Sports year 1867
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Events
Alpinism
- The British mountaineer WAB Coolidge manages the first ascent of Piz Badile in the Bergell Alps in the south of the Swiss canton of Graubünden with two companions .
Boxing
- The Queensberry Rules for Boxing , designed by John Graham Chambers and named after John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry , are published. Among other things, they contain the obligation to wear boxing gloves and to count up to ten when it rains and are intended to replace the previously valid London Prize Ring Rules .
Soccer
- March 5 : Bramall Lane in Sheffield hosts the first football tournament , the Youdan Cup . FC Hallam wins .
lacrosse
- The Canadian National Lacrosse Association is established and written rules for the game are established. Thus winning lacrosse where the surprising popularity in Canada, Upper Canada College the first game under the new rules is performed.
athletics
- July 27th : William McLaren , Great Britain, runs the men's 100 meters in the first measured time of 11 seconds.
Equestrian sport
- June 19 : The Belmont Stakes horse race in the New York Bronx is held for the first time. The winner is the horse Ruthless .
- Pocahontas wins the 34th Union race on the Tempelhofer Feld .
Cycling
- Dec. 8 : About 100 men participate in the first one-day races in cycling part. The route leads from the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris to the Palace of Versailles .
rowing
- April 13 : Oxford defeated Cambridge in the Boat Race in 22'39 ″.
- July 19 : Harvard defeats Yale in the Harvard-Yale regatta in 18'12.75 ″.
- At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1867 , a rowing world championship is held, which is won by a Canadian outsider team, the so-called Paris Crew .
chess
- The Austrian Ignaz von Kolisch wins an international chess tournament in Paris ahead of Gustav Richard Neumann and Wilhelm Steinitz .
- Gustav Richard Neumann from Prussia wins an international chess tournament in Dundee ahead of Wilhelm Steinitz and Cecil De Vere .
Founding of clubs
- February 3 : The Vienna Ice Skating Club is founded. The statutes submitted on February 7th are approved on June 14th . On November 27th, the association leases part of the former Wiener Neustädter Canal Harbor as an ice rink . The first ice day takes place on December 26th .
- July 9 : The oldest football club in Scotland, FC Queen's Park in Glasgow, is founded.
- September 4th : Sheffield Wednesday Football Club is founded.
- October 9th : Trial races are carried out by the Union-Gestüt on the newly built Hoppegarten racecourse in Berlin, and they go well. On December 15th the Union-Klub is founded.
- October 19 : Chesterfield FC football club is founded.
- The London rugby union club Wasps Football Club is founded.
Born
- February 13 : Harold Mahony , British tennis player († 1905 )
- April 2 : Eugen Sandow , German founder of bodybuilding († 1925 )
- May 17 : James Richardson Spensley , English doctor, football player and coach († 1915 )
- May 26 : Friedrich Langewiesche , German educator, gymnast, collector, researcher, lover of home and nature († 1958 )
- June 8th : Ernst Krieger , German chess problem composer († 1943 )
- June 11 : René Hanriot , French racing car driver and aviation pioneer († 1925 )
- August 4 : Jake Beckley , American baseball player († 1918 )
- August 6 : Sam Mussabini , British trainer and journalist († 1927 )
- August 15 : Walter Robinow , German chess official († 1938 )
- October 2 : Fritz Held , German entrepreneur and racing car driver († 1938 )
- December 10 : Wilberforce Vaughan Eaves , British doctor and tennis player († 1920 )
- December 11th : Antonio Conte , Italian fencer († 1953 )
- December 20 : William Heffelfinger , American football player († 1954 )
Date unknown
- Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat , French racing car driver († 1903 )
Died
- April 22nd : Alexander Dmitrijewitsch Petrow , Russian chess player (* 1794 )
See also
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