American Football
- Super Bowl IV – Kansas City Chiefs won 23–7 over the Minnesota Vikings
- Nebraska Cornhuskers win the college football national championship.
- 16 June – death of Brian Piccolo, Chicago Bears player
- 3 September – death of Vince Lombardi, Green Bay Packers coach; subsequently, his name is given to the Super Bowl trophy and the Rotary Lombardi Award
- 14 November – A plane carrying most of the Marshall University team crashes just short of landing near Huntington, West Virginia, killing all 75 aboard, including 37 players.
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