Sports year 1852
| Sports year 1852 | |
|---|---|
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 Friedrich Ludwig Jahn dies. |
Events
- April 3rd : Oxford wins the 11th Boat Race against Cambridge in a time of 21'36 "with a lead of 9 lengths.
- July: The two German chess masters Adolf Anderssen and Jean Dufresne play the so-called Evergreen Game in Berlin .
- August 3 : Harvard wins the first Harvard-Yale regatta .
- The oldest written hockey set of rules in the world, the Rules of Harrow , are published in England.
Born
- March 9th : Mary Outerbridge , American tennis player, "mother of American tennis" († 1886 )
- March 10 : Léon Moreaux , French marksman and Olympic champion († 1921 )
- June 15 : Daniel Burley Woolfall , British football official, FIFA President († 1918 )
- July 14 : James Dwight , American tennis player († 1917 )
Died
- October 15 : Friedrich Ludwig Jahn , German educator and father of the German gymnastics movement (* 1778 )
