1909 in sports

All you want to know about 1909 in sports

Years in sports:	1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
Years:	1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912

1 Baseball
2 Boxing
3 Cricket
4 Figure skating
5 Football (Australian rules football)
6 Football (Canadian Rules)
7 Football (rugby league)
8 Football (soccer)
- 8.1 England
9 Golf
10 Horse racing
11 Ice hockey
12 Events
13 Births
14 Deaths

Baseball

World Series - Pittsburgh Pirates defeat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3

Boxing

June 19 - Monte Attell, won the World Bantamweight Championship joining his brother Abe Attell, who held the World Featherweight Championship, to become the first pair of brothers to hold world titles simultaneously.

Cricket

June 15 - Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.

Figure skating

World Championship
Men's Champion - Ulrich Salchow, Sweden
Women's Champion - Lily Kronberger, Hungary

Football (Australian rules football)

Victorian Football League - South Melbourne wins the 13th VFL Premiership (South Melbourne 4.14 (38) d Carlton 4.12 (36))

Football (Canadian Rules)

Canadian Football League - University of Toronto wins the 1st Grey Cup over Parkdale 26-6

Football (rugby league)

New South Wales Rugby League goes into its second season

South Sydney Rabbitohs win the title on forfeit, defeating Balmain Tigers
Cumberland, one of the nine original teams of 1908, had been absorbed by Western Suburbs Magpies after playing a mere 8 games
Eight teams compete in season 1909: Balmain Tigers, Eastern Suburbs Roosters, Glebe Dirty Reds, Newcastle Rebels, Newtown Jets, North Sydney Bears, South Sydney Rabbitohs, Western Suburbs Magpies.

Team	Played	Wins	Draws	Losses	For	Against	Points
South Sydney Rabbitohs	10	9	0	1	210	41	18
Balmain Tigers	10	8	0	1	130	62	16
Newcastle Rebels	10	5	0	5	144	93	10
Eastern Suburbs Roosters	10	5	0	5	167	141	10
Glebe Dirty Reds	10	4	0	6	62	159	8
Newtown Jets	10	3	1	6	73	107	7
North Sydney Bears	10	2	2	6	104	157	6
Western Suburbs Magpies	10	2	1	7	42	172	5

Football (soccer)

West Auckland Town, an English amateur side, beat FC Winterthur of Switzerland 2-0 to win the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy, one of the very first international club competitions.

England

First Division - Newcastle United win the 1908-09 title.
FA Cup - Manchester United beat Bristol City 1-0.

Golf

June 8-11 - British Open - John Henry Taylor
June 23-25 - U.S. Open - George Sargent
British Amateur - Robert Maxwell
U.S. Amateur - Robert A. Gardner

Horse racing

Ice hockey

Amateur hockey

February 1909 - The Allan Cup is donated to be the amateur championship hockey trophy of Canada.
March 1909 - The Ottawa Cliffsides win the Inter-Provincial Amateur Hockey Union (IPAHU) to win the Allan Cup. The Cliffsides lose a challenge to Queen's College of Kingston, Ontario.

Professional hockey

March 1909 - The Ottawa Hockey Club wins the Eastern Canada Hockey Association (ECHA) championship and the Stanley Cup.
March 1909 - The Renfrew Creamery Kings win the Federal Hockey League championship and challenge for the Stanley Cup, but cannot play for the Cup because the Stanley Cup trustees rule their players are ineligible.
November 1909 - The ECHA disbands over the plans of the Montreal Wanderers to change rinks. Two rival leagues are founded, splitting the top rival team. The Canadian Hockey Association is formed with Ottawa HC and the National Hockey Association (NHA) with the Montreal Wanderers. The NHA is founded by the president of the Renfrew team, who is seeking a chance at the Stanley Cup. The CHA would disband in January 1910, and the NHA takes in Ottawa and Montreal Shamrocks from the CHA.
December 1909 - The NHA inaugurates a new team 'Les Canadiens' the basis of today's Montreal Canadiens.

Events

November 30 - A goal is scored in the St. Andrew's Day match of the Eton Wall Game at Eton College. As of 2003^[update], no more goals have been scored in the St. Andrew's day game (which is the most important match of the year) but points have been scored by other methods.

Births

February 11 — Max Baer (The Livermore Larruper), American boxer and actor (d. 1959)
February 15 — Guillermo Gorostiza Paredes, Spanish football (soccer) player (d. 1966)
April 5 — Cilly Aussem, German tennis player (d. 1963)
August 9 — Ivan Fuqua, American athlete (d. 1994)
August 22 — Mel Hein, American football player (d. 1992)
October 14 — Bernd Rosemeyer, German champion racing driver (d. 1938)
November 4 — Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (d. 1974)

Deaths

January 6 - George Dixon, the first black world boxing champion

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