Huskie Stadium

AP Poll released prior to game

(w/o)

UCLA

yes

Eastern Conference

1968 New York City teachers' strike

The 1968 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game took place on March 23, 1968 between the North Carolina Tar Heels and UCLA Bruins at Sports Arena in Los Angeles. The matchup was the final one of the thirtieth edition of the single-elimination tournament now known as the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament — commonly referred to as the NCAA Tournament — organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

untelevised

1968 National Football League season

Mexico

Cal State Los Angeles

Second round
'''Brown

Oklahoma Sooners

Oklahoma

Denver

USC

Match play – 36 holes

The 1968 NCAA University Division Swimming and Diving Championships were contested in March 1968 at Karl Michael Pool at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire at the 45th annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of University Division men's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.Indiana topped the team standings, the Hoosiers' first title in program history.

Rutgers Scarlet Knights

New Zealand

The 1968 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy (USNA) during the 1968 college football season. Navy competed as an independent with no conference affiliation. The team was led by fourth-year head coach Bill Elias.

1968 Pacific Coast International

football

Tetsuya Yoneda

* Head Coach – Tom Fears

"The Run for the Black-Eyed Susans"

Dayton

BYU

Hard / Outdoor

Army

Penn State Nittany Lions

The 1968 Open Championship was the 97th Open Championship, played 10–13 July at Carnoustie Golf Links. Gary Player won the second of his three Open titles, two strokes ahead of runners-up Bob Charles and Jack Nicklaus. It was the fifth of Player's nine major titles.This Open introduced the second cut at 54 holes, used through 1985. In addition, starting with this Championship all past Open champions were exempt from qualifying (though, eventually, an age restriction was placed on past champions).The inaugural Greater Milwaukee Open was held in the United States during the same week, with a first prize of $40,000, over five times the winner's share of the Open Championship, which was $7,200 (£3,000).The PGA Championship was played the next week in San Antonio, Texas, the fifth and final time in the 1960s that these two majors were played in consecutive weeks in July. The PGA Championship moved permanently to August in 1969 (except 1971, when it was played in late February).

The 1968 Ottawa Rough Riders finished in 1st place in the East division with a 9–3–2 record and won the Grey Cup.

Rioters

The 1968 New Zealand tour rugby to Australia and Fiji was the 21st tour by the New Zealand national rugby union team to Australia and it ended with a match at Fiji.The previous tour by the All Blacks to Australia was the 1962 tour. The Wallabies had visited New Zealand in 1964.The All Backs won all both Test matches and the Bledisloe Cup.Before the first Test Australian coach (and former Wallaby and All Black) Des Connor had studied the rulebook and after consulting with referees, he introduced tactically the first short lineout ever used in a match in the southern hemisphere. This tactic is now a common part of the game at all levels.

Houston

The 1968 Paris Open was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the inaugural edition of the Paris Open (later known as the Paris Masters). It took place at the Palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France and was held from 9 February through 18 February, 1968.Milan Holeček and Nell Truman won the singles titles.

Although the 1967 TT was part of the European Touring Car Championship, the 1968 and 33rd running of the RAC International Tourist Trophy Race, saw a return to Group 7 sportscars. The world’s oldest motor race was the fourth round of the British Sports Car Championship. This was the held at the Oulton Park circuit, in Cheshire, England, on the 3 June.

WPIX

The 3rd Race of Champions was a non-Championship motor race, run to Formula One rules, held on 17 March 1968 at Brands Hatch circuit in Kent, UK. The race was run over 50 laps of the circuit, and was dominated by Bruce McLaren in a McLaren M7A.

1968 Nemzeti Bajnokság I

Location in the United States

III Race of Champions

The 1968 Norwegian Football Cup was the 63rd season of the Norwegian annual knockout football tournament. The Final was held on 27 October 1968. Lyn won. Mjøndalen qualified for the 1969-70 European Cup Winners' Cup as runners-up because Lyn had won the League and qualified for the 1969-70 European Cup.

1968 NHL Amateur Draft

Junior Johnson & Associates

Nell Truman

Arizona State Sun Devils

The 1968 National Football League championship game was the 36th annual championship game. The winner of the game represented the NFL in the third AFL-NFL World Championship Game also called the Super Bowl. The NFL title game was held December 29 at Cleveland Municipal Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio.

First Round

1968 New Zealand Grand Prix

1968 NFL Draft

Nebraska

'''San Jose State

Bob Charles

'''Michigan State

Notre Dame
The 1968 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame during the 1968 college football season.

Oklahoma State

1968 Northern 300

Alabama Crimson Tide

The 1968 Peach Bowl was a college football bowl game between the Florida State Seminoles and the LSU Tigers. It was the first Peach Bowl game ever played.

1968 Pre-Olympic Basketball Tournament

The 1968 Queen's Club Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on grass courts. It was the 69th edition of the Queen's Club Championships, the first to be held in the Open Era, and was played at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom, beginning on 17 June 1968.

1968 NCAA football season

Saint Peter's

Davidson

NYU Violets

1968 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans

J L Thiebaut

John Kulka

Bradley

P Dufour

1968 Pittsburgh riots

Alabama

Long Island

Ned Jarrett

Oklahoma State Cowboys

Volunteers

Gary Player

'''Bob Carmichael

Duke

'''P Beust

The 1968 Pro Bowl was the National Football League's eighteenth annual all-star game which featured the outstanding performers from the 1967 season. The game was played on January 21, 1968, at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. The final score was West 38, East 20. Gale Sayers of the Chicago Bears was named the back of the game for the second year in a row and Dave Robinson of the Green Bay Packers received the lineman of the game honors.Attendance at the game was 53,289. The game had controversy because East coach Otto Graham of the Washington Redskins benched quarterback Fran Tarkenton in the fourth quarter. Some players questioned the benching of a player of Tarkenton’s stature in a charity game. The coach of the West squad was Don Shula of the Baltimore Colts, who won his second Pro Bowl in four years.

Sunny

The 1968 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament involved 23 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 8, 1968, and ended with the championship game on March 23 in Los Angeles, California. A total of 27 games were played, including a third place game in each region and a national third place game.UCLA, coached by John Wooden, won the national title with a 78–55 victory in the final game over North Carolina, coached by Dean Smith. Lew Alcindor of UCLA was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player for the second of three consecutive years. This UCLA team, composed of three All-Americans, Player of the Year Alcindor, Lucius Allen, and Mike Warren, along with dead eye pure shooter Lynn Shackleford (most of his shots would be 3 pointers today) and burly senior power forward Mike Lynn is considered to be one of the greatest teams in college basketball history.The NCAA semi-final match between the Houston Cougars and UCLA Bruins was a re-match of the college basketball Game of the Century held in January at the Astrodome, in the Cougars' home city. The match was historic, the first nationally syndicated college basketball game and the first to play in a domed stadium before more than 52,000 fans. It was UCLA's only loss in two years, a two-pointer, to the then-#2 Houston, but with UCLA's dominating center Alcindor playing with an eye injury that limited his effectiveness after being hospitalized the week before. The loss broke a 47-game winning streak for UCLA. In the March NCAA Tournament Final 4, the Bruins at full strength avenged that loss with a 101–69 drubbing of that same Houston team, now ranked #1, in UCLA's home city at the Memorial Sports Arena. UCLA limited Houston's Elvin Hayes, who was averaging 37.7 points per game but was held to only 10. Bruins coach John Wooden credited his assistant, Jerry Norman, for devising the diamond-and-one defense that contained Hayes.

Saints seasons

'''M Leclercq

1968 NFL Championship Game

Brown

DE Buddy Millican

Santa Clara
National Semifinals

Nippon Professional Baseball Most Valuable Player Award

New Mexico
The following poll makes up the 1968 NCAA University Division baseball rankings. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper published its first human poll of the top 20 teams in college baseball in 1957, and expanded to rank the top 30 teams in 1961.

'''P Dominguez

Pacific League Pennant

The 1968 New Orleans Saints season was the team's second as a member of the National Football League (NFL). They improved on their previous season's output of 3–11, winning four games. The team failed to qualify for the playoffs for the second consecutive season, and finished third in the Century Division of the NFL Eastern Conference.

1968 Ohio Bobcats football team

New Mexico Lobos

Clyde Williams Field, Ames, Iowa

Marquette

National Challenge Cup

Wyoming at #14 Nebraska [box score]
Nebraska Cornhuskers

National Championship Game

Larry Miller 3

East Carolina

Kansas State

Boston College

#9 Nebraska

UCLA Bruins

Ohio State

Peach Bowl

Third Place Game

The 1968 NCAA University Division Outdoor Track and Field Championships were contested June 13−15 at the 46th annual NCAA-sanctioned track meet to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate University Division outdoor track and field events in the United States.This year's outdoor meet was hosted by the University of California at Edwards Stadium in Berkeley.USC edged out Washington State by one point in the team standings to claim their twenty-fifth national title.

'''C Duxin

College World Series

LeeRoy Yarbrough

Julius Boros

Nebraska Cornhuskers logo.svg

Southeastern Conference

1968 PTS

Minnesota

Harvard Crimson

Mild with temperatures approaching ; wind speeds of up to

'''Saint Louis

George Kelly

NIT

Cornell

St. John's

Valparaiso Crusaders

Billy Rose

Oklahoma Memorial Stadium

1968 Pueblo Crisis

The 1968 National Challenge Cup was the 55th edition of the United States Soccer Football Association's annual open soccer championship. No North American Soccer League teams played in the tournament because it was during the offseason and it was when National Professional Soccer League and United Soccer Association were merging at the time. In the end, New York Greek American Atlas F.C. won its second of three straight National Cups.

Australia e Fiji

TCU

'''J-P Olivier

Florida

1968 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship

Hartwick College

Peter Thomson

East Carolina Pirates

Trenton Speedway, featuring its "kidney bean" shape.

Berkeley Tennis Club

NC State Wolfpack

The 1968 Preakness Stakes was the 93rd running of the $200,000 Preakness Stakes thoroughbred horse race. The race took place on May 18, 1968, and was televised in the United States on the CBS television network. Forward Pass, who was jockeyed by Ismael Valenzuela, won the race by six lengths over runner-up Out Of The Way. Approximate post time was 5:31 p.m. Eastern Time. The race was run on a fast track in a final time of 1:56-4/5. The Maryland Jockey Club reported total attendance of 40,247, this is recorded as second highest on the list of American thoroughbred racing top attended events for North America in 1968.

List of Nippon Professional Baseball seasons

'''D Contet

Florida State

Warm with temperatures approaching ; wind speeds up to

1968 Peruvian Segunda Division

The 1968 NCAA University Division Cross Country Championships were the 30th annual cross country meet to determine the team and individual national champions of men's collegiate cross country running in the United States. Held on November 25, 1968, the meet was hosted by Manhattan College at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, New York City, New York. The distance for this race was 6 miles (9.7 kilometers).All NCAA University Division members were eligible to qualify for the meet.

Arnold Palmer

1968 NCAA University Division baseball season

L Lumsden

and Tom Brookshier

'''I El Shafei

Shigeru Takada

New Orleans Saints

Texas

The 1968 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 87th season of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise; the 82nd in the National League. The Pirates finished sixth in the league standings with a record of 80–82.

1968 PGA Championship

The 1968 New Zealand tour rugby to Australia and Fiji was the 21st tour by the New Zealand national rugby union team to Australia and it ended with a match at Fiji.The previous tour by the All Blacks to Australia was the 1962 tour.

The 1968 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 19th season of operation of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

No Scoring

Patrice Beust / Daniel Contet

'''B Carmichael
E Derasse

#14 Nebraska

1968 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship

The 1968 New York City riot was a disturbance sparked by the assassination of Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968. Harlem, the largest African-American neighborhood in Manhattan was expected to erupt into looting and violence like it had done a year earlier, in which two dozen stores were either burglarized or burned and three people were killed. However, Mayor John Lindsay traveled into the heart of the area and stated that he regretted King’s wrongful death which led to the calming of residents. Numerous businesses were still looted and set afire in Harlem and Brooklyn, although these events were not widespread and paled in comparison to the riots in Washington D.C., Baltimore, and Chicago in which federal troops were needed to quell the disorders.

NBC

F Matheu
'''P Hombergen

top

1968 Nemzeti Bajnoksag I (women's handball)

The 1968 Prize of Moscow News was the third edition of an international figure skating competition organized in Moscow, Soviet Union. It was held December 12–15, 1968. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating and ice dancing. Soviet skaters Sergei Chetverukhin and Elena Shcheglova won the singles categories. The Soviet Union swept the pairs' podium, led by Tamara Moskvina / Alexei Mishin, who defeated Irina Rodnina / Alexei Ulanov.

1968 Oscars

Harvard

Norman, Oklahoma

F Pala

Steve Zabel 16-yard pass from Bob Warmack

Wyoming

1968 Race of Champions

1968 Orange Bowl

Oxford, MS

J-C Barclay

bottom

Lew Alcindor 34

1968 Northern Illinois Huskies football team

Greek American AA

John W. Galbreath ; Bing Crosby, Thomas Johnson

The 1968 New York Yankees season was the 66th season for the team in New York, and its 68th season overall. The team finished above .500 for the first time since 1964, with a record of 83–79, finishing 20 games behind the Detroit Tigers. New York was managed by Ralph Houk. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium. The 1968 season was notable for being Mickey Mantle's final season before he announced his retirement the following spring.

Semifinals

J de Mendoza

The 1968 New Zealand Grand Prix was a race held at the Pukekohe Park Raceway on 6 January 1968. The race had 21 starters.It was the 15th New Zealand Grand Prix, and doubled as the opening round of the 1968 Tasman Series. Chris Amon became the third New Zealander to win his home GP, joining Bruce McLaren and original GP winner John McMillan.

1968 Peach State 200

Hanover, New Hampshire

Tony Jacklin

First round

Statistics of Norwegian First Division in season 1968.

J Thamin

none

Memphis

1968 Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo)

The 34th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honored the best filmmaking of 1967.

'''Air Force

The 1968 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game took place on March 23, 1968 between the North Carolina Tar Heels and UCLA Bruins at Sports Arena in Los Angeles. The matchup was the final one of the thirtieth edition of the single-elimination tournament now known as the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament — commonly referred to as the NCAA Tournament — organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). It was used to crown a national champion for men's basketball in the NCAA's University Division, the predecessor to what has been known since 1973 as NCAA Division I.

United States

Maria Bueno / Margaret Court

Southern Illinois Salukis

Fairleigh Dickinson

1968 Olympics black power salute

Pennsylvania National Guard

E Drossart

Western Conference

North Dakota

QB Mike Hillman

DeKalb, IL

The 1968 Peach State 200 was a NASCAR Grand National Series (now Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series) event that was held on November 3, 1968, at Jefco Speedway in Jefferson, Georgia.The transition to purpose-built racecars began in the early 1960s and occurred gradually over that decade. Changes made to the sport by the late 1960s brought an end to the "strictly stock" vehicles of the 1950s; most of the cars were trailered to events or hauled in by trucks.

Sooners

East Tennessee State

1968 Norwegian Football Cup

Quarterfinals

'''J-P Meyer

Detroit, Michigan

1968 Paris riots

1968 NHL Entry Draft

1968 NCAA University Division Cross Country Championships

'''Temple

Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium

Florida State Seminoles

(San Antonio)

ND 7-0

NC State

Finals

1968 National Hockey League All-Star Game

Independent

Temple

A Licis

Big 8

Ohio

The 1968 Pittsburgh Panthers football team represented the University of Pittsburgh in the 1968 college football season. The team compiled a 1–9 record under head coach Dave Hart. The team's statistical leaders included Dave Havern with 1,810 passing yards and Denny Ferris with 472 rushing yards.

Nebraska at Oklahoma State [box score]

Michel Plasse

The 1968 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1968 college football season. The team was coached by Bob Devaney and played their home games in Memorial Stadium in Lincoln.The Huskers were 6–4, but had a losing record in conference at 3–4. They lost three Big 8 games at home and were shut out 47–0 at Oklahoma in the season finale. Nebraska did not play in a bowl game for the second consecutive year; the next season without a bowl was 36 years later in 2004. The home shut out against Kansas State was the last time they have been shut out at home as of 2017 season.Following 1968, Tom Osborne was promoted to offensive coordinator and installed the I formation offense. This led to a 9–2 record in 1969 and consecutive undefeated national championship seasons in 1970 and 1971.

Valparaiso

Louisville

G Goven

Jackson, MS

1968 Preakness Stakes

Loyola–Chicago

Pittsburgh, PA

Kansas

Final

Pitt Stadium

The 1968 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament involved 23 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 8, 1968, and ended with the championship game on March 23 in Los Angeles, California.

Big Eight Conference

nflc

Semi-finals

L 42–49 vs. Richmond

1968 Norwegian First Division

Cal Poly Pomona Broncos

Location in Texas

Pacific Coast Championships

NPB

Bob Carmichael

1968 North American Soccer League

Lee Trevino

Tennessee-Chattanooga

Cal Poly Pomona

1968 PGA Tour

'''D Grozdanovitch

Southern Illinois

Big Eight co-champion

ncg

Memphis, TN

1968 National Challenge Cup

The Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature winners in 1968 (rank, title of winning entry, name of author).

T Bernasconi
'''G Battrick

West Chester

University Park, PA

H Pelizza

1968 National Invitation Tournament

Championship Course

1968 NCAA University Division Swimming and Diving Championships

#20 Missouri

1968 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team

1968 Palanca Awards

West Regional Third Place

NASCAR season-ending races

1968 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

Orange Bowl champion

1968 Pittsburgh Pirates season

Utah at #14 Nebraska [box score]

1968 Olympics medal count

Cal State Los Angeles Golden Eagles

def. Bob Charles 1 up

La Salle

Berkeley, USA

Texas–Pan American

D Contet
J Paish
P Hombergen

1968 New York City riot

1968 Paris Open - Singles

Lucius Allen 5

G Battrick

New York Mets

Bob Prince, Jim Woods, Nellie King

'''F Matheu

Won Grey Cup

1968 New York Yankees season

1968 NFL draft

Stanford
Connecticut

The 1968 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships were contested March 16, 1968 at the Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan at the fourth annual NCAA-sanctioned track meet to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate indoor track and field events in the United States.Villanova topped the team standings, finishing ten-and-a-third points ahead of defending champions USC. It was the Wildcats' first indoor team title.

Japan Series

Fordham

1968 NCAA Tournament

Arizona Wildcats

1968 Pittsburgh Panthers football team

D Lloyd

Ohio Bobcats

J Barrett
Ismail El Shafei

Tied 7-7

The 1968 Northern Illinois Huskies football team represented Northern Illinois University in the 1968 college football season.

CUST

1968 National Hockey League Amateur Draft

Fast

1968 Olympic Games

1968 NHL Draft

'''J-L Rouyer

The 1968 team was Paterno's first perfect season. Despite going 11–0, the Nittany Lions finished behind 9–0 Ohio State and 9–0–1 USC in both polls.

Permanent racing facility

M Leclercq

NASCAR Grand National Season

Nebraska at #14 Oklahoma [box score]

The 1968 Pacific Coast International Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Berkeley Tennis Club in Berkeley, California in the United States. It was the 80th edition of the tournament, the first one in the Open Era, and ran from September 30 through October 6, 1968. Stan Smith and Margaret Court won the singles titles.

Tennessee

NYU

Peach State 200

The 1968 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma during the 1968 college football season. They played their home games at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium and competed as members of the Big Eight Conference. They were coached by head coach Chuck Fairbanks.

'''E Derasse

South Bend, IN

Quarter-finals

The 1968 PGA Tour season was played from January 11 to November 24. The season consisted of 46 official money events. Billy Casper won the most tournaments, six, and there were 11 first-time winners. Casper was the leading money winner with earnings of $205,169 and also won the Vardon Trophy for the lowest scoring average. The PGA Player of the Year was not awarded.

'''Milan Holeček

1968 Oklahoma Sooners football team

National League

P Joly

St. John's Red Storm

The 1968 New York Mets season was the 7th regular season for the Mets. They went 73–89 and finished 9th in the National League. They were managed by Gil Hodges. They played home games at Shea Stadium.

Central League Pennant

ABC

G Pilet

The 1968 New York Yankees season was the 66th season for the team in New York, and its 68th season overall. The team finished above .500 for the first time since 1964, with a record of 83–79, finishing 20 games behind the Detroit Tigers. New York was managed by Ralph Houk. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium. The 1968 season was notable for being Mickey Mantle's final season before he announced his retirement the following spring. The Yankees batted .214 as a team, the lowest total ever for the live-ball era (as of 2011).

MAC

Second Round
N Kalogeropoulos

1968 Olympic games

Stanford Cardinal

Race 49 of 49 in the 1968 NASCAR Grand National Series season

1968 New Orleans Saints season

Carpet / indoor

Arizona State

Paris, France

'''M Holeček

Connecticut Huskies

Notre Dame Fighting Irish

MAC champion

Charles Fouty & Steve Honzo

Bob Reynolds

1968 National Basketball Association Finals

B Moreau

National Third Place Game

Kansas State at Nebraska [box score]

Oklahoma City

Tar Heels

Hemingway Stadium

Northern 300

Columbia

Saint Louis

1968 Olympics (disambiguation)

'''Maryland

1968 Nemzeti Bajnoksag I

A Bouteleux

Mid-American Conference

1968 Peach Bowl

The 1968 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 1967–68 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season, the 21st such tournament in NCAA history. It was held between March 14 and 16, 1968, and concluded with Denver defeating North Dakota 4-0. All games were played at the Duluth Arena Auditorium in Duluth, Minnesota.

Vic Schwenk

1968 Paris Open – Singles

1968 Pulitzer Prize

1968 NPB season

1968 NHL All-Star Game

Chuck Landolfi 5-yard run

1968 Pro Bowl

L 27–28 vs. SMU

Rosie Reyes / Monique Salfati

'''P Hutchins

Bob Gladieux 1-yard run

San Jose State

Brian Huggett

The National Invitation Tournament was originated by the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association in 1938. Responsibility for its administration was transferred two years later to local colleges, first known as the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Committee and in 1948, as the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association (MIBA), which comprised representatives from five New York City schools: Fordham University, Manhattan College, New York University, St. John's University, and Wagner College. Originally all of the teams qualifying for the tournament were invited to New York City, and all games were played at Madison Square Garden.The tournament originally consisted of only 6 teams, which later expanded to 8 teams in 1941, 12 teams in 1949, 14 teams in 1965, 16 teams in 1968, 24 teams in 1979, 32 teams in 1980, and 40 teams from 2002 through 2006. In 2007, the tournament reverted to the current 32-team format.

#14 Oklahoma

amateur

1968 Orszagos Bajnoksag I (men's water polo)

Coaches Poll released prior to game

Kentucky

Bill Seinsoth

#9 Nebraska at #17 Minnesota [box score]

1968 Olympics

West Virginia

Midwest Regional Third Place

1968 New England Patriots season

1968 Olympics Power to the People salute

The consensus 1968 College Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of four major All-American teams. To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Associated Press, the USBWA, The United Press International and the National Association of Basketball Coaches.

The 1968 New York City riot was a disturbance sparked by the assassination of Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968. Harlem, the largest African-American neighborhood in Manhattan was expected to erupt into looting and violence like it had done a year earlier, in which two dozen stores were either burglarized or burned and three people were killed.

1968 National Football League Draft

K Weatherley

North Carolina

1968 Philadelphia Phillies season

(Carnoustie)

1968 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament

The 1968 NCAA University Division baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1968. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1968 College World Series.

Bronx, New York City, NY

'''J Clifton

Frank Verdi, Cloyd Boyer and Jim Gleeson

Marshall

1968 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game

East Regional Third Place

Dirt

Black rioters

1968 National Basketball Association Playoffs

New Mexico State

Ole Miss Rebels

Location in Scotland

The 1968 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1968 college football season. The team was coached by Bob Devaney and played their home games in Memorial Stadium in Lincoln.The Huskers were 6–4, but had a losing record in conference at 3–4. They lost three Big 8 games at home and were shut out 47–0 at Oklahoma in the season finale.

P Dominguez

The 1968 Preakness Stakes was the 93rd running of the $200,000 Preakness Stakes thoroughbred horse race. The race took place on May 18, 1968, and was televised in the United States on the CBS television network. Forward Pass, who was jockeyed by Ismael Valenzuela, won the race by six lengths over runner-up Out Of The Way. Approximate post time was 5:31 p.m. Eastern Time. The race was run on a fast track in a final time of 1:56-4/5.

The 1968 PGA Championship was the 50th PGA Championship played July 18–21 at Pecan Valley Golf Club in San Antonio, Texas. Julius Boros, age 48, won the third of his three major titles, one stroke ahead of runners-up Bob Charles and Arnold Palmer. Through 2015, Boros remains the oldest winner of a major championship. The tournament was played in very hot conditions. Palmer had an 8-foot (2.4 m) putt to tie on the 72nd green, but it missed on the high side of the hole. It was the second of his three runner-up finishes at the only major he never won; he also tied for second in 1964 and 1970.This was the final major before the formation of the Tournament Players Division, later renamed the PGA Tour. The tour pros broke away from the PGA of America in August and formed an independent tour, the American Professional Golfers, Inc. (APG). A compromise was reached in December which brought the tournament players back to the PGA in a separate division with its own policy board and commissioner.In his seventh PGA Championship, Jack Nicklaus missed his first cut in the event by a stroke; five of his six previous finishes were in the top three, with a victory in 1963 in Dallas. He made the next nine cuts at the PGA Championship and won four more times (1971, 1973, 1975, 1980).This PGA Championship was played immediately after the Open Championship in Scotland, the fifth time during the 1960s which the final two majors were played in consecutive weeks. This PGA Championship was also the last held in July (until 2016); it moved permanently to August in 1969 (except 1971 when it was played in February in Florida).

Pittsburgh Pirates

Orange Bowl

1968 Open Championship

1968 NCAA College Division Men's Basketball Tournament

1968 Paralympics

P Darmon

LSU

NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship

Minnesota Golden Gophers
Texas–Pan American Broncs

New York

Philadelphia Phillies

Bob Lutz / Stan Smith

Nebraska at Colorado [box score]

Holman Moody

J-P Olivier

Michigan State

Race 1 of 8 in 1968 Tasman Series

#17 Minnesota

New York Yankees

The 1968 Northern 300 was a NASCAR Grand National Series (now Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series) event that was held on July 14, 1968, at Trenton Speedway in Trenton, New Jersey.

Jim Seymour 10-yard pass from Terry Hanratty

ACE1AF

The 1968 NCAA University Division baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1968. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1968 College World Series. The College World Series, held for the twenty second time in 1968, consisted of one team from each of eight geographical districts and was held in Omaha, Nebraska at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium as a double-elimination tournament. Southern California claimed the championship.

"The Second Jewel of the Triple Crown"

1968 Navy Midshipmen football team

1968 Peruvian Segunda División

Tournament

The 1968 Prize of Moscow News was the third edition of an international figure skating competition organized in Moscow, Soviet Union. It was held December 12–15, 1968. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating and ice dancing. Soviet skaters Sergei Chetverukhin and Elena Shcheglova won the singles categories. The Soviet Union swept the pairs' podium, led by Tamara Moskvina / Alexei Mishin, who defeated Irina Rodnina / Alexei Ulanov. East Germany's national champions, Annerose Baier / Eberhard Rüger, took the ice dancing title.

Tigers

Duquesne

Bob Skinner and Bobby Klaus

1968 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

St. Bonaventure

1968 New Zealand rugby union tour of Australia and Fiji

1968 Nemzeti Bajnokság I (women's handball)

Race of Champions

The 1968 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 1968 college football season.

Race 29 of 49 in the 1968 NASCAR Grand National Series season

W 34–17 vs. Virginia Tech

Florida Gators

Northern Illinois Huskies

Pittsburgh Panthers

1968 NCAA Division I-A football season

'''K Weatherley
C Duxin

Third place game

Seminoles

did not qualify

Texas Longhorns

Men's

The 1968 NCAA University Division Cross Country Championships were the 30th annual cross country meet to determine the team and individual national champions of men's collegiate cross country running in the United States. Held on November 25, 1968, the meet was hosted by Manhattan College at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, New York City, New York. The distance for this race was 6 miles (9.7 kilometers).All NCAA University Division members were eligible to qualify for the meet. In total, 24 teams and 217 individual runners contested this championship.The team national championship was again retained by the Villanova Wildcats, their third title. The individual championship was won by Michael Ryan, from Air Force, with a time of 29:16.8.

The 1968 NCAA Men's Soccer Championship was the tenth organized men's college soccer tournament by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, to determine the top college soccer team in the United States. The Michigan State Spartans and the Maryland Terrapins were co-national champions after the championship game ended in a 2-2 tie after two overtime periods. This was Michigan State's second and Maryland's first national title. The final match was played on December 7, 1968, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Team Champions: Villanova

J-B Chanfreau

The 1968 Pittsburgh riots were a series of urban disturbances that erupted in Pittsburgh on April 5, 1968, following the assassination of Martin Luther King. Pittsburgh, along with 110 other cities, burned for several days and 3,600 National Guardsmen were needed to quell the disorder. The neighborhoods most impacted were the Hill District, North Side, and Homewood with casualties including one death and 40 injuries. Over 100 businesses were either vandalized or looted with arsonists setting 505 fires. Order was finally restored on April 11 with 1,000 arrests being made and whole commercial districts being burned out. Many of the areas affected by the disorder never fully recovered in the following decades.

1968 NIT

Billy Casper

Third Round

1968 National Basketball Association Draft

Ottawa Rough Riders

Jim Seymour 7-yard pass from Terry Hanratty

March 1968

Team Champions: USC

Property destroyed, order restored.

OU 14-7

Memorial Stadium

1968 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships

1968 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Tournament

Shigeo Nagashima

1968 Olympics Black Power Salute

Baltimore, Maryland,

Mike Curran

1968 New York City teachers strike

1968 New York Mets season

#6 Kansas at #9 Nebraska [box score]

the King assassination riots

The 1968 Orange Bowl was an American college football bowl game between the Tennessee Volunteers and the Oklahoma Sooners.

1968 NCAA Soccer Championship

SEC

1968 PHS

Weber State

Tied 14-14

* Chief Defensive – Jack Faulkner
* Defensive Line – Ed Khayat
* Linebackers – J. D. Roberts

J Clifton

Southern Miss

Arizona

Stan Smith

Air Force

Weber State Wildcats

Margaret Court / Stan Smith

Gerald Battrick / Nell Truman

Patrice Beust
P Hutchins

National Championship

'''F Pala

Berkeley, California

Nebraska at Iowa State [box score]

Michigan State Spartans

Chicago Olympic

Villanova

The 1968 NCAA Men's Soccer Championship was the tenth organized men's college soccer tournament by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, to determine the top college soccer team in the United States. The Michigan State Spartans and the Maryland Terrapins were co-national champions after the championship game ended in a 2-2 tie after two overtime periods. This was Michigan State's second and Maryland's first national title.

1968 Paris Open

1968 NCAA University Division Outdoor Track and Field Championships

Men's College Cup

The 1968 Open Championship was the 97th Open Championship, played 10–13 July at Carnoustie Golf Links. Gary Player won the second of his three Open titles, two strokes ahead of runners-up Bob Charles and Jack Nicklaus. It was the fifth of Player's nine major titles.This Open introduced the second cut at 54 holes, used through 1985.

(Cleveland)

The 1968 PGA Championship was the 50th PGA Championship played July 18–21 at Pecan Valley Golf Club in San Antonio, Texas. Julius Boros, age 48, won the third of his three major titles, one stroke ahead of runners-up Bob Charles and Arnold Palmer. Through 2015, Boros remains the oldest winner of a major championship. The tournament was played in very hot conditions. Palmer had an 8-foot (2.4 m) putt to tie on the 72nd green, but it missed on the high side of the hole.

Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium

The National Invitation Tournament was originated by the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association in 1938. Responsibility for its administration was transferred two years later to local colleges, first known as the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Committee and in 1948, as the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association (MIBA), which comprised representatives from five New York City schools: Fordham University, Manhattan College, New York University, St.

Philadelphia, PA

'''West Chester

The 1st Peach Bowl

Lincoln, Nebraska

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1968.

BYU Cougars

Margaret Court

Scott Hempel 31-yard field goal

1968 NCAA University Division baseball rankings

University of California, Los Angeles

Third round

1968 New South Wales Rugby League premiership

The Preakness Stakes

Steve Zabel 11-yard pass from Bob Warmack

1968 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament

J Courcol

1968 New York Film Critics Circle Awards

#20 Missouri at #13 Nebraska [box score]

Other seasons

Rusty Clark 6

Rutgers

#13 Nebraska

Gary Blaylock and Frank Verdi

* President – John W. Mecom, Jr.
* General Manager – Vic Schwenk

Notre Dame Stadium

Jefco Speedway

American League

Japan Series MVP Award

The 1968 Philadelphia Phillies season was a season in Major League Baseball. The Phillies finished eighth in the National League with a record of 76 wins and 86 losses, 21 games behind the NL pennant-winning Cardinals.

1968 NCAA Division I Men's Cross Country Championships

Beaver Stadium

John W. Mecom, Jr.

P Proisy

(Selected by: Montreal Canadiens)

Temple Owls

1968 National Board of Review Awards

The 1968 Pro Bowl was the National Football League's eighteenth annual all-star game which featured the outstanding performers from the 1967 season. The game was played on January 21, 1968, at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. The final score was West 38, East 20. Gale Sayers of the Chicago Bears was named the back of the game for the second year in a row and Dave Robinson of the Green Bay Packers received the lineman of the game honors.Attendance at the game was 53,289.

QB Bob Warmack

'''J Paish

Larry Miller 14

1968 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament

JFK Stadium

J-P Meyer

1968 NFL strike/lockout

1968 Nippon Professional Baseball season

1968 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team

1968 Presidential Race

CST

1968 NFL/AFL draft

* Chief Offensive – George Dickson
* Receivers – Bob Shaw
* Offensive Line – Brad Ecklund
* Offensive Line – Walt Yowarsky

The 1968 NHL Amateur Draft was held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

1968 NCAA University Division Men's Cross Country Championships

Division I

Annapolis, MD

1968 Ole Miss Rebels football team

'''P Joly

#6 Kansas

'''J Courcol

Lew Alcindor 16

Mideast Regional Third Place

W 15–14 vs. Kansas

'''J Barrett

New York City

1968 NCAA Men's Soccer Championship

Milan Holeček

The 1968 Pittsburgh riots were a series of urban disturbances that erupted in Pittsburgh on April 5, 1968, following the assassination of Martin Luther King. Pittsburgh, along with 110 other cities, burned for several days and 3,600 National Guardsmen were needed to quell the disorder. The neighborhoods most impacted were the Hill District, North Side, and Homewood with casualties including one death and 40 injuries.

USA

1968 RAC Tourist Trophy

Santa Clara Broncos

D Grozdanovitch

Eddie Hinton 72-yard pass from Bob Warmack

University of North Carolina

The 1968 Ohio Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Ohio University during the 1968 college football season. In their eleventh season under head coach Bill Hess, the Bobcats won the Mid-American Conference (MAC) championship, compiled a 10–1 record (6–0 against MAC opponents), and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 418 to 228. The team was undefeated in the regular season but lost to Richmond in the 1968 Tangerine Bowl.The team's statistical leaders included quarterback Cleve Bryant with 1,524 passing yards and 734 rushing yards, Dave LeVeck with 850 rushing yards, and Todd Snyder with 777 receiving yards.

AUS

1968 Ottawa Rough Riders season

Bud Brubaker

J-L Rouyer

NCAA Tournament

Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium

The 1968 Ohio Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Ohio University during the 1968 college football season. In their eleventh season under head coach Bill Hess, the Bobcats won the Mid-American Conference (MAC) championship, compiled a 10–1 record (6–0 against MAC opponents), and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 418 to 228.

Eastern Time

Bruins

1968 Queen's Club Championships

Bowling Green

Navy Midshipmen

1968 Prize of Moscow News

Bradley Braves