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1894 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

[edit] American football

College championship

College football national championship – Penn Quakers, Princeton Tigers and Yale Bulldogs (shared)

Events

The 1894 Harvard–Yale game, known as the "Hampden Park Blood Bath", results in crippling injuries for four players; the contest is suspended until 1897. The annual Army–Navy Game is suspended from 1894 till 1898 for similar reasons. One of the major problems is the popularity of mass formations like the flying wedge, in which a large number of offensive players charge as a unit against a similarly arranged defense. The resultant collisions often lead to serious injury and sometimes even death.

[edit] Association football

England

The Football League – Aston Villa 44 points, Sunderland 38, Derby County 36, Blackburn Rovers 34, Burnley 34, Everton 33
FA Cup final – Notts County 4–1 Bolton Wanderers at Goodison Park
The Football League expands the Second Division from 15 to 16 clubs ahead of the 1894–95 season. Darwen and Newton Heath (Manchester United) are relegated from the First Division while Liverpool and Small Heath (Birmingham City) are promoted. Middlesbrough Ironopolis and Northwich Victoria are expelled from the league and three new clubs are elected: Bury, Burton Wanderers (league membership 1894–97) and Leicester Fosse (Leicester City).
The Southern League is founded prior to the 1894–95 season. Some of its early members will eventually join the Football League.

Scotland

Scottish Football League – Glasgow Celtic
Scottish Cup final – Glasgow Rangers 3–1 Glasgow Celtic at Hampden Park

[edit] Baseball

National championship

Baltimore Orioles win the first of three successive National League championships

Events

The Temple Cup is introduced, lasting until 1897, and matches the National League winner and runner-up in a best–of–seven, post–season championship series. It is also known as the "World's Championship Series" but it fails to gain fan support, partly because three of the four series held will be won by the league runner-up. In 1894, runner-up New York Giants defeats champion Baltimore Orioles 4 games to 0.
1894 is Major League Baseball's highest scoring season as Boston Beaneaters set the current record for the most runs scored in a season (1220) and another standing record with seven players scoring 100 or more runs; in addition, Philadelphia Phillies bat .349 for the season with all four outfielders above .400, but finish fourth despite the feat

[edit] Boxing

Events

26 July — Tommy Ryan defeats "Mysterious" Billy Smith after 20 rounds at Minneapolis to win the World Welterweight Championship. Ryan will hold the title until 1898, when he vacates it to challenge for the world middleweight title
The inaugural World Bantamweight Champion is Jimmy Barry of Chicago who is recognised following his 28th round knockout of Casper Leon at Lemont, Illinois on 15 September. Barry retains the title until 1899 when he retires undefeated in the whole of his career.^[1] The bantamweight division is for fighters weighing between 112 and 118lb.

Lineal world champions^[2]

World Heavyweight Championship – James J. Corbett
World Middleweight Championship – Bob Fitzsimmons
World Welterweight Championship – "Mysterious" Billy Smith → Tommy Ryan
World Lightweight Championship – title vacant
World Featherweight Championship – George Dixon
World Bantamweight Championship – Jimmy Barry

[edit] Cricket

Events

The inaugural South African tour of England took place but none of its 24 matches are currently regarded as first-class fixtures.

England

County Championship – Surrey
Most runs – Bill Brockwell 1491 @ 38.23 (HS 128)
Most wickets – Arthur Mold 207 @ 12.30 (BB 8–67)
Wisden Five Young Batsmen of the Season – Bill Brockwell, Jack Brown, C B Fry, Tom Hayward, Archie MacLaren

Australia

Sheffield Shield – South Australia
Most runs – George Giffen 526 @ 75.14 (HS 205)
Most wickets – Charlie Turner 30 @ 12.30 (BB 6–51)

India

Bombay Presidency – Europeans

South Africa

Currie Cup – Natal

West Indies

Inter-Colonial Tournament – not contested

[edit] Golf

Major tournaments

British Open – John Henry Taylor

Other tournaments

British Amateur – John Ball

[edit] Horse racing

England

Grand National – Why Not
1,000 Guineas Stakes – Amiable
2,000 Guineas Stakes – Ladas
Epsom Derby – Ladas
Epsom Oaks – Amiable
St. Leger Stakes – Throstle

Australia

Melbourne Cup – Patron

Canada

Queen's Plate – Joe Miller

Ireland

Irish Grand National – The Admiral
Irish Derby Stakes – Blairfinde

USA

Kentucky Derby – Chant
Preakness Stakes – Assignee
Belmont Stakes – Henry of Navarre

[edit] Ice hockey

Stanley Cup

Montreal HC 3–1 Ottawa HC

[edit] Motor racing

Origin

22 July — the beginning of motor racing can be traced to a run from Paris and Rouen. Although there have previously been some private events, this first real contest is organised by Paris magazine Le Petit Journal as a reliability test, but it is not actually a race as the contestants do not start together. Albert de Dion is first to arrive at Rouen in his de Dion-Bouton car, but the judges rule that his steam-powered vehicle is outside the competition's scope and a Panhard-Levassor is judged to be the winner.
The internal combustion engine has been developed from simple gas-fuelled designs during the preceding decades to the point where several technicians such as Karl Benz in Mannheim and the partnership of Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in Stuttgart have built the first true automobiles during the 1880s. Racing of horse-drawn carriages has been popular among its participants in the past and it is a natural progression to race the new automobiles.