1894 in sports
1894 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
College championship
Events
- The 1894 Harvard–Yale game, known as the "Hampden Park Blood Bath", results in crippling injuries for four players; the contest is suspended until 1897. The annual Army–Navy Game is suspended from 1894 till 1898 for similar reasons. One of the major problems is the popularity of mass formations like the flying wedge, in which a large number of offensive players charge as a unit against a similarly arranged defense. The resultant collisions often lead to serious injury and sometimes even death.
Austria
- Foundation of First Vienna FC, which is the oldest club in Austria (22 August).
England
Scotland
National championship
Events
- The Temple Cup is introduced, lasting until 1897, and matches the National League winner and runner-up in a best–of–seven, post–season championship series. It is also known as the "World's Championship Series" but it fails to gain fan support, partly because three of the four series held will be won by the league runner-up. In 1894, runner-up New York Giants defeats champion Baltimore Orioles 4 games to 0.
- 1894 is Major League Baseball's highest scoring season as Boston Beaneaters set the current record for the most runs scored in a season (1220) and another standing record with seven players scoring 100 or more runs; in addition, Philadelphia Phillies bat .349 for the season with all four outfielders above .400, but finish fourth despite the feat
Events
Lineal world champions[2]
Events
- The inaugural South African tour of England takes place but none of its 24 matches are currently regarded as first-class fixtures.
England
Australia
India
South Africa
West Indies
Major tournaments
Other tournaments
England
Australia
Canada
Ireland
USA
Stanley Cup
Origin
- 22 July — the beginning of motor racing can be traced to a run from Paris and Rouen. Although there have previously been some private events, this first real contest is organised by Paris magazine Le Petit Journal as a reliability test, but it is not actually a race as the contestants do not start together. Albert de Dion is first to arrive at Rouen in his de Dion-Bouton car, but the judges rule that his steam-powered vehicle is outside the competition's scope and a Panhard-Levassor is judged to be the winner.
- The internal combustion engine has been developed from simple gas-fuelled designs during the preceding decades to the point where several technicians such as Karl Benz in Mannheim and the partnership of Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in Stuttgart have built the first true automobiles during the 1880s. Racing of horse-drawn carriages has been popular among its participants in the past and it is a natural progression to race the new automobiles.
The Boat Race
Home Nations Championship
Speed Skating World Championships
England
France
USA
References
Sports by year 1851 – 1900
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