1884 in sports
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1884 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
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[edit] American football
College championship
- College football national championship – Princeton Tigers and Yale Bulldogs (shared)
Events
- Amos Alonzo Stagg enters Yale University as a divinity student and, a natural athlete, joins the university's football team.
[edit] Association football
England
- FA Cup final – Blackburn Rovers 2–1 Queen's Park (Glasgow) at The Oval. Blackburn Rovers is the first extant club to win the FA Cup.
- Everton moves as tenant to Anfield, a newly enclosed ground off Anfield Road, Liverpool.
- Derby County founded by Derbyshire CCC to provide a winter activity for players and supporters.
- Leicester City founded as Leicester Fosse.
Scotland
- Scottish Cup final – Queen's Park win by a walkover after Vale of Leven fail to appear
[edit] Baseball
National championship
- Inauguration of the National League v. American Association fixture, sometimes called the "Original World Series" – Providence Grays (NL) defeats New York Metropolitans (AA) 3 games to nil.
Events
- Ned Williamson hits 27 home runs for the Chicago White Stockings, establishing a record that will last for 35 years. He nearly doubles the record of 14 set the season before by Harry Stovey.
- Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black American major league baseball player when he makes his American Association league debut for the Toledo Blue Stockings.
[edit] Boxing
Events
- The first of the modern World titles is recognised with Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey as the original World Middleweight Champion.[1] The weight limit for middleweights at this time is 154 pounds. Dempsey will hold the title until 1891.
- American heavyweight champion John L. Sullivan faces a number of challengers but none of them last more than four rounds. Sullivan is very active on the exhibition circuit.[2]
Lineal world champions[3]
[edit] Canadian football
Events
- The Canadian Rugby Football Union, forerunner of the Canadian Football League, is established.
[edit] Cricket
Events
- An Australian team tours England but loses the three-match Test series 1–0 with two matches drawn.
England
- Champion County[4] – Nottinghamshire
- Most runs – Lord Harris 1417 @ 33.73 (HS 112*)
- Most wickets – Fred Spofforth 207 @ 12.82 (BB 8–62)
Australia
- Most runs – Billy Murdoch 567 @ 113.40 (HS 279*)
- Most wickets – Eugene Palmer 29 @ 17.51 (BB 6–72)
[edit] Gaelic Athletic Association
Events
- 1 November — Gaelic Athletic Association is founded at Hayes' Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary, to promote hurling and Gaelic football. The foundation date has significance as Samhain: according to legend the day the Fianna fell from power.
[edit] Golf
Major tournaments
[edit] Horse racing
England
- Grand National – Voluptuary
- 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Busybody
- 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Scot Free
- Epsom Derby – dead heat between Harvester and St. Gatien
- Epsom Oaks – Busybody
- St. Leger Stakes – The Lambkin
Australia
Canada
- Queen's Plate – Williams
Ireland
- Irish Grand National – The Gift (second successive win)
- Irish Derby Stakes – Theologian
USA
- Kentucky Derby – Buchanan
- Preakness Stakes – Knight of Ellerslie
- Belmont Stakes – Panique
[edit] Rowing
The Boat Race
- 7 April — Cambridge wins the 41st Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
[edit] Rugby football
Home Nations Championship
- The 2nd series is won by England
Other events
- The 1884 New Zealand rugby union tour of New South Wales is the inaugural overseas tour by the New Zealand team
[edit] Tennis
Events
- Inaugural women's singles championship at Wimbledon
England
- Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – William Renshaw (GB) defeats Herbert Lawford (GB) 6–0 6–4 9–7
- Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Maud Watson (GB) defeats Lillian Watson (GB) 6–8 6–3 6–3
USA
- American Men's Singles Championship – Richard D. Sears (USA) defeats Howard A. Taylor (USA) 6–0 1–6 6–0 6–2
[edit] Tobogganing
Events
- Cresta Run constructed at St. Moritz in Switzerland
[edit] References
- ^ Cyber Boxing Zone – Lineal Middleweight Champions. Retrieved on 6 June 2009. Archived 2009-06-08.
- ^ Cyber Boxing Zone – John L Sullivan. Retrieved on 12 November 2009.
- ^ "Cyber Boxing Zone". Archived from the original on 2009-06-20. http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/pastchp.htm. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
- ^ An unofficial seasonal title proclaimed by consensus of media and historians prior to December 1889 when the official County Championship was constituted.
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