Sports year 1882
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Events
baseball
- The St. Louis Brown Stockings are founded.
Cricket
- 28 / August 29 : England lose to Australia for the first time a Test match at home. The glossy obituary in the Sporting Times established the Ashes , one of the oldest international competitions in sports history.
Soccer
- February 18 : Ireland loses their first international match against England 0:13. Ireland is the fourth national team in football after England, Scotland and Wales.
- March 15 : The Old Etonians defeat Blackburn Rovers 1-0 in the FA Cup Final at the London Oval .
- April 1st : Queen's Park defeated Dumbarton 4-1 in the Scottish Cup Final . The first game ended 2-2.
- In Tottenham, members of the Hotspur Cricket Club found Hotspur FC , later Tottenham Hotspur FC
- Ewood Park sports stadium is built.
- The London football club Corinthian FC is founded, which according to its statutes can only play friendly matches.
- The Protestant Glentoran FC is founded in Belfast .
golf
- Bob Ferguson wins the Open Championship in St. Andrews, Scotland for the third time in a row
jiu-jitsu
- Kanō Jigorō founds his own sports school for Jiu-Jitsu , the Kōdōkan , and developed the sport of judo over the next two years .
athletics
- The German gymnastics teacher Christian Georg Kohlrausch publishes a theoretical treatise on the discus throw .
rowing
sailing
- July 23rd : A one-day regatta with 20 yachts off Düsternbrook marks the birth of the annual Kiel Week .
tennis
- In the Wimbledon final , the Briton William Renshaw wins against his twin brother Ernest Renshaw with 6–1 2–6 4–6 6–2 6–2.
Founding of clubs
- April 20 : The multi-sport club Racing Club de France is founded.
- September 17th : The Dutch Ice Skating Federation is founded.
Born
First half of the year
- January 1 : Eddy de Neve , Dutch football player († 1943 )
- January 17 : Joris van den Bergh , Dutch sports reporter and book author († 1953 )
- February 2 : Leon Meredith , English cyclist and roller skater († 1930 )
- February 5 : Louis Wagner , French racing car driver († 1960 )
- February 9 : Arthur Duray , French-American racing driver († 1954 )
- March 3 : Elisabeth Abegg , German resistance fighter († 1974 )
- March 15 : James Lightbody , American athlete and Olympic champion († 1953 )
- March 15 : Wilhelm Schomburgk , German soccer player and President of the German Tennis Association († 1959 )
- April 2 : Herman d'Oultremont , Belgian show jumper († 1943 )
- April 4 : Noud Stempels , Dutch football player († 1970 )
- April 8 : Albert Bogen , Austro-Hungarian fencer († 1961 )
- April 14 : Rudolf Watzl , Austrian wrestler in the lightweight class († 1915 )
- May 29 : Jan Schoemaker , Dutch football player († 1954 )
- May 30 : Wyndham Neck Shaft , British athlete and Olympic champion († 1915 )
- June 5 : Franz Hörner , German racing car driver († 1944 )
- June 9 : Bobby Kerr , Canadian athlete, Olympic champion and later sports official († 1963 )
- June 24 : Carl Diem , German sports official and scientist († 1962 )
- June 30 : Heinrich Riso , German football player († after 1909)
Second half of the year
- July 3 : Dirk Lotsy , Dutch football player († 1965 )
- August 11 : Walter Streule , Swiss football player and official († unknown)
- August 29 : Peter Günther , German racing cyclist († 1918 )
- September 6 : Paul Fischer , German national soccer player († 1942 )
- September 11th : Emil Rausch , German swimmer († 1954 )
- September 12 : Mığır Mığıryan , Ottoman athlete and Olympian († after 1912)
- September 20 : Ossip Bernstein , French chess player († 1962 )
- September 24th : Max Décugis , French tennis player († 1978 )
- October 16 : Jimmy Hogan , English football player and coach († 1974 )
- October 18 : Lucien Petit-Breton , French cyclist († 1917 )
- October 29 : Jenő Fuchs , Hungarian fencer († 1955 )
- November 4 : Bob Douglas , American sports manager, founder of the New York Renaissance († 1979 )
- November 4 : Frank McGee , Canadian ice hockey player († 1916 )
- November 17th : Maurice Germot , French tennis player († 1958 )
- November 20 : Felix Linnemann , German football official, President of the German Football Association († 1948 )
- December 10 : Louis Wilkins , American athlete († 1950 )
- December 20 : Max Sailer , German racing driver († 1964 )
- December 27 : Alexander Rueb , Dutch chess official, President of FIDE († 1959 )
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