1929 in sports

1929 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

American football [edit]

NFL championship

Green Bay Packers wins National Football League title

College championship

College football national championship – Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Pittsburgh Panthers and USC Trojans (shared)

Events

1 January – Rose Bowl is won by Georgia Tech defeating California 8–7
28 November – Ernie Nevers scores 6 rushing touchdowns for Chicago Cardinals against Chicago Bears

Association football [edit]

England

The Football League – Sheffield Wednesday 52 points, Leicester City 51, Aston Villa 50, Sunderland 47, Liverpool 46, Derby County 46
FA Cup final – Bolton Wanderers 2–0 Portsmouth at Empire Stadium, Wembley, London

Germany

National Championship – SpVgg Fürth 3–2 Hertha BSC at Nuremberg

Australian rules football [edit]

VFL Premiership

Collingwood achieves the only perfect home-and-away season in VFL/AFL history, but lose the second semi-final to Richmond 8.13 (61) to 18.15 (123)
Collingwood wins the 33rd VFL Premiership, beating Richmond 11.13 (79) to 7.8 (50) in the 1929 VFL Grand Final.

Brownlow Medal

The annual Brownlow Medal is awarded to Albert Collier (Collingwood)

Bandy [edit]

Sweden

Championship final – IF Göta 5-1 Västerås SK

Baseball [edit]

World Series

8–14 October — Philadelphia Athletics (AL) defeat Chicago Cubs (NL) to win the 1929 World Series by 4 games to 1

Basketball [edit]

ABL Championship

Cleveland Rosenblums win four games to none over the Fort Wayne Hoosiers

Boxing [edit]

Events

September — having successfully defended the World Light Heavyweight Championship this year against both Mickey Walker and James J. Braddock, Tommy Loughran relinquishes the title to fight as a heavyweight

Lineal world champions^[1]

World Heavyweight Championship – vacant
World Light Heavyweight Championship – Tommy Loughran → vacant
World Middleweight Championship – Mickey Walker
World Welterweight Championship – Joe Dundee → Jackie Fields
World Lightweight Championship – Sammy Mandell
World Featherweight Championship – Andre Routis → Bat Battalino
World Bantamweight Championship – vacant → "Panama" Al Brown
World Flyweight Championship – vacant

Canadian football [edit]

Grey Cup

17th Grey Cup – Hamilton Tigers 14–3 Regina Roughriders

Cricket [edit]

Events

Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) organises the England tour of Australia in the 1928–29 season. England retains The Ashes, winning the first four Tests against Australia and losing the last for a 4–1 series victory. But, ominously for England, a young batsman called Don Bradman makes his Test debut for Australia.

England

County Championship – Nottinghamshire
Minor Counties Championship – Oxfordshire
Most runs – Frank Woolley 2804 @ 56.08 (HS 176)
Most wickets – Tich Freeman 267 @ 18.27 (BB 10–131)
Wisden Cricketers of the Year – Ted Bowley, K. S. Duleepsinhji, Tuppy Owen-Smith, Walter Robins, Bob Wyatt

Australia

Sheffield Shield – New South Wales
Most runs – Don Bradman 1690 @ 93.88 (HS 340*)
Most wickets – Clarrie Grimmett 71 @ 34.25 (BB 6–109)

India

Bombay Quadrangular – Parsees

New Zealand

Plunket Shield – Auckland

South Africa

Currie Cup – not contested

West Indies

Inter-Colonial Tournament – British Guiana

Cycling [edit]

Tour de France

Maurice De Waele (Belgium) wins the 23rd Tour de France

Figure skating [edit]

World Figure Skating Championships

World Men's Champion – Gillis Grafström (Sweden)
World Women's Champion – Sonja Henie (Norway)
World Pairs Champions – Lilly Scholz and Otto Kaiser (Austria)

Golf [edit]

Major tournaments

Other tournaments

British Amateur – Cyril Tolley
US Amateur – Harrison R. Johnston

Horse racing [edit]

England

Champion Hurdle – Royal Falcon
Cheltenham Gold Cup – Easter Hero
Grand National – Gregalach
1,000 Guineas Stakes – Taj Mah
2,000 Guineas Stakes – Mr Jinks
Epsom Derby – Trigo
Epsom Oaks – Pennycomequick
St. Leger Stakes – Trigo

Australia

Melbourne Cup – Nightmarch

Canada

Queen's Plate – Shorelint

France

Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe – Ortello

Ireland

Irish Grand National – Alike
Irish Derby Stakes – Kopi

USA

Ice hockey [edit]

Stanley Cup

28–29 March — Boston Bruins defeats New York Rangers by 2 games to 0 in the 1929 Stanley Cup Finals

Lacrosse [edit]

Events

The Intercollegiate Lacrosse League is renamed the U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA).

Motor racing [edit]

Grand Prix racing

14 April — the 1st Monaco Grand Prix is run at Monte Carlo. The winner is William Grover-Williams (Great Britain) driving a Bugatti T35B in 3:56:11.0 over 318 km (198 mi) (100 laps).
30 June — the 15th French Grand Prix, organised by the Automobile Club de France (ACF), is run at Circuit de la Sarthe, near Le Mans, over 604.58 km (375.67 mi) (37 laps). The winner is William Grover-Williams driving a Bugatti T35B in 4:33:01.2. The race is retrospectively referred to as the XXIII Grand Prix de l'ACF.

Indianapolis 500

30 May — 17th running of the Indianapolis 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is won by Ray Keech in the Simplex Piston Ring Special Miller.

Le Mans 24 hours

The 7th Le Mans 24 hours race is won by Woolf Barnato (Great Britain) and Henry Birkin (Great Britain) driving a Bentley Speed Six over 174 laps 2,843.83 km (1,767.07 mi).