1928 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

American football

NFL championship Throughout its history, the National Football League (NFL) and other rival American football leagues have used several different formats to determine their league champions, including a period of inter-league matchups to determine a true national c ...

– Providence Steam Roller (8–1–2) * USC Trojans –

college football College football (french: Football universitaire) refers to gridiron football played by teams of student athletes. It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States. Unlike most ...

national championship shared with Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

Association football

England * The Football League – Everton 53 points, Huddersfield Town 51, Leicester City 48, Derby County 44,

Bury Bury may refer to: *The burial of human remains *-bury, a suffix in English placenames Places England * Bury, Cambridgeshire, a village * Bury, Greater Manchester, a town, historically in Lancashire ** Bury (UK Parliament constituency) (1832–19 ...

44,

Cardiff City Cardiff City Football Club ( cy, Clwb Pêl-droed Dinas Caerdydd) is a professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales. It competes in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1899 as R ...

44 * FA Cup final – Blackburn Rovers 3–1 Huddersfield Town at Empire Stadium, Wembley, London Germany * National Championship – Hamburger SV 5–2

Hertha BSC Hertha, Berliner Sport-Club e. V., commonly known as Hertha BSC (), and sometimes referred to as Hertha Berlin, Hertha BSC Berlin, or simply Hertha, is a German professional football club based in the locality of Westend of the borough of Charl ...

at Hamburg-Altona

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 * Collingwood wins the 32nd

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: Collingwood 13.18 (96) d

Richmond Richmond most often refers to: * Richmond, Virginia, the capital of Virginia, United States * Richmond, London, a part of London * Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England * Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada * Richmond, California, ...

9.9 (63) at

Melbourne Cricket Ground The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), also known locally as "The 'G", is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Victoria. Founded and managed by the Melbourne Cricket Club, it is the largest stadiu ...

(MCG) Brownlow Medal * The annual Brownlow Medal is awarded to Ivor Warne-Smith ( Melbourne)

Bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...

Sweden *

Championship final In sport, a championship is a competition in which the aim is to decide which individual or team is the champion. Championship systems Various forms of competition can be referred to by the term championship. Title match system In this system ...

– IF Göta 5-3 IK Sirius

Baseball

World Series * 4–9 October — New York Yankees (AL) defeats St. Louis Cardinals (NL) to win the

1928 World Series The 1928 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball for the 1928 season. The 25th edition of the World Series, it matched the American League champion New York Yankees versus the National League champion St. Louis Cardina ...

by 4 games to 0

Basketball

ABL Championship *

New York Celtics The Original Celtics were a barnstorming professional American basketball team. At various times in their existence, the team played in the American Basketball League, the Eastern Basketball League and the Metropolitan Basketball League. The te ...

win three games to one over the

Fort Wayne Hoosiers The Fort Wayne Hoosiers (originally the Fort Wayne Major Hoosiers) were an American basketball team based in Fort Wayne, Indiana that was a member of the American Basketball League (1925-1955), American Basketball League. Year-by-year See also< ...

Bobsleigh

Olympic Games (Men's Competition) * A 5-man bob event is held at the

1928 Winter Olympics The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games (french: IIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; german: II. Olympische Winterspiele; it, II Giochi olimpici invernali; rm, II Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. M ...

in St Moritz. * The gold medal is won by USA II ahead of USA I (silver) and Germany II (bronze).

Boxing

Events * 26 July — Gene Tunney's final fight is a 12th-round technical knockout of Tom Heeney in the Bronx; the

World Heavyweight Champion At boxing's beginning, the heavyweight division had no weight limit, and historically the weight class has gone with vague or no definition. During the 19th century many heavyweights were 170 pounds (12 st 2 lb, 77 kg) or less, tho ...

ship becomes vacant until 1930 Lineal world champions *

ship – Gene Tunney → vacant *

World Light Heavyweight Champion This is a chronological list of world light heavyweight boxing champions, as recognized by four of the better-known sanctioning organizations: Championship recognition 1903–1910 The light-heavyweight division was created in 1903, the brainc ...

ship – Tommy Loughran *

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 – Mickey Walker *

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 –

Joe Dundee Salvatore Lazzara (August 6, 1903 – March 31, 1982), better known by his boxing alias Joe Dundee, was an American boxer. ...

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 – Sammy Mandell *

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 – vacant → Tony Canzoneri → Andre Routis *

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 – vacant *

World Flyweight Champion This is a list of world flyweight 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 up ...

ship – vacant

Canadian football

Grey Cup *

16th Grey Cup The 16th Grey Cup was played on December 1, 1928, before 4,767 fans at the A.A.A. Grounds at Hamilton. The Hamilton Tigers shut out the Regina Roughriders The Saskatchewan Roughriders are a professional Canadian football team based in Regina ...

– Hamilton Tigers 30–0 Regina Roughriders

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 * The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is inaugurated. * The West Indian team touring England in the 1928 season is the first to play Test cricket but is not very successful, losing all three Tests by an innings and winning only five out of 30 first-class matches. England * County Championship – Lancashire *

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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Berkshire Berkshire ( ; in the 17th century sometimes spelt phonetically as Barkeshire; abbreviated Berks.) is a historic county in South East England. One of the home counties, Berkshire was recognised by Queen Elizabeth II as the Royal County of Berk ...

* Most runs – Frank Woolley 3352 @ 60.94 (HS 198) * Most wickets – Tich Freeman 304 @ 18.05 (BB 9–104) * Wisden Cricketers of the Year – Leslie Ames,

George Duckworth George Duckworth (9 May 1901 – 5 January 1966) was a professional cricketer who played first-class cricket for Lancashire and England. Duckworth, who won his cricketing fame as a wicket-keeper, was born and died in Warrington, Lancashire, an ...

, Maurice Leyland,

Sam Staples Samuel James Staples (18 September 1892 – 4 June 1950) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire in the 1920s and early 1930s. He played in three Tests for England against South Africa in 1927–28. He would ...

, Jack White Australia * Sheffield Shield – Victoria * Most runs – Bill Ponsford 1217 @ 152.12 (HS 437) * Most wickets – Clarrie Grimmett 42 @ 27.40 (BB 8–57) India *

Bombay Quadrangular The Bombay Quadrangular was an influential cricket tournament held in Bombay, British India between 1892–93 and 1945–46. At other times it was known variously as the Presidency Match, Bombay Triangular, and the Bombay Pentangular. Presidency ...

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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) ...

New Zealand * Plunket Shield – Wellington South Africa * Currie Cup – not contested West Indies * Inter-Colonial Tournament – Trinidad and Tobago

Cycling

Tour de France * Nicolas Frantz (Luxembourg) wins the 22nd Tour de France

Field hockey

Olympic Games (Men's Competition) * Gold Medal – India * Silver Medal – Netherlands * Bronze Medal – Germany

Figure skating

World Figure Skating Championships * World Women's Champion – Sonja Henie (Norway) * World Men's Champion –

Willi Böckel Willi is a given name, nickname (often a short form or hypocorism of Wilhelm (name), Wilhelm) and surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Willi Apel (1893–1988), German-American musicologist * Willi Boskovsky (1909–1991), A ...

(Austria) * World Pairs Champions – Andreé Joly-Brunet and Pierre Brunet (France)

Golf

Major tournaments * British Open – Walter Hagen * US Open –

Johnny Farrell John Joseph Farrell (April 1, 1901 – June 14, 1988) was an American professional golfer, best known for winning the U.S. Open in 1928. Over the course of his career, he won 22 PGA Tour events. Early life Born in White Plains, New York, Farrell ...

* USPGA Championship – Leo Diegel Other tournaments * British Amateur –

Philip Perkins Thomas Philip Perkins (3 September 1904 – 26 December 1978) was an English professional golfer best known for winning the 1928 Amateur Championship (British Amateur). Perkins won the Amateur Championship, 6 & 4, over Roger Wethered in May 1928 ...

* US Amateur – Bobby Jones

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 *

Champion Hurdle The Champion Hurdle is a Grade 1 National Hunt hurdle race in Great Britain which is open to horses aged four years or older. It is run on the Old Course at Cheltenham over a ...

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Brown Jack Brown Jack (1924–1948) was a Thoroughbred racehorse that raced over hurdles and then on the flat. He was a "stayer" – a horse specialising in longer races. He won the second Cheltenham Champion Hurdle in 1928, but his main claim to fam ...

* Cheltenham Gold Cup – Patron Saint * Grand National – Tipperary Tim *

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 ...

– Scuttle *

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 ...

– Flamingo * The Derby – Felstead * The Oaks –

Toboggan A toboggan is a simple sled traditionally used by children. It is also a traditional form of transport used by the Innu and Cree of northern Canada. In modern times, it is used on snow to carry one or more people (often children) down a hill o ...

* St. Leger Stakes –

Fairway Fairway may refer to: * Fairway (golf), part of a golf course *Fairway (navigation), a part of a water body with navigable channel *Fairway (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse *Fairway, Gauteng, South Africa *Fairway, Kansas, United States *Fairway, ...

Australia * Melbourne Cup – Statesman Canada *

King's Plate The King's Plate (known as the Queen's Plate between 1860 to 1901 and 1952 to 2022) is Canada's oldest Thoroughbred horse race, having been founded in 1860. It is also the oldest continuously run race in North America. It is run at a distance of ...

– Young Kitty France * Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe – Kantar Ireland * Irish Grand National – Don Sancho *

Irish Derby Stakes The Irish Derby (Irish: Dearbaí na hÉireann) is a Group 1 flat horse race in Ireland open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies. It is run at the Curragh over a distance of 1 ...

– Baytown 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 ...

– Reigh Count * Preakness Stakes – Victorian *

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 ...

– Vito

Ice hockey

Stanley Cup * 5–14 April — New York Rangers defeats Montreal Maroons in the

1928 Stanley Cup Finals The 1928 Stanley Cup Finals was a best-of-five series played entirely in Montreal between the New York Rangers and the Montreal Maroons. It was the first appearance by the Rangers in the Finals in only their second season. The Maroons made their ...

by 3 games to 2

Motorsport Motorsport, motorsports or motor sport is a global term used to encompass the group of competitive sporting events which primarily involve the use of motorized vehicles. The terminology can also be used to describe forms of competition of two ...

Nordic skiing Nordic skiing encompasses the various types of skiing in which the toe of the ski boot is fixed to the Ski binding, binding in a manner that allows the heel to rise off the ski, unlike alpine skiing, where the boot is attached to the ski from toe ...

Olympic Games (Men's Competition) *

Cross-country skiing Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreation ...

( 18 km) – gold medal:

Johan Grøttumsbråten Johan Hagbart Pedersen Grøttumsbraaten (24 February 1899 – 24 January 1983) was a Norwegian skier who competed in Nordic combined and cross-country. Dominating both events in the 1920s and early 1930s, he won several medals in the early Winte ...

(Norway) * Cross-country skiing ( 50 km) – gold medal: Per-Erik Hedlund (Sweden) * Ski jumping – gold medal: Alf Andersen (Norway) * Nordic combined – gold medal:

(Norway)

Olympic Games

1928 Winter Olympics * The

takes place at St Moritz in Switzerland (February 11 - February 19) * Norway wins the most medals (15) and the most gold medals (6) 1928 Summer Olympics * The

1928 Summer Olympics The 1928 Summer Olympics ( nl, Olympische Zomerspelen 1928), officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad ( nl, Spelen van de IXe Olympiade) and commonly known as Amsterdam 1928, was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from ...

takes place at Amsterdam (July 28 - August 12) * United States wins the most medals (56) and the most gold medals (22)

Radiosport Radiosport (or radio sport) is formal competition among amateur radio operators in any of three amateur radio activities, ARDF, DXing, and Contesting. The Friendship Radiosport Games is an international multi-sport event that includes all thre ...

Events * First ever organised radio contest is held: the ARRL International Relay Party, sponsored by the American Radio Relay League

Rowing

The Boat Race * 28 March — Cambridge wins the 80th Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

Rugby league

England * Championship – Swinton *

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, ...

– Swinton 5–3 Warrington at Central Park, Wigan * Lancashire League Championship – Swinton * Yorkshire League Championship – Leeds * Lancashire

County Cup The county football associations are the local governing bodies of association football in England and the Crown dependencies. County FAs exist to govern all aspects of football in England. They are responsible for administering club and player ...

– Swinton 5–2 Wigan * Yorkshire

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Dewsbury Dewsbury is a minster and market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Calder and on an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation waterway. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Hudder ...

8–2

Hull Hull may refer to: Structures * Chassis, of an armored fighting vehicle * Fuselage, of an aircraft * Hull (botany), the outer covering of seeds * Hull (watercraft), the body or frame of a ship * Submarine hull Mathematics * Affine hull, in affi ...

Australia * NSW Premiership – South Sydney 26–5

Eastern Suburbs Eastern Suburbs may refer to: Places *Eastern Suburbs (Mumbai), India *Eastern Suburbs (Sydney), Australia **Eastern Suburbs railway line, Sydney, Australia Sports clubs ;Association football *Eastern Suburbs AFC, Auckland, New Zealand * Eastern ...

(grand final)

Rugby union

Five Nations Championship * 41st Five Nations Championship series is won by England who complete the Grand Slam

Snooker Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sports, cue sport played on a Billiard table#Snooker and English billiards tables, rectangular table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six Billiard table#Pockets 2, pockets, one at each corner and o ...

World Championship * 2nd World Snooker Championship is won by Joe Davis who defeats Fred Lawrence 16–13

Speed skating

Speed Skating World Championships * Men's All-round Champion – Clas Thunberg (Finland)

* 500m – gold medal: Bernt Evensen (Norway) *

1500m The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletic ...

– gold medal: Clas Thunberg (Finland) *

5000m The 5000 metres or 5000-metre run is a common long-distance running event in track and field, approximately equivalent to or . It is one of the track events in the Athletics at the Summer Olympics, Olympic Games and the World Championships in At ...

– gold medal:

Ivar Ballangrud Ivar Eugen Ballangrud (né ''Eriksen'', 7 March 1904 – 1 June 1969) was a Norwegian speed skater, a four-time Olympic champion in speed skating. As the only triple gold medalist at the 1936 Winter Olympics, Ballangrud was the most successful at ...

(Norway) *

10000m The 10,000 metres or the 10,000-metre run is a common long-distance track running event. The event is part of the athletics programme at the Olympic Games and the World Athletics Championships, and is common at championship level events. The race ...

– cancelled due to thawing ice * All-round – removed from program

Tennis

Australia * Australian Men's Singles Championship – Jean Borotra (France) defeats Jack Cummings (Australia) 6–4 6–1 4–6 5–7 6–3 * Australian Women's Singles Championship – Daphne Akhurst Cozens (Australia) defeats Esna Boyd Robertson (Australia) 7–5 6–2 England * Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – René Lacoste (France) defeats Henri Cochet (France) 6–1 4–6 6–4 6–2 * Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship –

Helen Wills Moody Helen Newington Wills (October 6, 1905 – January 1, 1998), also known by her married names Helen Wills Moody and Helen Wills Roark, was an American tennis player. She won 31 Grand Slam tournament titles (singles, doubles, and mixed doubles) du ...

(USA) defeats Lilí de Álvarez (Spain) 6–2 6–3 France * French Men's Singles Championship – Henri Cochet (France) defeats René Lacoste (France) 5–7 6–3 6–1 6–3 * French Women's Singles Championship –

(USA) defeats

Eileen Bennett Whittingstall Eileen Bennett Whittingstall (née Bennett; 16 July 1907 – c. 18 August 1979, full name Eileen Viviyen Bennett Fearnley-Whittingstall) was a tennis player from the United Kingdom who won six Grand Slam doubles titles from 1927 to 1931. Career ...

(Great Britain) 6–1 6–2 USA * American Men's Singles Championship – Henri Cochet (France) defeats Francis Hunter (USA) 4–6 6–4 3–6 7–5 6–3 * American Women's Singles Championship –

(USA) defeats

Helen Jacobs Helen Hull Jacobs (August 6, 1908 – June 2, 1997) was an American tennis player who won nine Grand Slam titles. In 1936 she was ranked No. 1 in singles by A. Wallis Myers. Early life Jacobs was born in Globe, Arizona, and was Jewish. Her pare ...

(USA) 6–2 6–1 Davis Cup *

1928 International Lawn Tennis Challenge The 1928 International Lawn Tennis Challenge was the 23rd edition of what is now known as the Davis Cup. 27 teams would enter the Europe Zone, while six would enter the America Zone. Chile, Finland, and Norway made their first appearances in the c ...

– 4–1 at Stade Roland Garros (clay) Paris, France

References

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