Sports year 1880
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Events
Alpinism
- January 4th : A rope team led by Edward Whymper succeeds in the first ascent of Chimborazo in Ecuador.
Football / rugby
- November 13 : The newly founded football club West Gorton Saint Marks from Manchester plays its first match. The club changes its name to Manchester City years later .
- The rugby union clubs Leicester Tigers and Northampton Saints are founded.
- The football club SC Frankfurt 1880 is founded.
rowing
- March 22nd : Oxford defeats Cambridge in the Boat Race in 21'23 ".
- November 5 : Members of the Berlin Rowing Club from 1876 found in Treptow on the Spree under the leadership of Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Büxenstein the Berliner Ruder-Club .
do gymnastics
- September 26th : The Danish sports club Aarhus GF is founded as a pure gymnastics club .
Born
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- January 19 : Julius Perlis , Austrian chess player († 1913 )
- January 26th : Peet Stol , Dutch national soccer player († 1956 )
- January 26 : Willy de Vos , Dutch football player († 1957 )
- February 22nd : John Daly , Irish athlete († 1969 )
- March 9 : Terry McGovern , American boxer († 1918 )
- March 12 : Nikolaos Georgandas , Greek athlete († 1958 )
- April 5 : Vilhelm Carlberg , Swedish marksman and Olympic champion († 1970 )
- May 2 : Bill Horr , American athlete, tug of war and American football coach († 1955 )
- May 30 : Miel Mundt , Dutch football player († 1949 )
- June 11 : Willem Janssen , Dutch football player († 1976 )
- June 30 : Rabod von Kröcher , German show jumper and Olympic silver medalist († 1945 )
- July 1 : Dora Koering , German tennis player († 1945 )
- August 14 : Fred Alexander , American tennis player († 1969 )
- September 14 : Archie Hahn , American athlete († 1955 )
- September 16 : Carl Carls , German chess player († 1958 )
- October 22 : Jan van Beek , Dutch football player († 1952 )
- December 1 : Akiba Rubinstein , Polish chess player († 1961 )
- December 10 : Charles King , American athlete († 1958 )
- December 20 : Walter Brack , German swimmer († 1919 )
- December 22nd : Dawid Przepiórka , Polish chess player († 1940 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Fernand Feyaerts , Belgian swimmer and water polo player († 1927 )
- Georg Hoffmann , German swimmer and diver († 1947 )
Died
- July 25 : Otto Welter , German lawyer and mountaineer (* 1839 )
See also
Web links
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