Sports year 1872

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Sports year 1872
In The Oval Cricket Ground in London is the first cup final in football kicks off.

Events

Alpinism

July 23 : Johann Pinggera and Victor Hecht are the first to climb the Lodner .
July 24th : Mountain guide Johann Pinggera and Victor Hecht manage the first ascent of the Eastern Marzellspitze .
July 26th : Johann Pinggera and Victor Hecht are also the first to climb the Liebenerspitze .
August 18th : Victor Hecht and the mountain guides Johann and Sepp Ausserhofer are the first to climb the Wildgall .
November 27th : The geologist Wilhelm Reiss succeeds in the first ascent of Cotopaxi .

Soccer / cricket

March 16 : The first cup final in football will kick off at 3:05 p.m. at The Oval Cricket Ground in Kennington, London . The Wanderers FC win with a 1: 0 against the Royal Engineers the 1871-72 FA Cup .

Pictures from the football match Scotland - England

November 30th : The first international football match between Scotland and England is played in Glasgow and ends with 0-0.

The Scottish football club FC Clydesdale , which is affiliated to the Clydesdale Cricket Club , is founded in Glasgow .
The later rugby union club Swansea RFC is founded as a football club .
The Le Havre AC is founded, an event for which, however, there is no reliable evidence.
The FC Dumbarton , the fourth oldest Scottish football club, is founded.

Other events

March 23rd : In the time of 21'15 ″ Cambridge wins the Boat Race against Oxford for the third time in a row .

Already under the name Poona known badminton game is from the Duke of Beaufort for the first time at his country estate Badminton introduced in England.

After the foundation of a new trophy, the Claret Jug , The Open Championship in golf can be played again after a one-year break. The winner is again Young Tom Morris .

With the win of the second championship of the National Association , the dominance of the Boston Red Stockings begins , which leads to the dissolution of the first professional baseball league as early as 1875 .

Born

0January 8 : Nikolai Kolomenkin-Panin , Russian figure skater and the only Olympic champion of the Russian Empire († 1956 )
January 11th : Wilfred Baddeley , British tennis player and Wimbledon winner († 1929 )
January 26 : Arthur Blake , American athlete and Olympian († 1944 )

0February 3 : Sydney Howard Smith , English tennis and badminton player († 1947 )

March 13 : Josef Rosemeyer , German track cyclist, inventor and entrepreneur († 1919 )
March 16 : Oskar Breitling , German racing cyclist († around 1960 )

April 28 : Carl Bonde , Swedish dressage rider and Olympic champion († 1957 )

May 14 : Marcel Renault , French automobile designer and racing driver († 1903 )
May 21 : Henri Jeannin , Franco-German racing driver and entrepreneur († 1965 )

September 18 : Adolf Schmal , Austrian fencer and cyclist († 1919 )

October 14 : Reginald Doherty , English tennis player († 1910 )
October 24 : Peter O'Connor , Irish athlete († 1957 )

0November 5 : Gustav Casmir , German fencer († 1910 )
November 23 : Waldemar Steffen , German athlete

0December 5 : Harry Nelson Pillsbury , American chess player († 1906 )
December 19 : Fritz Wildung , German politician and sports official († 1954 )
December 30th : William Larned , American tennis player († 1926 )

Died

February 24th : William Webb Ellis , English clergyman, alleged inventor of rugby (* 1806 )
October 29th : Pierre Saint-Amant , French chess master (* 1800 )

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