Sports year 1875

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Sports year 1875
Konrad Koch publishes the first German football rule set .

Events

March 3 : James Creighton , a student at McGill University , organizes the first indoor ice hockey game in Montreal , Canada . A wooden puck is also mentioned for the first time in a newspaper report about the game being played at the Victoria Skating Rink .

March 20 : Oxford wins the Boat Race against Cambridge for the first time since 1869 in 22'02 ″ .

May 17 : Louisville , Kentucky hosts the first horse race of the Kentucky Derby . The winner is Aristides in 2:37 min.

Matthew Webb; Drawing from Vanity Fair

August 25 : Matthew Webb is the first person to swim the English Channel from Dover in 21 hours 45 minutes without technical aids and reaches Calais .

October 8 : Konrad Koch publishes the first German football rule set and in the same year founds the first football club at the Martino-Katharineum .

November 5th : The English football club Blackburn Rovers is founded and plays its first game on December 18th , which ends with 1: 1.

November 13th : The Game , the American football game between Harvard Crimson and the Yale Bulldogs , takes place for the first time. Harvard Crimson wins with 4g2t: 0.

The Boston Red Stockings win the National Association Championship for the fourth consecutive year . This dominance is one of the reasons for the dissolution of the first professional baseball league in the same year.
James Gibb publishes the first table tennis rules in England .
Willie Park Sr. wins again The Open Championship in golf .

Founding of clubs

Irish rugby union club Leinster Rugby is founded.
Birmingham City football club is founded.
Blackburn Rovers football club is founded.

Born

January 15 : Thomas Burke , American athlete, participant in the first Summer Olympic Games in 1896 († 1929 )

March 26 : Jean Gougoltz , Swiss cyclist († 1917 )
March 31 : Edmond Jacquelin , French cyclist († 1928 )

April 15 : James J. Jeffries , American boxer († 1953 )

0May 7 : William Hoyt , American pole vaulter († 1954 )
May 24 : Robert Garrett , American athlete and tug of war († 1951 )
May 29 : Francesco Ciuppa , Italian racing car driver († unknown)

June 13 : Paul Neumann , Austrian swimmer († 1932 )
June 23 : Norman Pritchard , Indian athlete and actor († 1929 )

September 19 : James "Jimmy" Jackson , Scottish-Australian football player († unknown)

0October 8 : Laurence Doherty , English tennis player († 1919 )
October 15 : Henri Contenet , French cyclist († 1962 )
October 17th : Otto von Müller , German tennis player († 1976 )
October 19 : Paul Lebreton , French tennis player († 1960 )

November 12 : Fritz Erle , German engineer and racing car driver († 1957 )
November 27 : Julius Lenhart , Austrian gymnast († 1962 )

0December 9 : Harold Arminius Miller , American racing car and engine designer († 1943 )
December 11th : Carl Jörns , German racing driver († 1969 )
December 25th : Pierre de Caters , Belgian automobile and motorboat racing driver, aviation pioneer and entrepreneur († 1944 )