1899 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

American football

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College football national championship A national championship in the highest level of college football in the United States, currently the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), is a designation awarded annually by various organizations to their selection of the best co ...

– Harvard Crimson Professional championships * Western Pennsylvania champions – Duquesne Country and Athletic Club Events * The

1899 Sewanee Tigers football team The 1899 Sewanee Tigers football team represented Sewanee: The University of the South in the 1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Sewanee was one of the first college football powers of the South and the 1899 te ...

goes undefeated, 12–0, including five road wins in six days over top teams.

Association football

England * The Football League –

Aston Villa Aston Villa Football Club is a professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, England. The club competes in the , the top tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1874, they have played at their home ground, Villa Park ...

45 points, Liverpool 43, Burnley 39, Everton 38, Notts County 37, Blackburn Rovers 36 * FA Cup final – Sheffield United 4–1 Derby County at Crystal Palace, London. France * Foundation of

Olympique de Marseille Olympique de Marseille (, ; oc, Olimpic de Marselha, ), also known simply as Marseille or by the abbreviation OM (, ), is a French professional men's football club based in Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Founded in 1899, the club pl ...

* Lyon Olympique Universitaire, as predecessor for

Olympique Lyonnais Olympique Lyonnais (), commonly referred to as simply Lyon () or OL, is a men and women's French professional football club based in Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The men play in France's highest football division, Ligue 1. Founded in 1950, th ...

, officially founded. Germany * Foundation of

TSG 1899 Hoffenheim Turn- und Sportgemeinschaft 1899 Hoffenheim e.V., or simply TSG 1899 Hoffenheim or just Hoffenheim () is a German professional football club based in Hoffenheim, a village of Sinsheim municipality, Baden-Württemberg. Originally founded in 1899 ...

, Eintracht Frankfurt and

SV Werder Bremen Sportverein Werder Bremen von 1899 e. V. (), commonly known as Werder Bremen (), Werder or simply Bremen, is a German professional sports club based in Bremen, Bremen (state), Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Founded on 4 February 1899, they are be ...

Hungary *

Ferencváros TC Ferencváros () is the 9th district of Budapest ( hu, Budapest IX. kerülete), Hungary. Name The southern suburb of Pest was named after King Francis I on 4 December 1792 when he was crowned king of Hungary. History The development of Fe ...

was founded in suburb of Budapest on May 3. Italy * Foundation of A.C. Milan as the Milan Associazione Calcio (Milan Association Football). Scotland *

Scottish Football League The Scottish Football League (SFL) was a league featuring professional and semi-professional football clubs mostly from Scotland.One club, Berwick Rangers, is based in the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, which is located approximately 4 km south ...

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Rangers A Ranger is typically someone in a military/paramilitary or law enforcement role specializing in patrolling a given territory, called “ranging”. The term most often refers to: * Park ranger or forest ranger, a person charged with protecting and ...

* Scottish Cup –

Celtic Celtic, Celtics or Keltic may refer to: Language and ethnicity *pertaining to Celts, a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia **Celts (modern) *Celtic languages **Proto-Celtic language * Celtic music *Celtic nations Sports Fo ...

2–0

Spain * 29 November — FC Barcelona founded by a Swiss, Hans Gamper, who wants to establish football in the city. Uruguay * Club Nacional of Montevideo was founded in

Montevideo Montevideo () is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . M ...

Athletics

* USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships *

Lawrence Brignolia Lawrence Joseph Brignolia, sometimes Brignoli, (15 April 1876 – 13 February 1958) was an American long-distance runner and sculler of Italian descent. He won the 1899 Boston Marathon. A 161-pound blacksmith, he is the heaviest person ever to cl ...

won the third running of the

Boston Marathon The Boston Marathon is an annual marathon race hosted by several cities and towns in greater Boston in eastern Massachusetts, United States. It is traditionally held on Patriots' Day, the third Monday of April. Begun in 1897, the event was i ...

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

VFL Premiership * Fitzroy wins the 3rd

VFL The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

Premiership: Fitzroy 3.9 (27) d South Melbourne 3.8 (26) at Junction Oval

Baseball

National championship * National League championship – Brooklyn Superbas. Brooklyn's team features many former Baltimore Orioles players including Ned Hanlon, Willie Keeler, Hughie Jennings and Joe Kelley. Events * Cleveland Spiders finish last in the twelve-team NL and establish an all-time major league record with 134 losses in a season, 84 games behind the pennant winner and 35 games out of 11th place. The team plays 113 games on the road, losing a record 102. They are dropped during the off-season when the National League contracts from twelve to eight teams.

Basketball

Events * Kansas played their first men's basketball game against the Kansas City YMCA, losing 5–16. The Jayhawks were coached by the inventor of basketball James Naismith. Kansas quickly became one of the most prestigious college basketball programs in the nation.

Boxing

Lineal world champions * World Heavyweight Championship – Bob Fitzsimmons → James J. Jeffries *

World Middleweight Champion Championship recognition 1884–1910 Champions were recognized by public acclamation. A champion in that era was a fighter who had a notable win over another fighter and kept winning afterward. Retirements or disputed results could lead to a cha ...

ship – Tommy Ryan *

World Welterweight Champion In its most general sense, the term "world" refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the worl ...

ship – "Mysterious" Billy Smith *

World Lightweight Champion This is a list of world lightweight boxing champions by organization, as recognized by four of the better-known sanctioning organizations: * The World Boxing Association (WBA), founded in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA), * The World ...

ship – George "Kid" Lavigne →

Frank Erne Frank Erne (January 8, 1875 – September 17, 1954) was a Swiss-born American boxer widely credited with taking the World Featherweight Championship on November 27, 1896, from George Dixon in New York City, as well as the World Lightweight Champi ...

World Featherweight Champion Championship recognition Public Acclamation: 1884 to 1921 Champions were recognized by wide public acclamation. A heavyweight champion was a boxer who had a notable win over another notable boxer and then went without defeat. Retirements from the ...

ship – George Dixon *

World Bantamweight Champion This is a list of world bantamweight boxing champions, as recognized by the four major sanctioning organizations in boxing: * The World Boxing Association (WBA), established in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA). The WBA often recognize ...

ship – Jimmy Barry → Barry retires undefeated → "Terrible" Terry McGovern → title vacant after McGovern moves up a weight

Cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

Events * Four of the five

Test matches Test match in some sports refers to a sporting contest between national representative teams and may refer to: * Test cricket * Test match (indoor cricket) * Test match (rugby union) * Test match (rugby league) * Test match (association football) ...

in the 1899 Ashes series are drawn.

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

wins the Second Test at

Lord's Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known as Lord's, is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London. Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and is the home of Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and ...

to take the series 1–0, their first series win in England since the original Ashes match in 1882. * W G Grace makes his final appearance for England in Test cricket in the First Test at Trent Bridge. In the same match, Wilfred Rhodes makes his Test debut. * Worcestershire becomes the fifteenth team in the County Championship, debuting with an 11-run loss to Yorkshire despite earning a 78-run lead on first innings. They eventually finished twelfth with two wins in 12 games. * W G Grace plays his last first-class game for Gloucestershire, having fallen out with them over his involvement with London County. * K S Ranjitsinhji becomes the first batsman to score 3000 runs in a season. England * County Championship –

Surrey Surrey () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South East England, bordering Greater London to the south west. Surrey has a large rural area, and several significant urban areas which form part of the Greater London Built-up Area. ...

Minor Counties Championship The NCCA 3 Day Championship (previously the Minor Counties Cricket Championship) is a season-long competition in England and Wales that is contested by the members of the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), the so-called national cou ...

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Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire (), abbreviated Bucks, is a ceremonial county in South East England that borders Greater London to the south-east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-ea ...

and Northamptonshire share the title * Most runs – K S Ranjitsinhji 3159 @ 63.18 (HS 197) * Most wickets – Albert Trott 239 @ 17.09 (BB 8–64) * Wisden Five Cricketers of the Season – Joe Darling, Clem Hill, Arthur Jones, Monty Noble, Robert Poore Australia * Sheffield Shield – Victoria * Most runs – Victor Trumper 873 @ 62.35 (HS 292*) * Most wickets – Ernie Jones 45 @ 27.53 (BB 6–154) India *

Bombay Presidency The Bombay Presidency or Bombay Province, also called Bombay and Sind (1843–1936), was an administrative subdivision (province) of British India, with its capital in the city that came up over the seven islands of Bombay. The first mainl ...

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Europeans Europeans are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various ethnic groups that reside in the states of Europe. Groups may be defined by common genetic ancestry, common language, or both. Pan and Pfeil (2004) ...

South Africa * Currie Cup – not contested West Indies * Inter-Colonial Tournament – not contested

Cycling

Road racing * Bordeaux–Paris road race won by Constant Huret

Figure skating

World Figure Skating Championships * World Men's Champion –

Gustav Hügel Gustav Hügel was an Austrian figure skater. He was the 1897 and 1899-1900 World Champion A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning ...

(Austria)

Golf

Major tournaments * British Open – Harry Vardon * U.S. Open – Willie Smith Other tournaments * British Amateur – John Ball * US Amateur – H. M. Harriman

Horse racing Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition. It is one of the most ancient of all sports, as its basic p ...

England * Grand National – Manifesto *

1,000 Guineas Stakes The 1000 Guineas Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old fillies. It is run on the Rowley Mile at Newmarket over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 ...

– Sibola *

2,000 Guineas Stakes The 2000 Guineas Stakes is a Group 1 flat race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies. It is run on the Rowley Mile at Newmarket over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 metres) and scheduled to take place each year at ...

– Flying Fox * The Derby – Flying Fox * The Oaks – Musa * St. Leger Stakes – Flying Fox Australia * Melbourne Cup – Merriwee Canada * Queen's Plate – Butter Scotch Ireland * Irish Grand National – Princess Hilda * Irish Derby Stakes – Oppressor USA *

Kentucky Derby The Kentucky Derby is a horse race held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, almost always on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The competition is a Grade I stakes race for three-year ...

– Manuel * Preakness Stakes – Half Time *

Belmont Stakes The Belmont Stakes is an American Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds run at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. It is run over 1.5 miles (2,400 m). Colts and geldings carry a weight of ; fillies carry . The race, nicknamed Th ...

– Hindus

Ice hockey

Stanley Cup * 15–18 February — Montreal Victorias wins its fifth

Stanley Cup The Stanley Cup (french: La Coupe Stanley) is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff champion. It is the oldest existing trophy to be awarded to a professional sports franchise in North America, an ...

, defeating Winnipeg Victorias in a Cup challenge * 4 March — Montreal Shamrocks wins the inaugural Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) championship and takes the Stanley Cup * 14 March — Montreal Shamrocks successfully defends the title in a Cup challenge by Queen's College of Kingston, Ontario, winning 6–2.

Motor racing

Tour de France Trail * The Tour de France Trail is held 16–24 July over a distance of 2172.5 km. The winner is

René De Knyff Chevalier René de Knyff (December 10, 1865 in Antwerp, Belgium – 1954 in France) was a French pioneer of car racing and later a president of ''Commission Sportive Internationale'' (''CSI''), now known as FIA. Between 1897 and 1903 he took ...

driving a Panhard-Levassor in a time of 44:43:39. The race is sometimes referred to in retrospect as the ''IV Grand Prix de l'A.C.F''. *In July, James Gordon Bennett Jr. establishes the Gordon Bennett Cup challenge series. It is run 1900–1905.Grand Prix History online
(retrieved 11 June 2017)

Rowing

The Boat Race * 25 March — Cambridge wins the 56th Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

Rugby league

England * Championship – ''not contested'' *

Challenge Cup final The Challenge Cup of Rugby league was instituted in the 1896–97 Northern Rugby Football Union season, 1896–97 and the final was contested between Batley Bulldogs, Batley and St Helens R.F.C., St. Helens at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Headingley, ...

– Oldham 19–9 Hunslet at Fallowfield Stadium, Manchester * Lancashire League Championship – Broughton Rangers * Yorkshire League Championship –

Batley Batley is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England. Batley lies south-west of Leeds, north-west of Wakefield and Dewsbury, south-east of Bradford and north-east of Huddersfield. Batley is part of the ...

Rugby union

Home Nations Championship * 17th Home Nations Championship series is won by Ireland

Speed skating

Speed Skating World Championships * Men's All-round Champion – Peder Østlund (Norway)

Tennis

Events * 18 September — Cincinnati Open starts. Today, it is the oldest tennis tournament in the United States still played in its original city, and is now known as the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters & Women's Open. The first singles champions are

Nat Emerson Nathaniel C. Emerson (25 October, 1874 – 25 October, 1958) was a top-ranked American amateur tennis player in the early 20th century. Personal life Born in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 25, 1874 to Henry Emerson, Jr. & Eleanor Caldwell, he m ...

and Myrtle McAteer. England * Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – Reginald Doherty (GB) defeats Arthur Gore (GB) 1–6 4–6 6–3 6–3 6–3 * Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship –

Blanche Bingley Hillyard Blanche Bingley Hillyard (née Bingley; 3 November 1863 – 6 August 1946) was an English tennis player. She won six singles Wimbledon championships (1886, 1889, 1894, 1897, 1898, 1900) and was runner up seven times, having also competed in the ...

(GB) defeats

Charlotte Cooper Sterry Charlotte "Chattie" Cooper Sterry (née Charlotte Reinagle Cooper; 22 September 1870 – 10 October 1966) was an English female tennis player who won five singles titles at the Wimbledon Championships and in 1900 became Olympic champion. In winn ...

(GB) 6–2 6–3 France * French Men's Singles Championship – Paul Aymé (France) defeats

Paul Lebreton Louis Paul Lebreton (October 19, 1875 in Paris – March 31, 1960 in Paris) was a French tennis player. He was born Bordeaux and died in Lyon. He was three-time a runner-up in the singles event of the Amateur French Championships, losing in 1898 an ...

(France): details unknown * French Women's Singles Championship –

Françoise Masson Françoise "Adine" Masson was a French tennis player at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. The daughter of Armand Masson, the founder of the Tennis Club de Paris,Lawn-tennis at Étretat Gallica :fr: La Vie au grand air ...

(France) wins: details unknown USA * American Men's Singles Championship –

Malcolm Whitman Malcolm "Mal" Douglass Whitman (March 15, 1877 – December 28, 1932) was an American tennis player who won three singles titles at the U.S. National Championships. Biography He graduated from The Roxbury Latin School, where he is celebrated a ...

(USA) defeats

J. Parmly Paret Jahial "John" Parmly Paret (October 3, 1870 – November 24, 1952) was a tennis player and writer from the United States. Paret won the All-Comers final, but finished runner-up to Malcolm Whitman in the Challenge Round of the U.S. National Cha ...

(USA) 6–1 6–2 3–6 7–5 * American Women's Singles Championship – Marion Jones (USA) defeats Maud Banks (USA) 6–1 6–1 7–5

Yacht racing

America's Cup The America's Cup, informally known as the Auld Mug, is a trophy awarded in the sport of sailing. It is the oldest international competition still operating in any sport. America's Cup match races are held between two sailing yachts: one f ...

* The New York Yacht Club retains the

as ''

Columbia Columbia may refer to: * Columbia (personification), the historical female national personification of the United States, and a poetic name for America Places North America Natural features * Columbia Plateau, a geologic and geographic region in ...

'' defeats British challenger ''Shamrock'', of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club, 3 races to 0

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