1895 in sports

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Years in sports:	1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898
Centuries:	18th century · 19th century · 20th century
Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
Years:	1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898

Contents 1 Auto racing 2 Baseball 3 Chess 4 Cricket 5 Field Hockey 5.1 Establishments 6 Football (soccer) 6.1 England 7 Ice Hockey 8 Events 9 Rowing 10 Yacht racing 11 Births 12 Deaths

[edit] Auto racing

• First real autorace, from Paris to Bordeaux.

[edit] Baseball

• Veteran player Bud Fowler and the Page Woven Wire Fence Company organize the Page Fence Giants, a black professional team touring out of Adrian, Michigan. Economic depression in the 1890s has eliminated all but the Cuban Giants in New York City and neighboring states.

[edit] Chess

• The Grand International Chess Congress was held in the summer at Hastings, England.

[edit] Cricket

• County Cricket Championship - Surrey

[edit] Field Hockey

[edit] Establishments

• April 16 – HC Bloemendaal, a Dutch field hockey club located in Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland

[edit] Football (soccer)

[edit] England

• First Division - Sunderland win the 1894-95 title.
• FA Cup - Aston Villa beat West Bromwich Albion 1-0.

[edit] Ice Hockey

• Montreal Victorias win their 1st Stanley Cup.
• Halifax Stanley and Dartmouth Jubilees would play the first recorded game involving two all-Black hockey teams leading to the formation of the Coloured Hockey League of the Maritimes based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

[edit] Events

• February 9 - W.G. Morgan invents volleyball.
• October 4 - first US Open golf tournament played,Horace Rawlings was its first champion.
• Twenty-one rugby union clubs in northern England split to form the Northern Rugby Union, forerunner of rugby league

[edit] Rowing

• Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race - Oxford

[edit] Yacht racing

• The New York Yacht Club retains the America's Cup as Defender defeats British challenger Valkyrie III, of the Royal Yacht Squadron, 3 races to 0 (Valkyrie III is disqualified in the second race and abandons the third)

[edit] Births

• February 2 — George Halas, American football coach (d. 1983)
• February 6 — Babe Ruth, American baseball player (d. 1948)
• March 20 — Robert Benoist, French racing driver (d. 1944)
• March 26 — Vilho Tuulos, Finnish triple jumper and long jumper (d. 1967)
• April 13 — Ivan Stedman, Australian swimmer (d. 1979)
• May 11 — Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player (d. 1978)
• October 31 — Les Darcy, Australian boxer (d. 1917)

[edit] Deaths