1926 in sports

Years in sports:	1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years:	1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929

[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.

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.

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

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)

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.

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

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

January 14 — Oswaldo "Baltazar" da Silva, Brazilian football (soccer) player (d. 1997)
January 15 — Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav, Indian sports wrestler (d. 1984)
January 17 — Nel van Vliet, Dutch breaststroke swimmer (d. 2006)
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 23 — Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Japanese swimmer
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)

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