This Day in Sports History

Oct. 30

1943 — Gus Bodnar of Toronto scores 15 seconds into his first NHL game, and the Maple Leafs beat the New York Rangers 5-2.

1955 — Jim Patton of New York returns a kickoff and a punt for a touchdown in the Giants’ 35-7 victory over the Washington Redskins.

1966 — Jim Nance of the Boston Patriots rushes for 208 yards and two touchdowns in a 24-21 victory over the Oakland Raiders.

1966 — Baltimore’s Johnny Unitas passes for 252 yards to pass Y.A. Tittle as the NFL’s all-time passing leader. Tittle had 28,339 yards. Unitas finishes his career with 40,239 yards passing.

1971 — Eric Allen of Michigan State rushes for 350 yards in 43-10 rout of Purdue.

1974 — Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in the eighth round in Kinshasa, Zaire, to regain the world heavyweight title.

1975 — John Bucyk of the Boston Bruins scores his 500th career goal in a 3-2 victory over St. Louis.

1993 — Erin Whitten becomes the first female goalie in professional hockey to be credited with a victory when Toledo beats Dayton 6-5 in the East Coast Hockey League.

1997 — Violet Palmer becomes the first woman to officiate an NBA game. There is little reaction by the crowd when her name is announced before tip-off of the game between the Dallas Mavericks and Vancouver Grizzlies.

1999 — Marques Tuiasosopo becomes the first player to pass for 300 yards and run for 200, racking up a school-record 509 combined yards and rallying Washington past Stanford 35-30.

2003 — In the first regular-season game of his NBA career, 18-yearold LeBron James has 25 points, nine assists, six rebounds and four steals, but the Cleveland Cavaliers lose 106-92 to the Sacramento Kings.

2010 — Roy Helu

Jr. rushes for touchdowns of 66, 73 and 53 yards and finishes with a school-record 307 yards and No. 14 Nebraska defeats previously unbeaten No. 7 Missouri 31-17.

2016 — Derek Carr throws a 41-yard touchdown pass to Seth Roberts with 1:45 remaining in overtime, sending the Oakland Raiders to a 30-24 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Carr throws for a franchise-record 513 yards - completing 40 of 59 passes without an interception - and the Raiders overcome an NFL-record 23 penalties for 200 yards.