1859 in sports

Cricket: the first English touring team pictured on board ship at Liverpool: standing at left Robert Carpenter, William Caffyn, Tom Lockyer; middle row John Wisden, H. H. Stephenson, George Parr, James Grundy, Julius Caesar, Thomas Hayward, John Jackson; front row Alfred Diver, John Lillywhite

1859 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

Australian rules football

Events

Baseball

National championship

Events

Boxing

Events

Cricket

Events

England

Horse racing

Events

England

Lacrosse

Events

Rowing

The Boat Race

Other events

Tennis

Events

References

  1. The next two members by distance from the New York City meeting the Union and Liberty clubs merely in Trenton and New Brunswick, New Jersey also played no matches within the association. The other 47 of 50 members were from Jersey City and Hoboken, New Jersey and from modern New York City. Marshall D. Wright, The National Association of Base Ball Players, 1857–1870, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2000, 31–40 (1859 data).
  2. Cyber Boxing Zone – John Morrissey. Retrieved on 8 November 2009.
  3. Cyber Boxing Zone – Tom Sayers. Retrieved on 8 November 2009.
  4. "Harvard–Yale Regatta – 150 Years of Tradition". Harvard Men's Heavyweight Crew. Retrieved 2013-05-10.