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1938 In Association Football
The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1938 throughout the world. Winners club national championship * Argentina: Independiente * France: FC Sochaux-Montbéliard * Germany: Hannover 96 * Italy: Internazionale Milano F.C. * Netherlands: Feyenoord Rotterdam * Paraguay: Olimpia Asunción * Poland: Ruch Chorzów * Romania: Ripensia Timișoara * Scotland: **Scottish Cup: East Fife * Turkey: Güneş SK * Soviet Union: Spartak Moscow Manchester City F.C. become the only team in history to be relegated the year after being champions of England. International tournaments * 1938 British Home Championship (October 23, 1937 – April 9, 1938) :: * FIFA World Cup in France (June 4 – 19 1938) *# *# *# * 1938 Bolivarian Games *# *# *# Births * 14 March: Árpád Orbán, Hungarian footballer (died 2008) * 17 March: Adolf Knoll, Austrian football player (died 2018) * 19 April: Stanko Poklepović, Croatian football player and manager (died 2018) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1938 Bolivarian Games
The I Bolivarian Games (Spanish: ''Juegos Bolivarianos'') were a multi-sport event held between August 6–22, 1938, in Bogotá, Colombia, at the Estadio El Campín, for the city's 400th anniversary. The Games were organized by the Bolivarian Sports Organization (ODEBO). The Games were officially opened by Colombian president Alfonso López Pumarejo, accompanied by Alberto Nariño Cheyne from the Colombian Olympic Committee, Colonel Leopoldo Piedrahita from the local organizing committee, and Gustavo Santos, mayor of the city of Bogotá. A detailed history of the early editions of the Bolivarian Games between 1938 and 1989 was published in a book written (in Spanish) by José Gamarra Zorrilla, former president of the Bolivian Olympic Committee, and first president (1976-1982) of ODESUR. Gold medal winners from Ecuador were published by the Comité Olímpico Ecuatoriano. The official posters for the Games were designed by Colombian artist Sergio Trujillo Magnenat. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
29 June
Events Pre-1600 * 226 – Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei. * 1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi. * 1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway, leading to his excommunication by the Catholic Church and civil war. *1444 – Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll. * 1457 – The Dutch city of Dordrecht is devastated by fire * 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island. 1601–1900 * 1613 – The Globe Theatre in London, built by William Shakespeare playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, burns to the ground. * 1620 – English crown bans tobacco growing in England, giving the Virginia Company a monopoly in exchange for tax of one shilling per pound. * 1644 – Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge. * 1659 – At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Gaines
Gene Gaines (June 26, 1938 – July 6, 2023) was an American professional football player who was a defensive back for 16 years in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played for the Ottawa Rough Riders and Montreal Alouettes. He is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. Gaines was born in Los Angeles and grew up in the Watts neighborhood. He played college football for the UCLA Bruins. Gaines had 42 career interceptions in the CFL. With Ottawa in 1964, he set a CFL record with a 128-yard kickoff return in the Eastern Conference playoffs against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. In 1970, he was both a player and one of the defensive backfield coaches for the Alouettes. Gaines played in the CFL as a non-import player based on a 1965 ruling allowing teams to designate certain long-term players as Canadian for football purposes. Following his retirement as a player, he remained involved in coaching in the CFL, with Montreal (1977-81), Edmonton Eskimos (1982), Winnipeg Blue Bombe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
26 June
Events Pre-1600 * 4 – Augustus adopts Tiberius. * 221 – Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar. * 363 – Roman emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sasanian Empire. * 684 – Pope Benedict II is chosen. * 699 – En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima. * 1243 – Mongols defeat the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Köse Dağ. *1295 – Przemysł II crowned king of Poland, following Ducal period. The white eagle is added to the Polish coat of arms. *1407 – Ulrich von Jungingen becomes Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights. *1409 – Western Schism: The Roman Catholic Church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XIII in Avignon. *1460 &nd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
