Sports year 1877
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Events
Events
- March 15 : Australia and England play the first official test cricket match between two national cricket teams at Melbourne Cricket Ground .
- March 24th : At the Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge in the time of 24'08 ″ there is the first and so far only dead race . Later the legend arises that the referee slept through the finish line while he was drunk and lying under a tree.
- July 9th to 16th : On the grounds of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on Worple Road in Wimbledon , a tennis tournament is being held for the first time , the Wimbledon Championships , to finance a lawn roller . In the final of exclusively as men's singles performed 1877 Wimbledon Championship wins Spencer Gore against William Cecil Marshall .
Sports facilities
- April 28th : Today's Stamford Bridge football stadium in the London borough of Fulham is officially opened as a pure athletics stadium .
- In Brighton will velodrome Preston Park built.
Founding of clubs
- July 18th : On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of chess master Adolf Anderssen , the German Chess Federation is founded in Leipzig . In addition to Adolf Anderssen, the philosopher Carl Göring , the writer Rudolf von Gottschall , the organizers Hermann Zwanzig , Constantin Schwede and Eduard Hammacher , the founding members also included the chess masters Max Lange and Johannes Hermann Zukertort .
- The English football club Wolverhampton Wanderers is founded.
- The rugby union club Gosforth Rugby Club is founded in Newcastle .
Born
- January 4th : Otto Herschmann , Austrian swimmer, fencer, Olympic participant and sports official († 1942 )
- February 20 : Franz Verheyen , German racing cyclist († 1955 )
- March 7th : Thorvald Ellegaard , Danish cyclist († 1954 )
- March 8 : Albert Dankert , German worker sportsman († 1933 )
- March 15 : Malcolm Whitman , American tennis player († 1932 )
- March 18 : Ivo Schricker , German soccer player and soccer official († 1962 )
- March 21 : Maurice Farman , French track cyclist, racing car driver, aviation pioneer and entrepreneur († 1964 )
- March 28th : Ted Ray , famous British professional golfer and two-time major winner († 1943 )
- April 13 : Christian Friedrich Lautenschlager , German mechanic and racing car driver († 1954 )
- May 20 : Patrick Leahy , Irish athlete († 1926 )
- June 7th : Roelof Klein , Dutch rower († 1960 )
- June 16 : Enrico Canfari , Italian football player and official († 1915 )
- August 7 : Ulrich Salchow , Swedish figure skater († 1949 )
- August 18 : Jimmy Michael , Welsh cyclist († 1904 )
- October 22 : Thaddäus Robl , German racing cyclist († 1910 )
- November 13 : Paul Saladin Leonhardt , German chess player († 1934 )
- November 14 : Norman Brookes , Australian tennis player († 1968 )
- November 22 : Joan Gamper , Swiss football player, football official and founder of FC Barcelona († 1930 )
- November 22 : Gabriel Hatton , French racing driver († 1949 )
- December 5 : Alessandro Anzani , Italian racing cyclist and pacemaker († 1956 )
- December 7th : Walter Abbott , English soccer player († 1941 )
- December 8 : Julius Keyl , German athlete and Olympic participant († 1959 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- John Chapman , American cyclist and cycling official († 1947 )
See also
Web links
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