1974 in sports
1974 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. == Alpine skiing == Alpine Skiing World Cup Men's overall season champion: Piero Gros, Italy Women's overall season champion: Annemarie Pröll, Austria == American football == 13 January – Super Bowl VIII: the Miami Dolphins (AFC) won 24–7 over the Minnesota Vikings (NFC) Location: Rice Stadium Attendance: 71,882 MVP: Larry Csonka, FB (Miami) World Bowl I – Birmingham Americans won 22–21 over Florida Blazers (at Birmingham, Alabama) Sugar Bowl (1973 season): The game was actually played on 31 December 1973; other major bowl games were played on 1 January 1974 The Notre Dame Fighting Irish won 24–23 over the Alabama Crimson Tide to win AP Poll national championship 1974 NCAA Division I football season: The Oklahoma Sooners win the AP Poll national championship; do not play in any bowl the following January due to sanctions == Artistic gymnastics == World Artistic Gymnastics Championships – Men's all-around champion: Shigeru Kasamatsu, Japan Women's all-around champion: Ludmilla Tourischeva, USSR Men's team competition champion: Japan Women's team competition champion: USSR == Association football == Brazil – CR Vasco da Gama wins the Campeonato Brasileiro FIFA gives to Colombia the right to host the 1986 FIFA World Cup, but Colombian officials decided in late 1982 that they could not afford to host the tournament on the scale FIFA required.