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


1987 Cleveland Indians season
The Cleveland Indians finished in seventh place in the American League East. Sports Illustrated magazine predicted that the Indians would finish in first. Club president Peter Bavasi would resign before the regular season began. Bavasi had joined the Indians in November 1984. As president of the Cleveland Indians, he served on Major League Baseball's Executive Council. During the 1986 season, the team had an 84-78 record, its best since 1968, and attendance of 1.47 million, its highest since 1959. There was much optimism that the team would reach its full potential in 1987.


1987 Cleveland Indians season
Sluggers Joe Carter and Cory Snyder were featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated on April 6, 1987, with the headline "Indian Uprising". The Indians were being predicted as the best team in baseball on the back of their two 30+ home run hitters. What sports writers overlooked was that Cleveland had the worst performing pitching staff in the majors, despite the presence of 300 game winners Phil Niekro and Steve Carlton, as well as Tom Candiotti (with Niekro and Candiotti, Cleveland had two starters whose main pitch was the Knuckleball).


1987 Cleveland Indians season
The 1987 Indians would fall well short of SI's bold prediction. They were not above .500 even once all season, and an 8-20 May ended any realistic hope of contention. They finished 61-101, the worst record in all of baseball. The season would go on to be associated with the Sports Illustrated cover jinx.


1987 Cleveland Indians season, Regular season
In 1987, the Cleveland Indians achieved a baseball first. The Indians had veteran pitchers Steve Carlton and Phil Niekro on their roster to add experience. Their most notable accomplishment was appearing in a game together against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. Carlton and Niekro became the first teammates and 300-game winners to appear in the same game. Both were ineffective in a 10-6 Yankee victory. It would be Carlton's first and only pitching appearance at the legendary stadium. Neither pitcher finished the season with the Indians. Carlton would end up with the Minnesota Twins and win a World Series championship. Niekro would be picked up by the Toronto Blue Jays and come within two games of winning the American League East Championship.


1987 Clásica de San Sebastián
The 1987 Clásica de San Sebastián was the 7th edition of the Clásica de San Sebastián cycle race and was held on 12 August 1987. The race started and finished in San Sebastián. The race was won by Marino Lejarreta of the Caja Rural team.


1987 Coca-Cola 600
The 1987 Coca-Cola 600, the 28th running of the event, was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race held on May 24, 1987 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Charlotte, North Carolina. Contested over 400 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.4 km) speedway, it was the 10th race of the 1987 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. Kyle Petty of Wood Brothers Racing won the race.


1987 Coca-Cola 600
Allan Grice made his NASCAR Winston Cup Series debut in this event.


1987 Coca-Cola 600, Background
Charlotte Motor Speedway is a motorsports complex located in Concord, North Carolina, United States 13 miles from Charlotte, North Carolina. The complex features a 1.5 miles (2.4 km) quad oval track that hosts NASCAR racing including the prestigious Coca-Cola 600 on Memorial Day weekend and The Winston, as well as the Oakwood Homes 500. The speedway was built in 1959 by Bruton Smith and is considered the home track for NASCAR with many race teams located in the Charlotte area. The track is owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports Inc. (SMI).


1987 Colchester Borough Council election
Elections to Colchester Borough Council were held on 5 May 1987 alongside local elections across the United Kingdom.


1987 Colgate Red Raiders football team
The 1987 Colgate Red Raiders football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University during the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Colgate finished third in the Colonial League.


1987 Colgate Red Raiders football team
In its 12th and final season under head coach Frederick Dunlap, the team compiled a 7–4 record. Kenny Gamble and Kyle Warwick were the team captains.


1987 Colgate Red Raiders football team
Despite posting a winning record, the Red Raiders finished exactly even on the scoresheet, scoring 236 points and allowing 236 points over the course of the season. Colgate's 2–2 conference record placed third in the six-team Colonial League standings.


1987 Colgate Red Raiders football team
The Red Raiders spent two weeks in the national top 20 rankings, reaching No. 13 in the poll released September 22 and No. 11 on September 29, but then fell out of the rankings and were not ranked at season's end.


1987 Colgate Red Raiders football team
The team played its home games at Andy Kerr Stadium in Hamilton, New York.


1987 College Baseball All-America Team
An All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team position—who in turn are given the honorific "All-America" and typically referred to as "All-American athletes", or simply "All-Americans". Although the honorees generally do not compete together as a unit, the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who are selected by members of the national media. Walter Camp selected the first All-America team in the early days of American football in 1889.


1987 College Baseball All-America Team
The NCAA recognizes two different All-America selectors for the 1987 college baseball season: the American Baseball Coaches Association (since 1947) and Baseball America (since 1981).


1987 College Football All-America Team
The 1987 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1987. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) recognizes five selectors as "official" for the 1987 season.


1987 College Football All-America Team
They are: (1) the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA); (2) the Associated Press (AP) selected based on the votes of sports writers at AP newspapers; (3) the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA); (4) the United Press International (UPI) selected based on the votes of sports writers at UPI newspapers; and (5) the Walter Camp Football Foundation (WC). Other notable selectors included Football News the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), Scripps Howard (SH), and The Sporting News (TSN).


1987 College Football All-America Team, Consensus All-Americans
The following charts identify the NCAA-recognized consensus All-Americans for the year 1987 and displays which first-team designations they received.


1987 Colonial Athletic Association Baseball Tournament
The 1987 Colonial Athletic Association Baseball Tournament was held at The Diamond, home field of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia, from May 14 through May 17. The event determined the champion of the Colonial Athletic Association for the 1987 season. The winner of the tournament, fourth-seeded East Carolina, earned the CAA's automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


1987 Colonial Athletic Association Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding
The CAA's six teams were seeded one to six based on winning percentage from the conference's round robin regular season. They played a double-elimination tournament with first round matchups of the top and bottom seeds, second and fifth seeds, and third and fourth seeds. The new format was a result of American discontinuing baseball, leaving the league with six teams.


1987 Colonial Athletic Association Baseball Tournament, Most Valuable Player
Gary Smith was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Smith was a pitcher for East Carolina.


1987 Colorado Buffaloes football team
The 1987 Colorado Buffaloes football team represented the University of Colorado at Boulder during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season.


1987 Colorado State Rams football team
The 1987 Colorado State Rams football team represented Colorado State University in the Western Athletic Conference during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their sixth season under head coach Leon Fuller, the Rams compiled a 1–11 record.


1987 Columbia Lions football team
The 1987 Columbia Lions football team was an American football team that represented Columbia University during the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Amid a record-setting loss streak, Columbia finished last in the Ivy League.


1987 Columbia Lions football team
In their second season under head coach Larry McElreavy, the Lions compiled an 0–10 record and were outscored 311 to 104. Mike Bissinger was the team captain.


1987 Columbia Lions football team
The Lions' winless (0–7) conference record was the worst in the Ivy League standings. Columbia was outscored 185 to 67 by Ivy opponents.


1987 Columbia Lions football team
By losing all of their games in 1987, the Lions extended a winless streak and a losing streak that began in 1983. The team would later set a Division I record for consecutive games without a win, 47. It would not win or tie another game until October 9, 1988, a win. At the end of 1987, the streak stood at 44 games without a win, and 41 straight losses.


1987 Columbia Lions football team
Columbia played its homes games at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium in Upper Manhattan, in New York City.


1987 Commonwealth Final
The 1987 Commonwealth Final was the fourth running of the Commonwealth Final as part of the qualification for the 1987 Speedway World Championship. The 1987 Final was run on 14 June at the Belle Vue Stadium in Manchester, England, and was part of the World Championship qualifying for riders from the Commonwealth nations.


1987 Commonwealth Final
Riders qualified for the Final from the Australian, British and New Zealand Championships.


1987 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
The 1987 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting was the tenth Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations. It was held in Vancouver, Canada, between 13 October 1987 and 17 October 1987, and was hosted by that country's Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney.


1987 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
The meeting was marked by a confrontation between most Commonwealth leaders, including conference chair Mulroney, and Britain's Margaret Thatcher over the issue of economic sanctions against South Africa with Thatcher opposing sanctions.


1987 Comorian legislative election
Parliamentary elections were held in the Comoros on 22 March 1987. The result was a victory for the Comorian Union for Progress, the sole legal party, which won all 42 seats in the first round of voting. Voter turnout was around 65%.


1987 Comorian legislative election, Electoral system
There were 42 constituencies (increased from 38), each of which elected a single member: 20 on Grande Comore, 16 on Anjouan and 6 on Mohéli.


1987 Connecticut Huskies football team
The 1987 Connecticut Huskies football team represented the University of Connecticut in the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Huskies were led by fifth year head coach Tom Jackson, and completed the season with a record of 7–4.


1987 Constitution of Ethiopia
The 1987 Constitution of Ethiopia was the third constitution of Ethiopia, and went into effect on 22 February 1987 after a referendum on 1 February of that year. Its adoption inaugurated the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (PDRE).


1987 Constitution of Ethiopia, Contents
The document consisted of seventeen chapters and 119 articles. The preamble traced Ethiopia's origins back to antiquity, proclaimed the historical heroism of its people, praised the country's substantial natural and human resources, and pledged to continue the struggle against imperialism, poverty, and hunger. The government's primary concern was proclaimed to be the country's development through the implementation of the Program for the National Democratic Revolution, which Kasahun Ankosa had proclaimed in a speech 20 April 1976. In the process, it was assumed that the material and technical bases necessary for establishing socialism would be created.


1987 Constitution of Ethiopia, Contents
The constitution attempted to situate Ethiopia in the context of the worldwide movement of "progressive states" and made no direct reference to Africa. Critics claim that the constitution was no more than an abridged version of the 1977 Soviet constitution, with the exception of the sweeping powers vested in the presidency. A second difference between the Ethiopian and Soviet constitutions is that the former declared the country to be a unitary state rather than a federation. It was reported that the problem of nationalities was hotly debated in the Constitutional Commission, as well as in the WPE Central Committee, but the regime would not abandon its desire to create a single multiethnic state rather than a federation.


1987 Constitution of Ethiopia, Contents
The 835-member legislature, the National Shengo, was defined as the highest organ of state power. Its members were elected to five-year terms. Executive power was vested in a president, elected by the National Shengo for a five-year term, and a cabinet also appointed by the Shengo. The president was chairman of the Council of State, which acted for the legislature between sessions.


1987 Constitution of Ethiopia, Contents
Actual power, however, rested in the Workers' Party of Ethiopia, defined as the leading force of state and society. More specifically, actual power rested with Mengistu, who was not only president of the country but general secretary of the WPE. He and the other surviving members of the Derg dominated the WPE's Politburo. In essence, the power structure set up by the constitution was a carbon copy of the power structure in other communist countries. The party was granted even more power than the government, which acted more or less as a transmission belt for the party. As was the case with other Communist legislatures, the National Shengo was nominally vested with great lawmaking powers, but actually did little more than rubber-stamp decisions already made by the WPE and its Politburo.


1987 Constitution of Ethiopia, Contents
The Constitution guaranteed all manner of civil rights and personal freedoms, such as freedom of speech, the press, religion, movement, assembly, and association. Citizens also had the right to a fair trial and a free education. In practice, the government paid almost no attention to these freedoms. As had been the case during the Derg era, Ethiopia ranked at or near the bottom of most measures of human rights and civil liberties.


1987 Constitution of Ethiopia, Drafting
The primary task facing the Workers' Party of Ethiopia (WPE) following its formation in 1984 was to devise the new national constitution that would inaugurate the PDRE. In March 1986, a 343-member Constitutional Commission was formed to draft a new constitution based on the principles of scientific socialism. Eventually, the 122 full and alternate members of the WPE Central Committee who had been appointed to its membership dominated the commission.


1987 Constitution of Ethiopia, Drafting
The Constitutional Commission had its origins in the Institute for the Study of Ethiopian Nationalities, which the Provisional Military Administrative Council (better known as the Derg) had established March 1983 to find solutions to problems resulting from Ethiopia's vast ethnic diversity. The Institute was staffed mostly by academics from Addis Ababa University, who continued to serve as advisers to the Constitutional Commission. The commission's diverse membership included religious leaders, artists, writers, doctors, academics, athletes, workers, and former nobility. There was also an attempt by those who chose appointees to the commission to make sure that all major ethnic nationalities had representation in the body.


1987 Constitution of Ethiopia, Drafting
For about six months, the commission debated the details of the new constitution. In June 1986, it issued a 120-article draft document. The government printed and distributed 1 million copies to kebeles and peasant associations throughout the country. During the next two months, the draft was discussed at about 25,000 locations. The regime used this method of discussion to legitimize the constitution-making process and to test the mood of the populace. In some cases, people attended constitutional discussion sessions only after pressure from local WPE cadres, but in other cases attendance was voluntary.


1987 Constitution of Ethiopia, Drafting
Where popular interest was apparent, it centered on issues such as taxes, the role of religion, marriage, the organization of elections, and citizenship rights and obligations. By far the most controversial draft provision was the one that outlawed polygamy, which caused a furor among Muslims. Few questions were raised about the document's failure to address the nationalities problem and the right to self-determination. According to government officials, the citizenry submitted more than 500,000 suggested revisions. In August the commission reconvened to consider proposed amendments. In all, the commission accepted ninety-five amendments to the original draft, most of which, however, were cosmetic.


1987 Constitution of Ethiopia, Referendum
The national referendum on the constitution was held on 1 February 1987, and Mengistu announced the results three weeks later. He reported that 96 percent of the 14 million people eligible to participate (adults eighteen years of age and older) actually voted. Eighty-one percent of the electorate endorsed the constitution, while 18 percent opposed it (1 percent of the ballots were invalid). Although this was the first election in Ethiopia's history based on universal suffrage, the presence of WPE cadres throughout the country ensured that the constitution would be adopted.


1987 Constitution of Ethiopia, Referendum
In Tigray and Eritrea, however, the regime held referendums only in urban centers because much of these territories was controlled by the Tigray People's Liberation Front and the Eritrean People's Liberation Front, respectively. In other places, such as parts of Wollo and Gondar regions, the vote took place amid heightened security measures.


1987 Constitution of Ethiopia, Referendum
Although the constitution officially took effect on the same day the PDRE was proclaimed 22 February 1987, it was not until that September the new government was fully in place and the Derg formally abolished.


1987 Cook Islands Round Cup
The 1987 season of the Cook Islands Round Cup was the seventeenth recorded season of top flight association football competition in the Cook Islands, with any results between 1951 and 1969 and also in 1986 currently unknown. Arorangi won the championship, their second recorded championship, and only the third recorded time since the inaugural season in 1950 that the title had not been won by Titikaveka, following Avatiu's victory in the 1980 season and Arorangi's in 1985.


1987 Copa América
The 1987 Copa América was the 33rd edition of the Copa América, CONMEBOL's national team competition. It was the first Copa América under the new rotational hosting system. Argentina, as the first country alphabetically, hosted the tournament between June 27 and July 12. Uruguay successfully defended their title, winning a record 13th Copa América.


1987 Copa América, Group stage
The teams were drawn into three groups, consisting of three teams each. Each team plays once against the other teams in their group and would receive 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss. The winner of each group advances to the semi-finals. Defending champions Uruguay received a bye into the semi-finals.


1987 Copa América, Goal scorers
With four goals, Arnoldo Iguarán is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 33 goals were scored by 24 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.


1987 Copa América Final
The 1987 Copa América Final was the final match to decide the champion of the 1987 Copa América, the 33rd. edition of this continental competition. It was held on July 12, 1987, in Estadio Monumental in Buenos Aires. Uruguay beat Chile 1–0, achieving their 13th Copa América title.


1987 Copa América Final, Background
Uruguay had eliminated Argentina (reigning World Champion by then) based in their good defense and tactical order. As former defender and Olympic champion José Nasazzi stated, "We make the first 10 fouls of the match and then we win playing fair", that phrase synthesized the Uruguayan rough style of play to prevail psychologically over the rival since the first minute of the match.


1987 Copa América Final, Background
Under that premise, defensive players Obdulio Trasante and José Perdomo applied that rough tactics during the first minutes, carrying the Argentine side to that style of play, confusing their rival. Once the first objective was fulfilled, Uruguay started to play fair, keeping the possession of the ball until the match ended.


1987 Copa América Final, The match
In the decisive match played at Estadio Monumental of Buenos Aires, Chile played dirty, committing a great amount of fouls, with Enzo Francescoli as one of their main victims. Because of that rough style of playing, defender Eduardo Gómez was sent off by Brazilian referee Romualdo Arpi Filho with before the 15 minutes of the match.


1987 Copa América Final, The match
Nevertheless, Francascoli would be also sent off after fouling rival Fernando Astengo. Uruguay won the final through the highlighted performances of Alfonso Domínguez (who controlled the movements of Ivo Basay, Chile's most notable forward), and central midfielder José Perdomo, who played both, defensive and offensive positions.


1987 Copa América squads
These are the squads for the countries that played in the 1987 Copa América held in Argentina. The first round was played in three groups of three teams with Uruguay, as defending champion, receiving a bye to the semi finals.


1987 Copa Lan Chile
The 1987 Copa Lan Chile was the 17th edition of the Chilean Cup tournament. The competition started on February 28, 1987 and concluded on July 22, 1987. Only first level teams took part in the tournament. Cobresal won the competition for their first time, beating Colo-Colo 2–0 in the final.


1987 Copa Libertadores
The 1987 Copa Libertadores was the 28th edition of the Copa Libertadores, CONMEBOL's annual international club tournament. Peñarol won the competition after beating América de Cali in the finals.


1987 Copa Libertadores Finals
The 1987 Copa Libertadores de América Finals was the final two-legged tie to determine the 1987 Copa Libertadores champion. It was contested by Uruguayan club Peñarol and Colombian club América de Cali. The first leg of the tie was played on 21 October at Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero of Cali, while the second leg was played on 28 October at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo.


1987 Copa Libertadores Finals
With both teams having won one game each, a playoff match had to be played at Estadio Nacional in Santiago, Chile. Peñarol crowned champion there after beating América 1–0 at the end of extra time, winning their fifth Copa Libertadores.


1987 Copa Libertadores Finals, Format
The finals was played over two legs; home and away. The team that accumulated the most points —two for a win, one for a draw, zero for a loss— after the two legs was crowned champion. If the two teams were tied on points after the second leg, a playoff in a neutral would become the next tie-breaker. Goal difference was used as a last resort.


1987 Copa Pelé squads
These are the squads for the national teams participated in the I Mundialito de Seniors held in Brazil, in 1987. The tournament was played in a round robin format with Argentina being the winners of this first edition.


1987 Copa Perú
The 1987 Copa Perú season (Spanish: Copa Perú 1987), the promotion tournament of Peruvian football.


1987 Copa Perú
In this tournament after many qualification rounds, each one of the 24 departments in which Peru is politically divided, qualify a team. Those teams enter in the Regional round (8 groups) by geographical proximity. Some winners went to the Division Intermedia and some others with some runners-up went to the National round and then to the Final round. In this edition, for the first time, the Final was not played in Lima, but in Trujillo, and only 4 teams participated. Matches were played in 1988.


1987 Copa Perú, Finalists teams
The following list shows the teams that qualified for the Final Stage.


1987 Copa del Rey Final
The 1987 Copa del Rey Final was the 85th final of the Spanish cup competition, the Copa del Rey. The final was played at La Romareda in Zaragoza on 27 June 1987. The game was won by Real Sociedad 4–2 on penalties, after a 2–2 draw following extra time.


1987 Copa del Rey de Baloncesto
The 1987 Copa del Rey was the 51st edition of the Spanish basketball Cup. It was organized by the ACB and its Final Eight was played in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in the Palacio Municipal de Deportes between 13 and 15 December 1986.


1987 Copa del Rey de Baloncesto
This edition was played by the four first qualified of the 1986–87 ACB first stage, and was the first one played with a Final Eight format.


1987 Coppa Italia Final
The 1987 Coppa Italia Final was the final of the 1986–87 Coppa Italia. The match was played over two legs on 7 and 13 June 1987 between Napoli and Atalanta. Napoli won 4–0 on aggregate.


1987 Corby District Council election
The 1987 Corby District Council election took place on 7 May 1987 to elect members of Corby District Council in Northamptonshire, England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The Labour Party retained overall control of the council, which it had held since 1979.


1987 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship
The 1987 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship was the 78th staging of the Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1909. The draw for the opening round fixtures took place on 21 December 1986. The championship began on 6 June 1987 and ended on 8 November 1987.


1987 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship
On 8 November 1987, Erin's Own won the championship following a 1-06 to 0-08 defeat of Mallow in the final at Rathcormac Sportsfield. This was their second championship title overall and their first title since 1984.


1987 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship
Ballymartle's Martin Fitzpatrick was the championship's top scorer with 1-22.


1987 Cork Junior A Hurling Championship
The 1987 Cork Junior A Hurling Championship was the 90th staging of the Cork Junior A Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board. The championship began on 4 October 1987 and ended on 1 November 1987.


1987 Cork Junior A Hurling Championship
On 1 November 1987, Cloyne won the championship following a 6–08 to 3–06 defeat of Ballincollig in the final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh. This was their third championship title overall and their first title since 1961.


1987 Cork Senior Football Championship
The 1987 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 99th staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887. The draw for the opening round fixtures took place on 21 December 1986. The championship began on 2 May 1987 and ended on 15 November 1987.


1987 Cork Senior Football Championship
On 15 November 1987, Nemo Rangers won the championship following a 2-11 to 0-09 defeat of Imokilly in the final. This was their eighth championship title overall and their first title since 1983.


1987 Cork Senior Football Championship
Ephie Fitzgerald from the Nemo Rangers club was the championship's top scorer with 1-15.


1987 Cork Senior Hurling Championship
The 1987 Cork Senior Hurling Championship was the 99th staging of the Cork Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887. The championship began on 23 May 1987 and ended on 25 October 1987.


1987 Cork Senior Hurling Championship
On 25 October 1987, Midleton won the championship following a 2-12 to 0-15 defeat of N Piarsaigh in the final. This was their fifth championship title overall and their second in succession.


1987 Cork Senior Hurling Championship
Na Piarsaigh's Mickey Mullins was the championship's top scorer with 0-33.


1987 Cork Senior Hurling Championship, Seeding
Seeding was introduced in the draw for the championship after being advocated by County Secretary Frank Murphy for the previous two years. The system of seeding was introduced to safeguard the financial potential of the championship and to avoid "lop-sided" finals. After some debate, Blackrock, Glen Rovers, Midleton and St. Finbarr's were deemed to be the four strongest clubs and were separated.


1987 Cornell Big Red football team
The 1987 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Cornell tied for fourth in the Ivy League.


1987 Cornell Big Red football team
In its fifth season under head coach Maxie Baughan, the team compiled a 5–5 record and was outscored 197 to 154. Lee Reherman, Gary Rinkus and Dave Quarles were the team captains.


1987 Cornell Big Red football team
Cornell's 4–3 conference record tied for fourth in the Ivy League standings. The Big Red was outscored 138 to 128 by Ivy opponents.


1987 Cornell Big Red football team
Cornell played its home games at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York.


1987 Cotton Bowl Classic
The 1987 Cotton Bowl Classic was the 51st edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas, on Thursday, January 1. Part of the 1986–87 bowl game season, it matched the eleventh-ranked Ohio State of the Big Ten Conference and the #8 Texas A&M Aggies of the Southwest Conference (SWC). A slight underdog, Ohio State won by sixteen points, 28–12.


1987 Cotton Bowl Classic, Teams
This was the first Cotton Bowl appearance by a team from the Big Ten Conference.


1987 Cotton Bowl Classic, Teams, Ohio State
The Buckeyes were co-champions of the Big Ten with Michigan, to whom they lost 26–24 on November 22. Ohio State hadn't played a Southwest Conference team since the season opener in 1982.


1987 Cotton Bowl Classic, Teams, Texas A&M
Texas A&M won their second consecutive Southwest Conference championship under Sherrill. A&M aimed to become the second team to win consecutive Cotton Bowls (the first was Texas in  January 1970).


1987 Cotton Bowl Classic, Game summary
Televised by CBS, the game kicked off shortly after 12:30 p.m. CST, ninety minutes after the Florida Citrus Bowl, and two hours before the Sugar Bowl, both on ABC.


1987 Cotton Bowl Classic, Game summary
It was a close game early and Ohio State led 7–6 at halftime. Scott Slater kicked two field goals for the Aggies contrasted with Jim Karsatos's touchdown run. But the second half is where Ohio State and their defense shone; on the third play of the half, linebacker Chris Spielman intercepted a Kevin Murray pass and returned it 24 yards for a touchdown. When the Aggies tried to drive again, rover Sonny Gordon intercepted the ball, his second of the game. Vince Workman capped Ohio State's drive with his 8-yard run midway through the third quarter for a 21–6 Buckeyes' lead.


1987 Cotton Bowl Classic, Game summary
In the fourth quarter, Aggie Roger Vick scored from two yards out, but the two-point conversion attempt was ruled out of bounds, and the Ohio State lead was 21–12 with nine minutes to go. When A&M tried to drive with three minutes to go, linebacker Michael Kee intercepted and returned it 49 yards for a touchdown to seal the win. Despite having less first downs, three passes picked off, and more penalties than A&M, it was Ohio State's defense that was the difference with five interceptions, two returned for touchdowns, and one that led to a touchdown.


1987 Cotton Bowl Classic, Aftermath
The next season, A&M returned to the Cotton Bowl for a third straight year, and won in Sherill's penultimate year as head coach. Ohio State went 6–4–1 in 1987 and fired Bruce. This was the last time Texas A&M and Ohio State met until the 1999 Sugar Bowl, which Ohio State won 24–14.


1987 Cotton Bowl Classic, Aftermath
This was the last Cotton Bowl with a Big Ten team until Michigan State appeared in January 2015, against Baylor. In that game, Michigan State trailed 41–21 in the fourth quarter, then scored 21 unanswered points to pull off a stunning one-point win, the largest comeback in Cotton Bowl history. Ohio State returned in December 2017, where they defeated USC 24–7.


1987 Country Music Association Awards
The 1987 Country Music Association Awards, 21st Ceremony, was held on October 12, 1987, at the Grand Ole Opry House, Nashville, Tennessee, and was hosted by CMA Award winner Kenny Rogers.


1987 County Championship
The 1987 Britannic Assurance County Championship was the 88th officially organised running of the County Championship. Nottinghamshire won the Championship title.


1987 Coupe de France Final
The 1987 Coupe de France Final was a football match held at Parc des Princes, Paris on 10 June 1987, that saw FC Girondins de Bordeaux defeat Olympique de Marseille 2–0 thanks to goals by Philippe Fargeon and Zlatko Vujovic.


1987 Cricket World Cup
The 1987 Cricket World Cup (officially known as the Reliance Cup 1987 for sponsorship reasons) was the fourth Cricket World Cup. It was held from 8 October to 8 November 1987 in India and Pakistan – the first such tournament to be held outside England. The one-day format was unchanged from the eight-team 1983 event except for a reduction in the number of overs a team played from 60 to 50, the current standard for all ODIs.


1987 Cricket World Cup
The competition was won, for the first time, by Australia who defeated their arch-rivals England by seven runs in the second-most closely fought World Cup final to date in Kolkata's Eden Gardens stadium. The two host nations, India and Pakistan failed to reach the final, after both being eliminated in the semi-finals. The West Indies failed to live up to expectations and did not advance from the group stage.


1987 Cricket World Cup, Format
The format of the competition was two groups of four teams each team playing each other twice in fifty-over matches. The top two teams from each group would advance to the semi-finals where the two winners would then advance to the final. All matches were played during daytime and– for the final time in the tournament's history– saw the teams appear in traditional white clothing and use traditional red balls as used in Test/First Class matches.


1987 Cricket World Cup, Qualification
The ICC decreed that all seven (eligible) countries holding Test status would automatically qualify for the tournament; One additional entry place would be awarded to the winners of the 1986 ICC Trophy; for the second time this was Zimbabwe, who defeated the Netherlands to earn the berth.


1987 Cricket World Cup, Knockout stage, Semi-finals
Australia won the toss and chose to bat. The Australian batsmen got off to a very good start, and they scored fluently, with David Boon (65 from 91 balls, 4 fours) top scoring, and making an 82 run second-wicket partnership with DM Jones. Australia were looking to reach 300 with strong batting before Imran Khan took 3 wickets for 17 runs in 5 overs. Australia lost 4/31, but a high number of extras (34) from the Pakistani bowlers, as well as the solid batting from earlier on, brought Australia to 267 (6 wickets, 50 overs).


1987 Cricket World Cup, Knockout stage, Semi-finals
Pakistan started badly, falling to 3/38. Imran Khan (58 from 84 balls, 4 fours) and Javed Miandad (70 from 103 balls, 4 fours) shared a partnership of 112 runs in 26 overs. However, with the required run rate at 7.87 runs when Miandad fell, there was just too much for the upcoming batsmen to do, and Pakistan lost 6/99 as they were bowled all out for 249 (all out, 49 overs). Earlier Steve Waugh scored 18 runs off the 50th over bowled by Saleem Jaffar and ironically Pakistan lost the match by 18 runs.


1987 Cricket World Cup, Knockout stage, Semi-finals
India won the toss and chose to field. After reaching 2/79, Graham Gooch (115 from 136 balls, 11 fours) and captain Mike Gatting (56 from 62 balls, 5 fours) shared a partnership of 117 runs in 19 overs. After Gooch was finally stumped, 51 more runs were added, and England reached 254 (6 wickets, 50 overs). India made a bad start, falling to 3/73. The middle order scored fluently, with Mohammed Azharuddin, (64 from 74 balls, 7 fours) top scoring.


1987 Cricket World Cup, Knockout stage, Semi-finals
Before Azharuddin was removed lbw by Eddie Hemmings, India were at 5/204, needing 50 runs from the last 10 overs, with 5 wickets in hand, and it looked like it would be a very close game. However, the middle and tailend order for India collapsed, as India lost 5/15. India were eventually bowled all out for 219 (all out, 45.3 overs), giving England both a berth in the final and a measure of revenge for the loss they suffered to India in the semi-final of the World Cup four years earlier in England.


1987 Cricket World Cup, Knockout stage, Final
Australia won the toss and chose to bat. David Boon (75 from 125 balls, 7 fours) top-scored for Australia, whose batsmen scored fluently. Australia posted 253 (5 wickets, 50 overs). Mike Veletta (45 from 31 balls, 6 fours) cut loose late in the innings, as Australia scored 65 runs from the last six overs of their innings. In the English reply, opener Tim Robinson was out LBW for a first ball duck.


1987 Cricket World Cup, Knockout stage, Final
Bill Athey (58 from 103 balls, 2 fours) top-scored, and England were almost on target, when captain Mike Gatting (41 from 45 balls, 3 fours, 1 six) handed back the initiative with the loss of his wicket, going for a reverse sweep which ended a growing partnership of 69 runs in 13 overs between him and Athey. Allan Lamb (45 from 55 balls, 4 fours) also posted a great innings, but it was in vain as the required run-rate for England began to rise. When England failed to score the last 17 runs from the final over, the cup went to Australia.


1987 Cricket World Cup Final
The final of the Reliance World Cup was played in Eden Gardens, Calcutta on Sunday 8 November 1987. The match was won by Australia who defeated England by 7 runs to lift their first ever World Cup trophy. This was the first Cricket World Cup final to be played outside England.


1987 Cricket World Cup Final, Background
The match was the fourth World Cup final and was hosted at Eden Gardens, Kolkata. It was the first World Cup final held at a venue other than Lord's, which had hosted the previous three finals in 1975, 1979 and 1983.


1987 Cricket World Cup Final, Background
Australia reached their second World Cup final after defeating Pakistan by 18 runs in the first semi-finals. Their previous final appearance, in 1975, ended in defeat to the West Indies.


1987 Cricket World Cup Final, Background
England reached their second final after defeating India by 35 runs in the second semi-final. Their previous final appearance, in 1979, ended in defeat to the West Indies.


1987 Cricket World Cup Final, Details
Australia won the toss and chose to bat. David Boon (75 from 125 balls, 7 fours) top-scored for Australia, whose batsmen scored fluently. Australia posted 253 (5 wickets, 50 overs). Mike Veletta (45 from 31 balls, 6 fours) cut loose late in the innings, as Australia scored 65 runs from the last 6 overs of their innings.


1987 Cricket World Cup Final, Details
In the English reply, opener Tim Robinson was out lbw first ball. Bill Athey (58 from 103 balls, 2 fours) top-scored, and England were almost on target, when captain Mike Gatting (41 from 45 balls, 3 fours, 1 six) handed back the initiative with the loss of his wicket to an attempted reverse sweep off the occasional off-spin bowling of Allan Border, which ended a growing partnership of 69 runs in 13 overs between him and Athey. Allan Lamb (45 from 55 balls, 4 fours) also posted a great innings, but it was in vain as the required run-rate for England began to rise. When England failed to score the last 17 runs from the final over, the cup went to Australia.


1987 Cricket World Cup Final, Scorecard, Australia innings
Fall of wickets: 1-75 (Geoff Marsh), 2-151 (Dean Jones), 3-166 (Craig McDermott), 4-168 (David Boon), 5-241 (Allan Border)


1987 Cricket World Cup Final, Scorecard, England innings
Fall of Wickets: 1-1 (Tim Robinson), 2-66 (Graham Gooch), 3-135 (Mike Gatting), 4-170 (Bill Athey), 5-188 (Paul Downton), 6-218 (John Emburey), 7-220 (Allan Lamb), 8-235 (Phil DeFreitas)


1987 Cricket World Cup knockout stage, Knockout stage
In 1987 Cricket World Cup, the first Semi-Final was played between Pakistan and Australia at the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, on 4 November 1987, which Australia won by 18 runs. In the second Semi-Final England defeated India by 35 runs at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, on 5 November 1987. Australia and England encountered in the Final on 8 November 1987. Australia defeated England at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, by 7 runs and won the 1987 Cricket World Cup.


1987 Cricket World Cup knockout stage, Semi-Finals, Australia vs Pakistan
Australia won the toss and chose to bat. The Australian batsmen got off to a very good start, and they scored fluently, with David Boon (65 from 91 balls, 4 fours) top scoring, and making an 82 run second-wicket partnership with DM Jones. Australia were looking to reach 300 with strong batting before Imran Khan took 3 wickets for 17 runs in 5 overs. Australia lost 4/31, but a high number of extras (34) from the Pakistani bowlers, as well as the solid batting from earlier on, brought Australia to 267 (8 wickets, 50 overs).


1987 Cricket World Cup knockout stage, Semi-Finals, Australia vs Pakistan
Pakistan started badly, falling to 3/38. Imran Khan (58 from 84 balls, 4 fours) and Javed Miandad (70 from 103 balls, 4 fours) shared a partnership of 112 runs in 26 overs. However, with the required run rate at 7.87 runs when Miandad fell, there was just too much for the upcoming batsmen to do, and Pakistan lost 6/99 as they were bowled all out for 249 (all out, 49 overs). Earlier Steve Waugh scored 18 runs off the 50th over bowled by Saleem Jaffar and ironically Pakistan lost the match by 18 runs.


1987 Cricket World Cup knockout stage, Semi-Finals, England vs India
India won the toss and chose to field. After reaching 2/79, Graham Gooch (115 from 136 balls, 11 fours) and captain Mike Gatting (56 from 62 balls, 5 fours) shared a partnership of 117 runs in 19 overs. After Gooch was finally stumped, 51 more runs were added, and England reached 254 (6 wickets, 50 overs). India made a bad start, falling to 3/73. The middle order scored fluently, with Mohammed Azharuddin, (64 from 74 balls, 7 fours) top scoring.


1987 Cricket World Cup knockout stage, Semi-Finals, England vs India
Before Azharuddin was removed lbw by Eddie Hemmings, India were at 5/204, needing 5 runs an over from the last 10 overs, with 5 wickets in hand, and it looked like it would be a very close game. However, the middle and tailend order for India collapsed, as India lost 5/15. India were eventually bowled all out for 219 (all out, 45.3 overs), giving England both a berth in the final and a measure of revenge for the loss they suffered to India in the semifinal of the World Cup four years earlier in England.


1987 Cricket World Cup knockout stage, Australia vs England
Australia won the toss and chose to bat. David Boon (75 from 125 balls, 7 fours) top-scored for Australia, whose batsmen scored fluently. Australia posted 253 (5 wickets, 50 overs). Mike Veletta (45 from 31 balls, 6 fours) cut loose late in the innings, as Australia scored 65 runs from the last 6 overs of their innings. In the English reply, opener Tim Robinson fell leg before wicket for a first ball duck.


1987 Cricket World Cup knockout stage, Australia vs England
Bill Athey (58 from 103 balls, 2 fours) top-scored, and England were almost on target, when captain Mike Gatting (41 from 45 balls, 3 fours, 1 six) handed back the initiative with the loss of his wicket, going for a reverse sweep which ended a growing partnership of 69 runs in 13 overs between him and Athey. Allan Lamb (45 from 55 balls, 4 fours) also posted a great innings, but it was in vain as the required run-rate for England began to rise. When England failed to score the last 17 runs from the final over, the cup went to Australia.


1987 Cricket World Cup officials
The 1987 Cricket World Cup (also known as Reliance World Cup) was the fourth edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup tournament. It was held from October 8 to November 8, 1987, in India and Pakistan — the first held outside England on twenty-one different venues. A total of 27 matches were played in 1987 Cricket World Cup including 2 Semifinals and a Final match.


1987 Cricket World Cup officials, Umpires
Out of the 12 selected umpires, 4 of them belong to Pakistan, 2 were from England and India each while 1 from Australia, New Zealand, West Indies and Sri Lanka each. The first semifinal was supervised by Dickie Bird and David Shepherd while Tony Crafter and Steve Woodward supervised the second semifinal.


1987 Cricket World Cup officials, Umpires
Ram Gupta and Mahboob Shah were elected to supervise the 1987 Cricket World Cup final.


1987 Cricket World Cup squads
This is a list of cricketers who represented their country at the 1987 Cricket World Cup in India and Pakistan which took place from 9 October 1987 to 8 November 1987.


1987 Cricket World Cup statistics
This is a list of statistics for the 1987 Cricket World Cup.


1987 Cricket World Cup statistics, Team statistics, Highest team totals
The following table lists the ten highest team scores during this tournament.


1987 Cricket World Cup statistics, Batting statistics, Most runs
The top ten highest run scorers (total runs) in the tournament are included in this table.


1987 Cricket World Cup statistics, Batting statistics, Highest scores
This table contains the top ten highest scores of the tournament made by a batsman in a single innings.


1987 Cricket World Cup statistics, Batting statistics, Highest partnerships
The following tables are lists of the highest partnerships for the tournament.


1987 Cricket World Cup statistics, Bowling statistics, Most wickets
The following table contains the ten leading wicket-takers of the tournament.


1987 Cricket World Cup statistics, Bowling statistics, Best bowling figures
This table lists the top ten players with the best bowling figures in the tournament.


1987 Cricket World Cup statistics, Fielding statistics, Most dismissals
This is a list of the wicketkeepers who have made the most dismissals in the tournament.


1987 Cricket World Cup statistics, Fielding statistics, Most catches
This is a list of the outfielders who have taken the most catches in the tournament.


1987 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
The 1987 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré was the 39th edition of the cycle race and was held from 25 May to 2 June 1987. The race started in Grenoble and finished in Carpentras. The race was won by Charly Mottet of the Système U team.


1987 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, Teams
Fifteen teams, containing a total of 131 riders, participated in the race:


1987 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks season
The 1987 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks season was the 21st in the club's history. They competed in the NSWRL's 1987 Winfield Cup premiership as well as the 1987 National Panasonic Cup.


1987 Cupa României Final
The 1987 Cupa României Final was the 49th final of Romania's most prestigious football cup competition. It was disputed between Steaua București and Dinamo București, and was won by Steaua București after a game with only one goal. It was the 15th cup for Steaua București.


1987 Currie Cup
The 1987 Currie Cup was the 49th edition of the Currie Cup, the premier annual domestic rugby union competition in South Africa.


1987 Currie Cup
The tournament was won by  Northern Transvaal for the 14th time; they beat  Transvaal 24–18 in the final at the Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg.


1987 Currie Cup
Naas Botha scored all the points for Northern Transvaal by kicking 4 penalties and 4 drop-goals.


1987 Currie Cup, Competition, Regular season and title play-offs
There were seven participating teams in the 1987 Currie Cup Division A and five in the Division B. These teams played each other twice over the course of the season, once at home and once away. Teams received two points for a win and one points for a draw.


1987 Currie Cup, Competition, Regular season and title play-offs
The top two teams in Division A qualified for the title play-offs, along with the top team from Division B. In the semi-finals, the team that finished second in Division A had to play against the team that finished top of Division B, while the team that finished top of Division A had a bye through to the final. The top two teams in Division B qualified for the Division B finals.


1987 Currie Cup, Competition, Regular season and title play-offs
The venue for the semi-final and the finals are determined by a rotation system. For example, if Team A and Team B played the final at the home venue of Team A on the previous occasion they met in a final, then Team B will host the next final, irrespective of log positions.


1987 Currie Cup, Competition, Promotion – Relegation play-offs
The bottom team on the respective logs qualified for the relegation play-offs. The Division A team played off against the team placed top in Division B. The winner of this match qualified for the 1988 Currie Cup Division A, while the losing team qualified for the 1988 Currie Cup Division B.


1987 Currie Cup, Competition, Promotion – Relegation play-offs
The bottom team on the Division B log qualified for the relegation play-offs. That team played off against the team that won the 1987 Santam Bank Trophy Division A over two legs. The winner over these two ties qualified for the 1988 Currie Cup Division B, while the losing team qualified for the 1988 Santam Bank Trophy Division A.


1987 Currie Cup, Division A: Finals and Play-Offs, Semi-Final
As champions of Division B,  South West Africa qualified to the semi-finals of the Currie Cup competition, where they met Division A runners-up  Transvaal.


1987 Currie Cup, Division A: Finals and Play-Offs, Relegation Play-Offs
In the relegation play-offs,  South West Africa beat  Northern Free State and won promotion to the Division A. Northern Free State were relegated to Division B.


1987 Currie Cup, Division B: Final and Play-Offs, Relegation Play-Offs
In the relegation play-offs,  Griqualand West beat  Eastern Free State on aggregate to retain their place in the 1988 Currie Cup Division B.


1987 Czechoslovak motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1987 Czechoslovak motorcycle Grand Prix was the eleventh round of the 1987 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 22–23 August 1987 at the Masaryk Circuit located in Brno, Czechoslovakia.


1987 DFB-Pokal Final
The 1987 DFB-Pokal Final decided the winner of the 1986–87 DFB-Pokal, the 44th season of Germany's premier knockout football cup competition. It was played on 20 June 1987 at the Olympiastadion in West Berlin. Hamburger SV won the match 3–1 against second division Stuttgarter Kickers to claim their third cup title.


1987 DFB-Pokal Final, Route to the final
The DFB-Pokal began with 64 teams in a single-elimination knockout cup competition. There were a total of five rounds leading up to the final. Teams were drawn against each other, and the winner after 90 minutes would advance. If still tied, 30 minutes of extra time was played. If the score was still level, a replay would take place at the original away team's stadium. If still level after 90 minutes, 30 minutes of extra time was played. If the score was still level, a drawing of lots would decide who would advance to the next round.


1987 DFB-Pokal Final, Route to the final
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).


1987 DFB-Supercup
The 1987 DFB-Supercup was the inaugural DFB-Supercup, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal competitions.


1987 DFB-Supercup
The match was played at the Waldstadion in Frankfurt, and contested by league champions Bayern Munich and cup winners Hamburger SV.


1987 DPR Korea Football League
Statistics of DPR Korea Football League in the 1987 season.


1987 Dallas Cowboys season
The 1987 Dallas Cowboys season was the franchise's 28th season in the National Football League, they improved the record to 7-8 from 1986, but missing the playoffs for the second consecutive season.


1987 Dallas Cowboys season, Summary
The NFL players were unable to reach a contract agreement with the owners, as a result, a strike for the second time in six seasons after the second week of games. Unlike the last strike, the owners replaced the striking players with free agents and veteran players who were willing to cross the picket line. The NFL cancelled all games for the week of September 27 and began playing with the replacement players on October 4. The strike ended on October 15, but the replacement players played the next weekend as well. The replacement players participated in three weeks worth of games overall.


1987 Dallas Cowboys season, Summary
After the Cowboys began the season with a 24–13 loss to St. Louis with an upset over the defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants, the majority of the Cowboys players went on strike. Players that crossed the picket line to play with the replacement players included quarterback Danny White, defensive tackle Randy White, running back Tony Dorsett, and defensive end Ed Jones. Thanks to the veteran players and a few replacement players who would stay on with the team after the strike, the Cowboys fielded one of the better replacement teams.


1987 Dallas Cowboys season, Summary
The replacement Cowboys easily defeated the New York Jets and Philadelphia Eagles, with the Eagles game being of particular note. The Eagles fielded a team completely made up of replacements, and were no match for the Cowboys, who played several of their veterans throughout the game. Eagles head coach Buddy Ryan was displeased with head coach Tom Landry for doing this and afterwards made it clear that he was looking forward to playing the Cowboys in two weeks when the non-replacement Eagles returned. The following week the Cowboys missed an opportunity to take command in the NFC East when they suffered a devastating loss to the Washington Redskins. Despite playing Danny White and Tony Dorsett the entire game against a Redskins team fielded entirely of replacement players, the Cowboys came up short 13–7.


1987 Dallas Cowboys season, Summary
The striking players returned the following week and on October 25, even though the Philadelphia Eagles were already assured of winning against the Cowboys 30–20, they attempted to go for a touchdown with 35 seconds left on the game, after Eagles head coach Buddy Ryan who wasn't happy about the strike game they lost to Dallas, when Randy White) and Ed “Too Tall” Jones were still playing at the end of the game when the Eagles were trying to score from the 10-yard line, instructed quarterback Randall Cunningham to fake taking a knee and to pretend to run out the clock, but instead throw a long pass for the end zone that drew a 32-yard pass-interference penalty, placing the ball on the one-yard line, from where running back Keith Byars scored with 2 seconds left for a final result of 37-20. Dallas came out of the strike with a 3-2 record, but lost 4 straight games in November and December to fall out of playoff contention.


1987 Dallas Cowboys season, Summary
The Cowboys were up and down the rest of the season, following another victory over the Giants with a loss to the woeful Detroit Lions. The Cowboys squandered a 5–4 record down the stretch with a 4-game losing streak, sandwiching heartbreaking losses to the Vikings and Redskins with an embarrassing home loss to the Falcons. After the Falcons game, Cowboys owner Bum Bright questioned coach Landry's play-calling, and Cowboys team president Tex Schramm said of the loss, "this is probably the lowest I've been in my career."


1987 Dallas Cowboys season, Summary
The Cowboys rebounded in the last two games, however, defeating the Los Angeles Rams and the St. Louis Cardinals, and eliminating both from the playoffs in the process. Danny White coached the Cowboys for a brief period during the Rams game when there was a threat against Tom Landry's life. Landry returned shortly from the locker room  and coached the rest of the 29–21 Dallas victory.


1987 Dallas Cowboys season, Summary
Running back Herschel Walker had another terrific season, leading the Cowboys in rushing and receiving, and leading the NFL in yards from scrimmage with 1606, while former star running back Tony Dorsett posted career lows in rushing yards with 456. Quarterback Danny White struggled with turnovers throughout the season, and was replaced by Steve Pelleur late in the season. The Cowboys offensive line had trouble with pass protection again, allowing 52 sacks, while the receiving corps was mediocre, with Mike Renfro leading the way with 662 yards on 46 catches. Defensively, the Cowboys really struggled against the pass, finishing 27th in passing yards allowed, despite posting 51 sacks and 23 interceptions. The Cowboys were solid against the run, finishing 6th overall and only allowing 3.5 yards a carry.


1987 Dallas Cowboys season, NFL replacement players
After the league decided to use replacement players during the strike, besides hiring a new team (referred by the media as "Rhinestone Cowboys"), Dallas forced veterans like Randy White, Ed "Too Tall" Jones, Danny White and Tony Dorsett, to cross the picket line to avoid losing their contract annuities (delayed payments).


1987 Dallas Cowboys season, NFL replacement players
This strategy backfired, as there have been several interviews with former players mentioning that this caused a drift inside the team that lasted for years, and that it was one of the main reasons for the franchise's decline during the Eighties decade.


1987 Daman and Diu by-election
In May 1987 the Indian Union Territory of Goa, Daman and Diu was bifurcated, as Goa attained statehood. Daman and Diu became a Union Territory of its own. Subsequently a by-election for a new Daman and Diu seat in the Lok Sabha (lower house of the Parliament of India) was held on November 7, 1987. The by-election was won by the Indian National Congress candidate Gopal Kalan Tandel, who obtained 17,027 votes. Narayan Srinivasa Fugro, standing as an independent, finished in second place with 9,303 votes. There were also five other candidates in the fray, who all lost their deposits; M.B. Madhavbhai (independent, 852 votes), M.G. Ramzan (independent, 469 votes), B.R. Bhikabhai (NPI, 343 votes), D.B. Mohanlal (independent, 255 votes) and F.A. Anton (independent, 243 votes).


1987 Danish 1st Division
The 1987 Danish 1st Division season was the 42nd season of the Danish 1st Division league championship, governed by the Danish Football Association.


1987 Danish 1st Division
The Danish champions qualified for the European Cup 1988-89 qualification, while the second placed team qualified for the qualification round of the UEFA Cup 1988-89. The two lowest placed teams of the tournament was directly relegated to the Danish 2nd Division. Likewise, the Danish 2nd Division champions and runners-up were promoted to the 1st Division.


1987 Danish general election
General elections were held in Denmark on 8 September 1987. Although the Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing with 54 of the 179 seats, the Conservative People's Party-led coalition government was able to continue. Voter turnout was 86.7% in Denmark proper, 68.9% in the Faroe Islands and 44.9% in Greenland.


1987 Dartmouth Big Green football team
The 1987 Dartmouth Big Green football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College during the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Dartmouth finished second-to-last in the Ivy League.


1987 Dartmouth Big Green football team
In their first season under head coach Eugene "Buddy" Teevens, the Big Green compiled a 2–8 record and were outscored 302 to 113. Matthew Drury and Brett Matthews were the team captains.


1987 Dartmouth Big Green football team
The Big Green's 1–6 conference record placed seventh in the Ivy League standings. Dartmouth was outscored 192 to 46 by Ivy opponents. The team's only league win was a two-point victory over Columbia, a team in the midst of a five-year losing streak.


1987 Dartmouth Big Green football team
Dartmouth played its home games at Memorial Field on the college campus in Hanover, New Hampshire.


1987 Davis Cup
The 1987 Davis Cup (also known as the 1987 Davis Cup by NEC for sponsorship purposes) was the 76th edition of the Davis Cup, the most important tournament between national teams in men's tennis. 72 teams would enter the competition, 16 in the World Group, 32 in the Europe Zone (including 11 in the Africa Zone), 13 in the Eastern Zone, and 11 in the Americas Zone.


1987 Davis Cup
Sweden defeated India in the final, held at the Scandinavium in Gothenburg, Sweden, on 18–20 December, to win their 4th Davis Cup title.


1987 Davis Cup Africa Zone
The Africa Zone served as a qualifying round to the 1987 Davis Cup Europe Zone.


1987 Davis Cup Africa Zone
Teams from 11 African nations competed for 2 places in the Europe Zone main draws. Zimbabwe and Senegal were the winners of the Africa Zone and qualified for the Europe Zone main draws.


1987 Davis Cup Americas Zone
The Americas Zone was one of the three regional zones of the 1987 Davis Cup.


1987 Davis Cup Americas Zone
11 teams entered the Americas Zone in total, with the winner promoted to the following year's World Group. Brazil defeated Ecuador in the final and qualified for the 1988 World Group.


1987 Davis Cup Eastern Zone
The Eastern Zone was one of the three regional zones of the 1987 Davis Cup.


1987 Davis Cup Eastern Zone
13 teams entered the Eastern Zone in total, with the winner promoted to the following year's World Group. South Korea defeated Japan in the final and qualified for the 1987 World Group.


1987 Davis Cup Europe Zone
The Europe Zone was one of the three regional zones of the 1987 Davis Cup.


1987 Davis Cup Europe Zone
32 teams entered the Europe Zone in total, with 11 teams competing in the Africa Zone for 2 places in the Europe Zone main draws, joining an additional 21 teams. The winner of each sub-zone was then promoted to the following year's World Group.


1987 Davis Cup Europe Zone
Switzerland defeated the Soviet Union in the Zone A final, and Denmark defeated Austria in the Zone B final, resulting in both Switzerland and Denmark being promoted to the 1988 World Group.


1987 Davis Cup World Group
The World Group was the highest level of Davis Cup competition in 1987.


1987 Davis Cup World Group
Australia were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the semifinals.


1987 Davis Cup World Group
Sweden won the title, defeating India in the final, 5–0. The final was held at the Scandinavium in Gothenburg, Sweden, from 18 to 20 December. It was the Swedish team's 4th Davis Cup title overall.


1987 Davis Cup World Group, Relegation play-offs
The first-round losers played in the Relegation Play-offs. The winners of the play-offs advanced to the 1988 Davis Cup World Group, and the losers were relegated to their respective Zonal Regions.


1987 Daytona 500
The 1987 Daytona 500, the 29th running of the event, was held February 15 at Daytona International Speedway, in Daytona Beach, Florida. Driving his Coors/Melling #9 Ford Thunderbird, Bill Elliott had a dominant week, winning the pole with a record speed of 210.364 mph, winning the Busch Clash, and finishing second in a photo finish to Ken Schrader in his Twin 125 qualifier  before winning his second Daytona 500.


1987 Daytona 500
After numerous crashes in other races that week, the 1987 Daytona 500 was relatively incident free, with only 4 cautions for 15 laps, and no serious wrecks. For the final fifty laps of the race, Elliott, Earnhardt, Parsons, Baker, Bodine, Petty and Schrader put on a back and forth duel for the win, resulting in a near record average speed of 176.263 mph for race winner Elliott.


1987 Defence White Paper
The 1987 Defence White Paper, titled The Defence of Australia, was a white paper published by the Australian Department of Defence during the Hawke Government introduced by Minister for Defence Kim Beazley.


1987 Defence White Paper, Background
The first Defence White Paper was published in 1976 under the Whitlam government. The 1987 Defence White Paper expanded the emphasis on self-reliance that was established in the 1976 Defence White Paper, no longer focussing defence policy primarily on attracting the attention of powerful allies. These white papers formalised the Defence of Australia policy.


1987 Defence White Paper, Background
The 1987 White Paper was released following the Dibb Review of Australia's Defence Capabilities and the Cooksey Review of Australia's Defence Exports and Defence Industry.


1987 Defence White Paper, Synopsis
The paper affirmed that Australia faced no military threat, barring the remote threat of global war. It asserted that no country had the capacity or motivation, to sustain high level military operations against Australia, though Australia would still be vulnerable to harassment across its coastline and sea approaches. The paper re-affirmed self-reliance and adopted the strategy of defence in depth, as opposed to the publicly unpopular forward defence strategy which saw Australia intervene in the Vietnam War. The paper restated the importance of Australia's alliance with the United States and declared Australia's area of military interest to include much of Oceania and South East Asia.


1987 Defence White Paper, Synopsis
The paper did not announce any new capability projects or any detailed expenditure proposal. However, it did emphasise the need to acquire modern technology such as satellite communications and airborne early warning aircraft.


1987 Defender Selection Series
The 1987 Defender Selection Series was raced between four syndicates competing for the right to represent the Royal Perth Yacht Club as the defender of the America's Cup. Kookaburra III won the series and advanced to the 1987 America's Cup. However, they failed to defend the cup from the challenge of Stars & Stripes 87.


1987 Defender Selection Series, The Syndicates, America's Cup Defence Ltd (Australia II, III and IV)
The highest profile syndicate was the professional and well funded Alan Bond group which had won the 1983 Cup and which had a wealth of experience, having been to Newport as challengers in 1974, 1977, 1980 and 1983. The team won the 1986 World 12-metre championships in convincing style with Australia III. Close Bond associate Warren Jones was the syndicate director and veteran 12-metre helmsman John Longley managed the day-to-day business. Four helmsmen were used in rotation: Colin Beashel, Hugh Treharne, Gordon Lucas and Carl Ryves, with Beashel taking the skipper role in the finals. Beashel and Treharne had extensive previous 12-metre experience. Grant Simmer was the navigator. The crew included Dean Phipps.


1987 Defender Selection Series, The Syndicates, America's Cup Defence Ltd (Australia II, III and IV)
Some commentary has stated that John Bertrand had fallen out of favour with the Bond syndicate because of the publication of his book Born to Win. This cannot be the case as his book clearly states Bertrand's decision to transition from sailing to a business career in the book obviously before it was published. Bertrand was a media commentator for Alan Bond's network during the televised races.


1987 Defender Selection Series, The Syndicates, America's Cup Defence Ltd (Australia II, III and IV)
Two sister boats to Australia II were built, Australia III (KA-9) which was launched on 27 September 1985 and much later Australia IV (KA-16). Australia III's launch was a stage managed event with a lavish ceremony at Royal Perth Yacht Club which included Bond's wife Eileen naming the boat. It was built at Cottesloe by boatbuilder Stephen Ward and designed by Ben Lexcen, the same team which had produced Australia II. The launch culminated in a sedate sail in the Swan River watched by thousands of spectators on the river foreshore.


1987 Defender Selection Series, The Syndicates, South Australia Challenge (South Australia)
The South Australian government provided a $1M subsidy to a syndicate of businessmen led by Adelaide advertising executive Roger Lloyd who contracted Lexcen to design a boat called South Australia (KA-8). The group included support from 150 companies. For $600,000 the group received a new boat which was also built at Ward's boatyard with a similar design to Australia II. As well as design and construction, the syndicate had also contracted with the Australia II team to provide basic crew training. As soon as South Australia was launched, trials between it and Australia II were held and the results considered before the design of Australia III was finalised.


1987 Defender Selection Series, The Syndicates, South Australia Challenge (South Australia)
National small boat champion Fred Neill initially skippered South Australia with 12-Metre veteran Sir James Hardy. Hardy later stood down as skipper but stayed on with the syndicate. New South Welshman Phil Thompson was appointed helmsman and, following poor early showings, became the replacement skipper with John Savage in the afterguard. Irish offshore yachtsman Joe English (sailor) joined as main sheet trimmer.


1987 Defender Selection Series, The Syndicates, Taskforce '87 (Kookaburra I, II and III)
The third syndicate was a well funded group known as Taskforce '87 and headed by Perth businessman Kevin Parry. Taskforce '87 built three boats, Kookaburra (KA-11), Kookaburra II (KA-12) skippered by Peter Gilmour and Kookaburra III (KA-15) skippered by Iain Murray. The afterguard of the Kookaburra boats were combined for the Cup finals, with Gilmour acting as skipper in the pre-race through the start, while Murray would take the helm for the race itself. Gilmour would then move over to mainsheet trimmer. The Kookaburra boats were designed by John Swarbrick and Iain Murray.


1987 Defender Selection Series, The Syndicates, Eastern Australian Defence Syndicate (Australia I and Steak 'n Kidney)
The eastern states team headed by Syd Fischer purchased Australia I (KA 5) as a trial boat while a new boat designed by Peter Cole was built. Steak 'n Kidney (KA-14, named after steak and kidney pie, popular in Australia and to the rhyming slang for the City of Sydney) was launched relatively late in the campaign at a ceremony at the Sydney Opera House in April 1986.


1987 Defender Selection Series, The Syndicates, Eastern Australian Defence Syndicate (Australia I and Steak 'n Kidney)
The design was selected by Cole after testing 22 hull shapes and 11 winged keel variations at the Netherlands Ship Model Basin during 1985. The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron was the syndicate's sponsoring club, and Gary Sheard, an Olympian in Solings was skipper. Steven Kemp was the tactician and Robin Doussen the navigator, Joe English was later recruited during the semi finals after South Australia was knocked out in series 3 .


1987 Defender Selection Series, The Series
The defender series races were sailed on the America's Cup course with the top four boats of Series A, B and C going to the Series D semi-finals. The top two boats entered the finals and the winner entered the America's Cup series as the defender. The buoy is a permanent navigation marker used for shipping in and out of Fremantle harbour and is located 8 nautical miles (15 km) west-north-west of the harbour in Gage Roads Every boat raced each other twice in the first 3 series.


1987 Defender Selection Series, The Series
The six competing boats from four syndicates were Kookaburra II (KA-12), Kookaburra III (KA-15), Australia III (KA-9), Australia IV (KA-16), Steak'n'Kidney (KA-14) and South Australia (KA-8).


1987 Defender Selection Series, The Series
The defender semi-finals were held from 27 December to 9 January between Kookaburra II, Kookaburra III, Australia IV and Steak'n'Kidney after which Kookaburra II and Steak'n'Kidney were eliminated. The final of the defender selection series was held from 14 to 20 January January. Kookaburra III was selected as the official defender.


1987 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team
The 1987 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team represented the University of Delaware in NCAA Division I-AA college football in its second season as a member of the Yankee Conference. They were led by Tubby Raymond, who was in his 22nd season as head coach of the Fightin' Blue Hens. The team played its home games at Delaware Stadium in Newark, Delaware.


1987 Denver Broncos season
The 1987 Denver Broncos season was the team's 28th year in professional football and its 18th with the National Football League (NFL). Games scheduled during the third week of the season were cancelled, and games played from weeks 4 to 6 were played with replacement teams. The Broncos finished first in the AFC West, and were AFC Champions for the second straight year. Quarterback John Elway was voted league MVP for 1987. The Broncos reached the Super Bowl for the second consecutive season and lost for the second straight time 42-10 to the Washington Redskins.


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


1987 Denver Dynamite season
The 1987 Denver Dynamite season was the first season for the Denver Dynamite. Businessman and owner of the Denver Nuggets, Sidney Shlenker announced the forming of the Denver Dynamite. The franchise played in the inaugural four-team "demonstration" season of 1987. Despite the team and league's doubters, the Dynamite tied for the best record in the league with the Pittsburgh Gladiators, going 4–2. On August 1, 1987, the team participated in ArenaBowl I, which they won 45–16 over the Gladiators. The Dynamite were led on offense by quarterback Whit Taylor, and wide receiver Gary Mullen (Mullen won ArenaBowl I MVP).


1987 Denver Dynamite season
After winning the ArenaBowl, Head Coach Tim Marcum was named the league's first ever Coach of the Year. After leading the Dynamite to the Despite averaging the league's best attendance with over 12,000 a game, it did not return for the league's second season due to Shlenker refusing to abide by the AFL's financial rules.


1987 Denver Dynamite season, Roster
Rookies in italics updated February 1, 201322 Active, 0 Inactive, 0 PS


1987 Derby City Council election
The 1987 Derby City Council election took place on 7 May 1987 to elect members of Derby City Council in England. Local elections were held in the United Kingdom in 1987. This was on the same day as other local elections. 15 of the council's 44 seats were up for election. The Labour Party retained control of the council.


1987 Detroit Grand Prix
The 1987 Detroit Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on June 21, 1987, in Detroit, Michigan. It was the sixth Detroit Grand Prix. It was held over 63 laps of the four kilometre circuit for a race distance of 253 kilometres.


1987 Detroit Grand Prix
The race was won by Ayrton Senna in the Lotus 99T with its computer-controlled active suspension. It was the second win in succession for Senna after his victory at Monaco. The Lotus rode the bumpy street circuit far better than the competition allowing Senna to take care of his tyres and cruise to a 33-second victory over the Williams FW11B of Nelson Piquet with reigning world champion Alain Prost finishing third in his McLaren MP4/3.


1987 Detroit Grand Prix
Poleman Nigel Mansell, the only driver ever to lap the 4.023 km (2.5 mi) Detroit circuit in under 1:40 during qualifying, led the race until his stop for tyres, but soon after began to fall away with cramp in his right leg making it hard to push the brake pedal. He later said that he had almost retired due to the pain but managed to finish in 5th place, one lap down on Senna.


1987 Detroit Grand Prix
Prost tried to convince McLaren via the radio that his tyres were OK and he did not need to stop, but he gave in to orders and pitted for fresh tyres. It was there that Goodyear technicians discovered Prost was correct and he had not needed to stop, though this did not alter the call for Piquet to stop as Prost had a reputation of being easier on his tyres than most.


1987 Detroit Grand Prix
Senna's back-to-back victories gave him a two-point lead in the championship over Prost, but it would be a brief surge. Senna would not win again this year. It would also be the last win in the very long history of Team Lotus which began with their first win in the 1961 United States Grand Prix. The next occasion on which a car bearing the Lotus name would win a Grand Prix was the 2012 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, won by Kimi Räikkönen driving for the Lotus F1 team.


1987 Detroit Grand Prix, Summary, Qualifying
Ayrton Senna repeated his 1986 win in Detroit and won his second 1987 race in a row and the second win for a car with active suspension. The win in Monaco three weeks before had proven that Lotus's new system worked, and on the bumpy Detroit circuit, it was even more of an advantage. Superior tyre wear allowed Senna to run the entire race without stopping, and he came home over half a minute ahead of the Williams-Honda of eventual Driver's Champion Nelson Piquet.


1987 Detroit Grand Prix, Summary, Qualifying
Normally, the Detroit race was immediately preceded or followed by the Canadian Grand Prix. In 1987, however, FISA had demanded improvements to the circuit in Montreal, including new pits. When it was determined that these changes could not be completed in time, along with sponsorship problems, the race was cancelled and there would be no Canadian race for only the second time since 1967.


1987 Detroit Grand Prix, Summary, Qualifying
On Friday, Nigel Mansell's Williams was fastest in both qualifying sessions, ahead of Senna's Lotus and Piquet, in the second Williams. It rained on Friday night, but the track was dry for the afternoon session on Saturday. In the final session, Senna briefly took the top spot, but Mansell took it back and ended up more than a second quicker for his fourth pole in five races on the season. American Eddie Cheever was sixth for Arrows, just behind Alain Prost's McLaren MP4/3.


1987 Detroit Grand Prix, Summary, Race
It rained again on Saturday night and Sunday morning, but, after a soaked warm-up on race morning, the start was dry. The first three got away from the grid in order, while Cheever jumped up to fourth and Teo Fabi went from eighth to fifth in the Benetton B187, followed by Michele Alboreto (Ferrari F1/87), Prost, Thierry Boutsen (Benetton B187) and Stefan Johansson (McLaren MP4/3). On lap three, Piquet went wide in a corner and picked up debris that led to a slow puncture. Cheever and Fabi got by Piquet before he was forced to pit.


1987 Detroit Grand Prix, Summary, Race
Three laps later, after repeated attempts to get around Cheever, Fabi put his front wing into Cheever's rear tire, puncturing it and breaking the nose of his Benetton B187. Fabi came around to the pits, driving without a nosecone, but retired the vehicle there. Speaking with CBS' Dave Despain directly after, Fabi confirmed the only problem was a missing wing. Cheever made it to the pits around the same time, losing a lap and rejoining in 19th position.


1987 Detroit Grand Prix, Summary, Race
By lap ten, Mansell was five seconds ahead of Senna, with Alboreto another 23 seconds back in third. Suddenly, Senna felt his brake pedal go soft entering a turn and he narrowly avoided hitting the wall. He decided to back off and allow the brakes to cool, dropping three seconds per lap from his times. Primarily concerned about staying ahead of Alboreto, Senna got a break when the Ferrari F1/87's gearbox failed on lap 25, handing third place to Prost. On the next lap, Senna began to go after Mansell.


1987 Detroit Grand Prix, Summary, Race
On lap 26, Mansell's lead was 18.8 seconds over Senna, but he was beginning to experience cramps in his right leg. A stop for tyres on lap 34 took 18 seconds when the right rear wheel nut refused to seat properly. Holding the brakes on much longer than normal made the Englishman's cramp even worse. Prost, now in second, was struggling with brake and gearbox problems as he stopped for tyres.


1987 Detroit Grand Prix, Summary, Race
Senna set the race's fastest lap on lap 39 at 1:40.464, faster than his qualifying time. Realizing that he was faster on his original tyres than the others were on new ones, he decided to finish the race without stopping to change tyres. The Lotus crew emerged in the pit lane for a time as if preparing for a stop, but it became clear that the Brazilian was not in fact coming in. By that time, he was nearly a minute ahead.


1987 Detroit Grand Prix, Summary, Race
Mansell, by this time, was exhausted, his head rolling from side to side in the cockpit. He said after the race that every time he passed the pits, he thought of stopping. On lap 53, Piquet and Prost passed him, and on lap 56, Gerhard Berger did as well. His perseverance gained him two points for fifth, a lap down, while Cheever took the final point.


1987 Detroit Grand Prix, Summary, Race
Senna eased up toward the end, and with three laps to go the skies were threatening rain. It never became an issue, however, as the rain started to fall after the finish, with Senna crossing the line thirty-three seconds ahead. It was the sixth win of his career, but his last in 1987 and the last for the Lotus team, which eventually folded in 1994. Senna said that his tyres were able to last the entire distance for two reasons: the laps he slowed to cool the brakes, and the smooth ride given by the active suspension.


1987 Detroit Lions season
The 1987 Detroit Lions season was the 58th season in franchise history. In a strike-affected season, the Lions fell further from their 1986 record of 5–11, winning only four games and missing the postseason for the fourth consecutive season.


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


1987 Detroit Tigers season
The 1987 Detroit Tigers season saw the Tigers make a startling late-season comeback to win the American League Eastern Division on the season's final day. The Tigers finished with a Major League-best record of 98-64, two games ahead of the Toronto Blue Jays. Detroit lost the American League Championship Series to the Minnesota Twins in 5 games.


1987 Detroit Tigers season
This would be the last time the Tigers made the postseason until 2006.


1987 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season
After their 1984 championship season, the Tigers finished in third place in the AL East in both 1985 and 1986. The 1987 Tigers faced lowered expectations –  which seemed to be confirmed by an 11–19 start to the season. The team hit its stride thereafter and gradually gained ground on its AL East rivals. This charge was fueled in part by the acquisition of pitcher Doyle Alexander from the Atlanta Braves in exchange for minor league pitcher John Smoltz. Alexander started 11 games for the Tigers, posting 9 wins without a loss and a 1.53 ERA. The deal came at a price. Smoltz, a Lansing, Michigan native, went on to have a long, productive career with the Braves winning a Cy Young Award and eventually gaining entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2015.


1987 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season
Despite their improvement, they entered September neck-and-neck with the Toronto Blue Jays. The two teams would square off in seven hard-fought games during the final two weeks of the season. All seven games were decided by one run, and in the first six of the seven games, the winning run was scored in the final inning of play. At Exhibition Stadium, the Tigers dropped three in a row to the Blue Jays before winning a dramatic extra-inning showdown.


1987 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season
The Tigers entered the final week of the 1987 season 3.5 games behind. After a series against the Baltimore Orioles, the Tigers returned home trailing by a game and swept the Blue Jays. Detroit clinched the division in a 1–0 victory over Toronto in front of 51,005 fans at Tiger Stadium on Sunday afternoon, October 4. Frank Tanana pitched a complete game shutout, and outfielder Larry Herndon hit a second-inning solo home run for the game's only run. Detroit finished the season a Major League-best 98–64, two games ahead of Toronto. The team hit 225 home runs, the most since the 1961 New York Yankees.


1987 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season
In what would be their last postseason appearance until 2006, the Tigers lost the 1987 American League Championship Series to the underdog Minnesota Twins (who would go on to win the World Series) in five games.


1987 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season
The 1987 Tigers' winning percentage ranks as the 10th best in team history, as follows:


1987 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = position; G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In


1987 Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft
The 1987 Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft was the fourth season of premier German touring car championship and also second season under the moniker of Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft.


1987 Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft, Teams and drivers
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1987 Dinefwr Borough Council election
An election to Dinefwr Borough Council was held in May 1987. It was preceded by the 1983 election and followed by the 1991 election. On the same day there were elections to the other local authorities and community councils in Wales.


1987 Dinefwr Borough Council election, Boundary changes
There were a number of boundary changes and some wards were renamed although remaining essentially unchanged.


1987 Dinefwr Borough Council election, Results, Ffairfach (one seat)
The ward used to be known as Llandeilo Fawr South.


1987 Dinefwr Borough Council election, Results, Llandybie (three seats)
The ward used to be known as Llandybie and Heolddu.


1987 Dinefwr Borough Council election, Results, Llanegwad (one seat)
The ward used to be known as Llanegwad and Llanfynydd .


1987 Dinefwr Borough Council election, Results, Llangadog (one seat)
The ward used to be known as Llangadog and Llansadwrn.


1987 Dinefwr Borough Council election, Results, Llangathen (one seat)
The ward used to be known as Llanfihangel Aberbythych and Llangathen


1987 Dinefwr Borough Council election, Results, Llansawel(one seat)
The ward used to be known as Llansawel and Talley.


1987 Dinefwr Borough Council election, Results, Manordeilo (one seat)
The ward used to be known as Llandeilo Fawr North


1987 Dinefwr Borough Council election, Results, Myddfai (one seat)
The ward used to be known as Llanddeusant and Myddfai


1987 Dissolution Honours
The 1987 Dissolution Honours List was gazetted on 30 July 1987 following the advice of the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.


1987 Dissolution Honours
The recipients are shown below as they were styled before their new honour.


1987 Djiboutian general election
General elections were held in Djibouti on 24 April 1987 to elect a President and National Assembly. At the time, the country was a one-party state with the People's Rally for Progress (RPP) as the only legally permitted party. In the presidential election, incumbent president Hassan Gouled Aptidon was the only candidate for the presidency, and was re-elected unopposed. In the National Assembly elections, voters were presented with a single list of 65 RPP candidates. They could only vote against by casting a blank vote or abstaining. The list was approved by 87% of registered voters. Voter turnout for the National Assembly vote was slightly lower at 88.69%.


1987 Donnay Indoor Championships
The 1987 Donnay Indoor Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Forest National in Brussels, Belgium the event was part of the 1987 Nabisco Grand Prix. It was the seventh edition of the tournament and was held from 23 March until 29 March 1987. Second-seeded Mats Wilander won the singles title.


1987 Donnay Indoor Championships, Finals, Doubles
Boris Becker /  Slobodan Živojinović defeated  Chip Hooper /  Mike Leach, 7–6, 7–6


1987 Donnay Indoor Championships – Doubles
Becker and Živojinović successfully defended their title, defeating Chip Hooper and Mike Leach 7–6, 7–6 in the final.


1987 Donnay Indoor Championships – Singles
Wilander successfully defended his title, defeating John McEnroe 6–3, 6–4 in the final.


1987 Dow Chemical Classic
The 1987 Dow Chemical Classic was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts that was part of the 1987 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the 6th edition of the tournament and took place at the Edgbaston Priory Club in Birmingham, United Kingdom, from 8 June until 14 June 1987. The tournament suffered as a result of rain and the doubles tournament was eventually cancelled before completion of the first round matches. First-seeded Pam Shriver won the singles title.


1987 Dow Chemical Classic, Finals, Doubles
The doubles event was cancelled before completion of the first round matches due to the rain.


1987 Dow Chemical Classic – Singles
Pam Shriver was the three-time defending champion and won in the final against Larisa Savchenko, 4–6, 6–2, 6–2.


1987 Dow Chemical Classic – Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.


1987 Duke Blue Devils football team
The 1987 Duke Blue Devils football team represented the Duke Blue Devils of Duke University during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season.


1987 Dunhill Cup
The 1987 Dunhill Cup was the third Dunhill Cup. It was a team tournament featuring 16 countries, each represented by three players. The Cup was played 1–4 October at the Old Course at St Andrews in Scotland. The sponsor was the Alfred Dunhill company. The English team of Gordon J. Brand, Howard Clark, and Nick Faldo beat the Scottish team of Gordon Brand Jnr, Sandy Lyle, and Sam Torrance in the final.


1987 Dunhill Cup, Format
The Cup was played as a single-elimination, match play event played over four days. The top eight teams were seeded with the remaining teams randomly placed in the bracket. In each match, the three players were paired with their opponents and played 18 holes at medal match play. Tied matches were extended to a sudden-death playoff only if they affected the outcome between the two teams.


1987 Dutch Open (tennis)
The 1987 Dutch Open was a Grand Prix men's tennis tournament staged at the Melkhuisje in Hilversum, Netherlands. The tournament was played on outdoor clay courts and was held from 27 July until 2 August 1987. It was the 29th edition of the tournament. First-seeded Miloslav Mečíř won the singles title.


1987 Dutch Open (tennis), Finals, Singles
Miloslav Mečíř defeated  Guillermo Pérez Roldán 6–3, 1–6, 6–3, 6–2


1987 Dutch Open (tennis), Finals, Doubles
Wojciech Fibak /  Miloslav Mečíř defeated  Tom Nijssen /  Johan Vekemans 7–6, 5–7, 6–2


1987 Dutch TT
The 1987 Dutch TT was the seventh round of the 1987 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 22–27 June 1987 at the TT Circuit Assen located in Assen, Netherlands.


1987 Dwars door België
The 1987 Dwars door België was the 42nd edition of the Dwars door Vlaanderen cycle race and was held on 26 March 1987. The race started and finished in Waregem. The race was won by Jelle Nijdam.


1987 E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
The 1987 E3 Harelbeke was the 30th edition of the E3 Harelbeke cycle race and was held on 26 March 1987. The race started and finished in Harelbeke. The race was won by Eddy Planckaert of the Panasonic team.


1987 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1987 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 26th tournament in league history. It was played between March 6 and March 14, 1987. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the 'final four' games were played at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. By winning the tournament, Harvard received the ECAC's automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


1987 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The tournament featured three rounds of play. The four teams that finish below eighth place in the standings are not eligible for tournament play. In the quarterfinals the first seed and eighth seed, the second seed and seventh seed, the third seed and sixth seed and the fourth seed and fifth seed played a two-game series to determine the winner.


1987 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
In the two games no overtime was permitted and if the two teams remained tied after the two games then a 10-minute mini-game would be played where a sudden-death overtime was allowed if the scheduled time did not produce a victor. After the opening round every series becomes a single-elimination game. In the semifinals, the highest seed plays the lowest remaining seed while the two remaining teams play with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers advancing to the third place game. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


1987 ECAC Hockey 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 ECAC Metro Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1987 ECAC Metro Men's Basketball Tournament (now known as the Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament) was held March 3–5. The quarterfinal and semifinal rounds were played on campus sites with the championship game held at McCann Field House in Poughkeepsie, New York.


1987 ECAC Metro Men's Basketball Tournament
Marist defeated Fairleigh Dickinson in the championship game, 64–55 in overtime, to win the school's second ECAC Metro men's basketball tournament title. The Red Foxes earned the automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA Tournament.


1987 ECAC North Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1987 America East Men's Basketball Tournament was hosted by the higher seeds in head-to-head matchups. The final was held at Matthews Arena on the campus of the Northeastern University. Only the top-8 schools made it to the 1987 tournament, therefore excluding both Colgate and Hartford. Northeastern gained its fourth consecutive and sixth overall America East Conference Championship and an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament with its win over Boston University. Northeastern was given the 14th seed in the East Regional of the NCAA Tournament and lost in the first round to Purdue 104–95. Niagara University gained a bid to the NIT and lost in the second round to La Salle 89–81, after beating Seton Hall 74–65.


1987 Eagle Pro Box Lacrosse League Playoffs
The 1987 Eagle Pro Box Lacrosse League Playoffs began in March 1987 with the championship on March 21, 1987.


1987 Eagle Pro Box Lacrosse League Playoffs
all 4 teams made the playoffs, New Jersey Saints in 1st place, Philadelphia Wings in 2nd, Washington Wave in 3rd, Baltimore Thunder in 4th, even though New Jersey and Philadelphia were the top 2, Baltimore and Washington both upset them and Baltimore won the leagues first title.


1987 Eagle Pro Box Lacrosse League season
1987 was the inaugural season of the Eagle Pro Box Lacrosse League. The season began on January 10, 1987, and concluded with the championship game on March 21 of that year.


1987 Eagle Pro Box Lacrosse League season, Regular season
x: Clinched playoff berth; c: Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y: Clinched division; z: Clinched best regular season record; GP: Games PlayedW: Wins; L: Losses; GB: Games back; PCT: Win percentage; Home: Record at Home; Road: Record on the Road; GF: Goals scored; GA: Goals allowedDifferential: Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP: Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP: Average number of goals allowed per game


1987 East Carolina Pirates football team
The 1987 East Carolina Pirates football team was an American football team that represented East Carolina University as an independent during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their third season under head coach Art Baker, the team compiled a 5–6 record.


1987 East Coast Conference (Division I) Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1987 East Coast Conference (Division I) Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 6–8, 1987. The champion gained and an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament.


1987 East Northamptonshire District Council election
The 1987 East Northamptonshire District Council election took place on 7 May 1987 to elect members of East Northamptonshire District Council in Northamptonshire, England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The Conservative Party retained overall control of the council which it had held since the council's creation in 1973.


1987 East Texas State Lions football team
The 1987 East Texas State Lions football team represented East Texas State University in the 1987 NCAA Division II football season. They were led by head coach Eddie Vowell in his second season as head coach. The Lions played their home games at Memorial Stadium and were members of the Lone Star Conference. The Lions finished sixth in the Lone Star Conference. For the first time in school history, the Lions went winless in conference play.


1987 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team
The 1987 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team represented Eastern Illinois University as a member of the Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference (GCAC) during  the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Panthers played their home games at O'Brien Stadium in Charleston, Illinois. Led by first-year head coach Bob Spoo, Eastern Illinois compiled an overall record of 5–6 with a mark of 3–3 in conference play, tying for third in the GCAC.