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{{Short description|Sports-related events of 1895}}{{Year nav sports topic5|1895|sports}}1895 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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Athletics
American football
College championship Events- 3 September â the earliest known professional football game is played in Latrobe, Pennsylvania where Latrobe YMCA defeats the Jeannette Athletic Club 12â0.
Association football
Belgium- Formation in Brussels of the Royal Belgian Football Association (Koninklijke Belgische Voetbalbond or KBVB)
- Clube de Regatas do Flamengo, officially founded in Rio de Janeiro on November 17.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}
- The Football League â Sunderland 47 points, Everton 42, Aston Villa 39, Preston North End 35, Blackburn Rovers 32, Sheffield United 32
- FA Cup final â Aston Villa 1â0 West Bromwich Albion at Crystal Palace, London. This is the first time Crystal Palace is used as the venue for the final and it will stage all finals until 1914.
- In the Football League, Liverpool is relegated from Division One to Division Two and Bury is promoted. Walsall is expelled from the league and replaced by Loughborough FC (league membership 1895â1900)
- West Ham United founded as Thames Ironworks FC, a works team, by Arnold Hills who is a London shipyard owner.
- Scottish Football League â Hearts
- Scottish Cup final â St Bernard's 2â1 Renton at Ibrox ParkWEB, Scottish Cup Past Winners {{!, Scottish Cup {{!}} Scottish FA |url=https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/scottish-cup/archive/scottish-cup-history/scottish-cup-winners/ |website=www.scottishfa.co.uk |access-date=5 February 2021}}
- Formation of the Swiss Football Association. It is generally known by the abbreviation of ASF-SFV based on its name in three of the national languages of Switzerland. ASF stands for both French (Association Suisse de Football) and Italian (Associazione Svizzera di Football), while SFV is the German (Schweizerischer Fussballverbund). In the fourth national language of Switzerland, Romansh, it is abbreviated as ASB (Associaziun Svizra da Ballape).
Bandy
Events- Bandy is introduced to Sweden. The royal family, barons and diplomats are the earliest players.
Baseball
National championship- Baltimore Orioles win the second of three successive National League championships
- Temple Cup â Cleveland Spiders 4â1 Baltimore Orioles
- Veteran player Bud Fowler and the Page Woven Wire Fence Company organise the Page Fence Giants, a black professional team touring out of Adrian, Michigan. Economic depression in the 1890s has eliminated all but the Cuban Giants in New York City and neighboring states.
Boxing
Events- Bob Fitzsimmons relinquishes the World Middleweight Championship in order to fight as a heavyweight (there is no light-heavyweight division yet).Cyber Boxing Zone â Bob Fitzsimmons. Retrieved on 14 November 2009.
- World Heavyweight Championship â James J. Corbett
- World Middleweight Championship â Bob Fitzsimmons â title vacant after Fitzsimmons relinquishes it
- World Welterweight Championship â Tommy Ryan
- World Lightweight Championship â title vacant
- World Featherweight Championship â George Dixon
- World Bantamweight Championship â Jimmy Barry
Chess
Events- The Grand International Chess Congress is held in the summer at Hastings and is won by Harry Nelson Pillsbury ahead of Mikhail Chigorin and current world champion Emanuel Lasker.
Cricket
Events- W G Grace's "Indian Summer" in which he scores his 100th career century and becomes the first player to score 1000 first-class runs in a calendar month (i.e., May)
- County Championship expands from 9 to 14 teams with the restoration of Derbyshire and Hampshire; and the introduction of Essex, Leicestershire and Warwickshire
- Inaugural Minor Counties Championship is held
- County Championship â Surrey
- Minor Counties Championship â Durham, Norfolk and Worcestershire share the title
- Most runs â W G Grace 2346 @ 51.00 (HS 288)
- Most wickets â Tom Richardson 290 @ 14.37 (BB 9â49)
- Wisden Cricketer of the Year â WG Grace
- Sheffield Shield â Victoria
- Most runs â Albert Ward 916 @ 41.63 (HS 219)
- Most wickets â George Giffen 93 @ 22.54 (BB 8â77)
- Bombay Presidency â Europeans shared with Parsees
Golf
Events- Inaugural U.S. Open and US Amateur tournaments are held.
- British Open â John Henry TaylorWEB, John Henry Taylor {{!, British golfer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Henry-Taylor |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=30 April 2021 |language=en}}
- U.S. Open â Horace Rawlins
Horse racing
England- Grand National â Wild Man From Borneo
- 1,000 Guineas Stakes â Galeottia
- 2,000 Guineas Stakes â Kirkconnel
- The Derby â Sir VistoWEB, Epsom Derby {{!, History, Winners, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/sports/Derby-horse-race |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=29 December 2021 |language=en}}
- The Oaks â La Sagesse
- St. Leger Stakes â Sir Visto
- Melbourne Cup â Auraria
- Queen's Plate â Bonniefield
- Irish Grand National â Yellow Girl II
- Irish Derby Stakes â Portmarnock
- Kentucky Derby â Halma
- Preakness Stakes â Belmar
- Belmont Stakes â Belmar
Ice hockey
Stanley Cup- 9 March â Montreal Hockey Club defeats challenger Queen's University to retain the Stanley Cup.
- 9 March â by virtue of winning the 1895 AHAC season, the Montreal Victorias take over the Stanley Cup
- March â Queen's University defeats Trinity University 17â3 to win the Ontario Hockey Association title and the right to challenge for the Stanley Cup.
- Halifax Stanleys and Dartmouth Jubilees play the first recorded game involving two all-black hockey teams leading to the formation of the Coloured Hockey League based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The league will feature teams from across Canada's Maritime Provinces and will operate until 1930.
Motor racing
- The ParisâBordeauxâParis race is held and is the first real motor race as all competitors start together. The first to arrive is Ãmile Levassor in a two-cylinder {{convert|4|bhp|kW PS|lk=on|abbr=on}}Grand Prix History online (retrieved 11 June 2017) {{convert|1205|cc|cid|abbr=on}} Panhard-Levassor. He completes the course in 48 hours and 48 minutes,Grand Prix History online (retrieved 11 June 2017) finishing nearly six hours before the runner-up. Levassor's was disqualified, having only two seats, instead of the required four.Grand Prix History online (retrieved 11 June 2017) The official winner is Paul Koechlin, the third to arrive, 11 hours after Levassor;NEWS, Ces merveilleux fous roulants sur leurs drôles de machines,weblink 30 September 2011, Le Figaro, 9 July 2007, French, 25 December 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20111225135444weblink">weblink dead, he is awarded a Fr31,000 prize.Grand Prix History online (retrieved 11 June 2017) Among the other entrants was André Michelin in a Peugeot, on his company's pneumatic tires; he suffered numerous blowouts.Grand Prix History online (retrieved 11 June 2017) The race is in retrospect sometimes referred to as the I Grand Prix de l'ACF.1895 Grand Prix and Paris Races {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924113831weblink |date=2015-09-24 }}. Retrieved on 22 August 2009. The event proves cars and their drivers can travel very long distances in a reasonable time. It gives an enormous boost to the motor industry and the enthusiastic public interest in the event ensures the popularity of motor racing as a sport.
- 18 May, the first motor race in Italy is held. It is run on a course from Turin to Asti and back, a total of {{convert|93|km|mi|abbr=on}}. Five entrants started the event; only three completed it. It was won by Simone Federman in a four-seat Daimler Omnibus, at an average speed of {{convert|15.5|km/h|mph|abbr=on}}.Grand Prix History online (retrieved 11 June 2017)
- the Chicago Times Herald sponsors a race; only two entrants arrive.Grand Prix History online (retrieved 11 June 2017)
- 24 September-3 October, the Automobile Club de France sponsors the longest race to date, a {{convert|1710|km|mi|abbr=on}} event, from Bordeaux to Agen and back.Grand Prix History online (retrieved 11 June 2017) Because it is held in ten stages, it can be considered the first rally. The first three places are taken by a Panhard, a Panhard, and a three-wheeler De Dion-Bouton.Grand Prix History online (retrieved 11 June 2017)
- November â subsequently, several French motoring pioneers form the Automobile Club de France (ACF), which thereafter will govern most major races in France.
Rowing
The Boat Race- 30 March â Oxford wins the 52nd Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
Rugby football
- 27 August â Twenty-one rugby clubs in the north of England split from the Rugby Football Union over the issue of broken time payments and form the Northern Rugby Football Union, which is the forerunner of the Rugby Football League. In due course, two separate codes of rugby football develop: rugby union, governed by the RFU; and rugby league, governed by the Northern Union, which is subsequently called the Rugby Football League (RFL).
- 13th Home Nations Championship series is won by Scotland
- The Northern Union establishes its National Championship, Lancashire League Championship and Yorkshire League Championship competitions ahead of the inaugural 1895â96 season.
- 7 September â inaugural rugby league season begins.
Speed skating
Speed Skating World Championships- Men's All-round Champion â Jaap Eden (Netherlands)
Tennis
England- Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship â Wilfred Baddeley (GB) defeats Wilberforce Eaves (GB) 4â6 2â6 8â6 6â2 6â3
- Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship â Charlotte Cooper Sterry (GB) defeats Helen Jackson (GB) 7â5 8â6
- French Men's Singles Championship â André Vacherot (France) defeats Laurent Riboulet (France) 9â7 6â2
- American Men's Singles Championship â Fred Hovey (USA) defeats Robert Wrenn (USA) 6â3 6â2 6â4
- American Women's Singles Championship â Juliette Atkinson (USA) defeats Helen Hellwig (USA) 6â4 6â2 6â1
Volleyball
Events- 9 February â William G Morgan invents volleyball
Yacht racing
America's Cup- The New York Yacht Club retains the America's Cup as Defender defeats British challenger Valkyrie III, of the Royal Yacht Squadron, 3 races to 0. (Valkyrie III is disqualified in the second race and abandons the third.)
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