1911 in sports

1911 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

American football

College championship

College football national championship – Princeton Tigers

Events

25 November — the tradition of homecoming begins at the 1911 Kansas vs. Missouri football game.

Association football

Australia

The Commonwealth Football Association is founded as a governing body for the whole of Australia

Cyprus

Anorthosis Famagusta FC founded (30 January)

Egypt

Zamalek SC is founded at Gezira Island, Cairo as "Thakanat Qasr El-Nil Club" (5 January)

England

The Football League – Manchester United 52 points, Aston Villa 51, Sunderland 45, Everton 45, Bradford City 45, The Wednesday 42
FA Cup final – Bradford City 1–0 Newcastle United at Old Trafford, Manchester (replay following 0–0 draw at Crystal Palace)

Germany

National Championship – Viktoria Berlin 3–1 VfB Leipzig at Dresden

Scotland

Scottish Football League – Rangers
Scottish Cup – Celtic 2–0 Hamilton Academical at Ibrox Park^[1]

Australian rules football

VFL Premiership

Essendon wins the 15th VFL Premiership: Essendon 5.11 (41) d Collingwood 4.11 (35) at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG)

Bandy

Sweden

Championship final – IFK Uppsala 6–0 Djurgårdens IF

Baseball

World Series

14–26 October — Philadelphia Athletics (AL) defeats New York Giants (NL) to win the 1911 World Series by 4 games to 2

Events

Chalmers Award – Frank Schulte, NL; Ty Cobb, AL

Boxing

Events

Monte Attell loses his World Bantamweight Championship to Frankie Conley, but Conley holds the title a matter of days before losing to Johnny Coulon

Lineal world champions^[2]

World Heavyweight Championship – Jack Johnson
World Light Heavyweight Championship – vacant
World Middleweight Championship – vacant
World Welterweight Championship – vacant
World Lightweight Championship – Ad Wolgast
World Featherweight Championship – Abe Attell
World Bantamweight Championship – Monte Attell → Frankie Conley → Johnny Coulon

Canadian football

The Rugby Football Unions of Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan unite into the Western Canada Rugby Football Union. The playoff series would see the champion of the MRFU host the champion of the SRFU, and ARFU would play against the victor. This was changed the next year
Calgary, who won the western Canadian competition, issued a challenge to play for the Grey Cup, but was rejected due to the WCRFU not being a member of the Canadian Rugby Union
Interprovincial Rugby Football Union - Toronto Argonauts
Western Canada Rugby Football Union - Calgary Tigers
Ontario Rugby Football Union - Hamilton Alerts
Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union - University of Toronto
3rd Grey Cup – University of Toronto defeats Toronto Argonauts 14–7

Cricket

Events

Warwickshire wins its first-ever County Championship title, the first of the competition's "new clubs" to do so

England

County Championship – Warwickshire
Minor Counties Championship – Staffordshire
Most runs – Phil Mead 2562 @ 54.51 (HS 223)
Most wickets – Harry Dean 183 @ 17.43 (BB 9–109)
Wisden Cricketers of the Year – Frank Foster, J W Hearne, Sep Kinneir, Phil Mead, Herbert Strudwick

Australia

Sheffield Shield – New South Wales
Most runs – Aubrey Faulkner 1534 @ 59.00 (HS 204)
Most wickets – Bill Whitty 70 @ 20.27 (BB 6–17)

India

Bombay Triangular – Europeans shared with Hindus

New Zealand

Plunket Shield – Canterbury

South Africa

Currie Cup – Griqualand West

West Indies

Inter-Colonial Tournament – Barbados

Cycling

Tour de France

Gustave Garrigou (France) wins the 9th Tour de France^[3]

Figure skating

World Figure Skating Championships

World Men's Champion – Ulrich Salchow (Sweden)
World Women's Champion – Lily Kronberger (Hungary)
World Pairs Champions – Ludowika Jakobsson-Eilers / Walter Jakobsson (Finland)

Golf

Events

John McDermott becomes both the first American-born man and the youngest golfer (19 years, 10 months) to win the US Open

Major tournaments

British Open – Harry Vardon
US Open – John McDermott

Other tournaments

British Amateur – Harold Hilton
US Amateur – Harold Hilton

Horse racing

England

Australia

Melbourne Cup – The Parisian

Canada

King's Plate – St. Bass

Ireland

Irish Grand National – Reparator II
Irish Derby Stakes – Shanballymore

USA

Kentucky Derby – Meridian
Preakness Stakes – Watervale
Belmont Stakes – not contested due to anti-betting legislation in New York State

Ice hockey

Stanley Cup

March — Ottawa Hockey Club wins the National Hockey Association (NHA) championship and Stanley Cup
16 March — Ottawa forward Marty Walsh scores 10 goals in a 13–4 win over Port Arthur Seniors in a Stanley Cup challenge. His tally is second in Stanley Cup history to Frank McGee's 14-goal total on 16 January 1905.

Events

March — Winnipeg Victorias wins the Allan Cup
13 November — NHA founding team Renfrew Creamery Kings drops out of the league and the players under contract are dispersed to other teams. Two franchises are sold to Toronto interests who intend to start in the 1911–12 season, but Toronto's new Arena Gardens is not ready for play.
7 December — upon completion of artificial ice rinks in Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia, the new professional Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) league is created by former NHA players Frank and Lester Patrick. A bidding war for players ensues with numerous NHA players leaving to play in the PCHA.