From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1891 in sports
1891 in sports
1891 in sports describes the year’s events in world sport.
Boxing
Events
American football • 14 January — Bob Fitzsimmons knocks out Jack
College championship Nonpareil Dempsey in the 13th round at New
• College football national championship – Yale Orleans to win the Middleweight Championship of
Bulldogs the World. It is the first of three world titles that
Events Fitzsimmons will hold during his career.[1]
• Kansas defeats Missouri in the first Border War game Lineal world champions[2]
22-10 beginning one of the oldest and most fierce • World Heavyweight Championship – John L. Sullivan
college football rivalries. • World Middleweight Championship – Jack Nonpareil
Dempsey → Bob Fitzsimmons
Association football • World Welterweight Championship – title vacant
• World Lightweight Championship – Jack McAuliffe
England • World Featherweight Championship – Young Griffo
• The Football League – Everton 29 points, Preston
North End 27, Notts County 26, Wolves 26, Bolton
Wanderers 25, Blackburn Rovers 24 Cricket
• FA Cup final – Blackburn Rovers 3–1 Notts County at Events
The Oval • Inaugural Inter-Colonial Tournament takes place in
• The Football League expands from twelve to the West Indies involving Barbados, British Guiana
fourteen teams for the 1891–92 season: Stoke FC, and Trinidad & Tobago.
having been expelled in 1890, is restored; Darwen is England
elected. • County Championship – Surrey
Scotland • Most runs – William Gunn 1336 @ 41.75 (HS 169)
• Scottish Football League – Dumbarton and Rangers • Most wickets – George Lohmann 177 @ 11.66 (BB
F.C. share the title in its inaugural season 7–20)
• Scottish Cup final – Heart of Midlothian 1–0 • Wisden Five Great Bowlers – William Attewell, J T
Dumbarton at Hampden Park Hearne, Frederick Martin, Arthur Mold, John Sharpe
Uruguay Australia
• 28 September — foundation of the Central Uruguay • Most runs – George Giffen 275 runs @ 91.66 (HS 237)
Railway Cricket Club (CURCC) by British railway • Most wickets – Jim Phillips 25 wickets @ 10.00 (BB
workers in Montevideo; it later becomes C.A. Peñarol 7–20)
South Africa
Baseball • Currie Cup – Kimberley
West Indies
National championship • Inter-Colonial Tournament – Barbados
• National League v. American Association – series not
held
• The National League winners are the Boston Golf
Beaneaters who decline to play against the American Major tournaments
Association winners, the Boston Reds • British Open – Hugh Kirkaldy
Events Other tournaments
• The American Association folds after the season ends • British Amateur – Johnny Laidlay
Basketball Horse racing
Events England
• James Naismith of Springfield, Massachusetts invents • Grand National – Come Away
basketball • 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Mimi
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• 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Common
• Epsom Derby – Common
Tennis
• Epsom Oaks – Mimi Events
• St. Leger Stakes – Common • Inaugural French championship is held as the
Australia Championat de France International de Tennis. Initially,
• Melbourne Cup – Malvolio only the men’s singles is contested; the women’s
Canada singles will begin in 1897. Until 1924, the tournament
• Queen’s Plate – Victorious is open only to tennis players who are licensed in
Ireland France but, ironically, the inaugural tournament is
• Irish Grand National – Old Tom won by an Englishman, H Briggs, who defeats French
• Irish Derby Stakes – Narraghmore player P Baigneres in the final. Briggs is a British
USA resident living in Paris.
• Kentucky Derby – Kingman England
• Preakness Stakes – not run • Wimbledon Men’s Singles Championship – Wilfred
• Belmont Stakes – Foxford Baddeley (GB) defeats Joshua Pim (Ireland) 6–4 1–6
7–5 6–0
• Wimbledon Women’s Singles Championship – Lottie
Rowing Dod (GB) defeats Blanche Bingley Hillyard (GB) 6–2
The Boat Race 6–1
• 21 March — Oxford wins the 48th Oxford and France
Cambridge Boat Race • French Men’s Singles Championship – H. Briggs (GB)
defeats P. Baigneres 6–3 6–2
Rugby football USA
• American Men’s Singles Championship – Oliver
Home Nations Championship Campbell defeats Clarence Hobart 2–6 7–5 7–9 6–1
• The 9th series is won by Scotland with a 100% record 6–2
against England, Ireland and Wales. • American Women’s Singles Championship – Mabel
Other events Cahill (GB) defeats Ellen Roosevelt 6–4 6–1 4–6 6–3
• The 1891 British Lions tour to South Africa is the first
British Isles tour of South Africa and only the second
overseas tour conducted by a joint British team.
References
Between 9 July and 7 September, the team plays 20 [1] Cyber Boxing Zone – Bob Fitzsimmons. Retrieved
games, including three Tests against the South Africa on 14 November 2009.
national rugby union team. The British Isles wins all [2] "Cyber Boxing Zone". Archived from the original
20 matches including the three Tests. Although not on 2009-06-20. http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/
named as such at the time, the tour is retrospectively boxing/pastchp.htm. Retrieved 2009-06-20.
recognised as a British Lions tour.
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