- Source: 1884 in sports
1884 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
Athletics
USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
American football
College championship
College football national championship – Yale Bulldogs
Events
Amos Alonzo Stagg enters Yale University as a divinity student and, a natural athlete, joins the university's football team.
25 October — Yale Bulldogs defeat Dartmouth 113–0. This is the first college football game where one team scores over 100 points and also the first time one team scores over 100 points while the opposing team scores zero.
29 October — The next week, the Princeton Tigers outscore the Lafayette Leopards by 140–0.
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 win by a walkover after Vale of Leven fail to appear
Australia
The Anglo-Australian Football Association is created as a separate association for the colony of Victoria.
The Anglo-Queensland Football Association, now Football Queensland, is founded.
Australian Rules Football
Victorian Football Association premiers - Geelong.
SANFL premiers - Port Adelaide.
Canadian Football
The Canadian Rugby Football Union is founded as a regulatory body for Canadian Football.
Montreal wins the first Rugby Football Dominion Championship by defeating Toronto 30-0.
The Quebec Challenge Cup is won by Montreal after defeating Britannia 1-0.
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.
Boxing
Events
The first of the modern World titles is recognised with Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey as the original World Middleweight Champion. 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.
Lineal world champions
World Middleweight Championship – Jack Nonpareil Dempsey
Canadian football
Events
The Canadian Rugby Football Union, forerunner of the Canadian Football League, is established.
Cricket
Events
An Australian team tours England but loses the three-match Test series 1–0 with two matches drawn.
Derbyshire suffer the ignominy of a perfectly bad season losing all ten of their county games
In stark contrast Nottinghamshire come closer to an absolutely perfect season than any county side since, winning nine games and being three wickets shy of victory in their tenth
England
Champion County – Nottinghamshire
Most runs – Lord Harris 1,417 @ 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 – Joey Palmer 29 @ 17.51 (BB 6–72)
Gaelic Athletic Association
Events
1 November — Gaelic Athletic Association is founded at Hayes' Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary, to promote hurling and Gaelic football. The foundation date has significance as Samhain: according to legend the day the Fianna fell from power.
Golf
Major tournaments
British Open – Jack Simpson
Horse racing
England
Grand National – Voluptuary
1,000 Guineas Stakes – Busybody
2,000 Guineas Stakes – Scot Free
The Derby – dead heat between Harvester and St. Gatien
The 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
Ice hockey
February 11 – The Montreal Victorias defeat the Ottawa Hockey Club 1–0 to win the second Montreal Winter Carnival ice hockey tournament.
November 28 – The Montreal Hockey Club is founded.
Rowing
The Boat Race
7 April — Cambridge wins the 41st Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
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
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
World
The 8th pre-open era Men's Tennis tour gets underway 54 tournaments are staged this year the tour runs from 6 May to 21 December 1884.
Tobogganing
Events
Cresta Run constructed at St. Moritz in Switzerland
References
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