Sports year 1876
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 first artificial ice rink . |
Events
American football
- The first binding set of rules for American football comes into force.
baseball
- February 2 : In the United States, is the National League in baseball founded in because of racial segregation are allowed to play only whites. The Chicago White Stockings won the first championship under player and manager Albert Goodwill Spalding, who moved to the club this year .
Soccer
- The Football Association of Wales is established as the third football association in the world after the English and Scottish ones .
rowing
- April 8th : Cambridge wins the Boat Race against Oxford in the time of 20'02 ″.
- July 14 : The Bournemouth Premier Rowing Club hosts the first water polo competition regulated by a framework .
Sports facilities
- The Glaciarium in Chelsea opens as the world's first artificial ice rink .
Founding of clubs
- April 26th : The Kjøbenhavns Boldklub sports club is founded in Copenhagen .
- November 24th : The Steiner Rowing Club is founded as one of the first rowing clubs in Austria.
- The Scottish football club Falkirk Football Club is founded.
- The English Middlesbrough Football Club is founded by members of the local cricket club.
- Welsh football club Bangor FC is founded.
Born
- January 11th : Thomas Hicks , American athlete and Olympic champion († 1952 )
- February 6 : Eugène-Henri Gravelotte , French fencer († 1939 )
- March 1 : Henri de Baillet-Latour , French President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) († 1942 )
- March 5 : Elisabeth Moore , American tennis player († 1959 )
- March 21 : Walter Tewksbury , American athlete and Olympic champion († 1968 )
- March 25 : Irving Baxter , American athlete and Olympic champion († 1957 )
- March 29 : Ioannis Georgiadis , Greek fencer and forensic scientist († 1960 )
- March 29 : Friedrich Adolf Traun , German athlete, Olympic champion in men's tennis doubles 1896 († 1908 )
- April 27 : Con Leahy , Irish athlete and Olympic champion († 1921 )
- May 2 : Willy Arend , German racing cyclist († 1964 )
- May 10 : Paul Guignard , French cyclist († 1965 )
- May 17 : Alban Collignon , Belgian sports journalist, cycling official and President of the World Cycling Association Union Cycliste Internationale († 1955 )
- June 13 : Tom Linton , Welsh cyclist († 1915 )
- June 15 : Margaret Abbott , American golfer and Olympic champion († 1955 )
- June 17th : Émile Torcheboeuf , French athlete
- June 28 : Robert Guérin , French football official, first president of the world football association FIFA († 1952 )
- August 15 : Carl Albert Andersen , Norwegian athlete and gymnast († 1951 )
- August 15 : Wolfgang Pauly , German-Romanian chess composer († 1934 )
- September 11th : Stan Rowley , Australian athlete and Olympic champion († 1924 )
- September 16 : Marvin Hart , American heavyweight boxing champion († 1931 )
- October 17th : Hippolyte Aucouturier , French cyclist († 1944 )
- November 2 : Margaret Gast , American cyclist († 1968 )
- November 18 : Victor Hémery , French racing driver († 1950 )
- November 19 : Louis Bonniot de Fleurac , French athlete († 1965 )
- December 2 : Leopold von Wiese , American football player and owner of the NY Giants († 1969 )
- December 12 : Alvin Kraenzlein , American athlete and Olympic champion († 1928 )
- December 16 : Rodolphe William Seeldrayers , Belgian football official, FIFA President († 1955 )
- December 29th : Karl Slevogt , German designer, automobile pioneer and racing driver († 1951 )
- around 1876: Tessie Reynolds , English cyclist († 1955 )
Died
- December 7th : Hermann von Barth , German mountaineer (* 1845 )
See also
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