His Elo rating shot from 2540 in 1971 to 2660 in 1973, when he shared second in the USSR Chess Championship, and finished equal first with Viktor Korchnoi in the Leningrad Interzonal Tournament, with the latter success qualifying him for the 1974 Candidates Matches, which would determine the challenger of the reigning world champion, Bobby Fischer.

In the 1973 National League Championship Series, the Reds met a New York Mets team that won just 82 regular season games, but boasted three of the best starting pitchers in the NL, future Hall of Famer Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman and Jon Matlack.

In 1973, Rose led the league with 230 hits and a. 338 batting average en route to winning the NL MVP award, and leading " the Big Red Machine " to the 1973 National League Championship Series against the New York Mets.

* 1973 PGA Seniors ' Championship, World Seniors

Spassky won the Soviet Chess Championship twice outright ( 1961, 1973 ), and twice lost in playoffs ( 1956, 1963 ), after tying for first place during the event proper.

The Boston Barracudas raced in the British League Division Two, ( now the Premier League ) and in 1973 completed a clean sweap winning the League, Knock-out Cup, and Arthur Price won the League Individual Championship, after the New Hammond Beck Road Stadium was sold for re-development in 1988 attempts to secure a new venue failed in the 1990s a team, known as Boston, raced in the Conference League out of King's Lynn

HBO World Championship Boxing is a sports television series, premiering in January 1973 that has shown a number of significant boxing events in the last three decades.

* The last out of the 1973 National League Championship Series as described by Jim Simpson was played on that night's NBC Nightly News, but other than that the entire game is gone.

The County Hurling Team, who play in the county colours of green and white, have won the coveted All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship seven times, although, despite good performances, their most recent success was in 1973.

The boys soccer team has won the IHSAA State Soccer Championship three different times, in 1973, 1976, & 1978.

The Monte Carlo Rally is one of the longest running and most respected car rallies ; from 1973 to 2008, it marked the start of each rally season as the first event on the World Rally Championship calendar, but is now part of the second-tier Intercontinental Rally Challenge.

Beliavsky won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1973 and the USSR Chess Championship four times in 1974, 1980, 1987 and 1990.

In 1973, they repeated the 1-2-3 Monte Carlo result and went on to win the World Rally Championship outright, beating Porsche, Lancia and Ford.

** World Rally Championship for Manufacturers – Won by Alpine Renault ( 1973 is the inaugural season for the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile's new World Rally Championship series )

* 1973 FINA Men's World Water Polo Championship held in Belgrade and won by Hungary

The program has several historical and recent successes, reaching the final four in the NDT twice ( 1973, 2008 ) and the final four in CEDA five times ( 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 2008 ), including its 1992 CEDA National Championship.

The only NFL game he would miss in his career, was the 1973 NFC Championship Game loss ( 10-27 ), December 30, against the Minnesota Vikings, due to a leg injury.

He also won 17 Championship Series titles ( 1973 – 1984 ).

He was a member of the US World Figure Skating Team and placed second in the US National Pairs Championship in 1973.

At the age of 71, Sarazen made a hole-in-one at the 1973 British Open Championship.

From 1973 to 2008 the rally was held in January as the first event of the FIA World Rally Championship, but since 2009 it has been the opening round of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge ( IRC ) programme.

* Kung Fu ( Season 1, Episode 15 (" The Ancient Warrior ")) ( 1973 )

The 2012 Season marks the third time the Major League Baseball All-Star Game has been played in Kansas City, with Kauffman Stadium ( then named Royals Stadium ) last hosting the event in 1973, the stadium's first year of existence.

He took the helm of the sequels as well as Season of the Witch ( 1972 ), The Crazies ( 1973 ), Martin ( 1977 ), Creepshow ( 1982 ) and The Dark Half ( 1993 ).

* World Season Calendar, proposed by Isaac Asimov in 1973 and almost identical to the World Calendar

Comic books and graphic novels which feature vampires include Vampirella ( Warren Publishing, 1969 ), Morbius, the Living Vampire ( Marvel, 1971 ), Tomb of Dracula ( Marvel Comics, 1972 ), Blade ( Marvel, 1973 ), I ... Vampire ( DC Comics, 1981 ), Hellsing ( Shonen Gahosha, 1997 ), 30 Days of Night ( IDW Publishing, 2002 ), Chibi Vampire ( Monthly Dragon Age, 2003 ), Rosario + Vampire ( Monthly Shōnen Jump 2004 ), Vampire Knight ( LaLa, 2005 ), Blood Alone ( MediaWorks, 2005 ), Dracula vs. King Arthur ( Silent Devil Productions, 2005 ), Dance in the Vampire Bund ( Media Factory, 2006 ), Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures ( Dabel Brothers Productions / Marvel Comics, 2007 ), Half Dead ( Dabel Brothers Productions / Marvel Comics, 2007 ), Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight ( Dark Horse Comics, 2007 ), Nosferatu ( Viper Comics, 2010 ), and Twilight: The Graphic Novel ( 2010 ).

* Season 6 ( 1972 – 1973 ): Lily Tomlin, Richard Dawson, Moosie Drier, Tod Bass, Brian Bressler, Patti Deutsch, Lisa Farringer, Sarah Kennedy, Jud Strunk, Willie Tyler, Donna Jean Young.

Gardenia, who also appeared as Jim Bowman in Episode 8 of Season 1 ( as the man who sold his house to the Jeffersons ) and as Curtis Remply in Episode 7 of Season 3 ( as a swinger opposite Rue McClanahan ), became a semi-regular along with Garrett in 1973.

Abraham can be seen as one of the undercover police officers along with Al Pacino in Sidney Lumet's Serpico ( 1973 ), also as the bad guy in one 3rd Season episode of Kojak, he played a cab driver in the theatrical version of The Prisoner of Second Avenue ( 1975 ), a mechanic in the theatrical version of The Sunshine Boys ( 1975 ) and in All the President's Men ( 1976 ), as one of the police officers who arrests the Watergate burglars in the offices of the Democratic National Headquarters.

Halloween IIIs subtitle comes from George A. Romero's second film Season of the Witch ( 1973 )— also known as Hungry Wives — but the plot contains no similarity to Romero's story of a housewife who becomes involved in witchcraft.

Second Season ( 1973 ):

* 1973: That Championship Season by Jason Miller

The 1973 Jets season is the subject of the book The Last Season of Weeb Ewbank by Paul Zimmerman.

In October 1973, the group also made an appearance on the American television sitcom Sanford and Son ( Season 3, Episode 4 ), singing their song " I Didn't Know ".

Among his most acclaimed performances were the role of Mayor George Sitkowski in the original production of Jason Miller's That Championship Season in 1973.

The lollipop made its debut in the Season 1 episode " Dark Sunday ", broadcast on December 12, 1973: Kojak lights a cigarette as he begins questioning a witness, but thinks better of it and sticks a lollipop ( specifically, a Tootsie Pop ) in his mouth instead.

* Season 6 – 1973 Plymouth Cuda 340 convertible ( actually the 1971 car updated with 1973 grille, headlamps, front fenders and tail lights )

* Men's Basketball Regular Season Championships ( 1972 – 73, 1973 – 74, 1950 – 51 )

1972 – 1973 Season

1973 – 1974 Season

In 1973 Gibson published " A Season in Heaven ", an account of his studies with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Punta Umbria and La Antilla, Spain.

* Hawaii Five-O: " Will the Real Mr. Winkler Please Die " ( Season 5, episode 19, 1973 ) ( Rogloff )

* Season 8 ( September 14, 1972-April 12, 1973, 28 episodes ): out of the top-30