Sports year 1874

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Events

Alpinism

• April 2 : The Alpin Français Club is founded.
• July 26th : Moritz von Déchy, Victor Hecht , as well as the mountain guides Johann Pinggera and Josef Spechtenhauser succeed in the first ascent of the Petersenspitze .
• August 6 : ER Whitwell and C. and J. Lauener succeed in the first ascent of the Aiguille de Blaitière in the Mont Blanc group .

• Theodor Petersen , M. Déchy, Victor Hecht with the guides Alois Ennemoser , Johann Pinggera and J. Spechtenhauser are the first to climb the Innere Schwarze Schneid and the Mutkogel .

Soccer / rugby / football

• March 18 : The Dresden English Football Club , founded by the English, is the first football club in Germany .

Queens Park 1874

• March 21 : In the final of the first Scottish FA Cup , Queen's Park FC beat Clydesdale FC 2-0.
• March: Aston Villa Football Club is founded as a church football club.
• September 29th : The first soccer game in Germany is played by students from the Martino-Katharineum grammar school in Braunschweig under the direction of Konrad Koch and August Hermann on the grounds of the "small parade ground". This game marked the birth of football in Germany . But the new sport has had problems for a long time to assert itself against the established gymnastics .

• History of American Football : The football team from Harvard University and the rugby team from McGill University in Montreal , Canada , meet. From the games, which are carried out according to compromise rules, the two variants Canadian football and American football developed .
• The Bolton Wanderers are founded under the name Christ Church Football Club .
• The Scottish football club Hamilton Academical is founded.
• The English club Macclesfield Town , which was founded in the middle of the century, is playing under football rules for the first time .
• The English rugby union club Coventry RFC and the Welsh rugby union club Newport RFC are founded. The Swansea RFC is switching from football to rugby .

Other events

• March 28th : In the time of 22'35 ″ Cambridge wins the Boat Race against Oxford for the fifth time in a row .

• In England, Walter Clopton Wingfield presented a game that was further developed from the Jeu de Paume , which he called Sphairistike or lawn tennis , and from which tennis and table tennis were subsequently developed.

Born

• 0January 4 : George Adee , American football player and tennis official († 1948 )
• January 19 : Hitachiyama Taniemon , Japanese sumo wrestler and 19th yokozuna († 1922 )
• January 20 : Steve Bloomer , English football player († 1938 )

• February 14 : Dan Bain , Canadian ice hockey player († 1962 )
• February 18 : Gaston Delalande , French racing car driver († 1960 )

• 0March 2 : Carl Schlechter , Austrian chess player († 1918 )
• March 13 : Ellery Clark , American athlete († 1949 )
• March 21 : Alfred Tysoe , British athlete and Olympic champion († 1901 )
• March 23 : Grantley Goulding , British athlete and participant in the first Summer Olympics († 1944 )

Otto Salzer (* 1874)

• 0April 4 : Otto Salzer , German mechanic and racing car driver († 1944 )
• April 23 : Wilhelm Werner , German racing driver († 1947 )

• May 26 : Henri Farman , French track cyclist, aviation pioneer, racing car driver and entrepreneur († 1958 )

• 0June 9 : Lewis Sheldon , American athlete († 1960 )
• June 18 : Michelangelo von Zois , Austrian lawyer, civil servant, writer, journalist, amateur cyclist and cycling official († 1945 )
• June 22nd : Viggo Jensen , Danish weightlifter, marksman and athlete († 1930 )

• July 15 : Gwyn Nicholls , Welsh rugby player († 1939 )

• 0August 8 : George A. Banker , American cyclist, world champion 1898 († 1917 )

• September 24th : Kurt Doerry , German athlete and Olympian († 1947 )

• 0October 8 : Hugo Süchting , German chess player († 1916 )

• November 24 : Charles William Miller , Scottish-Brazilian soccer player, is considered the founder of soccer in Brazil († 1953 )
• November 25 : Joe Gans , American boxer († 1910 )

Died

• June 22nd : Howard Staunton , British chess player (* 1810 )

See also

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