On this date
1950: Tom Powers of Duke scores six touchdowns — three rushing, three receiving — in a 41- 0 victory over Richmond.
1956: Billy Howton of the Green Bay Packers catches seven passes for 257 yards and two touchdowns in a 42-17 victory over the Los Angeles Rams.
1961: Eddie Arcaro wins the Jockey Club Gold Cup for a record tenth time. His mount, Kelso, wins his second straight Gold Cup.
1972: One day after setting an NBA record by scoring 58 points in the fourth quarter, the Buffalo Braves scored an NBA record-low 4 points in the third quarter of a 91- 63 loss at home to the Milwaukee Bucks.
1973: Fred Dryer of the Los Angeles Rams becomes the first NFL player to record two safeties in a 24-7 victory over the Green Bay Packers.
1975: Carlton Fisk breaks up a thrilling contest with a homer in the 12th inning to give the Boston Red Sox a 7- 6 victory over the Cincinnati Reds and force a seventh game in the World Series.
1979: Chicago Bulls guard Sam Smith scores the first 4-point play in NBA history during a 113-111 loss to the Bucks at Milwaukee.
1980: The Philadelphia Phillies win the World Series for the first time in their 98-year history as they beat the Kansas City Royals 4-1 in the sixth game.
1998: The New York Yankees close out their historic season with 3- 0 victory at San Diego, sweeping the Padres in four games to win their record 24th World Series championship.
2006: Michigan State rallies from a 35-point, third- quarter deficit to beat Northwestern 41-38 in the biggest comeback in NCAA Division I-A history. Brett Swenson kicks the winning 28-yard field goal with 13 seconds left following an interception by Travis Key.
2007: Rob Bironas kicks an NFL-record eight field goals, the last a 29-yarder with no time left to give Tennessee a 3836 win over Houston. Bironas adds two extra points to set the NFL record for most points by a kicker, with 26.
2007: Kimi Raikkonen wins the Brazilian Grand Prix and the Formula One World Championship by one point. Raikkonen’s teammate Felipe Massa finishes second and McLaren driver Fernando Alonso finishes third. Lewis Hamilton had held a four-point lead over Fernando Alonso and a seven-point lead over Raikkonen, entering the race. Hamilton, who finishes seventh and Alonso end up finishing a single point behind.
2012: Tamika Catchings scores 25 points to help the Indiana Fever win their first WNBA title with an 87-78 victory over the Minnesota Lynx.
2017: Steven Stamkos and Nikita Kucherov extended their season- opening points streaks to nine games and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 7-1. Stamkos had a goal and three assists, and Kucherov had two goals and an assist. They became the first teammates to start the season with nine- game streaks since St. Louis’ Pavol Demitra and Doug Weight in 2001- 02.
2018: Tampa Bay’s Chandler Catanzaro kicks a 59-yard field goal, the longest ever in overtime, to give the Buccaneers a 26-23 victory over the Cleveland Browns.