1884 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

Contents 1 American football 2 Association football 3 Baseball 4 Boxing 5 Canadian football 6 Cricket 7 Gaelic Athletic Association 8 Golf 9 Horse racing 10 Rowing 11 Rugby football 12 Tennis 13 Tobogganing 14 References

[edit] American football

College championship

• College football national championship – Princeton Tigers and Yale Bulldogs (shared)

Events

• Amos Alonzo Stagg enters Yale University as a divinity student and, a natural athlete, joins the university's football team.

[edit] Association football

England

• FA Cup final – Blackburn Rovers 2–1 Queen's Park (Glasgow) at The Oval. Blackburn Rovers is the first extant club to win the FA Cup.
• Everton moves as tenant to Anfield, a newly enclosed ground off Anfield Road, Liverpool.
• Derby County founded by Derbyshire CCC to provide a winter activity for players and supporters.
• Leicester City founded as Leicester Fosse.

Scotland

• Scottish Cup final – Queen's Park won by a walkover after Vale of Leven failed to appear

[edit] Baseball

National championship

• Inauguration of the National League v. American Association fixture, sometimes called the "Original World Series" – Providence Grays (NL) defeats New York Metropolitans (AA) 3 games to nil.

Events

• Ned Williamson hits 27 home runs for the Chicago White Stockings, establishing a record that will last for 35 years. He nearly doubles the record of 14 set the season before by Harry Stovey.
• Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black American major league baseball player when he makes his American Association league debut for the Toledo Blue Stockings.

[edit] Boxing

Events

• The first of the modern World titles is recognised with Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey as the original World Middleweight Champion.^[1] The weight limit for middleweights at this time is 154 pounds. Dempsey will hold the title until 1891.
• American heavyweight champion John L. Sullivan faces a number of challengers but none of them last more than four rounds. Sullivan is very active on the exhibition circuit.^[2]

Lineal world champions^[3]

• World Middleweight Championship – Jack Nonpareil Dempsey

[edit] Canadian football

Events

• The Canadian Rugby Football Union, forerunner of the Canadian Football League, is established.

[edit] Cricket

Events

• An Australian team tours England but loses the three-match Test series 1–0 with two matches drawn.

England

• Champion County^[4] – Nottinghamshire
• Most runs – Lord Harris 1417 @ 33.73 (HS 112*)
• Most wickets – Fred Spofforth 207 @ 12.82 (BB 8–62)

Australia

• Most runs – Billy Murdoch 567 @ 113.40 (HS 279*)
• Most wickets – Eugene Palmer 29 @ 17.51 (BB 6–72)

[edit] Gaelic Athletic Association

Events

• Gaelic Athletic Association is founded to promote hurling and Gaelic football

[edit] Golf

Major tournaments

• British Open – Jack Simpson

[edit] Horse racing

England

• Grand National – Voluptuary
• 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Busybody
• 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Scot Free
• Epsom Derby – dead heat between Harvester and St. Gatien
• Epsom Oaks – Busybody
• St. Leger Stakes – The Lambkin

Australia

• Melbourne Cup – Malua

Canada

• Queen's Plate – Williams

Ireland

• Irish Grand National – The Gift (second successive win)
• Irish Derby Stakes – Theologian

USA

• Kentucky Derby – Buchanan
• Preakness Stakes – Knight of Ellerslie
• Belmont Stakes – Panique

[edit] Rowing

The Boat Race

• 7 April — Cambridge wins the 41st Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

[edit] Rugby football

Home Nations Championship

• The 2nd series is won by England

Other events

• The 1884 New Zealand rugby union tour of New South Wales is the inaugural overseas tour by the New Zealand team

[edit] Tennis

Events

• Inaugural women's singles championship at Wimbledon

England

• Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – William Renshaw (GB) defeats Herbert Lawford (GB) 6–0 6–4 9–7
• Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Maud Watson (GB) defeats Lillian Watson (GB) 6–8 6–3 6–3

USA

• American Men's Singles Championship – Richard D. Sears (USA) defeats Howard A. Taylor (USA) 6–0 1–6 6–0 6–2

[edit] Tobogganing

Events

• Cresta Run constructed at St. Moritz in Switzerland

[edit] References

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