval/road course was 4.216 km (2.620 mi) long and the race was run over 120 laps.


1987 Bob Jane T-Marts 500
The race was won by Steve Soper and Pierre Dieudonné driving a Ford Sierra RS500 for Eggenberger Motorsport. Both Klaus Ludwig's pole time of 1:42.92 and Andrew Miedecke's fastest race lap of 1:45.03 in their respective Ford Sierra RS500's were faster than the pole time set in the only other Group A Touring Car race held on the combined oval/road course, the Yokohama/Bob Jane T-Marts 300 held two months previously on 9 August.


1987 Boise State Broncos football team
The 1987 Boise State Broncos football team represented Boise State University in the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Broncos competed in the Big Sky Conference and played their home games on campus at Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho. The Broncos were led by first–year head coach Skip Hall, Boise State finished the season 6–5 overall and 4–4 in conference.


1987 Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council election
The 1987 Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 7 May 1987 to elect members of  Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council in Greater Manchester, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party kept overall control of the council.


1987 Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council election
20 seats were contested in the election: 13 were won by the Labour Party, 6 by the Conservative Party, and 1 by the  Liberal Party. After the election, the composition of the council was


1987 Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council election, Council Composition
Prior to the election the composition of the council was:


1987 Bophuthatswana parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Bophuthatswana on 22 October 1987. The Bophuthatswana Democratic Party won 66 of the 72 of the elected seats in the National Assembly.


1987 Bophuthatswana parliamentary election, Electoral system
The National Assembly had a total of 102 seats, 72 of which were elected and 30 of which were appointed.


1987 Bordeaux Open
The 1987 Bordeaux Open also known as the Nabisco Grand Prix Passing Shot was a men's tennis tournament played on clay courts at Villa Primrose in Bordeaux, France that was part of the 1987 Nabisco Grand Prix circuit. It was the 10th edition of the tournament and was held from 13 July through 18 July 1987. Second-seeded Emilio Sánchez won the singles title.


1987 Bordeaux Open, Finals, Doubles
Sergio Casal /  Emilio Sánchez defeated  Darren Cahill /  Mark Woodforde 6–3, 6–3


1987 Boston City Council election
Boston City Council elections were held on November 3, 1987. Eleven seats (seven district representatives and four at-large members) were contested in the general election, as the incumbents in districts 3 and 6 were unopposed. Seven seats (the four at-large members, and districts 1, 8, and 9) had also been contested in the preliminary election held on September 22, 1987.


1987 Boston City Council election, At-large
Councillors Dapper O'Neil, Christopher A. Iannella, and Michael J. McCormack were re-elected. Councillor Joseph M. Tierney did not seek re-election, as he ran for Mayor of Boston; he was defeated by incumbent Raymond Flynn in the general election. Rosaria Salerno won the final at-large seat.


1987 Boston City Council election, District 9
Councillor Brian J. McLaughlin was re-elected, with his narrow victory confirmed by a recount.


1987 Boston College Eagles football team
The 1987 Boston College Eagles football team represented Boston College in the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Eagles were led by seventh-year head coach Jack Bicknell, and played their home games at Alumni Stadium in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. They also played an alternate-site home game at Sullivan Stadium (later known as Foxboro Stadium) in Foxborough, Massachusetts.


1987 Boston Marathon
The 1987 Boston Marathon was the 91st running of the annual marathon race in Boston, United States, which was held on April 20. The elite men's race was won by Japan's Toshihiko Seko in a time of 2:11:50 hours and the women's race was won by Portugal's Rosa Mota in 2:25:21. In the wheelchair race, André Viger of Canada won the men's race in 1:55:42 and Candace Cable of United States won the women's race in 2:19:55. Sinclair Warner of the United States won the men's visually impaired race in a time of 2:51:22.


1987 Boston Marathon
A total of 5369 runners finished the race, 4576 men and 793 women.


1987 Boston Red Sox season
The 1987 Boston Red Sox season was the 87th season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished fifth in the American League East with a record of 78 wins and 84 losses, 20 games behind the Detroit Tigers.


1987 Boston Red Sox season, Regular season, Alumni game
On May 23, the Red Sox held an old-timers game, before a scheduled home game with the Chicago White Sox. The game was themed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Fenway Park. The Red Sox team included Jim Lonborg, Jimmy Piersall, Luis Tiant, and Ted Williams; they were defeated by a team of other MLB alumni, including Cleveland Indians Hall of Fame inductee Bob Feller, Detroit Tigers pitcher Mark Fidrych, and slugger Dick Allen.


1987 Boston University Terriers football team
The 1987 Boston University Terriers football team was an American football team that represented Boston University as a member of the Yankee Conference during the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA football season. In their third and final season under head coach Steve Stetson, the Terriers compiled a 3–8 record (2–5 against conference opponents), finished in a three-way tie for fifth place in the Yankee Conference, and were outscored by a total of 226 to 175.


1987 Boston mayoral election
The Boston mayoral election of 1987 occurred on Tuesday, November 3, 1987, between Mayor Raymond Flynn and City Council member Joseph M. Tierney. Flynn was re-elected to his second term.


1987 Boston mayoral election
The nonpartisan municipal preliminary election was held on September 22, 1987.


1987 Botswana electoral reform referendum
A referendum on electoral reform was held in Botswana on 27 October 1987, the first time a referendum had been held in the country. The proposal involved the creation of the post of Supervisor of Elections, which would be appointed by the government. The referendum was passed with 78.1% of voters in favour.


1987 Botswana electoral reform referendum
Following the referendum, the next general elections, held in 1989, were boycotted by the Botswana National Front because the reforms did not provide for an independent electoral commission. The changes were reversed following another referendum in 1997.


1987 Bowling Green Falcons football team
The 1987 Bowling Green Falcons football team was an American football team that represented Bowling Green University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their second season under head coach Moe Ankney, the Falcons compiled a 5–6 record (5–3 against MAC opponents), finished in a tie for second place in the MAC, and were outscored by all opponents by a combined total of 249 to 215.


1987 Bowling Green Falcons football team
The team's statistical leaders included Rich Dackin with 2,211 passing yards, Shawn Daniels with 423 rushing yards, and Reggie Thornton with 698 receiving yards.


1987 Brabantse Pijl
The 1987 Brabantse Pijl was the 27th edition of the Brabantse Pijl cycle race and was held on 29 March 1987. The race started in Sint-Genesius-Rode and finished in Alsemberg. The race was won by Edwig Van Hooydonck.


1987 Brasil Open
The 1987 Brasil Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Guarujá in Brazil and was part of the Category 1 tier of the 1988 WTA Tour. The tournament ran from 7 December through 13 December 1987. Neige Dias won the singles title.


1987 Brasil Open, Finals, Doubles
Katrina Adams /  Cheryl Jones defeated  Jill Hetherington /  Mercedes Paz 6–4, 4–6, 6–4


1987 Brasil Open – Doubles
Neige Dias and Patricia Medrado were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Dias with Bettina Fulco and Medrado with Cláudia Monteiro.


1987 Brasil Open – Doubles
Dias and Fulco lost in the quarterfinals to Amy Frazier and Luanne Spadea, as did Medrado and Monteiro to Jill Hetherington and Mercedes Paz.


1987 Brasil Open – Doubles
Katrina Adams and Cheryl Jones won in the final 6–4, 4–6, 6–4 against Hetherington and Paz.


1987 Brasil Open – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1987 Brasil Open – Singles
Vicki Nelson-Dunbar was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Olga Tsarbopoulou.


1987 Brasil Open – Singles
Neige Dias won in the final 6–0, 6–7, 6–4 against Patricia Medrado.


1987 Brasil Open – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1987 Brazilian Grand Prix
The 1987 Brazilian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 12 April 1987 at the Jacarepaguá Circuit in Rio de Janeiro. The race, contested over 61 laps, was the sixteenth Brazilian Grand Prix and the eighth to be held at Jacarepaguá, and the first race of the 1987 Formula One season.


1987 Brazilian Grand Prix
The race was won by defending World Champion Alain Prost, driving a McLaren-TAG. Local hero Nelson Piquet was second in a Williams-Honda, while Prost's new teammate Stefan Johansson took third.


1987 Brazilian Grand Prix, Qualifying
March Engineering returned to Formula One for the first time since the 1982 Caesars Palace Grand Prix, entering a single car driven by Ivan Capelli.


1987 Brazilian Grand Prix, Qualifying
In almost a repeat of 1982, prior to the race there was talk of a drivers boycott due to the FIA's new Super Licence fees for 1987. Previously the fee for a drivers Super Licence had been US$825.


1987 Brazilian Grand Prix, Qualifying
However, from 1987 drivers who scored World Championship points the previous season would be required to pay more (i.e. the more points a driver scored, the more he paid for his licence) with drivers such as World Champion Alain Prost and Williams pair Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet were all required to pay around $12,000 (while others such as Lotus rookie Satoru Nakajima only had to pay the basic fee). According to the drivers, it wasn't so about the money, it was the principle that a licence is a licence and that the fee should be the same for everyone. However, by the time the cars were ready for Friday morning's first practice session, everyone (or in some cases the teams) had paid the required licence fee.


1987 Brazilian Grand Prix, Qualifying
Qualifying was dominated by the Honda powered Williams, with Mansell ahead of Piquet. Third was Ayrton Senna with his Lotus. The Lotus 99T, now in the Yellow and Blue colours of new sponsors Camel Cigarettes, was using the computer-controlled active suspension for the first time in the hope that its advantages (keeping the car at the optimum ride height) would give them an edge over the rest of the field.


1987 Brazilian Grand Prix, Qualifying
The total number of cars entered for the event was 23, but on race day the March team, who went into the race with a modified Formula 3000 car for F1 rookie Ivan Capelli due to their new car not being ready, ran out of Cosworth DFZs, blowing their last in the Sunday morning warm-up and there were only 22 starters.


1987 Brazilian Grand Prix, Qualifying
Qualifying also saw the FIA's controversial pop-off valves used for the first time on the turbocharged cars. The valves limited turbo boost pressure to 4.0 Bar where previously boost was only limited to what the engineers felt the engines could take. The valves were far from popular with the teams and drivers, however, with some drivers complaining throughout the weekend that they were cutting in too early and not allowing enough boost.


1987 Brazilian Grand Prix, Qualifying
Arrows driver Derek Warwick told that at times his valve was opening at just 2.6 Bar (a loss of approximately 280 bhp (209 kW; 284 PS)) while Benetton's Thierry Boutsen told that the two valves on his Ford V6 were both opening at different levels and both well below the 4 Bar limit. McLaren got around the pop-off valve problem by limiting turbo boost on their TAG-Porsche engines to just 3.6 Bar of pressure throughout the weekend, thus never allowing the valves to come into play. One unnamed team mechanic was reported to have said that the valves were the only crude piece of engineering on a modern Grand Prix car.


1987 Brazilian Grand Prix, Qualifying
The Ligier team was absent from Rio, missing their first race since the French boycott of the 1985 South African Grand Prix. The team had been set to use a new 4-cylinder, turbocharged Alfa Romeo engine for the season. However, during pre-season testing lead driver René Arnoux compared the new 415T to used food. This gave Alfa's parent company Fiat the excuse they wanted to pull out of its association with the team leaving Ligier without an engine for the season, though Ligier were able to secure a supply of Megatron turbo's from the Arrows team sponsors USF&G and would use them from San Marino until the end of the season.


1987 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race
At the start Piquet was fastest, taking the lead from Senna, while Mansell made a bad start; the Benetton B187s of Boutsen and Teo Fabi out dragged Mansell and Prost. Adrián Campos was disqualified for an incorrect starting procedure, he had forgotten his ear plugs and by the time he had fitted them on the grid the rest of the field had moved away on the warm-up lap. Campos resumed his grid position instead of starting at the rear, and race officials removed him for his rookie mistake.


1987 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race
Piquet's lead did not last long: on lap 7, he had to pit with engine overheating caused by litter on the track getting into the radiator sidepods. He rejoined back in eleventh position, leaving Senna to lead Mansell (who in the meantime fought back to second) although he too entered in the pits to have his radiators cleared. He rejoined behind Piquet and the pair began to climb through the field.


1987 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race
Senna pitted because of handling troubles of his Lotus 99T and so Prost went into the lead. When Prost stopped for fresh tyres the lead was briefly passed to Thierry Boutsen, who was performing admirably with his Benetton-Ford, but his lead lasted less than half a lap before Piquet went back to first before his second stop, on lap 21. Prost then went ahead again and led for the rest of the race, never looking threatened as he preserved his tyres to only require two stops, while his rivals Senna and Piquet had three.


1987 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race
Mansell's race was compromised late in the race by a tyre puncture, who sent him back to seventh place. On lap 51 Senna suffered an engine failure, causing him to retire from the second place he held for much of the race despite problems with the Lotus's active suspensions. Senna, who pulled off the track in front of the pits, reported that his engine had not actually blown, but that he could feel it was seizing and felt it would be better to retire rather than to destroy the engine.


1987 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race
Prost won ahead of Piquet, his teammate Stefan Johansson, Gerhard Berger (who battled for the whole race with handling problems of his Ferrari F1/87), Boutsen and Mansell, who caught the last point. Satoru Nakajima's first Grand Prix, saw him finish just outside the points in seventh in his Lotus. This was Prost's 26th victory, which made him the second most successful Grand Prix winner at the time, moving him ahead of Jim Clark and just one win behind tying with Jackie Stewart as the most successful.


1987 Brazilian Grand Prix, Classification, Race
Numbers in brackets refer to positions of normally aspirated entrants competing for the Jim Clark Trophy.


1987 Brazilian motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1987 Brazilian motorcycle Grand Prix was the penultimate round of the 1987 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 26–27 September 1987 at the Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna.


1987 Brisbane Rugby League season
The 1987 Brisbane Rugby League premiership was the 77th season of Brisbane's semi-professional rugby league football competition. Nine teams from across Brisbane competed for the premiership, which culminated in a grand final match between the Redcliffe and Past Brothers clubs.


1987 Brisbane Rugby League season, Season summary
Teams played each other three times, with 24 rounds of competition played. It resulted in a top four of Past Brothers, Northern Suburbs,  Redcliffe and Wynnum-Manly. The 1987 season is significant as most Rugby League historians view it as the final season of the BRL as a top tier competition, as the entry of the Brisbane Broncos and  Gold Coast Giants into the NSWRL Premiership in 1988 devastated the BRL by stripping it of mainstream media coverage and players.


1987 Brisbane Rugby League season, Season summary
This led to lower attendences and television viewership, with the competition essentially becoming a second tier league, before it eventually merged with its companion statewide competition, the Winfield State League, to form the Queensland Cup in 1996 (A Brisbane finals series was still run, but the season was merged into the new competition). However, there is debate that the competition, although vastly inferior to the NSWRL from 1988-1994, maintained first-grade status until 1995, when the Australian Rugby League Premiership ws introduced.


1987 Brisbane Rugby League season, Grand Final
Brothers 26 (Try: T. Bailey, J. Kilroy, M. Coyne, T. Rea, C. Mohr. Goal: T.Rea. )


1987 Bristol City Council election
The 1987 Bristol City Council election took place on 7 May 1987 to elect members of Bristol City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. One third of seats were up for election. There was also a by-election in Clifton. There was a general but very small swing away from the Conservatives.


1987 Bristol Open
The 1987 Bristol Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts that was part of the 1987 Nabisco Grand Prix. It was the eighth edition of the tournament and was played at Bristol, England from 15 until 22 June 1987. Unseeded Kelly Evernden won the singles title. The doubles event was not played.


1987 Bristol Open – Singles
Vijay Amritraj was the defending champion, but lost in the third round this year.


1987 Bristol Open – Singles
Kelly Evernden won the title, defeating Tim Wilkison 6–4, 7–6 in the final.


1987 Brit Awards
The 1987 Brit Awards were the 7th edition of the biggest annual pop music awards in the United Kingdom. They are run by the British Phonographic Industry and took place on 9 February 1987 at Grosvenor House Hotel in London.


1987 Brit Awards
The awards ceremony, hosted by Jonathan King, was televised by the BBC.


1987 British Formula Three Championship
The 1987 British Formula Three season was the 37th season of the British Formula Three Championship. Johnny Herbert took the BARC/BRDC Lucas British Formula 3 Championship.


1987 British Grand Prix
The 1987 British Grand Prix (formally the XL Shell Oils British Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 12 July 1987 at the Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone. It was the seventh race of the 1987 FIA Formula One World Championship. It was the 42nd British Grand Prix and the 23rd to be held at Silverstone. The race was held over 65 laps of the 4.78-kilometre (2.97 mi) circuit for race distance of 311 kilometres (193 mi).


1987 British Grand Prix
The race was won by local driver Nigel Mansell, driving a Williams-Honda. In one of his most memorable Formula One performances, Mansell hunted down Brazilian team-mate Nelson Piquet, who had started from pole position, with three laps remaining. It was Mansell's third win of the season, and his second consecutive British Grand Prix victory. Ayrton Senna finished third in his Lotus-Honda, one lap behind.


1987 British Grand Prix
The win moved Mansell into second place in the Drivers' Championship, level on points with Piquet and one point behind Senna.


1987 British Grand Prix, Race summary, Qualifying
As usual, Honda-powered cars dominated the qualifying sessions, with Nelson Piquet taking pole position and Ayrton Senna third in his Lotus despite being a full second slower than Mansell. Alain Prost was fourth in his McLaren, while the Benettons of Thierry Boutsen and Teo Fabi were fifth and sixth, and the Ferraris of Michele Alboreto and Gerhard Berger seventh and eighth. Completing the top ten were Andrea de Cesaris in the Brabham and Stefan Johansson in the second McLaren.


1987 British Grand Prix, Race summary, Qualifying
During qualifying, Piercarlo Ghinzani's Ligier ran out of fuel in front of the pits. His mechanics jumped the pit wall, refuelled him on the track and then push-started him, a clear violation of the rules leading to Ghinzani's exclusion from the remainder of the event. Before the incident, the Italian had set a time which would have put him 19th on the grid.


1987 British Grand Prix, Race summary, Race
At the start, Prost was the quickest and took the lead, only to be passed by Piquet at Maggotts; Mansell soon followed his teammate. The race then developed into a battle between the two Williams drivers, with Piquet leading most of the time.


1987 British Grand Prix, Race summary, Race
On lap 35, Mansell was around two seconds behind his teammate. Both Williams drivers were scheduled to complete the race without a tyre change, but Mansell and the team elected to make a stop to change tyres. Mansell rejoined the race some 29 seconds behind Piquet, with 28 laps remaining. On fresh rubber, Mansell began an epic charge, breaking the lap record eight times to the delight of the over 100,000 strong British crowd.


1987 British Grand Prix, Race summary, Race
By lap 62 Mansell was right on Piquet's tail, and on lap 63 the Englishman overtook his teammate. Shortly after crossing the finish line, Mansell's car slowed down and was engulfed by the crowd. Initially it was thought that he had run out of fuel, but he had actually blown up the engine, out of the stress of running the last 6 laps on "Q" mode (which gives the engine +100hp), and risking running out of fuel at any moment (his fuel display was reading "minus 2.5 laps").


1987 British Grand Prix, Race summary, Race
In fact that incident was the last straw for the patience of the Honda management, since it had – again – threatened their easily attainable 1-2 result. Honda would switch their supply of engines from Williams to McLaren for 1988, while Piquet would sign for Lotus – also running Hondas – in the following weeks. Senna finished third, one lap down, with a further lap back to teammate Satoru Nakajima in fourth. Derek Warwick was fifth in the Arrows-Megatron, with Fabi completing the top six.


1987 British Grand Prix, Classification, Race
Numbers in brackets refer to positions of normally aspirated entrants competing for the Jim Clark Trophy.


1987 British League season
The 1987 British League season was the 53rd season of the top tier of speedway in the United Kingdom and the 23rd known as the British League.


1987 British League season, Summary
Coventry Bees comfortably won the league finishing 16 points clear of Cradley Heath. The same five main riders who made up the 1986 team rode through the 1987 season but crucially four of them improved on their 1986 averages. Tommy Knudsen and Kelvin Tatum both hit over 10, while Rick Miller and David Bargh both improved by about 2 points on average. John Jørgensen also remained consistent for the Bees. Coventry also won the League Cup but lost to Cradley in the final of the Knockout Cup. The double defending champions Oxford Cheetahs were forced to release Simon Wigg to Hackney and Per Sorensen because of the 45 point limit. They finished second from bottom despite Hans Nielsen topping the averages once again.


1987 British League season, Final table
M = Matches; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; Pts = Total Points


1987 British League season, British League Knockout Cup
The 1987 Speedway Star British League Knockout Cup was the 49th edition of the Knockout Cup for tier one teams. Cradley Heath Heathens were the winners for the second successive year if including the tied 1986 final.


1987 British League season, British League Knockout Cup, Final, Second leg
Cradley Heath were declared Knockout Cup Champions, winning on aggregate 94-86.


1987 British League season, League Cup
The League Cup was contested as a league format. Coventry Bees won the final over two legs defeating Belle Vue Aces 84-72 on aggregrate. It was the last time that the competition was contested.


1987 British National Track Championships
The 1987 British National Track Championships were a series of track cycling competitions held from 31 July - 9 August 1987 at the Leicester Velodrome.


1987 British Open
The 1987 Dulux British Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament, that was held from 15 February to 1 March 1987 with television coverage beginning on 20 February at the Assembly Rooms in Derby, England.


1987 British Rowing Championships
The 1987 National Rowing Championships was the 16th edition of the National Championships, held from 17–19 July 1987 at the National Water Sports Centre in Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham.


1987 British Speedway Championship
The 1987 British Speedway Championship was the 27th edition of the British Speedway Championship. The Final took place on 31 May at Brandon in Coventry, England. The Championship was won by Kelvin Tatum, with 1986 champion Neil Evitts in second place and Simon Wigg in third.


1987 British Speedway Championship, Final
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance •  t - exclusion for touching the tapes •  x - other exclusion •  e - retired or mechanical failure •  f - fell •  ns - non-starter •  nc - non-classify


1987 British Touring Car Championship
The 1987 Dunlop RAC British Touring Car Championship was the 30th season of the championship. The series, previously the British Saloon Car Championship, had a new name and new sponsor. Chris Hodgetts successfully defended his drivers title with his class D Toyota Corolla.


1987 British Touring Car Championship, Teams & Drivers
†Not eligible for points. 1Practice only at round 10. 2Practice & qualifying only at round 2.


1987 British Touring Car Championship, Calendar and results
All races were held in the United Kingdom. Overall winners in bold.


1987 British motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1987 British motorcycle Grand Prix was the ninth round of the 1987 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 1–2 August 1987 at Donington Park.


1987 Brown Bears football team
The 1987 Brown Bears football team was an American football team that represented Brown University during the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Brown finished second in the Ivy League.


1987 Brown Bears football team
In their fourth season under head coach John Rosenberg, the Bears compiled a 7–3 record but were outscored 160 to 144. Walt Cataldo and Mark Donovan were the team captains.


1987 Brown Bears football team
The Bears' 5–2 conference record placed second in the Ivy League standings. They outscored Ivy opponents 117 to 97.


1987 Brown Bears football team
Brown played its home games at Brown Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island.


1987 Brownlow Medal
The 1987 Brownlow Medal was the 60th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season. Tony Lockett of the St Kilda Football Club and John Platten of the Hawthorn Football Club both won the medal by polling twenty votes during the 1987 VFL season.


1987 Brownlow Medal
The Count was notable for the first use of theme from The Untouchables as the winnner's theme, which has subsequently been used every year since.


1987 Brownlow Medal
It remains the first and only time a full-forward (Lockett) won the award in the history of the medal.


1987 Brownlow Medal, Leading votegetters
* The player was ineligible to win the medal due to suspension by the VFL Tribunal during the year.


1987 Broxbourne Borough Council election
The Broxbourne Council election, 1987 was held to elect council members of the Broxbourne Borough Council, the local government authority of the borough of Broxbourne,  Hertfordshire, England.


1987 Broxbourne Borough Council election, Results summary
An election was held in 14 wards on 7 May 1987.


1987 Broxbourne Borough Council election, Results summary
15 seats were contested (2 seats in Cheshunt Central Ward)


1987 Broxbourne Borough Council election, Results summary
The Conservative Party made two gains at the expense of the SDP - Liberal Alliance with wins in Hoddesdon Town Ward and Rosedale Ward.


1987 Broxbourne Borough Council election, Results summary
The political balance of the council following this election was:


1987 Bucknell Bison football team
The 1987 Bucknell Bison football team was an American football team that represented Bucknell University during the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Bucknell finished second-to-last in the Colonial League.


1987 Bucknell Bison football team
In their second year under head coach George Landis, the Bison compiled a 4–5–1 record. Jim Given and Greg Schiano were the team captains.


1987 Bucknell Bison football team
The Bison were outscored 259 to 248. Bucknell's 1–3–1 conference record placed fifth in the six-team Colonial League standings.


1987 Bucknell Bison football team
Bucknell played its home games at Memorial Stadium on the university campus in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.


1987 Buenos Aires Grand Prix – 1° Festival Automolistico Internacional de Formula 3
Results from the 1987 Buenos Aires Grand Prix held at Buenos Aires on December 6, 1987, in the Autódromo Oscar Alfredo Gálvez. The race was a first race of a 1° Festival Automovilistico Internacional de Formula 3.


1987 Buenos Aires Grand Prix – Doubles
Loïc Courteau and Horst Skoff were the defending champions, but did not participate this year.


1987 Buenos Aires Grand Prix – Doubles
Tomás Carbonell and Sergio Casal won the title after finalists Jay Berger and Horacio de la Peña withdrew prior to the championship match.


1987 Buenos Aires Grand Prix – Singles
Guillermo Pérez Roldán defeated Jay Berger 3–2 after Berger retired to win the 1987 Buenos Aires Grand Prix singles competition. Berger was the defending champion.


1987 Buffalo Bills season
The 1987 Buffalo Bills season was the franchise's 18th season in the National Football League, and the 28th overall.


1987 Buffalo Bills season
On October 31, 1987, the Los Angeles Rams traded Eric Dickerson to the Indianapolis Colts in a three team trade involving the Bills. The Rams sent Dickerson to the Colts for six draft choices and two players. Buffalo obtained the rights to Cornelius Bennett from Indianapolis. Buffalo sent running back Greg Bell and three draft choices to the Rams, while Indianapolis added Owen Gill and three of their own draft picks to complete the deal with the Rams. Adding Bennett to the team helped to form the nucleus for a strong young defensive unit that would become the core of Buffalo's later Super Bowl teams.


1987 Buffalo Bills season, Offseason, NFL draft
Buffalo's first two draft picks—linebacker Shane Conlan and defensive back Nate Odomes—would later go on to make to have a great deal of impact on Buffalo's defense. Conlan was named 1987 Defensive Rookie of the Year; he would be selected to three consecutive Pro Bowls, from the 1988–1990 seasons. Odomes would be selected to consecutive Pro Bowls in 1992 and 1993.


1987 Buffalo Bills season, Offseason, NFL draft
Another impactful rookie, Cornelius Bennett, was drafted by Indianapolis in 1987, before being traded to Buffalo.


1987 Buffalo Bills season, Personnel, NFL replacement players
After the league decided to use replacement players during the NFLPA strike, the following team was assembled:


1987 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season
Cornerback Nate Odomes was the youngest starting defensive player in the NFL. It was also his rookie season.


1987 Buffalo Bills season, Player stats, Passing
Note: Comp = Completions; ATT = Attempts; TD = Touchdowns; INT = Interceptions


1987 Buffalo Bills season, Player stats, Defense
Note: FR = Fumble Recoveries; TCKL = Tackles; INT = Interceptions; TD = Touchdowns


1987 Buffalo Bills season, Player stats, Special teams
Note: FGA = Field Goals Attempted; FGM = Field Goals Made; FG% = Field Goal Percentage; XPA = Extra Points Attempted; XPM = Extra Points Made; XP% = Extra Points Percentage


1987 Bulgarian Cup Final
The 1987 Bulgarian Cup Final was the 47th final of the Bulgarian Cup, and was contested between CSKA Sofia and Levski Sofia on 13 May 1987 at Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia. CSKA won the final 2–1.


1987 Burgundy 500
The 1987 Burgundy 500 was the third round of the inaugural World Touring Car Championship. The race was held for cars eligible for Group A touring car regulations. It was held on May 10, 1987, at Dijon-Prenois, in Dijon, France.


1987 Burgundy 500
The race was won by Gianfranco Brancatelli and Johnny Cecotto, driving a BMW M3.


1987 Burgundy 500, Class structure
Cars were divided into three classes based on engine capacity:


1987 Burgundy 500, Official results
Results were as follows:| Entered: 39| Started: 38| Finished: 30


1987 Burkinabé coup d'état
The 1987 Burkinabé coup d'état was a bloody military coup in Burkina Faso, which took place on 15 October 1987. The coup was organized by Captain Blaise Compaoré against incumbent far-left President Captain Thomas Sankara, his former friend and associate during the 1983 upheaval.


1987 Burkinabé coup d'état, Events
Sankara was killed by an armed group with twelve other officials, in a gun battle at the presidential palace. Immediately, Compaoré assumed the presidency; he cited deterioration in relations with neighbouring countries as one of the reasons for the coup, and stated that Sankara jeopardised foreign relations with former colonial power France and neighbouring Ivory Coast.


1987 Burkinabé coup d'état, Aftermath
Following the coup and although Sankara was known to be dead, some CDRs (formed by Sankara, inspired by the CDRs in Cuba) mounted an armed resistance to the military for several days.


1987 Burkinabé coup d'état, Aftermath
Compaoré described the killing of Sankara as an "accident", but the circumstances have never been properly investigated. Sankara's body was dismembered and he was buried in an unmarked grave while his widow Mariam and two children fled the nation. The 2015 autopsy had revealed that Sankara's body was "riddled" with "more than a dozen" bullets, as reported by one of the lawyers representing Mariam Sankara.


1987 Burkinabé coup d'état, Aftermath
Compaoré introduced a policy of "rectification", immediately reversed the nationalizations, overturned nearly all of Sankara's leftist and Third Worldist policies, and rejoined the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to bring in "desperately needed" funds to restore the "shattered" economy.


1987 Burkinabé coup d'état, Aftermath
Initially ruling in a triumvirate under the Popular Front with Major Jean-Baptiste Boukary Lingani and Captain Henri Zongo, in September 1989 Compaoré had these two arrested, charged with plotting to overthrow the government, summarily tried, and executed. Compaoré went on to rule the country until he was ousted in the 2014 Burkinabé uprising.


1987 Burkinabé coup d'état, Aftermath, Liberian involvement
Prince Johnson, a former Liberian warlord allied to Charles Taylor, told the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission that the coup was organized by Taylor.


1987 Burlington mayoral election
The 1987 Burlington mayoral election was held on March 3, 1987. Incumbent Mayor Bernie Sanders won election to his fourth and final term as mayor with 55.23% of the popular vote against Democratic nominee Paul Lafayette, a member of the city council.


1987 Burlington mayoral election
Sanders ran his final independent campaign for mayor stating that he would not seek reelection to another term after 1987. The Democratic Party selected Lafayette against Caryl Stewart while the Republican did not run a candidate.


1987 Burlington mayoral election, Campaign, Independent
Incumbent Mayor Bernie Sanders, who had recently came in third in the 1986 Vermont gubernatorial election, announced on December 1, 1986, that he would seek reelection to a fourth term as Mayor of Burlington, Vermont, despite close associates stating that he was tired of being mayor. Sanders stated that he would not seek another mayoral term after the 1987 election stating that "eight years is enough and I think it is time for new leadership, which does exist within the coalition, to come up". During the campaign Sanders raised $37,480, spent $37,034, and had remaining debts of $2,020.


1987 Burlington mayoral election, Campaign, Democratic
Caryl Stewart, who unsuccessfully sought a seat in the Burlington city council from the 3rd ward, and Paul Lafayette, who served as a member of the city council from the 5th ward, stated on August 24, 1986, that they were considering running for the Democratic mayoral nomination. Stewart announced her mayoral campaign on September 16, and Lafayette announced his campaign on December 2. Lafayette defeated Stewart for the Democratic nomination with 636 votes to Stewart's 240.


1987 Burlington mayoral election, Campaign, Republican
Frederick Bailey, a member of the Burlington city council, was considered as a possible nominee for the Republicans, but later announced that he would not run. The Republicans did not select a candidate to run in the mayoral election.


1987 Burundian coup d'état
The 1987 Burundian coup d'état was a bloodless military coup that took place in Burundi on 3 September 1987. Tutsi president Jean-Baptiste Bagaza was deposed whilst traveling abroad and succeeded by Tutsi Major Pierre Buyoya.


1987 Burundian coup d'état, Background
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza was appointed president of Burundi following a military coup in 1976, that deposed Michel Micombero. As president of the Union for National Progress (UPRONA) party, he was the sole candidate in the 1984 presidential election and was re-elected with 99.6% of the votes. During Bagaza's presidency, there were long-standing tensions over the repression of the Roman Catholic Church, in a country where 65% of citizens are practising Catholics. This was later described by diplomats as a key factor in the coup.


1987 Burundian coup d'état, Coup and aftermath
In September 1987, Bagaza travelled to Quebec, Canada, to attend a francophone summit. The army took over, led by Bagaza's cousin, Major Pierre Buyoya. Hearing of the coup, Bagaza immediately returned to Africa but Bujumbura Airport was closed, and in Nairobi, he was refused entrance to Kenya. Following the coup, Bagaza fled to Uganda, and then in 1989, Libya, where he was granted political asylum.


1987 Burundian coup d'état, Coup and aftermath
Buyoya formed the Military Committee for National Salvation to take control, suspended the country's constitution and was inaugurated as president on 2 October 1987. Buyoya, a Roman Catholic, said that he would lift measures imposed on the Catholic Church by Bagaza's government. He was succeeded by Melchior Ndadaye following the 1993 presidential election, and came to power in Burundi for a second time following a military coup in 1996, that ousted Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.


1987 CA-TennisTrophy
The 1987 CA-TennisTrophy was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria that was part of the 1987 Nabisco Grand Prix. It was the 13th edition of the tournament and took place from 19 October until 26 October 1987. Jonas Svensson won the singles title.


1987 CA-TennisTrophy, Finals, Singles
Jonas Svensson defeated  Amos Mansdorf, 1–6, 1–6, 6–2, 6–3, 7–5


1987 CA-TennisTrophy, Finals, Doubles
Mel Purcell /  Tim Wilkison defeated  Emilio Sánchez /  Javier Sánchez, 6–3, 7–5


1987 CA-TennisTrophy – Doubles
The 1987 CA-TennisTrophy was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria. Ricardo Acioly and Wojciech Fibak were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Acioly with Luiz Mattar and Fibak with Henri Leconte. Acioly and Mattar lost in the first round to Mark Dickson and Jorge Lozano, as did Fibak and Leconte to Petr Korda and Diego Nargiso.


1987 CA-TennisTrophy – Doubles
Mel Purcell and Tim Wilkison won in the final 6–3, 7–5 against Emilio Sánchez and Javier Sánchez.


1987 CA-TennisTrophy – Singles
The 1987 CA-TennisTrophy was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria. Brad Gilbert was the defending champion but did not compete that year. Jonas Svensson won in the final 1–6, 1–6, 6–2, 6–3, 7–5 against Amos Mansdorf.


1987 CAA Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1987 Colonial Athletic Association Men's Basketball Tournament was held February 28–March 2 at the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Virginia.


1987 CAA Men's Basketball Tournament
Navy defeated UNC Wilmington in the championship game, 53–50, to win their third consecutive CAA/ECAC South men's basketball tournament. The Midshipmen, therefore, earned an automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA Tournament.


1987 CARIFTA Games
The 16th CARIFTA Games was held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on April 18–20, 1987.


1987 CARIFTA Games, Participation (unofficial)
For the 1987 CARIFTA Games, only the medalists can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website. An unofficial count yields the number of about 115 medalists (67 junior (under-20) and 48 youth (under-17)) from about 13 countries: Bahamas (23), Barbados (11), Bermuda (2), Cayman Islands (4), Dominica (2), Guadeloupe (5), Guyana (2), Jamaica (36), Martinique (9), Netherlands Antilles (1), Saint Kitts and Nevis (2), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (4), Trinidad and Tobago (14).


1987 CARIFTA Games, Austin Sealy Award
The Austin Sealy Trophy for the most outstanding athlete of the games was awarded to Nicole Springer from Barbados. She won the high jump gold medal in the junior (U-20) category.


1987 CARIFTA Games, Medal summary
Medal winners are published by category: Boys under 20 (Junior), Girls under 20 (Junior), Boys under 17 (Youth), and Girls under 17 (Youth). The medalists can also be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series
The 1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series season was the 9th national championship season of American open wheel racing sanctioned by CART. The season consisted of 16 races, and one non-points exhibition event. Bobby Rahal was the national champion, winning his second-consecutive title. The rookie of the year was Fabrizio Barbazza. The 1987 Indianapolis 500 was sanctioned by USAC, but counted towards the CART points championship. Al Unser won the Indy 500, his record-tying fourth victory at Indy.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series
Defending series champion and defending Indy 500 winner Bobby Rahal and his Truesports team made a highly publicized switch from the March chassis to the up-and-coming Lola chassis. Truesports, however, stayed with the proven Cosworth engine. For 1987, the Ilmor Chevrolet Indy V-8 expanded its participation, fielding cars with Penske Racing, Newman/Haas and Patrick. Mario Andretti scored the engine's first Indy car victory in the season opener at Long Beach. Also joining the series full-time was the Judd AV V-8 (badged initially as the Brabham-Honda), and later in the season Porsche made their Indy car debut. Penske resumed their in-house chassis program, but after dismal results with the PC-16, the cars were parked during practice at Indy in favor of the March 86C.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series
Roberto Guerrero won the second race of the season (Phoenix), starting from last position on the grid. Mario Andretti dominated the Indianapolis 500, leading 171 of the first 177 laps, but dropped out with engine failure with only 23 laps to go. Guerrero took the lead, but stalled during his final pit stop. Al Unser led the final 18 laps to win, one of the biggest upsets in Indy 500 history. Though Guerrero faltered at Indy, he would be a factor through most of the season. After winning at Mid-Ohio in September, however, he was sidelined with head injuries due to a testing crash. He was third in points at the time.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series
For the second year in a row, the championship battle came down to Bobby Rahal and Michael Andretti. Rahal took the points lead after back-to-back wins at Portland and the Meadowlands. Andretti won the Michigan 500, and drew within 9 points of Rahal. At Mid-Ohio, Rahal was dominating until he tangled with a backmarker. Andretti had a chance to make up ground in the points, but blew his engine two laps later.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series
Michael Andretti rebounded, winning in dominating fashion at Nazareth. But Rahal charged to finish second, and with two races left, held a 25-point lead. In the next-to-last race of the season at Laguna Seca, Andretti dropped out with alternator trouble, and Rahal mathematically clinched the championship. It was Rahal's second-consecutive CART title, and Michael Andretti finished runner-up in points for the second year in a row.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Teams and drivers
The following teams and drivers competed in the 1987 Indy Car World Series season. All cars used Goodyear tires.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Schedule
One notable change is that there would only be one race at Phoenix International Raceway from this season forward.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Schedule
- Miami was supposed to run for 200 miles (322 kilometers) but was shortened due to rain. O  Oval/Speedway R  Dedicated road course S  Temporary street circuitNC Non -championship event


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Long Beach
Mario Andretti started on the pole position and dominated the Long Beach Grand Prix, his third win in four years at the circuit. It marked the first-ever victory in Indy car competition for the Ilmor Chevrolet Indy V-8 engine. Emerson Fittipaldi was a close second until he dropped out with turbocharger failure.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Phoenix
Roberto Guerrero qualified third, but failed post-qualifying inspection for being 2.5 pounds underweight. He was forced to start last on the grid. Guerrero quickly charged through the field, and was in the top five by lap 46. He dueled with Bobby Rahal for the lead on lap 62, and dominated the second half. Even a stop-and-go penalty for hitting a tire in the pits did not slow Guerrero's run.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Phoenix
Guerrero won by 8 seconds over Rahal, becoming only the fourth driver in modern Indy car history to win a race from the last starting position.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Indianapolis 500
Mario Andretti dominated the entire month of May at Indy. He ran the fastest practice laps, won the pole position, the pit stop contest, and led 170 of the first 177 laps. With only 23 laps to go, Andretti suddenly slowed with a broken valve spring which led to fueling and engine failure. Roberto Guerrero, the winner at Phoenix, stalled in the pits while leading due to a failing clutch, and came home second while Al Unser, who had entered the month without a ride took the lead with 18 laps to go, and recorded one of the biggest upsets in Indy history.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Milwaukee
While leading the race on lap 149, Mario Andretti broke a rear wing, sending the car hard into the outside and inside walls. He was taken to the hospital with relatively minor injuries. Mario's son Michael Andretti took the lead after the accident, locked in a duel with Roberto Guerrero.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Milwaukee
On lap 177, Guerrero suddenly blew his engine, leaving Michael Andretti in the lead. A late-race caution allowed Bobby Rahal to close the gap, but Michael held on for the victory. Rahal finished second.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Portland
Bobby Rahal won his first race of the season, passing Michael Andretti for the lead on lap 70 of 104. Rahal built up a 22-second lead late in the race, but slowed to conserve fuel over the final 10 laps. Andretti closed to within 6 seconds, but managed only second place.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Meadowlands
Bobby Rahal made it back-to-back victories, winning for the second time of the season at the Meadowlands. Rahal also took over the points lead.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Cleveland
Emerson Fittipaldi and Bobby Rahal pitted for the final time on lap 53, both hoping to stretch their fuel to the finish. Fittipaldi pulled out to an 18-second lead, and despite the fuel light flashing over the final five laps, held on to win his first race of the season.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Cleveland
Rahal finished a strong second, and increased his lead in the points standings.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Toronto
Emerson Fittipaldi looked to win his second race in a row, but a final lap mishap almost cost him the race. With Danny Sullivan running second on the final lap, Fittipaldi led by about 4 seconds at the white flag. Down the Lake Shore Drive backstretch on the final lap, however, Fittipaldi became mired in traffic. Through the hairpin, the track was essentially blocked by three backmarkers, which allowed Sullivan to dramatically close the gap. With two turns to go, Sullivan dove below Fittipaldi for the lead, but the two cars touched wheels. Fittipaldi's car stayed straight, but Sullivan spun out.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Toronto
Fittipaldi went on to win, while Sullivan limped across the finish line to hold on to second. Bobby Rahal came home third and padded his championship lead.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Michigan 500
Just as at Indianapolis, Mario Andretti dominated the race. Taking the lead on lap 43, he led the next 114 laps and had a 1 lap lead on his son Michael, in second place, and a 2 lap lead on the rest of the field. But, just as at Indianapolis, his engine blew on lap 156, ending his day.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Michigan 500
With 8 laps to go, Michael Andretti led Indy 500 winner Al Unser and Bobby Rahal. Andretti needed to make his final pit stop, but a faulty clutch nearly cost him dearly. Andretti's car sputtered and nearly stalled as he pulled away, and he lost several seconds.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Michigan 500
Back on the track, Michael maintained a 9-second lead to the finish, with Unser finishing second. Third place Rahal maintained a 9-point advantage over Michael in the points championship.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Pocono 500
Mario Andretti started from the pole and led 22 laps, but gets too low in turn one on lap 89, and crashed hard into the outside wall. He suffers a separated shoulder, his second injury of the season. The rough apron of turn one was stained by lime, which caused Andretti's car to lose traction.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Pocono 500
Rick Mears, who had not won a race in two years, led Geoff Brabham late in the race, but was low on fuel. Mears' car sputtered on the final lap, but he crossed the line under power to take the victory. It was the first 500-mile race victory for the Ilmor Chevy Indy V-8 engine. Brabham, meanwhile, scored a career-best second place, and the best finish yet for the new Brabham-Honda engine. Roberto Guerrero, who led with 17 laps to go, dropped to third when he was forced to pit for fuel five laps from the end.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Pocono 500
Points leader Bobby Rahal came home 5th, and maintained a championship lead of 14 points over Michael Andretti.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Road America
After four months of disappointments and injuries, Mario Andretti finally found the winner's circle for the first time since the season opener. Despite recovering from a separated shoulder, Andretti won the pole and dominated the race wire-to-wire, leading all 50 laps. Geoff Brabham scored his second runner-up finish in a row.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Road America
The top two drivers in the points standings, Bobby Rahal and Michael Andretti, both finished out of the points.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Mid-Ohio
Bobby Rahal was leading by half a lap and looking for his third consecutive victory at Mid-Ohio. With about 12 laps to go, however, Rahal tangled with the lapped car of Rick Miaskiewicz, forcing him to pit with a punctured tire.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Mid-Ohio
Roberto Guerrero blew by the limping car of Rahal to take the lead on lap 74, and Michael Andretti swept into second. Andretti had a golden opportunity to make up ground in the championship hunt, but a few laps later, blew his engine. Rahal climbed back up to second, while Guerrero won his second race of the season.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Mid-Ohio
Four days later, Guerrero would be injured during a tire test at Indianapolis. He was struck in the head by a tire, leaving him in a coma, and sidelined for the remainder of the season.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Nazareth
CART made its debut at the newly reconstructed Pennsylvania International Raceway in Nazareth. Hometown driver Michael Andretti led 150 laps, looking to make up as much ground as possible in the championship hunt against Bobby Rahal.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Nazareth
Al Unser drove substitution for the injured Roberto Guerrero, charging to as high as second place late in the race. With seven laps to go, Unser touched wheels with Jeff MacPherson, and smacked the outside wall coming out of turn 4. Rahal, who had lost a lap after nearly stalling in the pits, moved up to second at the checkered flag. With two races remaining, Rahal held a 25-point lead.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Laguna Seca
With the championship down to two drivers, Bobby Rahal and Michael Andretti, Rahal needed to finish the final two races to hold on to his second-consecutive CART title. Rahal had won the Laguna Seca event three years in a row, going for four.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Laguna Seca
When Michael Andretti dropped out on lap 36 with alternator trouble, Rahal clinched the championship title, regardless of his finish at the final race in Miami. Later in the race, Mario Andretti dropped out, enabling Rahal to take the lead and win at Laguna Seca for a record fourth year in a row. Rahal celebrated in victory lane both the race win and the CART championship title.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Laguna Seca
Also making news at Laguna Seca was the debut of the Porsche Indy car team led by Al Holbert. A week after substituting for Roberto Guerrero, Al Unser was back on the track in another car, this time behind the wheel of the new Porsche. The effort started out on a sour note, however. The car was slow and dropped out after only seven laps with a broken water pump. It would be Unser's lone race with the team, and the only event the chassis would race. The following year the Porsche team would switch to March chassis.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Tamiami Park
With the championship title already decided, Michael Andretti dominated en route to victory, but still finished second in the points standings.


1987 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, Season Summary, Race summaries, Tamiami Park
Rahal, who had won the exhibition Marlboro Challenge a day earlier, finished 7th.


1987 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1987 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 16th CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. It was played between March 6 and March 14, 1987. First round games were played at campus sites, while 'final four' games were played at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan. By winning the tournament, Michigan State received the Central Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


1987 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The tournament featured three rounds of play. The team that finished below eighth place in the standings was not eligible for postseason play. In the quarterfinals, the first and eighth seeds, the second and seventh seeds, the third seed and sixth seeds and the fourth seed and fifth seeds played a best-of-three series, with the winners advancing to the semifinals. In the semifinals, the remaining highest and lowest seeds and second highest and second lowest seeds play a single-game, with the winners advancing to the finals. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


1987 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Conference Standings
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against


1987 CECAFA Cup
The 1987 CECAFA Cup was the 14th edition of the tournament. It was held in Ethiopia, and was won by the hosts. The matches were played between December 13–27.


1987 CECAFA Cup, Group B
After competing one match, Malawi withdrew following the sudden death of the chairman of the FA of Malawi on December 13.


1987 CFL Draft
The 1987 CFL Draft composed of eight rounds where 72 Canadian football players were chosen from eligible Canadian universities and Canadian players playing in the NCAA.


1987 CFL season
The 1987 Canadian Football League season is considered to be the 34th season in modern-day Canadian football, although it is officially the 30th Canadian Football League season.


1987 CFL season, CFL News in 1987
The Canadian Football League celebrated the 75th Annual Grey Cup game at BC Place Stadium on Sunday, November 29.


1987 CFL season, CFL News in 1987
The Canadian Football Network, which was syndicated on Canadian television stations, was created by the league, taking the place of CTV, which ended its partnership with the CFL the previous season. The CFL experimented with their blackout policy by blacking out four televised games in both, Hamilton and Toronto (two in Hamilton and two in Toronto). The cable outlet TSN also began broadcasting the CFL in 1987, gaining the rights to games that had been passed on by CBC and CFN; TSN has aired CFL games ever since, eventually becoming the exclusive broadcaster in 2008. The CFL made money off the CBC and TSN agreements, money that largely covered the startup costs for CFN for the first year.


1987 CFL season, CFL News in 1987
Game rosters were revised from 35 to 34 that included 19 Non-Imports, 13 Imports and 2 Quarterbacks. The reserve list was increased from three to four. Even with these reductions, all eight remaining CFL teams lost money.


1987 CFL season, CFL News in 1987
After losing money for three years, Charles Bronfman sold the Concordes to Norm Kimball, who renamed them the Alouettes the previous year to renew interest in the team, but after losing money during the 1986 season, and playing before sparse Olympic Stadium crowds of less than 10,000, he, along with the CFL decided enough was enough, so they decided that the Montreal Alouettes would fold for the second time, this time for good on June 24 (the first week of the regular season), after the team played two preseason games on the road.


1987 CFL season, CFL News in 1987
With the team's demise the CFL revised the season schedule and moved the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to the East Division to balance out the divisions. The Alouettes, however, would return in 1996 when the CFL's American operations ended with the Baltimore Stallions moving to Montreal to become the third and current incarnation of the team.


1987 CFL season, CFL News in 1987
In January 1987, the league rejected a proposal from Arizona Outlaws owner Bill Tatham to allow the Outlaws, then without a league after the collapse of the United States Football League, to play in the CFL.


1987 CFL season, CFL News in 1987
The single-elimination Semi-Final/Final playoff format (in use since 1972) that was scrapped last season in favour of the "total point series" format was restored; the crossover playoff format was not revisited until 1997.


1987 CFL season, Regular season standings, Final regular season standings
Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points


1987 CFL season, Grey Cup playoffs
The Edmonton Eskimos are the 1987 Grey Cup champions, defeating the Toronto Argonauts 38–36, at Vancouver's BC Place Stadium. This game eventually became the battle of the backups when starters, Matt Dunigan and Gilbert Renfroe became injured leaving backups Damon Allen and Danny Barrett to take over. The Eskimos' Damon Allen (QB) was named the Grey Cup's Most Valuable Player on Offence and Stewart Hill (DE) was named Grey Cup's Most Valuable Player on Defence, while Milson Jones (RB) was named the Grey Cup's Most Valuable Canadian.


1987 CONCACAF Champions' Cup
The 1987 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 23rd edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region (North America, Central America and the Caribbean), the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. It determined that year's club champion of association football in the CONCACAF region and was played from 31 March 1987 till 30 September 1987.


1987 CONCACAF Champions' Cup
The teams were split into 2 zones, North/Central America and Caribbean, (as North and Central America sections combined to qualify one team for the final), each one qualifying the winner to the final tournament.


1987 CONCACAF Champions' Cup
Mexican club América beat Trinidadian team Defence Force 3–1 on aggregate, becoming CONCACAF champions for the second time in their history.


1987 CONCACAF Champions' Cup, North/Central American Zone, Central section, Second round
*Olimpia and Herediano advance to the third round group stage.


1987 CONCACAF Champions' Cup, North/Central American Zone, Central section, Second round
*Saprissa and Real España advance to the third round group stage.


1987 CONCACAF U-17 Championship
The 1987 CONCACAF U-16 Championship was a North American international association football tournament, it determined the 1987 FIFA U-16 World Championship entrants from the CONCACAF region. The 1987 edition of the competition was held in Honduras.


1987 CONCACAF U-17 Championship, Final Group
Mexico and USA qualified to the 1987 FIFA U-16 World Championship in Canada.


1987 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament
The 1987 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament began on 18 April 1987 and ended on 3 May 1987 and was the 8th CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament.


1987 Cal Poly Mustangs football team
The 1987 Cal Poly Mustangs football team represented California Polytechnic State University during the 1987 NCAA Division II football season.


1987 Cal Poly Mustangs football team
Cal Poly competed in the Western Football Conference (WFC). The Mustangs were led by first-year head coach Lyle Setencich and played home games at Mustang Stadium in San Luis Obispo, California. They finished the season with a record of seven wins and three losses (7–3, 3–3 WFC). Overall, the team outscored its opponents 275–173 for the season.


1987 Cal Poly Mustangs football team, Team players in the NFL
No Cal Poly Mustang players were selected in the 1988 NFL Draft.


1987 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team
The 1987 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team represented California State University, Fullerton during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season.


1987 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team
The Titans competed in the Pacific Coast Athletic Association. The team was led by eighth-year head coach Gene Murphy and played home games in Santa Ana Stadium in Santa Ana, California. They finished the season with six wins and six losses (6–6, 4–3 PCAA).


1987 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team, Team players in the NFL
The following Cal State Fullerton players were selected in the 1988 NFL Draft.


1987 Cal State Hayward Pioneers football team
The 1987 Cal State Hayward Pioneers football team represented California State University, Hayward in the 1987 NCAA Division II football season. Cal State Hayward competed in the Northern California Athletic Conference (NCAC).


1987 Cal State Hayward Pioneers football team
The Pioneers were led by head coach Tim Tierney in his 13th year. They played home games at Pioneer Stadium in Hayward, California. The Pioneers finished the season with a record of two wins and eight losses (2–8, 2–3 NCAC). The Pioneers were outscored by their opponents 146–237 for the 1987 season.


1987 Cal State Hayward Pioneers football team, Team players in the NFL
No Cal State Hayward Pioneers players were selected in the 1988 NFL Draft.


1987 Cal State Northridge Matadors football team
The 1987 Cal State Northridge Matadors football team represented Cal State Northridge during the 1987 NCAA Division II football season.


1987 Cal State Northridge Matadors football team
Cal State Northridge competed in the Western Football Conference (WFC). The 1987 Matadors were led by second-year head coach Bob Burt. They played home games at North Campus Stadium in Northridge, California. Cal State Northridge finished the season with a record of seven wins and four losses (7–4, 4–2 WFC). The Matadors outscored their opponents 258–222 for the season.


1987 Cal State Northridge Matadors football team, Team players in the NFL
No Cal State Northridge players were selected in the 1988 NFL Draft.


1987 Calder Cup playoffs
The 1987 Calder Cup playoffs of the American Hockey League began on April 8, 1987. The eight teams that qualified, four from each division, played best-of-seven series for Division Semifinals and Division Finals. The division champions played a best-of-seven series for the Calder Cup. The Calder Cup Final ended on May 23, 1987, with the Rochester Americans defeating the Sherbrooke Canadiens four games to three to win the Calder Cup for the fifth time in team history. Rochester's Dave Fenyves won the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy as AHL playoff MVP.


1987 Calder Cup playoffs
Sherbrooke set an AHL record for goals scored in one playoff with 85. The Cape Breton Oilers tied this record in 1993.


1987 Calder Cup playoffs, Playoff seeds
After the 1986–87 AHL regular season, the top four teams from each division qualified for the playoffs. The Sherbrooke Canadiens finished the regular season with the best overall record.


1987 Calder Cup playoffs, Bracket
In each round, the team that earned more points during the regular season receives home ice advantage, meaning they receive the "extra" game on home-ice if the series reaches the maximum number of games. There is no set series format due to arena scheduling conflicts and travel considerations.


1987 Calgary Stampeders season
The 1987 Calgary Stampeders finished in 3rd place in the West Division with a 10–8 record. They were defeated in the West Semi-Final by the Edmonton Eskimos.


1987 California Angels season
The California Angels 1987 season involved the Angels finishing 6th in the American League west with a record of 75 wins and 87 losses.


1987 California Angels season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1987 California Bowl
The 1987 California Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game that featured the San Jose State Spartans and the Eastern Michigan Hurons.


1987 California Bowl, Background
In four seasons, Eastern Michigan coach Jim Harkema had the Hurons rise from 1-10 to 2-7-2 to 4-7 to 6-5. In his fifth season, they won 9 games in the regular season along with winning the Mid-American Conference title, their first conference title since 1957. San Jose State, on the other hand, had been rising for years. They finished the season with one more victory than they did the year before as they won their 2nd straight Pacific Coast Athletic Association title, which was their 3rd title in the decade, qualifying them for their third ever California Bowl. San Jose State was a 17½ point favorite coming into this game.


1987 California Bowl, Game summary
Gary Patton rushed for 130 yards for the Hurons (who had 212 rushing yards in total while holding the Spartans to 81) in an MVP effort.


1987 California Bowl, Aftermath
Despite having winning seasons the following two years, the Hurons weren't invited to a bowl game. Eastern Michigan changed the name of the team to the Eagles in 1991. The 1995 season under Rick Rasnick (after Harkema resigned in 1992, with two other coaches following him before they were fired) was their last season above .500 until 2016, when the Eagles went 7-5. Even though they finished 6-6 in 2011, the Eagles' two wins over FCS squads resulted in them not being invited to a bowl. In 2016, Eastern Michigan was finally invited to another bowl game, the Popeye's Bahamas Bowl against Old Dominion University. They were beaten 24-20.


1987 California Bowl, Aftermath
As for the Spartans, they would return to the California Bowl in 1990, which was their last until 2006.


1987 California Golden Bears football team
The 1987 California Golden Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Berkeley in the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their first year under head coach Bruce Snyder, the Golden Bears compiled a 3–6–2 record (2–3–2 against Pac-10 opponents), finished in eighth place in the Pac-10, and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 267 to 239.


1987 California Golden Bears football team
The team's statistical leaders included Troy Taylor with 2,081 passing yards, Chris Richards with 668 rushing yards, and Brian Bedford with 515 receiving yards.


1987 California's 5th congressional district special election
A special election to determine the member of the United States House of Representatives for California's 5th congressional district was held on April 7, 1987, with a runoff held two months later on June 2.


1987 California's 5th congressional district special election
Incumbent Representative Sala Burton, who herself was elected during a special election following the previous incumbent's death, died on February 7, 1987 from colon cancer. Her death triggered a special election, leading to multiple people running to finish her term. No candidate received a 50% election in the general, leading to a run-off which former California Democratic Party chair Nancy Pelosi won.


1987 California's 5th congressional district special election, Special primaries
The special election primaries were held on February 7, 1987. Every candidate ran in a nonpartisan blanket primary. If a candidate won 50% of the vote, they would automatically fill in the vacant seat. If no candidate won 50% of the vote, a runoff would be triggered with the top candidates in each party advancing to the runoff.


1987 California's 5th congressional district special election, Runoff election
The runoff election took place on June 2, 1987, with Nancy Pelosi gaining the majority of the vote, winning her the special election for Burton's seat.


1987 Cameroonian Premier League, Overview
It was contested by 16 teams, and Tonnerre Yaoundé won the championship.


1987 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby
The 'Campeonato Argentino de Rugby' 1987 was won by the selection of Unión de Rugby de Tucumàn that beat in the final the selection of Unión Cordobesa de Rugby.


1987 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby
In this edition, eas changed the formula, with 18 teams divided in 6 pools called "Zonas". The winners of each pool go to the "final for title" and the other to a "classification tournament". It was a transition to the new formula, that introduced from 1988 divisions with relegation and promotions.


1987 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, Preliminary Phase
Ranking: 1°Córdoba 4 pt. ; 2° Entre Ríos 2 pt. ; Austral 0 pt.


1987 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, Preliminary Phase
Ranking: 1° Cuyo 4 pt. ; 2° Sgo.del Estero 2 pt. ; Santa Fe 0 pt..


1987 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, Preliminary Phase
Ranking: . 1° Tucumán 4 pt. ; 2° Noreste 2 pt. ; 3° Alto Valle 0 pt..


1987 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, Preliminary Phase
Ranking: 1° Salta 4 pt. ; 2° Mar del Plata 2 pt. ; 3° Jujuy 0 pt..


1987 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, Preliminary Phase
Ranking: 1° Buenos Aires 4 pt. ; 2° Misiones 2 pt. ; 3° Sur 0 pt..


1987 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, Preliminary Phase
Ranking: 1° San Juan 4 pt. ; 2° Rosario 2 pt. ; 3° Chubut 0 pt..


1987 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, 13th Place tournament
Ranking: 1° Santa Fe 4 pt. ; 2° Alto Valle 2 pt. ; Chubut 0 pt..


1987 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, 13th Place tournament
Ranking: 1° Sur 4 pt. ; 2° Jujuy 2 pt. ; 3° Austral 0 pt.


1987 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, 7th Place tournament
Ranking: 1° Noreste 3 pt. ; 2° Rosario 2 pt. ; 3° Sgo.del Estero 1 pt..


1987 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, 7th Place tournament
Ranking: 1° Entre Ríos 3 pt. (+ 33); 2° Mar del Plata 3 pt. (+ 13); 3° Misiones 0 pt.


1987 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, Pool for Title
Ranking: 1° Tucumán 4 pt. ; 2° Salta 2 pt. ; 3° San Juan 0 pt..


1987 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, Pool for Title
Ranking: 1°Córdoba 4 pt. ; 2° Cuyo 2 pt. ; 3° Buenos Aires 0 pt.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
The 1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A was the 31st edition of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, better known as Campeonato Brasileiro.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
The Campeonato Brasileiro Série A in 1987 was commonly given the name of Copa União, by which it was known, but had the official name of Copa Brasil. The competition was divided by CBF in modules: the Green Module (that corresponded to the clubs in the first division) won by Flamengo and with Internacional runner-up; the Yellow Module (that corresponded to the clubs in the second division), of which the champion was Sport and vice-champion Guarani. Champions and runners up of those two modules were to form the final quadrangular. The Blue and White modules formed the equivalent of the Série B.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
Flamengo and Internacional, champions and runners-up of the Green Module, abdicated to participate from the final quadrangular as part of an agreement made by all clubs of the Green Module, forfeiting their berths in the final phase and having their scheduled matches ruled as W.O.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
The origins of the championship date back to 1986. The rules of the 1986 Campeonato Brasileiro determined that the championship would have 80 clubs, divided in four groups of eleven clubs (A, B, C, and D) and four groups of 9 clubs (E, F, G, and H). The six first-placed teams in the A, B, C and D groups would be joined by the best four non-qualified teams, regardless of group, in those same groups, and the champions of groups E, F, G, and H in the second phase.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
In that year, it was also determined that the 1987 Campeonato Brasileiro would have 24 clubs, those being the six best teams in each of the four groups in the second phase. However, Vasco da Gama, after being eliminated in the first phase, attempted to get Joinville's berth in the second phase, since Joinville had won the points of a draw against Sergipe due to one player of Sergipe having been caught in an anti-doping test.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
If that extra point was taken from Joinville, Joinville would fall to 8th place in the group, and Vasco would qualify due to having a better goal difference. As an attempted solution, CBF gave berths in the second phase to both Vasco and Joinville, eliminating Portuguesa, that had appealed to the common courts in an unrelated case about ticket sales. After being threatened with the withdrawal of the clubs from São Paulo, CBF reversed its decision and enlarged the second stage to 36 clubs, qualifying Vasco da Gama, Náutico, Santa Cruz and Sobradinho. Because of that, the 1987 championship was enlarged to 28 clubs.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
As of March 1987, the teams in the First Division would be the seven best-placed teams in each group in the Second stage of the 1986 championship: America-RJ, Atlético-GO, Atlético Mineiro, Atlético-PR, Bahia, Bangu, Ceará, Corinthians, Criciúma,  CSA, Flamengo, Fluminense, Goiás, Grêmio, Guarani, Inter de Limeira, Internacional, Joinville, Náutico, Palmeiras, Portuguesa, Rio Branco, São Paulo, Santa Cruz, Santos, Treze Futebol Clube and Vasco da Gama.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
The other eight eliminated teams (Botafogo, Central, Comercial-MS, Nacional-AM, Ponte Preta, Sobradinho, Sport Recife and Vitória) plus Coritiba, Operário-MS and Remo, would join the other 21 best-placed teams in the 1987 State championships in the 1987 Second Division. Around the same time, Botafogo was still attempting to place itself in the First Level, taking Joinville's place.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
In June 1987, STJD accepted Botafogo's request to be included in the 1987 championship, however, not confirming Joinville's relegation. Soon after this decision, other clubs such as Coritiba and Sobradinho requested their inclusion in the championship, with Coritiba's request being accepted as well.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
In July, Octávio Pinto Guimarães, President of CBF, declared that the entity couldn't pay for the expenses of the clubs unless it found a sponsor, and thus, the clubs would have to pay for their expenses themselves. Otherwise, CBF would have to organize a regional championship to reduce the costs of the trips, to avoid not organizing the championship, since this would an admission of incompetence.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
On July 4, 1987, at Morumbi, the Clube dos 13 (Club of the Thirteen in Portuguese) brought together representatives of the thirteen greatest football clubs in the country at the time. The founding members were Corinthians, Palmeiras, São Paulo, Santos, Flamengo, Vasco da Gama, Fluminense, Botafogo, Atlético Mineiro, Cruzeiro, Internacional, Grêmio and Bahia, which according to a survey by the Journal of the season in Brazil together accounted for 95% of all fans of Brazilian football. And according to the ranking of the CBF, also were the 13 clubs with the best records since 1971.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
The host of the event, Carlos Miguel Aidar, was also elected president of the new entity, remaining in office until April 1990. Thus, the Clube dos 13 organized the Copa União, which would represent the Brazilian Championship that year. The creation of the Copa União came after a reconciliation between the CBF and the Clube dos 13, since a break with the entity could trigger reactions in FIFA. In order to round out the number of participants, the Clube dos 13 invited Coritiba, Santa Cruz and Goiás, that had the best records in the Brazilian Championship and were the most popular teams in their respective states.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
To honor their policy commitments with other national federations in 1987, CBF would organize two championships that were nominated as modules: "Yellow" - considered by several media outlets the Second Division - which would consist of 14 teams that were left out of the Clube dos 13 tournament, along with Vitória and Sport, demoted in 1986. The modules "Blue" and "White" - considered by several media outlets to Third Division - which represent the Second Division. The modules "Blue" and "White" would serve as qualifiers to the Second Division in 1988.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
To reconcile the interests of CBF with the Clube dos 13, Copa Union would be called "Green Module" and, in principle, these clubs called "Yellow Module" that fought a championship would be parallel to the Union Cup for the Club 13 (and for much of the sporting press, only the second division of Brasileirão that year), but in the end there should be a crossover between the champions and runners-up in both tournaments to decide who would be the two representatives of Brazil that would dispute the Copa Libertadores America the following year.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
However, the formula of contention was not accepted by the clubs in Module Yellow, who wanted the Brazilian champion also be defined in such a crossover. The president of the Football Federation of Pernambuco, Fred Oliveira, even declared that the teams in module yellow "will not take the field until you set the crossover module still in 1987". Nevertheless, a preliminary version of the regulation was defined unilaterally on 9 September meeting with Club 13 at the Hotel Transamérica, in São Paulo. This regulation provided the only crossing between modules to define the Brazilian representatives in the Libertadores 1988.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
Though apparently it seemed absurd, there was no reluctance about this proposal and the impasse occurred as resolved. But in late September, CBF began to consider also the "Module Yellow" as first division along with Copa União (called by CBF the "Green Module"). The change of regulation proposed by the CBF would be that this crossover between the champions and runners-up of these two divisions would also decide who was the Brazilian champion of 1987. However, there was no agreement and this led to a major controversy.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
There is also a regulation of Clube dos 13, not stamped by CBF, dated August 6 and another with the final regulation, officiated by CBF and disclosed only on the 1st of October (with the championship already under way) without the approval of the 13 Club and clubs in Module Green, also stating that the champion would be decided in the square, to be held in January 1988. What went against resolução 16/86 which required that the CND championships began and ended the same year. Exceptions only when notified by the federations, which would not have made the CBF to extend the Brazilian championship 1987 until January 1988.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
Eurico Miranda, vice president of football Vasco da Gama (at the time) would have given reason for confusion on behalf of the association by signing a document which provided the crossing when it was proposed by the CBF as an interlocutor in the 13 Club entity, however, the Clube dos 13 only heard the news via press release the following day.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
Still, there had never been an understanding between the two parties: the Club 13 and the other representatives of the clubs in contention for Copa Union never recognized or signed any document accepting the amendment of the regulation that was proposed by the confederation which required the participants crossing between the two modules. As well as the clubs Module Yellow, who even before the start of competition, always explicitly stood against no crossing of groups and later also demanded that the champion (and not just the Brazilian representatives in the Libertadores 1988) was set in the square. According to Eurico Miranda, a representative of the Clube dos 13 at the time, it has signed an agreement for the competition, and what was signed was in conjunction with the members of the Club of 13, according to what was the regulation of CBF.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
Ironically the regulation imposed by the CBF which provided a cross between the champions and vice champions of each module, however, would become unviable in the long run, because in the Yellow module was not defined who was the vice champion, the finalists Sport and Guarani, after extra time in the shootout tied at 11-11 and shared the title in an agreement between themselves. Not contrary to the rules or risk of punishment by the CBF, the Guarani was willing to abdicate Yellow title module.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
According to a lower court decision in the 10th Federal Court of the Judicial Section of Pernambuco, CBF, possession of regulation and tiebreakers, said Sport were champion based on their best campaign. Already the newspapers Diario de Pernambuco and Journal of Commercio reported that on January 22, 1988, the Guarani relinquished the title. The Union Cup of 87 organized by the Clube dos 13 had average  paying audience of 20,877, the second largest in history the national championship.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
In December 1987, the CBF announced this square table, that would be played in round robin and. On January 14, 1988, the 10th Federal Court Section Judicial Pernambuco upheld a lawsuit injunction filed by Sport to ensure the implementation of resolution 16/86 of the CND, which provided, in its Article 5, that any decision making in the Council of Arbitration, convened by Flamengo, would only be valid in case of unanimity. The following day, 29 of the 32 clubs of the modules Green and Yellow attended the Arbitration Council.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
According to the Journal story from Brazil, Sport, Guarani, Nautico, Criciuma, Joinville, CSA and Treze voted for maintaining the crossing. However, according to the Diario de Pernambuco article, only Sport, Guarani, Nautical, Fluminense and Vasco were in favor of the square. Although there is no unanimity, the CND was against the crossing, contradicting the resolution of the entity itself. Claiming that the regulation was amended in the absence of Clube dos 13, Flamengo and International-RS with support of the 13 Club and Carlos Miguel Aidar, refused to dispute the crossing imposed by CBF.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
It was not a simple choice of Flamengo and Internacional, but the fulfillment of a determination of the 13 Club and the Union Cup regulation, which was created by the same entity. Thus, any of the clubs that reached the Grand Final should do the same. On January 29, 1988, CBF held a meeting in their own seat, with almost all the presidents of federations (only Fred de Oliveira-PE and Rubens Hoffmeister-RS did not attend) to examine the accounts of the CBF and try to establish a punishment for if Flamengo and International did not play the quadrangular.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
Under the protests of Flamengo fans, camped in front of the building of the CBF, it has received a vote of confidence of all present "because it demands respect for the Regulation of the Brazilian Championship ". On the same day, the Flamengo Regatta Club filed an appeal in regular courts asking not to be forced to play the intersection. The request was compiled by Judge Tanya de Melo Bastos of 1st Federal Court of Rio de Janeiro. The CBF then threatened to punish the carioca team for failing to contest the quadrangular (after the team was backed in court) but by joining the common law, as well as the Sport.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
With that Sport and Guarani competed in the quadrangular, winning games against Flamengo and International by WO. The CBF declared Sport as Brazilian champion of 1987, while the Club 13, the Arbitration Council and CND did the same with Flamengo. The CBF and Guarani proclaimed Sport, respectively and Guarani vice champion that year, to represent Brazil in the Libertadores Cup. And the case was taken to the ordinary justice system, this, res judicata to the Sport Club do Recife. Ie senteça became permanent for the facts alleged and proven in court during the proceedings. But how is a figure of legal certainty and new facts before the adverse party can question the final decision.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
However, both the CBF itself as FIFA can, if they so decide, take action against clubs who have recourse to ordinary courts. FIFA will not interfere judging or determining the titles of any club in any country that is, but it also does not consider that the ordinary courts are competent to hear a case and usually punish sports clubs that trigger the same. However, even with Flamengo's request to FIFA to intervene in the case and the punishment of Sport-PE, FIFA chose not to get involved in the case and not punish the Sport-PE.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
The following year, the CBF takes responsibility for organizing the Campeonato Brasileiro with leading clubs in the country who would be calling again for Copa União, thus keeping the same name of the competition which was held at Club 13. In 2000, again the Brazilian Championship is organized by the Clube dos 13. Tournament has become known as Copa João Havelange.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
On February 21, 2011 CBF decides finally end the controversy by declaring Flamengo and Sport as champions of 1987 and as vice-champions, respectively, Guarani and Internacional. However this recognition has not occurred for technical reasons. Important part of active sports press in 2011 attributes this recognition to the CBF interests and political maneuvering in order to weaken the Clube dos 13, which was in the process of organizing a new bidding process for the sale of broadcasting rights of Brazilian Football. This part of the press never questioned the legitimacy of the title of Flamengo in 1987, but recognition by the CBF title in 2011.


1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Background
When in 2011 the CBF recognized as Brazilian co-champion Flamengo in 1987, presented the justification that "the decision, made after new and convincing arguments presented by the legal department of Flamengo, the recognition that in 1987 there were two national championships, which had Sport and Flamengo as champions ". That is, since 1987, CBF has always insisted that both modules, Green and Yellow, were two halves of the same league.