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1949 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.




American football


NFL Championship: the Philadelphia Eagles won 14–0 over the Los Angeles Rams at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Cleveland Browns 21–7 San Francisco 49ers for the All-America Football Conference championship. After the 1949 season, the Browns, 49ers and original Baltimore Colts all joined the NFL for the 1950 season.
The decades–long "color barrier" in athletics for the Big Seven Conference is broken by Harold Robinson, playing football for Kansas State. Robinson would go on to be named All–Conference in 1950.
Notre Dame Fighting Irish – college football national championship




Association football


England

First Division – Portsmouth win the 1948–49 title.
FA Cup – Wolverhampton Wanderers beat Leicester City 3–1.
Italy

Superga air disaster – a plane carrying the Torino team crashes into a mountain on May 4, killing everyone on board. Of the entire squad, only one player (who didn't fly, due to injury) survived, as well as potential signing Ladislao Kubala, who was due to fly but did not, due to his son's ill health.
On 21 September 1949 at Goodison Park, Liverpool, the home of Everton, England were defeated 2–0 by Ireland in a friendly international.




Australian rules football


Victorian Football League
Essendon wins the 53rd VFL Premiership (Essendon 18.17 (125) d Carlton 6.16 (52))
Brownlow Medal awarded to Ron Clegg (South Melbourne) and Col Austen (Hawthorn)




Baseball


January 28 – The New York Giants sign their first black players: Negro leaguers outfielder Monte Irvin and pitcher Ford Smith. Both men are assigned to Jersey City. Irvin will star for the Giants, but Smith will not reach the major leagues.
May 5 – Hall of Fame election. After a runoff election was necessary, Charlie Gehringer is selected for induction; on May 9, the Old-Timers Committee elects Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown and Kid Nichols as its first selections in 3 years.
June 5 – MLB Commissioner Happy Chandler lifts the ban on all players who jumped to the Mexican League, starting in 1946.
June 15 – Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Eddie Waitkus is shot in Chicago by deranged fan Ruth Ann Steinhagen.
June 25 – College World Series - Texas Longhorns defeated Wake Forest 10 to 3
The New York Yankees won the World Series over the Brooklyn Dodgers four games to one.
December 5 – Hiroshima Carp, officially founded, with participation in Central League of Japan.




Basketball


BAA (NBA) Finals

Minneapolis Lakers over Washington Capitols (4–2)
NBL Championship

Anderson Packers over Oshkosh All-Stars (3–0)
Events

On August 3 the NBL merges with the BAA. The BAA also renames itself as the National Basketball Association.
The sixth European basketball championship, Eurobasket 1949, is won by Egypt.
The fourteenth South American Basketball Championship in Asunción is won by Uruguay.




Boxing


October 27 – death of Marcel Cerdan (33), Algerian–born French world middleweight champion, in an air crash




Cricket


In the course of playing a Ranji Trophy semi-final at Poona in March, Bombay and Maharashtra set the still-standing record for the highest match aggregate of runs scored in a first-class match – 2,376 runs.




Figure skating


World Figure Skating Championships –
Men's champion: Dick Button, United States
Ladies' champion: Aja Zanova, Czechoslovakia
Pair skating champion: Andrea Kékesy & Ede Király, Hungary




Golf


Men's professional

Masters Tournament – Sam Snead
PGA Championship – Sam Snead
U.S. Open – Cary Middlecoff
British Open – Bobby Locke
Men's amateur

British Amateur – Max McCready
U.S. Amateur – Charles Coe
Women's professional

Women's Western Open – Louise Suggs
U.S. Women's Open – Louise Suggs
Titleholders Championship – Peggy Kirk




Horse racing


Steeplechases

Cheltenham Gold Cup – Cottage Rake
Grand National – Russian Hero
Hurdle races

Champion Hurdle – Hatton's Grace
Flat races

Australia – Melbourne Cup won by Foxzami
Canada – King's Plate won by Epic
France – Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe won by Coronation
Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by Hindostan
English Triple Crown Races:
2,000 Guineas Stakes – Nimbus
The Derby – Nimbus
St. Leger Stakes – Ridge Wood
United States Triple Crown Races:
Kentucky Derby – Ponder
Preakness Stakes – Capot
Belmont Stakes – Capot




Ice hockey


Stanley Cup

Toronto Maple Leafs sweep the Detroit Red Wings four games to none.
Sweden

Canada defeats Denmark 47–0 at the 1949 World Hockey Championships in Stockholm, Sweden.
United States

NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship – Boston College Eagles defeat Dartmouth Big Green 4–3 in Colorado Springs, Colorado




Motorsport






Rowing


The Boat Race

26 March — Cambridge wins the 95th Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race




Rugby league


Australia

1949 NSWRFL season
England

1948–49 Northern Rugby Football League season/1949–50 Northern Rugby Football League season




Rugby union


Five Nations Championship

55th Five Nations Championship series is won by Ireland
3 September – "blackest day" in All Blacks history as two Test matches are lost on the same day: 6–11 at home to the Wallabies; and 3–9 on tour to South Africa.




Snooker


World Snooker Championship – Fred Davis beats Walter Donaldson 80–65.




Speed skating


Speed Skating World Championships

Men's All-round Champion – Kornél Pajor (Hungary)
Women's All-round Champion – Maria Isakova (USSR)




Tennis


Australia

Australian Men's Singles Championship – Frank Sedgman (Australia) defeats John Bromwich (Australia) 6–3, 6–2, 6–2
Australian Women's Singles Championship – Doris Hart (USA) defeats Nancye Wynne Bolton (Australia) 6–3, 6–4
England

Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – Ted Schroeder (USA) defeats Jaroslav Drobný (Czechoslovakia) 3–6, 6–0, 6–3, 4–6, 6–4
Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Louise Brough Clapp (USA) defeats Margaret Osborne duPont (USA) 10–8, 1–6, 10–8
France

French Men's Singles Championship – Frank Parker (USA) defeats Budge Patty (USA) 6–3, 1–6, 6–1, 6–4
French Women's Singles Championship – Margaret Osborne duPont (USA) defeats Nelly Adamson Landry (France) 7–5, 6–2
USA

American Men's Singles Championship – Pancho Gonzales (USA) defeats Ted Schroeder (USA) 16–18, 2–6, 6–1, 6–2, 6–4
American Women's Singles Championship – Margaret Osborne duPont (USA) defeats Doris Hart (USA) 6–3, 6–1
Davis Cup

1949 Davis Cup – United States 4–1 Australia at West Side Tennis Club (grass) New York City, United States




Volleyball


Men's World Championship in Prague won by the USSR




Awards


Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year – Leon Hart, College football
Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year – Marlene Bauer, LPGA golf




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