Sports year 1878

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• April 13th : Oxford defeated Cambridge in the Boat Race in 22′15 ″.
• 15. bis 20th July : Wimbledon Championships 1878
• October 14 : The first football match under floodlights is played in Sheffield , England . Four arc lamps from Siemens provide the lighting on the Sheffield FC playing field .

The Australian team in front of Niagara Falls in 1878

• The Australian Cricket Team is making a tour of the UK, which also makes them a trip to the United States.
• The first races are held at Preston Park Velodrome in Brighton .

Founding of clubs

• February: The Blackburn Olympic football club is founded.
• March 5 : The English football club Manchester United is founded by employees of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway as Newton Heath LYR .
• September 14 : Ferdinand Wilhelm Fricke and a few other students found the Sportverein Hannover 78 , which mainly played rugby and hockey .
• October 16 : Ipswich Town Football Club is founded.

• The Augsburger EV is founded, the oldest ice sports club in Germany.
• The football club St. Domingo's FC is founded. A year later he changes his name to Everton FC .
• The Grimsby Pelham football club is founded.

Born

• 0January 1 : Robert Walthour , American cyclist († 1949 )
• January 16 : Henry Mayer , German racing cyclist († 1955 )
• January 19 : Herbert Chapman , English football player and coach († 1934 )
• January 24th : Johannes Runge , German athlete and Olympic participant († 1949 )

• 0February 1 : Alfréd Hajós , Hungarian swimmer († 1955 )
• February 8 : Willem Hesselink , Dutch football player († 1973 )
• February 28 : Harry Elkes , American cyclist († 1903 )

• March 17 : Henry Hoek , German geologist, meteorologist, mountaineer, skier and writer († 1951 )
• March 22 : Michel Théato , Luxembourgish athlete († 1905 )
• March 31 : Jack Johnson , American boxer († 1946 )

• April 27 : John Rimmer , British athlete and two-time Olympic champion († 1962 )

• 0April 5 : Albert Champion , French-American cyclist and motorcycle racer († 1927 )
• 0April 5 : Paul Weinstein , German athlete († 1964 )
• April 30 : Fernand Gabriel , French racing car driver († 1943 )

• May 21 : Glenn Curtiss , American racing driver, aviation pioneer, pilot and entrepreneur († 1930 )

• 0July 9 : Floyd MacFarland , American cyclist († 1915 )

• August 28 : Rudolf Swiderski , German chess master († 1909 )
• August 31 : Frank Jarvis , American athlete († 1933 )

• 0September 3 : Dorothea Douglass , British tennis player († 1960 )
• September 21 : Waldemar Lestienne , French racing driver, designer and entrepreneur († 1967 )

• October 16 : Eugenio Canfari , Italian football official and entrepreneur († 1962 )
• October 16 : Maxie Long , American sprinter and Olympic champion († 1959 )

• November 12 : Major Taylor , American cyclist, second black world champion in history († 1932 )
• November 19 : Meredith Colket , American athlete († 1947 )
• November 23 : Holcombe Ward , American tennis player († 1967 )
• November 27 : Charles Dvorak , American athlete († 1969 )

• December 15 : Albert Colomb , French racing car driver († 1941 )
• December 22 : Meyer Prinstein , American athlete and Olympic champion († 1925 )

Died

• March 2nd : John Cochrane , Scottish chess player (* 1798 )

See also

Portal: Sport  - Overview of Wikipedia content on sport

literature

• 1878 vintage of the illustrated sports newspaper

Web links

Commons : Sports Year 1878  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files