Sports year 1869

Sports year 1869
The first all-professional baseball team is formed, the Cincinnati Red Stockings .

Events

July 10 : GE Forster with Jakob Anderegg and Hans Baumann are the first people to climb the Gspaltenhorn in the Bernese Alps .
August 13th : Paul Grohmann is the first person to climb the Langkofel , the main summit of the Langkofel group in the Val Gardena Dolomites .
August 21 : Paul Grohmann and two local mountain guides manage the first ascent of the Großer Zinne in the Sexten Dolomites .
August 30th : Two local mountain guides and the British economist Alfred Marshall succeeds in the first ascent of the Karlesspitze in the Ötztal Alps .

Alois Ennemoser is the first person to climb the Watzespitze , the highest mountain on the Kaunergrat in the Ötztal Alps .

March 17th : Oxford defeated Cambridge in the Boat Race in 20'04 ″.
July 11th : The first German Derby takes place on the Hamburg-Horn racecourse . William Little wins on investment from Ulrich von Oertzen's stable .

November 6 : Rutgers University and Princeton University play the very first American football game to end 6-4 in Brunswick, New Jersey, according to rules that are still similar to football .

James Moore (right) and second-placed Jean-Eugène-André Castera

November 7th : The world's first international road bike race takes place on the Paris-Rouen route . James Moore wins the 123 km race in a time of 10:45 hours.

Young Tom Morris wins for the second time The Open Championship in golf . Second place goes to his father, Old Tom Morris .

5th January : The Scottish football club FC Kilmarnock is founded as a cricket club.
April 17th : The Eimsbüttel Velocipede Club is the first German cycling club to be established in Altona / Elbe . On September 10th, as part of an industrial exhibition, the club is holding a first race with participants from France, Denmark and England.
June 1 : After professional teams were approved for the first time last year by the National Association of Baseball Players , the Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first baseball team consisting entirely of professionals, is founded. In the same year the team achieved the only “perfect season” in baseball history with 65-0 wins.
June 12 : The first water driving association in Switzerland, the Limmat Club Zurich , is founded.

May 9 : In Munich, 36 men around Franz Senn and Johann Stüdl set up the educated mountaineering association , from which the German Alpine Association later emerged.

May 12 : Carl Schuhmann , German gymnast, wrestler, weightlifter and athlete, Olympic champion († 1949 )
May 20 : Joshua Pim , English tennis player († 1942 )

December 2 : Willy Pöge , German entrepreneur, horse, cyclist and motor sportsman († 1914 )
December 6 : Mathieu Cordang , Dutch cyclist († 1942 )

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