Solomon

Tiger-Cats seasons

The 1979 Jack Kramer Open, also known as the Pacific Southwest Open, was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, California in the United States. The event was part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit. It was the 51st edition of the Pacific Southwest tournament and was held from September 17 through September 23, 1979.Tournament director Jack Kramer underwrote the tournament after ARCO ended their sponsorship of the event.

Frederick Valentine 2/34

RK Osijek

Chris Tavaré 87

Carsten Morild 3/32

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The 1979 IHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup was the third edition of IHF's competition for women's handball national cup champions. Contested by 15 teams, it ran from January 21 to April 29, 1979, and for the first time the final was a two-legged tie like the preceding rounds.The final confronted the winners of the two previous editions. 1977 champion and 1978 European champion Berliner TSC defeated defending champion Ferencvárosi TC in both games to win its third consecutive, and final, European trophy.

Roger-Vasselin

Tigers

Víctor Pecci, Sr.

Round-robin and Knockout

Oilers

Fifteen teams participated in the 1979 ICC Trophy, the inaugural edition of the tournament. Fourteen of those were members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), while the other team was Wales, participating by invitation.

John Whitehouse 41

The 1979 Intercontinental Final was the fifth running of the Intercontinental Final as part of the qualification for the 1979 Speedway World Championship.

The 1979 Garden State Bowl, played on December 15, 1979, was the second edition of the Garden State Bowl. The game featured the California Golden Bears, who played in their first bowl since the 1959 Rose Bowl, and the Temple Owls, who made their first bowl appearance since the 1935 Sugar Bowl. 55,493 tickets were sold but only 40,207 fans showed on a cold 29°-day in the Meadowlands to see the Owls beat the Golden Bears, 28–17. The game was nationally televised on the Mizlou Television Network.

Geoff Boycott 92

Denmark won by 46 runs

Amritraj

The 1979 John Player League was the eleventh competing of what was generally known as the Sunday League. The competition was won for the first time by Somerset County Cricket Club.

Jack Kramer Open

AIA Tranbjerg

Hans Gildemeister

Team Photo of the 1979 Holiday Bowl
Holiday Bowl champion

Rasiah Ratnalingham 3/18

Jimmy Von Sorgenfrei

East Africa won by 5 wickets

Clerc

Kent won by 18 runs

Bermuda won by 7 wickets

Vilas

Trevor Jesty 6/46

Southwest Conference co-champion

The 1979 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 9 September 1979 at Monza. It was the thirteenth race of the 1979 World Championship of F1 Drivers and the 1979 International Cup for F1 Constructors.The 50-lap race was won by South African Jody Scheckter, driving a Ferrari, with Canadian team-mate Gilles Villeneuve second and Swiss Clay Regazzoni third in a Williams-Ford. Scheckter claimed the Drivers' Championship in the process, while Ferrari clinched the Constructors' Championship.This race marked Scuderia Ferrari's 300th start in a World Championship event as a team.

Southwest Conference

Richard Done 3/9

1979 ICF Flatwater Racing World Championships

The 1979 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season was the 22nd season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 30th overall. The Tiger-Cats finished in 3rd place in the Eastern Conference with a 6–10 record, but lost the Eastern Semi-Finals to the Ottawa Rough Riders.Star quarterback Tom Clements was acquired from the Saskatchewan Roughriders in a mid-season trade and went on to lead the league in passing.

Gauvain
Connors

Memorial Stadium

Lost AFC Championship Game

Mayer

The 1979 Hardy Cup was the 1979 edition of the Canadian intermediate senior ice hockey championship.

James
Norbäck

1979 Japanese Regional Leagues

Finals series

Denmark won by 7 wickets

The 1979 season was the Houston Oilers 20th season and their tenth in the National Football League (NFL). The franchise scored 362 points while the defense gave up 331 points. Their record of 11 wins and 5 losses resulted in a second-place finish in the AFC Central Division. The Oilers appeared once on Monday Night Football and returned to the AFC Championship Game for the second consecutive year.

Buenos Aires,

Gildemeister

Malcolm Gibson 18

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The 1979 Israel Super Cup was the 9th Israel Super Cup (14th, including unofficial matches, as the competition wasn't played within the Israel Football Association in its first 5 editions, until 1969), an annual Israel football match played between the winners of the previous season's Top Division and Israel State Cup.The match was played between Maccabi Tel Aviv, champions of the 1978–79 Liga Leumit and Beitar Jerusalem, winners of the 1978–79 Israel State Cup.This was Maccabi Tel Aviv's 5th Israel Super Cup appearance (including unofficial matches) and Beitar's third.

Leung Wut Mo

Southern California

John Vaughan 4/33
No result

Each winner of the 1979 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. The 1979 awards were the first for which a shortlist of finalists was released a month before the presentation of the awards.

South Africa

The 1979 KFK competitions in Ukraine were part of the 1979 Soviet KFK competitions that were conducted in the Soviet Union. It was 15th season of the KFK in Ukraine since its introduction in 1964. The winner eventually qualified to the 1980 Soviet Second League.

Roy Dias 76

Green Bay Packers

1979 Indiana Hoosiers football team

Sadiq Mohammad 62
Yorkshire won by 4 wickets

1979 Guangdong–Hong Kong Cup

David Steele 81*

1979 IPSC Handgun World Shoot

Hardie-Ferodo 1000

Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
* Afghan Army

Cecil Marshall 77

The 1979 Winston GT season was the 9th season of the IMSA GT Championship auto racing series. It was a series for GTX class Group 5 cars and GTO and GTU class Grand tourer cars. It began February 3, 1979, and ended November 25, 1979, after fifteen rounds.

Moor
Teltscher

Stuart Carey 3/18

Yuill
Günthardt

Wayne Daniel 3/41

Swift Roermond

ISR

Roger Howlett 35*

Clay / Outdoor

Canada won by 4 wickets
Alan Geoghegan 3/23

The 1979 Italian Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament that was played on outdoor clay courts at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy. It was the 36th edition of the tournament. The men's tournament was part of the 1979 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix while the women's tournament, held separately for the first time, was part of the Colgate Series (Category AAA).

DAL 7–0
Campbell 61-yard run

Nigel Cowley 4/20

Jauffret
Maher

Winston Trott 3/8

Big Ten Conference

Fibak

1979 Houston Oilers season

Ole Mortensen 4/14

Orantes

The 1979 Campionato Italiano F3 season was the 15th season of the Italian Formula Three Championship.

1979 Jordan League

Malmö FF

DB Jones & DA Duckers

Atlanta International Speedway until 1996

Jeffris Hopkins 71

Somerset won by 8 wickets

The 1979 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship was the 9th edition of the Greenlandic Men's Football Championship. The final round was held in Aasiaat. It was won after extra time by CIF-70 Qasigiannguit who defeated Siumut Amerdlok Kunuk 2–1 in the final.

Clive Lloyd 76

Henrik Mortensen 52*

Nigel Cowley 63*

LeRoid Jones 1-yard run

John Spencer 3/23
Younis Ahmed 2/54

Sudath Pasqual 3/7

Location of the 5.8 aftershock near Brawley

Colin Dibley / Pat Du Pré

Athens, Georgia

1979 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

Jawahir Shah 15

Peter Kippax 3/24

John Vaughan

1979 Intertoto Cup

Keld Kristensen 34

Wayne Larkins 92*

Dominguez

Erlandsson

Gerulaitis

United States

Dibbs
Stockton

UGA 7-0

Derek Randall 75

Tracy Austin

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KFK competitions

1979 French Open – Women's singles

Barry Kanpol 24*
Metusela Isimeli 3/14
Hitesh Mehta 1/20

Switzerland

Clarence Parfitt 3/16

López-Maeso

Stephen Jones 3/16

Terence Cordaroy 44

Oval

1979 IHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup

Wales won by 91 runs

Carpet / indoor

Scanlon

Atlanta 1

1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships - Senior women's race

1979 JSL Cup

The 1979 Israel Super Cup was the 9th Israel Super Cup (14th, including unofficial matches, as the competition wasn't played within the Israel Football Association in its first 5 editions, until 1969), an annual Israel football match played between the winners of the previous season's Top Division and Israel State Cup.The match was played between Maccabi Tel Aviv, champions of the 1978–79 Liga Leumit and Beitar Jerusalem, winners of the 1978–79 Israel State Cup.This was Maccabi Tel Aviv's 5th Israel Super Cup appearance (including unofficial matches) and Beitar's third. At the match, played at Bloomfield Stadium, Maccabi Tel Aviv won 2–0.

Final

Southeastern Conference

Gehan Mendis 55

Statistics of Japan Soccer League in season 1979.

Bhupinder Singh Gill 2/27

Drop Goals: Ollie Campbell

Lancashire won by 70 runs

Granát

Suffolk won by 2 wickets

Hong Kong

Berliner TSC

The 1979 Imperial Valley earthquake occurred at 16:16 Pacific Daylight Time (23:16 UTC) on October 15 just south of the Mexico–United States border. It affected Imperial Valley in Southern California and Mexicali Valley in northern Baja California. The earthquake had a relatively shallow hypocenter and caused property damage in the United States estimated at $30 million USD. The irrigation systems in the Imperial Valley were badly affected, but no deaths occurred.

DAL 14–7

Bloomington, Indiana

Neil Lashkari 44
John Vaughan 16

1979 Italian Grand Prix

Gullikson

1979 Houston Cougars football team

HOU

Borg

Big Ten

Independent

Canada won by 44 runs

Tied 7-7

1979 French Grand Prix

Mark Bright

The 1979 Hitachi Trophy was a non-championship race open to Formula Two and Formula Atlantic cars. The race was held at Brands Hatch on 15 April 1979 as a support race for the 1979 Race of Champions. It was won by British driver Norman Dickson in the Dickson’s of Perth’s March-Hart 792. The Formula Atlantic class win went to Ray Mallock, who finished in fourth place in the overall standings.

Netherlands won by 8 wickets

California

Bedel

In the 1979 Intertoto Cup no knock-out rounds were contested, and therefore no winner was declared.

QB Phil Bradley

Keith Pont 27

Gottfried

Narendra Thakker 44

France

Indiana University

Reuben Reuben 4/37
Jerrold Kessel 32

Mike Procter 3/47

Terry Moor

Li Kwai Hung

Junior men's race at the 1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships

Alan Morris 4/25

Chris Evert

Wan Chi Keung

Brunet
Sanders

Unknown

1979 Hall of Fame Classic

Pat Pocock 2/42

Kodeš

Api Leka 51

Wendy Turnbull / Bob Hewitt

Teacher

Temple

1979 Israel-Egypt peace agreement

Pen: Paul McLean

Lost Eastern Semi-Finals

W 17–14 vs. Nebraska

Saviano

Jahangir Shah 4/17
Sam Hale & FJ Law

Pittsburgh Steelers 27, Houston Oilers 13

John Steele 76*
Mike Brearley 31

Tony Ferguson 43

1979 Japan Series

Mahinder Singh 35*

Deblicker

Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen

Barry Wood 116
Northamptonshire won by 6 wickets

VIF Georgi Dimitrov

P Banerji Nair 34

Složil
Hutka

1979 Guangdong-Hong Kong Cup

Paul Todd 105

Betty Stöve / Wendy Turnbull

Carsten Morild 4/16

Jimmy Connors

The 1979 IPSC Handgun World Shoot IV held in Johannesburg, South Africa was the 4th Handgun World Shoot, and was won by Jimmy Von Sorgenfrei, one of the top seeds before the championship. Leading up to the championship, the South African team had many good competitors, making the team selection tough. Seemingly out of nowhere Jimmy Von Sorgenfrei had appeared on the competition circuit, improving his performances consistently throughout the year before the championship, and was selected for the South African National Team of five men.

Did not qualify

The 1979 Holiday Bowl was a college football bowl game played December 21, 1979, in San Diego, California. It was part of the 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season. It featured the Indiana Hoosiers against the BYU Cougars. Indiana won 38–37.

K Alewa 1/8

The 1979 UCI Juniors Track World Championships were the fifth annual Junior World Championship for track cycling held in Buenos Aires, Argentina in August 1979. It was the second championship to be held outside Europe, the second to be held in the Americas, and the first to be held in the southern hemisphere.The Championships had five events for men only, Sprint, Points race, Individual pursuit, Team pursuit and 1 kilometre time trial. With two golds and a bronze, Fredy Schmidtke had the most successful single games for a cyclist to date, while future Tour de France legend Greg LeMond won his first major medal for the United States.

DT Clay Carroll, McNeese State

Carter

LSU

McNeese State

Somachandra de Silva 1/42
United States won by 41 runs

did not qualify

Match was scheduled for one day but extended to two.

Higueras

The 1979 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship

Second leg

Peter Fleming / Tomáš Šmíd

Barazzutti

Canada won by 49 runs

$30 million USD

1979 John Player League

Matt Kupec , Amos Lawrence , John Wangler , Anthony Carter

PD Ogden

Guangdong

Peter Denning 90*

Lok Tak Fai

RCK da Silva 1/12

Zbrojovka Brno

Oilers seasons

The 2nd IAAF World Cup in Athletics was an international track and field sporting event sponsored by the International Association of Athletics Federations, held on August 24–26, 1979, at Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Lawrence Young Ken Sen 5/44

Syracuse

Northamptonshire won by 37 runs

Bertolucci
Case

Sussex won by 2 wickets

Marty Riessen / Sherwood Stewart
Peter Fleming

Walts

Duleep Mendis 51

Noah
Simpson

The 1979 Gould Dixie Twin 125 were the second and third rounds of the 1979 IndyCar season, held on April 22, at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hampton, Georgia.

Pearson 56-yard pass from Staubach

1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty

Jack Simmons 3/53

The 1979 Intercontinental Final was the fifth running of the Intercontinental Final as part of the qualification for the 1979 Speedway World Championship. The 1979 Final was run on 5 August at the White City Stadium in London, England, and was the last qualifying stage for riders from Scandinavia, the USA and from the Commonwealth nations for the World Final to be held at the Silesian Stadium in Chorzów, Poland.In front of their home crowd, 20-year-old sensation Michael Lee and 1976 World Champion Peter Collins dominated the meeting with Lee defeating Collins in a runoff after both finished on 14 points. Four points back was Denmark's Finn Thomsen who defeated Dave Jessup and Ivan Mauger in a runoff for third place. Mauger would go on to make history in Poland, winning his record 6th Individual World Championship.Surprise non-qualifiers for the World Final were England's Gordon Kennett (who had finished second in the 1978 World Final at Wembley) and Finland's Kai Niemi. Both riders rode for the British League club White City with the 380 metres (420 yards) White City Stadium being their home track.

Cahill

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The 1979 Hall of Fame Classic was a college football postseason bowl game that featured the South Carolina Gamecocks and the Missouri Tigers.

Holiday Bowl

1979 Islamic Revolution

Chan Fat Chi

1979 French Open - Men's Singles

David Moss 39

Lendl

Sanford Stadium

top

Caujolle

Mike Selvey 1/31

Canada

US Ivry

Keld Kristensen 74

Herat Province, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan

Israel won by a walkover

Crealy

Ross Seyfried

Franklyn Dennis 61

Geoff Arnold 3/27

Martin

Roy Dias 88

Gene Mayer / Sandy Mayer

The 1979 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season.

The 1979 Intercontinental Cup was a football final played on a two-legged system. It was the last time in the history of the tournament that this format was used before Toyota became the main sponsor in 1980 and a single-game final was held each year in Japan. The final was played between Olimpia Asunción of Paraguay (winners of the 1979 Copa Libertadores) and Malmö FF of Sweden (runners-up of the 1978–79 European Cup), with Olimpia emerging as the champion after an aggregate score of 3-1. Malmö FF took its place as the runners-up of the European competition since the European champions Nottingham Forest F.C. declined to play the final.

1979 Fuji Long Distance Series season

Clay / outdoor

Barry Dudleston 125

Maurer

P Dakai 2/18

Gamecocks

* President – Bud Adams
* General Manager – Bum Phillips
* Senior Vice President/Chief Administrative Officer – Ladd Herzeg
* Assistant General Manager – Pat Peppler
* Director of College Scouting – Joe Woolley

Cowboys

1979 Iranian revolution

Afghan diorama depicting the insurgency in Herat Military Museum.

Canada won by 56 runs

Maze

Jitendra Patel 3/22

DAL 24–23

Van Dillen

E. Isasi

Smith

BEL

Sussex won by 6 wickets

Amaya

David Smith 61

Dick Enberg , Merlin Olsen and Mike Adamle

1979 IIHF European U18 Championship

Soler
Pecci, Sr.

Olimpia

Douglas Annand 1/35

Vitas Gerulaitis

Orangemen

The 1979 Gator Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 28, 1979. The North Carolina Tar Heels of the Atlantic Coast Conference defeated the Michigan Wolverines of the Big Ten Conference, 17–15.

Ma Pit Hung

Hampshire won by 55 runs

Guillermo Vilas

1979 Individual Speedway Junior European Championship

The 1979 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 was the 20th running of the Bathurst 1000 touring car race. It was held on 30 September 1979, at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst. The race was open to cars eligible to the locally developed CAMS Group C touring car regulations with four engine capacity based classes.Peter Brock and Jim Richards won their second successive Bathurst 1000 driving a Holden Dealer Team A9X SS Hatchback Torana. In the most dominant performance in the races history, Brock, starting from pole position, got a perfect start and from that point the #05 MHDT Torana was never headed. Brock and Richards won the race by a record six laps, easily beating the old winning margin of 2 laps set in 1975 with Brock claiming the lap record of 2:21.1 on the last lap of the 6.172 km long circuit. Brock later claimed that he just wanted to show how good the Torana was even after 1000 km of hard racing. Brock didn't have a clear lap in which to set the lap record and actually passed 7 cars over the lap, though luckily all but one were on either Mountain or Conrod Straights which did not hinder him. It was Brock's fourth and Richards second win. Brock's win put him equal on most wins with Harry Firth, Bob Jane and his longtime rival Allan Moffat. Toranas swept the podium with Peter Janson and Larry Perkins finishing second ahead of Ralph Radburn and John Smith.With Holden ending production of the Torana, 1979 would be the 5th and last Torana victory in the race (all bar 1976 were won by Brock). From 1980 Holden's flagship would be the European (Opel Senator) based Commodore.

1979 Japan Soccer League

The 1979 UCI Juniors Track World Championships were the fifth annual Junior World Championship for track cycling held in Buenos Aires, Argentina in August 1979. It was the second championship to be held outside Europe, the second to be held in the Americas, and the first to be held in the southern hemisphere.The Championships had five events for men only, Sprint, Points race, Individual pursuit, Team pursuit and 1 kilometre time trial.

Indiana Hoosiers

Renfro 47-yard pass from Pastorini

Somerset won by 45 runs

Gator Bowl

David Hughes 3/22

Eintracht Braunschweig

Winitsky

1979 KFK competitions (Ukraine)

Ocleppo

1979 Kansas City Royals season

Krishnan

Richard Williams 3/15

Lawrence Young Ken Sen 4/30
Daulat Zaman 2/42

Gardiner

SWC

SWE

Daulat Zaman 4/23

DAL 21–17

WG Bovell 2/30

Michigan

John Vaughan 3/28

Hall of Fame Classic

Michael Ryan 30*

SCG, Sydney

Los Angeles Open Pacific Southwest Open

Sze Kin Hei

Družstevnik Topolniky

The 1979 Imperial Valley earthquake occurred at 16:16 Pacific Daylight Time (23:16 UTC) on October 15 just south of the Mexico–United States border. It affected Imperial Valley in Southern California and Mexicali Valley in northern Baja California. The earthquake had a relatively shallow hypocenter and caused property damage in the United States estimated at $30 million USD. The irrigation systems in the Imperial Valley were badly affected, but no deaths occurred. It was the largest earthquake to occur in the contiguous United States since the 1971 San Fernando earthquake eight years earlier.The earthquake was 6.4 on the moment magnitude scale, with a maximum perceived intensity of IX (Violent) on the Mercalli intensity scale. However, most of the intensity measurements were consistent with an overall maximum intensity of VII (Very strong), and only the damage to a single structure, the Imperial County Services building in El Centro, was judged to be of intensity IX. Several comprehensive studies on the total structural failure of this building were conducted with a focus on how the building responded to the earthquake's vibration. It was one of the first heavily instrumented office buildings to be severely damaged by seismic forces.The Imperial Valley is surrounded by a number of interconnected fault systems and is vulnerable to both moderate and strong earthquakes as well as earthquake swarms. The area was equipped with an array of strong motion seismographs for analyzing the fault mechanisms of nearby earthquakes and seismic characteristics of the sediments in the valley. The earthquake was significant in the scientific community for studies of both fault mechanics and repeat events. Four of the region's known strike-slip faults and one additional newly discovered normal fault all broke the surface during the earthquake.

BUL

1979 Islamic revolution

Khimik Drohobych

John Steele 1/30

Bohemians Prague

Năstase

Temple Owls

Ramírez

1979 IIHF World Championship Pool C

Admira Landhaus

1979 French Open - Women's singles

IndyCar

Goh Swee Heng 40

Keith Pont 2/25

1979 Green Bay Packers season

1979 Holiday Bowl

The 1979 Independence Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game between the McNeese State Cowboys and the Syracuse Orangemen.

The 1979 IIHF European U18 Championship was the twelfth playing of the IIHF European Junior Championships.

Chargers

Howard Cooper 3/39

Ballymore, Brisbane

Gu Guangming

Zirngibl
Franulović

Poon Cheung Wong

M. Michelagnoli

UGA 21-7

Gordon Greenidge 87
Middlesex won by 2 wickets

Permanent racing facility

Lloyd

1979 Herat uprising

The 1979 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season was the 22nd season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 30th overall. The Tiger-Cats finished in 3rd place in the Eastern Conference with a 6–10 record, but lost the Eastern Semi-Finals to the Ottawa Rough Riders.Star quarterback Tom Clements was acquired from the Saskatchewan Roughriders in a mid-season trade and went on to lead the league in passing. Additionally, University of Western Ontario quarterback Jamie Bone attended Tiger-Cats training camp but was cut. He took the Tiger-Cats to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, alleging that he was never given a fair chance to compete for a quarterback position because he was Canadian. During the proceedings, the Tiger Cats admitted that they had made up their mind on who the starters would be. Bone won his case, and the tribunal awarded him $10,000. The Tiger-Cats were awarded to give him a 14-day tryout in 1980.

1979 Iranian hostage rescue

Ferencvárosi TC

Peter Stocks 3/18

Tries: Colin Patterson

Leicestershire won by 9 wickets

Dowdeswell

1979 Gunnar Nilsson Memorial Trophy

Match abandoned without a ball bowled
Jeffris Hopkins 92

Con: Ollie Campbell

The 1979 Gillette Cup was the seventeenth Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 27 June and 8 September 1979. The tournament was won by Somerset County Cricket Club who defeated Northamptonshire County Cricket Club by 45 runs in the final at Lord's.

1979 Hawthorn Football Club season

Winston Trott 2/14

Houston Oilers

The 1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Limerick, Ireland, at the Greenpark Racecourse on March 25, 1979. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.Complete results for men, junior men, women, medallists, and the results of British athletes were published.

Houston Oilers 17, San Diego Chargers 14

Dry

Karpaty Bushyna

Week 13

Moretton

Dry and sunny

Statistics of JSL Cup in the 1979 season.

Joubert

1979 Gator Bowl

RB Joe Morris, Syracuse

Hoosiers

Betsy Nagelsen

Atlanta 2

Fung Chi Ming

Australia

Middlesex won by 70 runs

Ashraful Haq 31

1979 Georgia Bulldogs football team

Montaño

the War in Afghanistan

1979 IndyCar season

Jim Watts 2/34

Gehring
Moore

1979 Grover Cleveland Elementary School murders

1979 Jack Kramer Open

Muñoz
Svensson

1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race

1979 Juniors Track World Championships

CAC Browne 34

The 1979 Japan Open Tennis Championships, also known by its sponsorship name Hit-Union Japan Open Tennis Championships, was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Tokyo, Japan that was part of the Colgate Series and the Volvo Grand Prix circuit. The tournament was held from 22 October through 28 October 1979. Terry Moor (ninth-seeded) and Betsy Nagelsen won the singles titles.

Lance Cairns 2/35
Anton Ferreira 4/50

Winston Reid 43*

1979 Indian Ocean Games

Andrew

The 1979 Hang Ten 400 was an endurance motor race held at the Sandown Park circuit in Victoria, Australia on 9 September 1979. It was staged over 129 laps of the 3.11 km circuit, a total of 401 km. The race was Round 1 of the 1979 Australian Championship of Makes and as such it was open to Group C Touring Cars. It was the fourteenth in a sequence of annual Sandown long distance races. The race was won by Peter Brock.

Raqibul Hasan 34

1979 Genie Awards

Ycaza

Wales won by 26 runs

David Woodley 24-yard run

Lai Yik Shu

1979 Golden Orange Awards

Charlie Jones and Len Dawson

Saints Ground, Northampton

Howard Cooper 4/29

1979 IMSA GT Championship

- Not Held -

First leg

Fuji Long Distance Series

The 1979 Jack Kramer Open, also known as the Pacific Southwest Open, was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, California in the United States. The event was part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit. It was the 51st edition of the Pacific Southwest tournament and was held from September 17 through September 23, 1979.Tournament director Jack Kramer underwrote the tournament after ARCO ended their sponsorship of the event. Eight-seeded Peter Fleming won the singles title after defeating his doubles partner and first-seed John McEnroe in the final and earned $28,000 first-prize money.

1979 Japan Open Tennis Championships

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Leung Nang Yan

1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships - Senior men's race

Björn Borg

David Johnston 37

The 1979 ICC Trophy was a limited overs cricket tournament held in England between 22 May and 21 June 1979. It was the first ICC Trophy tournament to be staged, with matches between the 15 participating teams played over 60 overs a side and with white clothing and red balls. All matches were played in the Midlands.The two finalists, Sri Lanka and Canada, qualified to take part in the 1979 World Cup. which began on 9 June, just three days after the ICC Trophy semi-finals.

1979 Garden State Bowl

French

Intercontinental Final

IMSA GT Championship

The 1979 Kansas City Royals season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Royals finishing second in the American League West with a record of 85 wins and 77 losses.

Beitar Jerusalem
1979 Israel Super Cup

Maj. Gen. Sayyed Mukharam

Ou Weiteng

Proisy
Manson

The 21st Gran Premio Lotteria di Monza, made up the eighth round of the 1979 FIA European Championship, saw the series move to Autodromo Nazionale Monza, on 24 June. This race was also round eight of the Campionato Italian.

Hamilton Tiger-Cats

A Bakker 74
Papua New Guinea won by 87 runs

Elter

Reserve day used

POL

Allan Lamb 78

Statistics of Jordan League in the 1979 season.

Civilian rebels

1979 ICC Cricket World Cup Final

Houston Cougars

Kwok Ka Ming

Barry Kanpol 2/14

Fritz

1979 Heineken Open

1979 Herat Uprising

The 1979 Green Bay Packers season was their 61st season overall and their 59th in the National Football League. The club posted a 5–11 record under coach Bart Starr, earning them a fourth-place finish in the NFC Central division. The offense was still one of the worst in the NFL and the defense could not pick up the slack finishing dead last against the Run. Only notable win Packers had was a 27-14 victory on Monday night against the New England Patriots

W 38–37 vs. BYU

HOU 23–21

Jefferson Jones 4/35

The 1979 ICC Trophy was a limited overs cricket tournament held in England between 22 May and 21 June 1979. It was the first ICC Trophy tournament to be staged, with matches between the 15 participating teams played over 60 overs a side and with white clothing and red balls. All matches were played in the Midlands.The two finalists, Sri Lanka and Canada, qualified to take part in the 1979 World Cup. which began on 9 June, just three days after the ICC Trophy semi-finals. The ICC Trophy final was held on 21 June at Worcestershire's ground at New Road, two days before the World Cup final.East Africa who played in the first World Cup didn't qualify this time, which meant there would be no nation from the African region participating in the 1979 World Cup.

Campbell 27-yard run

(Družstevnik Topolniky)

Lau Wing Yip

Somerset won by 130 runs

Damiani

Denmark won by 8 wickets

TuS Metzingen

Ashraful Haq 7/23

, cloudy

1979 Grammy Awards

Independence Bowl

Sri Lanka won by 45 runs

Kaplan

Geoff Arnold 3/45

Winner of Race 1

S Grainger & WP Judd

1979 Italian Formula Three Championship

Cano

Paddy Clift 3/36

Spartak Trnava

Tokyo, Japan

The 1979 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Duisburg, West Germany.The men's competition consisted of six Canadian (single paddle, open boat) and nine kayak events. Three events were held for the women, all in kayak.This was the fifteenth championships in canoe sprint. It was where an incident later referred to as The Česiunas Affair took place when Soviet-born Lithuanian canoer Vladas Česiūnas appeared at the event as a spectator only to vanish.

Henrik Mortensen 36

August 1979

Japan

Tim Lamb 4/52

Burrough 32-yard pass from Pastorini

Pattison

Duleep Mendis 66

1979 Indy Car season

The 1979 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held in Eschborn, Federal Republic of Germany, on September 29–30, 1979. The event was also known as IAAF Race Walking World Cup. The women's 5 km race was now officially introduced into the competition with the women's teams competing for the Eschborn Cup.Complete results were published.

Kary

Chris Cowdrey 12

USA

Goven

'''Ferencvárosi TC

Prajoux

Brian Rose 88*

Maccabi Tel Aviv

The 1979 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 9 September 1979 at Monza. It was the thirteenth race of the 1979 World Championship of F1 Drivers and the 1979 International Cup for F1 Constructors.The 50-lap race was won by South African Jody Scheckter, driving a Ferrari, with Canadian team-mate Gilles Villeneuve second and Swiss Clay Regazzoni third in a Williams-Ford.

Velasco, Sr.

1979 ICC Trophy
Bermuda won by 9 wickets

Semi-finals

Imran Khan 37*

The 1979 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held in Jonquière, Quebec, Canada under the auspices of International Canoe Federation. It was the 16th edition. This marked the first time the championships were held outside Europe. The mixed C2 event was not held at these championships. East Germany did not take part and Czechoslovakia, as the other traditional powerhouse, won only one medal. West Germany won three medals while the United States led the medal count with seven, the first-time an English-speaking country had done so.

(Promoted )

The 1979 Fuji Long Distance Series was the third season of this series, with all races being held at the Fuji International Speedway.It was contested by Group 5 silhouettes and touring cars; Group 6 sportscars were allowed to start races without scoring points.

Rowe

Hampton, Georgia, United States

Denmark won by 10 runs

Du Pré

Cornelius Henry 2/17

Clint Fuller

Leicestershire won by 143 runs

Génois
Warwick

Joel Garner 4/24

Raul Walters

1979 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships

Stephen Greensword 48*

50o Gran Premio d'Italia

1979 Intercontinental Final

none

The 1979 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 1 July 1979 at Dijon.It marked the first victory of a turbocharged car in Formula One, with Renault overcoming the reliability problems that had initially plagued their car. For Jean-Pierre Jabouille it was a victory on home soil, driving a French car (Renault), on French tyres (Michelin), powered by a French engine (Renault), burning French fuel (Elf). Jabouille was the first Frenchman to win the French Grand Prix since Jean-Pierre Wimille in 1948.The race is perhaps best remembered for one of the fiercest battles ever for second place, between Ferrari driver Gilles Villeneuve and Renault driver René Arnoux, who on several occasions during the final laps touched wheels and swapped positions. The fight is often cited as one of the most memorable pieces of racing in Formula One. Villeneuve, who passed the finish line less than a quarter of a second ahead of Arnoux, later described the occasion as "my best memory of Grand Prix racing".

K Turner & GA Brown

Michael Wagstaffe 21
Peter Hacker 2/44

1979 Iranian Revolution

Indiana

Roderick Jepsen 14

1979 IAAF World Race Walking Cup

Soares

Rodney Ontong 2/47

Giménez

Bryan Mauricette 72

1979 German Football League

Carmon Prince 11-yard pass from Buck Belue
ABC

1979 Intercontinental Cup (basketball)

Johansson

Amblecote, Stourbridge

R. G. Byres

Fleming

* Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers – Ed Biles
* Defensive Line – Wade Phillips
* Defensive Secondary – Bob Gambold

[Sridharan Jeganathan] 2/30

Limited overs cricket

Winston Reid 59*

Barry Dudleston 59

John Vaughan 80*

Žalgiris Kaunas

K Alewa 3/13
Omar Mohammad 28

1979 Grey Cup

Wasim Raja 52

S Marimuthu 1/15
John Vaughan 68*

Werder Bremen
AUT

*Uprising put down
*Soviet Union steps up military assistance to Afghan government

The 1979 season was the Houston Oilers 20th season and their tenth in the National Football League (NFL). The franchise scored 362 points while the defense gave up 331 points. Their record of 11 wins and 5 losses resulted in a second-place finish in the AFC Central Division. The Oilers appeared once on Monday Night Football and returned to the AFC Championship Game for the second consecutive year. Earl Campbell would lead the NFL in rushing for the second consecutive year and set a franchise record for most touchdowns in a season with 19. The Oilers would make the playoffs again as a wild card. In the wild card game, they beat the Denver Broncos 13-7, and then defeated the San Diego Chargers 17-14 in San Diego to reach their second straight AFC Championship game. Unfortunately for them, they had to once again run into the Pittsburgh Steelers, who a year earlier had eliminated them 34-5 in the previous AFC Championship game. The Oilers lost the game 27-13. The game included a controversial moment in which wide receiver Mike Renfro had a touchdown called back after the referees of the game took a long decision to decide the ruling on the field. The call went down as one of the most controversial calls in NFL history.

The 1979 Japan Series was the 30th edition of Nippon Professional Baseball's postseason championship series. It matched the Central League champion Hiroshima Carp against the Pacific League champion Kintetsu Buffaloes. The Carp defeated the Buffaloes for their first Japan Series championship in team history.

1979 IAAF World Cup

Jaswant Singh 12

Motta
José Higueras

Henrik Mortensen 2/54

Con: Paul McLean

Molina

Nissam Reube 2/38

Matt Simon 11-yard run

Eddie Dibbs

Skoga IL

The 1979 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Duisburg, West Germany.The men's competition consisted of six Canadian (single paddle, open boat) and nine kayak events. Three events were held for the women, all in kayak.This was the fifteenth championships in canoe sprint. It was where an incident later referred to as The Česiunas Affair took place when Soviet-born Lithuanian canoer Vladas Česiūnas appeared at the event as a spectator only to vanish. The West German government claimed Česiunas had defected, but the former canoer had returned to the Soviet Union voluntarily several weeks later. During Česiunas' disappearance, he would speak in favor of the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott, more than two months before the Soviet war in Afghanistan, but later returned to the Soviet Embassy in Bonn. The Soviets toned down their rhetoric about Česiunas' "disappearance" in the West and changed his mind all the while West Germany continued to maintain that he had been kidnapped.

Bangladesh won by 7 wickets

The 1979 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held in Jonquière, Quebec, Canada under the auspices of International Canoe Federation. It was the 16th edition. This marked the first time the championships were held outside Europe. The mixed C2 event was not held at these championships. East Germany did not take part and Czechoslovakia, as the other traditional powerhouse, won only one medal.

Cheung Ka Ping

Mike Brearley 76

Ramesh Patel 3/27

Peter Gooch 3/51

Garden State Bowl

1979 Intercontinental Cup

Paris , France

Pen: Ollie Campbell

CSK

Chan Yow Choy 28

Tar Heels

UGA 14-7

Peter van Wel 2/11

Pfister
Dent

Italian Formula Three Championship

*Lee Corso

RCK da Silva 33

Tony Allin 1/37

McNamara

A. Solalinde

Drop Goal: Ollie Campbell

Clevie Wade 3/16

Septien 44-yard field goal

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Kent won by 5 wickets

Italy

Ma Tin Hung

The 1979 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 1 July 1979 at Dijon.It marked the first victory of a turbocharged car in Formula One, with Renault overcoming the reliability problems that had initially plagued their car. For Jean-Pierre Jabouille it was a victory on home soil, driving a French car (Renault), on French tyres (Michelin), powered by a French engine (Renault), burning French fuel (Elf).

Non-organised leadership
Military leadership
*Sardar Jagran
*Rasul Baloch
*Ismail Khan
*Alauddin Khan
Civilian leadership
*Gul Mohammad
*Kamar-i Dozd
*Shir Aga Shongar

PG Berry & GA Wenman

Chan Wan Ngok

Rome, Italy

Asif Iqbal 4/18

*Soviet Union steps up military assistance to Afghan government

The 1979 Intercontinental Cup was a football final played on a two-legged system. It was the last time in the history of the tournament that this format was used before Toyota became the main sponsor in 1980 and a single-game final was held each year in Japan. The final was played between Olimpia Asunción of Paraguay (winners of the 1979 Copa Libertadores) and Malmö FF of Sweden (runners-up of the 1978–79 European Cup), with Olimpia emerging as the champion after an aggregate score of 3-1.

Chan Sai Kau

Wolverines

Limerick, Munster, Ireland

1979 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season

1979 General Election

Houston Oilers 13, Denver Broncos 7

Phil Edmonds 63*

Toss Unknown

Senior men's race at the 1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships

The 1979 IHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup was the third edition of IHF's competition for women's handball national cup champions. Contested by 15 teams, it ran from January 21 to April 29, 1979, and for the first time the final was a two-legged tie like the preceding rounds.The final confronted the winners of the two previous editions.

Nigel Owen 2/20

Japan Open Japan Open

Temple University

Špear

The 1979 Houston Cougars football team, also known as the Houston Cougars, Houston, or UH, represented the University of Houston in the 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season.The Cougars finished the season with a record of 11-1, their only loss was at home to the #8 Texas Longhorns 21-13. Houston shared the 1979 Southwest Conference championship with Arkansas, and defeated the #7 Nebraska Cornhuskers in the 1980 Cotton Bowl Classic. Houston finished ranked #5 in the final polls.

Viv Richards 117

1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships - Junior men's race

* Head Coach – Bum Phillips

HKG

Cougars

1979 Governor General's Awards

Golden Bears

Singapore won by 1 wicket

1979 IMSA GT Championship season

BJ Turner & TJ Cox

Nottinghamshire won by 79 runs

He Jia
Choi York Yee

Allan Lamb 101

Kriek

Fritsch 27-yard field goal

Api Leka 1/13

Taróczy

Martin Stead 4/16

Phil Edmonds 3/28

Wünschig
Marks

Geoff Cook 114*

Torben Nielsen 3/16
Jaswinder Warah 3/13

Edmondson

United States won by 8 runs

1979 Ireland rugby union tour of Australia

Sri Lanka won by 208 runs

The 1979 IPSC Handgun World Shoot IV held in Johannesburg, South Africa was the 4th Handgun World Shoot, and was won by Jimmy Von Sorgenfrei, one of the top seeds before the championship. Leading up to the championship, the South African team had many good competitors, making the team selection tough.

UGA 21-14

MV Panting & WH Miles

Šmid

Rob van Weelde 3/12
Amit Lashkari 73

Keith Jackson, Frank Broyles and Dave Diles

1979 Hitachi Trophy

Hřebec

Bob Woolmer 3/31

Tie 7–7

1979 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship

Álvarez

American League

Eschborn, Hessen, Federal Republic of Germany

Senior women's race at the 1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships

North Carolina

1979 ICC Trophy squads

football

1979 Italian Formula Three season

Northamptonshire won by 8 wickets

Toss unknown

1979 Heineken Open - Singles

1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships

Bangladesh won by 22 runs

Mottram
Kronk

Steelers

Packers seasons

Joel Garner 6/29
Colin Rutterford 3/28

Bandula Warnapura 2/21

Alan Ealham 85*
Bill Athey 35

Crawford

The 1979 Ireland rugby union tour of Australia was a series of eight matches played by the Ireland national rugby union team in Australia in May and June 1979.The tour was one of Ireland's most successful to date. Ireland won seven of the eight matches they played, including both tests against Australia. The only defeat came against Sydney. The tour also marked a notable episode in the rivalry between the two Ireland fly halves, Tony Ward and Ollie Campbell. Ward had been an ever present during both the 1978 and 1979 Five Nations Championships and he also played in the early games during this tour. However he was then dropped before the first test in favour of Campbell. Campbell subsequently emerged as man of the tour, setting an Irish record when he scored 60 points during the remaining games. On 3 June in Brisbane he scored 19 points, helping Ireland to a 27–12 victory. Campbell scored four penalties, one drop goal and converted two Colin Patterson tries. In the second test on 16 June Campbell scored two drop goals and a penalty as Ireland won 9–3. These two tests also marked the beginning and the end of the careers of two Ireland rugby legends. The first test saw the debut of Ciaran Fitzgerald while the second saw Mike Gibson make his final Ireland appearance. While on this tour Ned Byrne was the victim of a hit and run road accident which left his leg broken in three places.
The 1979 Ireland rugby union tour of Australia was a series of eight matches played by the Ireland national rugby union team in Australia in May and June 1979.The tour was one of Ireland's most successful to date. Ireland won seven of the eight matches they played, including both tests against Australia. The only defeat came against Sydney. The tour also marked a notable episode in the rivalry between the two Ireland fly halves, Tony Ward and Ollie Campbell.
Ireland

Duleep Mendis

Statistics of Japanese Regional Leagues in the 1979 season.

Somerset won by 7 wickets

DAL 14–10

Baník Ostrava

UGA

R G Byres

1979 French Open – Men's Singles

1979 IIHF World U20 Championship

Kim Barnett 1/30

1979 Grammies

Taygan

Quarter-finals

1979 Hang Ten 400

Cotton Bowl Classic champion

HOU 30–24

Lionel Thomas 27

Takashi Imoto

Owls

Guedes
Haillet

1979 Gran Premio della Lotteria

DAL

Joel Garner 5/11

Carsten Morild 66*

Peter Swart 40

1979 Italian Open (tennis)

Ken Shuttleworth 3/26

South Carolina

Pirin Blagoevgrad

Paul Rice 45

DAL 21–10

1979 Islamic Iranian Revolution

Peter Hacker 3/27

1979 Independence Bowl

Sri Lanka won by 60 runs

1979 Grammys

Bob Woolmer 4/28

Georgia Bulldogs

1979 Japan Soccer League Cup

1979 Imperial Valley earthquake

1979 Hardy Cup

1979 Gould Twin Dixie 125

Jahangir Shah 39*

The 1979 Italian Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament that was played on outdoor clay courts at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy. It was the 36th edition of the tournament. The men's tournament was part of the 1979 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix while the women's tournament, held separately for the first time, was part of the Colgate Series (Category AAA). The women's event was played from 7 May through 13 May 1979 while the men's event was organized from 21 May through 27 May 1979. After a final that lasted five hours and nine minutes second-seeded Vitas Gerulaitis won the men's singles title, his second Italian Open title after 1977, and the accompanying $28,000 first-prize money. The women's singles title was won by third-seeded Tracy Austin. In the semifinal Austin defeated compatriot Chris Evert-Lloyd which ended Evert-Lloyd's record 125-match winning streak on clay that had started in August 1973.

right

Anthony Arnold 13-yard run

Portes

1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

Glenroy Sealy 2/49

Bill Yeoman

DEN

Fillol, Sr.

BYU

Army mutineers

Newhouse 21-yard pass from Staubach

Graham Burgess 50*
1979 Gillette Cup

John Tucker 49
Kamaran Rasheed 5/17

Dorsett 1-yard run

Hapoel Ashdod

González
Panatta

Italian

Sri Lanka won by 6 wickets
Rob van Weelde 3/22

Kansas City Royals

Lewis

1979 Hardie-Ferodo 1000

FRG

Los Angeles, USA

* Offensive Backs – Andy Bourgeois
* Receivers – King Hill
* Offensive Line – Joe Bugel

Younis Ahmed 44

Leung Sui Wing

A Bakker 60*

Ashe

ES Vaz de Carvalho

SUI

Charles Harrison 25

The 1979 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 was the 20th running of the Bathurst 1000 touring car race. It was held on 30 September 1979, at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst. The race was open to cars eligible to the locally developed CAMS Group C touring car regulations with four engine capacity based classes.Peter Brock and Jim Richards won their second successive Bathurst 1000 driving a Holden Dealer Team A9X SS Hatchback Torana.

1979 Heineken Open – Singles

Tim Lamb 3/37

Charanjive Sharma 3/11

1979 French Open - Women's Singles

Same Season

Keith Jennings 3/31

Radyst Kirovohrad

Kirmayr

ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007

Fagel

Nur Muhammad Taraki

Grasshopper

Hafizullah Amin

Rex Martens 26

Tries: Brendan Moon

Betsy Nagelsen / Penny Johnson

Brigham Young University

First knockout round

Jawahir Shah 38
Tony Ferguson 44

Broncos

League

* Special Teams – John Paul Young

Gehan Mendis 69

Freyss

Api Leka 48

Georgia

1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race

Missouri

1979 French Open

PG Berry & PG Bell

Schweitzer

SEC

Borowiak

Durham won by 94 runs

1979 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship

1979 Indy 500

Wayne Stuger 48

AZS Wrocław