1926 in sports

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See also: 1925 in sports, other events of 1926, 1927 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'.

Contents 1 Baseball (Negro League) 2 Cricket 3 Football (American) 4 Football (Australian rules football) 5 Football (soccer) 5.1 England 6 Hockey (Ice) 7 Horse racing 8 Lacrosse 9 Births 10 Deaths

[edit] Baseball (Negro League)

• Rube Foster, founder of the Negro National League (NNL) and owner and manager of the Chicago American Giants, suffers a nervous breakdown and has to be confined to an asylum. His protege Dave Malarcher takes over as manager and leads the team to the NNL pennant.
• The Chicago American Giants (NNL) defeat the Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City, New Jersey (ECL), 5 games to 3, in the Negro League World Series.
• Mule Suttles of the St. Louis Stars hits a Negro League record 27 home runs. His .498 batting average and 21 triples are also records.

[edit] Cricket

• May 31 - India, New Zealand and West Indies are elected as Full Members of the Imperial Cricket Conference thus increasing the number of Test cricket playing nations to six.

[edit] Football (American)

• Frankford Yellow Jackets win the National Football League championship with a league record of 14-1-1.

[edit] Football (Australian rules football)

• Victorian Football League
  • Melbourne wins the 30th VFL Premiership (Melbourne 17.17 (119) d Collingwood 9.8 (62))
  • Brownlow Medal awarded to Ivor Warne-Smith (Melbourne)

[edit] Football (soccer)

[edit] England

• First Division - Huddersfield Town win the 1925-26 title; it is the first time a club has won the League title three times in a row.
• FA Cup - Bolton Wanderers beat Manchester City 1-0.

[edit] Hockey (Ice)

• Stanley Cup: Montreal Maroons defeat the Victoria Cougars

[edit] Horse racing

• Jack Horner ridden by Willie Watkinson wins the Grand National at Aintree defeating 29 rivals.

[edit] Lacrosse

• Rosabelle Sinclair establishes the United States' first women's lacrosse team at Bryn Mawr School.

[edit] Births

• January 14 — Oswaldo "Baltazar" da Silva, Brazilian football (soccer) player (d. 1997)
• February 4 — Gyula Grosics, Hungarian football goalkeeper
• February 4 — Dave Sands, Australian Aborigine boxer (d. 1952)
• March 4 — Pascual Nicolás Pérez, Argentine flyweight boxer (d. 1977)
• March 25 — László Papp, Hungarian boxer (d. 2003)
• March 29 — Mario D'Agata, Italian boxer
• May 5 — Víctor Ugarte, Bolivian football (soccer) player (d. 1995)
• June 30 — Henk Bouwman, Dutch field hockey player (d. 1995)
• July 10 — Kenneth Richmond, British wrestler (d. 2006)
• July 12 — Tiberio Mitri, Italian boxer (d. 2001)
• July 26 — Paul Collins, Canadian long-distance runner (d. 1995)
• October 11 — Dennis Shepherd, South African boxer (d. 2006)

[edit] Deaths

• April 19 — Willie Watkinson Grand National Winning jockey, three weeks after his victory in a fall at Bogside, Scotland