1905 in sports
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Years in sports: | 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 |
Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
Decades: | 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s |
Years: | 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 |
Contents |
[edit] Baseball
- World Series - New York Giants (NL) defeat Philadelphia Athletics (AL), 4 games to 1, in the last "first" World Series — the first organized by the two modern leagues NL and AL
[edit] Football (American)
- The college football season is blighted by 15 fatal injuries and U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt calls upon the game's authorities to reform it
[edit] Football (Australian rules football)
- Fitzroy wins the 9th VFL Premiership (Fitzroy 4.6 (30) d Collingwood 2.5 (17))
[edit] Football (soccer)
[edit] England
- First Division - Newcastle United win the 1904-05 title.
- FA Cup - Aston Villa beat Newcastle United 2-0
- Alf Common becomes the first player ever to be transferred for £1000
- The First and Second divisions are both expanded from eighteen to twenty teams for the 1905-06 season, bringing the total number of League clubs to 40
[edit] Turkey
- The Turkish football club Galatasaray S.K. is founded in Istanbul. The year 1905 appears on the club's logo.
[edit] Golf
- June 6-9 British Open - James Braid
- September 20-22 U.S. Open - Willie Anderson
[edit] Horse racing
- May 10 - Agile wins the Kentucky Derby
[edit] Ice Hockey
- Ottawa Senators win their 3rd Stanley Cup, defeating the Rat Portage Thistles 2 games to 0
[edit] Lacrosse
- The Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (ILA) is replaced by the Intercollegiate Lacrosse League, which was renamed the U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) in 1929.
[edit] Births
- January 14 — Sven Rydell, Swedish football (soccer) player (d. 1975)
- January 28 — Fausto dos Santos, Brazilian football (soccer) player (d. 1939)
- March 30 — Mikio Oda, Japanese athlete (d. 1998)
- April 8
- Erwin Keller, German field hockey player (d. ??)
- Bernt Evensen, Norwegian speed skater and cyclist (d. 1979)
- April 14 — Georg Lammers, German athlete (d. 1987)
- April 20 — Jaap Meijer, Dutch track cyclist (d. 1943)
- May 6 — René Dreyfus, French racing driver (d. 1993)
- May 9 — Lili de Alvarez, Spanish multi-sport competitor, tennis champion, author and journalist (d. 1998)
- June 12 — Ray Barbuti, American athlete and American football player (d. 1988)
- July 16 — Richard Corts, German athlete (d. 1974)
- July 22 — Doc Cramer, American baseball player (d. 1990)
- August 28 — Cyril Walters, Welsh cricketer (died 1992)
- August 4 — Edgar Bruun, Norwegian race walker (d. 1985)
- September 19 — Akilles Järvinen, Finnish athlete (d. 1943)
- September 29
- Fidel La Barba, US boxer and sportswriter (d. 1981)
- Edith Mayne, British freestyle swimmer (d. ??)
- October 6 — Helen Wills, American tennis player (d. 1999)
- October 10 — Wally Berger, American baseball player (d. 1988)
- October 20 — Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter (d. 1965)
- December 1 — Alex Wilson, Canadian track and field athlete (d. 1994)
[edit] Deaths
- September 10, Pete Browning, American baseball player