1926 in sports
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1926 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
| Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
| Decades: | 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s |
| Years: | 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 |
Contents |
[edit] American Football
- Frankford Yellow Jackets win the National Football League championship with a league record of 14–1–1.
[edit] Association football
[edit] England
- First Division – Huddersfield Town win the 1925–26 title; it is the first time a club has won the League title three times in a row.
- FA Cup – Bolton Wanderers beat Manchester City 1–0.
[edit] Australian rules football
- Victorian Football League
- Melbourne wins the 30th VFL Premiership (Melbourne 17.17 (119) d Collingwood 9.8 (62))
- Brownlow Medal awarded to Ivor Warne–Smith (Melbourne)
[edit] Baseball
[edit] Major League Baseball
- World Series – St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Yankees 4 games to 3
[edit] Negro League Baseball
- Rube Foster, founder of the Negro National League (NNL) and owner and manager of the Chicago American Giants, suffers a nervous breakdown and has to be confined to an asylum. His protege Dave Malarcher takes over as manager and leads the team to the NNL pennant.
- The Chicago American Giants (NNL) defeat the Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City, New Jersey (ECL), 5 games to 3, in the Negro League World Series.
- Mule Suttles of the St. Louis Stars hits a Negro League record 27 home runs. His .498 batting average and 21 triples are also records.
[edit] Cricket
- May 31 – India, New Zealand and West Indies are elected as Full Members of the Imperial Cricket Conference thus increasing the number of Test cricket playing nations to six.
[edit] Golf
- June 22-25 – British Open – Bobby Jones
- July 8-10 – U.S. Open – Bobby Jones becomes the first golfer to win the U.S. Open and British Open titles in the same year.
- September 25 – PGA Championship – Walter Hagen
- British Amateur – Jess Sweetser
- U.S. Amateur – George Von Elm
[edit] Horse racing
- May 15 – Bubbling Over wins the Kentucky Derby
- Jack Horner ridden by Willie Watkinson wins the Grand National at Aintree defeating 29 rivals.
- April 19 – Willie Watkinson Grand National Winning jockey, three weeks after his victory in a fall at Bogside, Scotland
[edit] Ice hockey
- 1926 Stanley Cup Finals: Montreal Maroons defeat the Victoria Cougars.
- Allan Cup - University of Toronto defeats Port Arthur Bearcats.
- Memorial Cup - Calgary Canadians defeat Queen's University.
- The Western Hockey League professional league folds; most players are sold for $300,000 to National Hockey League (NHL).
- December - New expansion teams debut in NHL: Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Cougars and New York Rangers.
[edit] Lacrosse
- Rosabelle Sinclair establishes the United States' first women's lacrosse team at Bryn Mawr School.
[edit] Motor racing
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