Sports year 1870
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Events
The second Olympics
- November 15 : The second Olympics take place in Athens after 1859 , this time in the Panathinaikon Stadium , which was excavated a year earlier on behalf of the Greek government by the German archaeologist and building researcher Ernst Ziller , and which Anastasios Metaxas temporarily prepared for the games . The Committee of the Olympics has drawn up an official statute with content that can later be found in its main features at the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The exact definition of the festivities includes elements that are still in use today at the Olympic Games, for example an opening speech or the proclamation of the winners, naming the name with musical accompaniment. Old traditions of the ancient Olympic Games are also being revived, such as the solemn oath that athletes have to take. All reporters of these Olympics, which are attended by around 25,000 people, praise the organization and performance of the athletes. Sports historians describe this event as the most serious attempt at a significant interdisciplinary sports festival to date worldwide.
Alpinism
- The Luckenkogel is climbed for the first time as part of a survey.
Ball sports
- Georg Weber introduces the fistball game as a sport for gymnastics in Germany .
- The Football Association limits the number of players in a football game to eleven.
golf
- Young Tom Morris wins for the third time in a row The Open Championship in golf . The Championship Belt , the trophy, then becomes his property.
Rowing / sailing
- April 6th : Cambridge wins the Boat Race again for the first time since 1860 against Oxford in the time of 22'04 ″.
- August 8 : The America's Cup , named after Yacht America , is held for the first time under this name and won by the New York Yacht Club .
Founding of clubs
- The Chicago Cubs baseball team is formed under the name Chicago White Stockings . On April 29th they play their first game.
- June 22nd : The Pickwick Bicycle Club is founded in the London borough of Hackney by six high-cycle cyclists in London. The name Pickwick refers to a novel by the recently deceased Charles Dickens .
- The Stranraer Football Club , the third oldest football club in Scotland, is founded.
Born
First half of the year
- January 24th : Herbert Kilpin , English football player and coach, co-founder of AC Milan († 1916 )
- January 26 : Constant Huret , French cyclist († 1951 )
- March 3 : Géza Maróczy , Hungarian chess player († 1951 )
- March 4 : Verner Järvinen , Finnish athlete († 1941 )
- April 8 : John Paine , American marksman († 1951 )
- April 12 : Jakob Koch , German wrestling world champion († 1918 )
- June 15 : Maud Barger-Wallach , American tennis player († 1954 )
- June 16 : Levegh , French racing car driver († 1904 )
- June 27th : Clarence Hobart , American tennis player († 1930 )
Second half of the year
- July 29 : George Dixon , Canadian boxer, first black world champion in history († 1908 )
- August 9 : Anton Huber , German cyclist († 1961 )
- September 16 : John Pius Boland , Irish lawyer, first Olympic champion in tennis († 1955 )
- September 22 : Charlotte Cooper , British tennis player († 1966 )
- October 18 : Josiah Ritchie , English tennis player († 1955 )
- October: Charles Murphy , American cyclist and world record holder († 1950 )
- November 16 : Ambrogio Robecchi , Italian racing cyclist († 1963 )
- November 21 : Sigfrid Edström , Swedish entrepreneur and sports official († 1964 )
- December 28 : Charles Bennett , British athlete and Olympic champion († 1948 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Matteo Ceirano , Italian racing car driver and entrepreneur († 1941 )
