1925 in sports:
[edit] Establishments
- October 3 – Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech) plays its inaugural intercollegiate football game
- The IFAB reform the offside law, reducing the number of opposing players required to be in front of the attacker for him to be onside from three to two.
[edit] England
[edit] Births
- January 18 — Roepie Kruize, Dutch field hockey player and coach (d. 1992)
- February 11 — George Avery, Australian triple jumper
- February 19 — Leslie Laing, Jamaican athlete
- February 24 — Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher, Dutch freestyle swimmer
- June 10 — Lennart Bergelin, Swedish tennis player
- July 18 — Shirley Strickland, Australian athlete and triple Olympic gold medallist (d. 2004)
- July 28 — Juan Alberto Schiaffino, Uruguayan football (soccer) player (d. 2002)
- July 29 — Ted Lindsay, ice hockey Hall of Fame player
- November 4 — Teodor Anioła, Polish footballer (d. 1993)
- November 25 — Ernst Happel, Austrian football player and coach (d. 1992)
- November 30 — Sverre Strandli, Norwegian hammer thrower (d. 1985)
- December 29 — Pete Dye, American golf course architect
[edit] Deaths
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