Sports year 1887

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Sports year 1887
La Marquise by Albert de Dion is the only participating car in the Paris-Neuilly-sur-Seine car race.

Events

golf

• The Scot Willie Park junior wins The Open Championship for the first time .

Hurling

• The Gaelic Athletic Association , founded in 1884 , holds the first All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship .

Athletics / lawn power sports

• November 20 : The French sports association Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques is founded.

• The first set of rules for hammer throwing is written in England .

Motorsport

• The first organized car race is held from Paris to Neuilly-sur-Seine . The only participating car La Marquise by De Dion-Bouton with driver Albert de Dion reaches an average speed of 25.6 km / h.

rowing

• March 26th : Cambridge defeated Oxford in the Boat Race in 20'52 ″.

rugby

• Home Nations Championship 1887

swim

• German swimming championships 1887

Winter sports

• January 14 : The Montreal Victorias win the first title of the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada, founded the previous year .

Sports facilities

• April 20 : Ibrox Park in Glasgow sees the first football game.

Founding of clubs

• September 29th : The sports club SC Germania of 1887 emerged from the merger of the athletics clubs Hohenfelder SC and Wandsbek-Marienthaler SC , founded in 1884 . On June 2, 1919 , he and the clubs Hamburger FC 1888 and FC Falke 1906 came into being through the merger of Hamburger SV .
• November 3 : The Académica de Coimbra football club is founded.
• November 6 : The Scottish football club Celtic Glasgow is founded as the Celtic Football and Athletic Club .

• The Marine Regatta Association is founded in Kiel .

Born

First half of the year

• 0January 2nd : Jules Moriceau , French racing car driver († 1977 )
• 0January 8 : Jan Akkersdijk , Dutch football player († 1953 )
• 0January 9 : Sammy Davis , British racing car driver and journalist († 1981 )
• January 16 : Christian Junggeburth , German racing cyclist and pacemaker († 1929 )
• January 20 : Robert Sommer , German fencer and motor sportsman († 1957 )
• January 21 : Georges Vézina , Canadian ice hockey player († 1926 )
• January 26 : François Faber , Luxembourg cyclist († 1915 )

• February 22nd : Savielly Tartakower , Polish-French chess player († 1956 )
• February 23 : Karl Neumer , German racing cyclist († 1984 )
• February 24th : Boris Kostić , Serbian chess master († 1963 )

• March 27 : Väinö Siikaniemi , Finnish athlete († 1932 )

• 0April 6 : Georges Sérès , French cyclist († 1951 )
• 0April 7 : Joseph F. Stadler , American athlete († 1950 )
• April 24th : Willy Schmieger , Austrian football player and official († 1950 )
• April 29 : Otto Dumke , German football player († 1913 )

• May 10 : Iman Dozy , Dutch football player († 1957 )
• May 18 : Eugen Lunde , Norwegian sailor († 1963 )
• May 22 : Arthur Cravan , British poet, amateur boxer and Dada forerunner († 1918 )
• May 22 : Jim Thorpe , American athlete († 1953 )

• June 14 : Oscar Kreuzer , German tennis player († 1968 )
• June 17th : Johann Andres , Austrian soccer player († 1970 )

Second half of the year

• 0July 3 : Federico Della Ferrera , Italian cyclist and motorcycle racer, engineer and entrepreneur († 1965 )
• 0July 5 : Karl Hanssen , German football player († 1916 )
• July 10 : Gé Fortgens , Dutch football player († 1957 )
• July 16 : Karl Uhle , German soccer player († 1969 )
• July 20 : Louis Rigal , French racing car driver († 1974 )
• July 25 : Carl-Friedrich von Langen , German Olympic dressage champion († 1935 )
• July 28 : Hugo Urban-Emmerich , Czechoslovak entrepreneur and racing car driver († 1939 )

• 0August 5 : Johannes Schneider , German football player († 1914 )
• 0August 6 : Dudley Benjafield , British doctor and racing car driver († 1957 )
• August 12 : Walter Hempel , German football player († 1939 )
• August 14 : Kenelm Lee Guinness , Irish-British entrepreneur, record racing car driver († 1937 )
• August 30 : Kalle Anttila , Finnish wrestler († 1975 )

• 0September 7th : Robert Laly , French racing car driver († 1972 )
• 0September 7th : Herman Peltzer , Dutch football player († 1957 )
• September 23 : Alfieri Maserati , Italian automotive engineer and racing driver († 1932 )
• September 27 : Karl Wegele , German football player († 1960 )
• September 28 : Avery Brundage , American sports official, President of the IOC († 1975 )

• 0October 5th : Nils Middelboe , Danish football player († 1976 )
• October 15 : Oliver Godfrey , British motorcycle racer and aviator in World War I († 1916 )
• October 20 : Vic Gonsalves , Dutch football player († 1922 )
• October 24th : Octave Lapize , French cyclist († 1917 )
• October 27 : Nico de Wolf , Dutch football player († 1967 )

• 0November 2 : Hans Schmidt , German football player († 1916 )
• 0November 5 : Teodor Koskenniemi , Finnish long-distance runner († 1965 )
• 0November 7th : Guus van Hecking-Colenbrander , Dutch football player († 1945 )
• November 16 : Hans Blume , Dutch football player († 1978 )
• November 18 : Luigi Ferraris , Italian football player († 1915 )
• November 22 : Pietro Bordino , Italian racing car driver († 1928 )

• December 10th : Arthur Hoffmann , German athlete († 1932 )

See also

Portal: Sport  - Overview of Wikipedia content on sport

Web links

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