Sports year 1873
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Other events
Events
Alpinism
- July 12th : Victor Hecht succeeds in the first ascent of the Malham peaks with mountain guide Johann Ausserhofen .
Soccer / rugby / football
- July 15th : The Scottish football club Glasgow Rangers is founded.
- August 25 : The Scottish football club Vale of Leven Alexandria is founded.
- The Scottish Football Union , the Scottish national association for rugby union and the second oldest national rugby association in the world after England, is founded.
- The Scottish FA Cup , the second oldest cup competition in football , is held for the first time .
- St Kilda Football Club is founded in Australia .
- The first Canadian Football team, the Toronto Argonauts , is formed.
- The English football club Gainsborough Trinity is founded.
- The football department of the FC Kilmarnock cricket club , founded in 1869 , is established.
- The Football Association introduces the corner kick .
Equestrian sport
- May 19 : The Straubing Breeding and Trotting Club is founded as the first German trotting club.
- May 27 : The Preakness Stakes horse race held in Pimlico, Maryland for the first time and won by the horse Survivor .
rowing
- March 29th : In the period of 19'35 ″ Cambridge wins the Boat Race against Oxford for the fourth time in a row .
Born
- January 9 : Thomas Curtis , American hurdler and Olympic champion († 1944 )
- January 9 : John Flanagan , Irish-American athlete († 1938 )
- January 10 : George Orton , Canadian athlete († 1958 )
- January 12th : Spyridon Louis , Greek athlete († 1940 )
- January 13 : Walther Bensemann , German football pioneer († 1934 )
- February 7th : Charles Dixon , English tennis player († 1939 )
- March 13 : Georg Demmler , German architect, athlete and sports official († 1931 )
- May 4 : Julius Seyler , German painter and sportsman († 1955 )
- May 26 : Fritz Ryser , Swiss cyclist († 1913 )
- August 5 : Georges Cassignard , French cyclist († 1893 )
- September 19 : Rudolf Charousek , Hungarian chess master († 1900 )
- September 20 : Ferenc Szisz , French-Hungarian racing driver († 1944 )
- September 20 : Robert Wrenn , American tennis player († 1925 )
- October 1 : Oscar Schuster , German alpinist († 1917 )
- October 14 : Ray Ewry , American athlete and Olympic champion († 1937 )
- October 14 : Jules Rimet , French sports official, President of FIFA († 1956 )
- October 19 : Jaap Eden , Dutch speed skater and cyclist († 1925 )
- November 2 : Gottfried Hinze , German football functionary († 1953 )
- November 5 : Edwin Flack , Australian athlete and Olympic champion († 1935 )
Date unknown
- David Allison , French-English soccer player († unknown)
