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1885 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 – Princeton Tigers




Association football


England

FA Cup final – Blackburn Rovers 2–0 Queen's Park (Glasgow) at The Oval
20 July — the Football Association legitimises professionalism
Millwall FC founded by workers on the Isle of Dogs as Millwall Rovers.
Southampton FC founded as Southampton St Mary's by members of St Mary's Church YMCA.
Hungary

Újpest FC was founded in suburb of Budapest on June 16.
Scotland

Scottish Cup final – Renton 3–1 Vale of Leven at Hampden Park (replay following 0–0 draw)




Australian Rules Football


Victorian Football Association premiers - South Melbourne
SANFL premiers - South Adelaide
WAFL premiers - Rovers




Canadian Football


Montreal are champions of the QRFU.
Ottawa College wins the ORFU.
The QRFU All-Stars are Canadian champions.




Baseball


National championship

National League v. American Association – Chicago NL ties St Louis A's, 3 games to 3 with one tie.
Events

The Cuban Giants, composed mainly of African-American players from Philadelphia, is the first black professional baseball team on a reasonably permanent basis. It will sometimes join a league and use a regular home park but more often tour independently.




Boxing


Events

29 August — John L. Sullivan's six round defeat of Dominick McCaffrey in Chester Park, Cincinnati, inaugurates the modern World heavyweight boxing championship under Queensberry Rules. The bout is described as being "to decide the Marquess of Queensberry glove contest for the championship of the world". Sullivan will hold the title until 1892.
World Middleweight Champion Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey defeats 12 challengers during the year, most of them by knockouts.
Future World Heavyweight Champion James J. Corbett is the most successful amateur boxer on America's Pacific Coast and takes part in an exhibition bout with Dempsey.
Lineal world champions

World Heavyweight Championship – John L. Sullivan
World Middleweight Championship – Jack Nonpareil Dempsey




Cricket


Events

Nottinghamshire wins the county championship title for a third successive season
England

Champion County – Nottinghamshire
Most runs – Walter Read 1,880 @ 44.76 (HS 163)
Most wickets – George Lohmann 142 @ 14.36 (BB 8–18)
Australia

Most runs – Billy Barnes 520 @ 43.33 (HS 134)
Most wickets – Bobby Peel 35 @ 19.22 (BB 7–27)




Golf


Events

Inaugural British Amateur Championship held at Royal Liverpool Golf Club
Major tournaments

British Open – Bob Martin
Other tournaments

British Amateur – Allen MacFie




Horse racing


England

Grand National – Roquefort
1,000 Guineas Stakes – Farewell
2,000 Guineas Stakes – Paradox
The Derby – Melton
The Oaks – Lonely
St. Leger Stakes – Melton
Australia

Melbourne Cup – Sheet Anchor
Canada

Queen's Plate – Willie W.
Ireland

Irish Grand National – Billet Doux
Irish Derby Stakes – St. Kevin
USA

Kentucky Derby – Joe Cotton
Preakness Stakes – Tecumseh
Belmont Stakes – Tyrant




Ice hockey


Events

31 January — the Montreal Hockey Club defeats the McGill University 1–0 to win the 1885 Montreal Winter Carnival Ice Hockey Tournament




Rowing


The Boat Race

28 March — Oxford wins the 42nd Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race




Rugby football


Home Nations Championship

The 3rd series of the Home Nations Championship is not completed
Other events

Establishment of London Welsh RFC and Connacht Rugby




Speed skating


Norway

1885 speed skating race at Frognerkilen




Tennis


England

Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – William Renshaw (GB) defeats Herbert Lawford (GB) 7–5 6–2 4–6 7–5
Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Maud Watson (GB) defeats Blanche Bingley (GB) 6–1 7–5
USA

American Men's Singles Championship – Richard D. Sears (USA) defeats Godfrey M. Brinley (USA) 6–3 4–6 6–0 6–3
The 9th pre-open era Men's Tennis tour gets underway 54 tournaments are staged this year the tour runs from 2 April to 12 October 1885.




Yacht racing


America's Cup

The New York Yacht Club retains the America's Cup as Puritan defeats British challenger Genesta, of the Royal Yacht Squadron, 2 races to 0




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