Sports year 1888
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Events
Cricket / soccer
- January 21 : The United States creates the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU).
- March 22nd : The Scot William McGregor founds The Football League , the world's first professional football league . The Football League 1888/89 starts with 12 participating clubs on September 8th .
- April 1 : The Rotterdamsche Cricket & Football Club Sparta is founded, from which later the football club Sparta Rotterdam emerges.
- April 15 : The Jestram brothers and a few school friends found BFC Germania , the oldest still existing football club in Germany, in Berlin-Tempelhof .
- May 13 : The São Paulo Athletic Club in Brazil is founded as a cricket club.
- June 1st : Hamburger FC 1888 is founded.
Motorsport
- For the second time, the car race from Paris to Neuilly-sur-Seine takes place. Albert de Dion with the La Marquise car defeated his business partner Georges Bouton from De Dion-Bouton with an average speed of 28.9 km / h.
rugby
- The British and Irish Lions take a tour of the southern hemisphere for the first time.
Others
- January 21 : The Amateur Athletic Union is formed in the United States to set standards for amateur sports .
- August 13 : The Swabian Alb Association is founded in Plochingen.
- October: With the opening of the Zappeion , named after the Greek sports patron Evangelos Zappas , the fourth Olympics in Athens are opened, but for the time being only the exhibition part.
- November 16 : The MTK Budapest is founded. Gymnastics and fencing are the focus of the newly founded civil sports club.
- In Andreasberg , an Englishman developed the bobsleigh by assembling two luge sleds one behind the other.
Born
January to June
- January 5 : Fritz Förderer , German soccer player († 1952 )
- January 10 : Alfred Birlem , German football referee († 1956 )
- January 18 : Wim Bronger , Dutch football player († 1965 )
- February 7th : Lothar van Gogh , Dutch football player († 1945 )
- February 9 : Cas Ruffelse , Dutch football player († 1958 )
- February 13 : Edvard Möller , Swedish high and long jumper († 1920 )
- February 26 : Maurice Schilles , French cyclist († 1957 )
- February 27 : Richard Kohn , Austrian football player († 1963 )
- February 29 : Gyula Kertész , Hungarian football player and coach († 1982 )
- March 1 : Robert Petschow , German balloonist, photographer and sports official († 1945 )
- March 9 : Willy Westra van Holthe , Dutch football player († 1965 )
- March 13 : Josef Loos , Czechoslovak ice hockey player († 1955 )
- April 6 : William Bailey , English cyclist († 1971 )
- April 12 : Dan Ahearn , Irish-American athlete († 1942 )
- April 17 : Jan Vos , Dutch football player († 1939 )
- April 18 : Arnold Lunn , British ski pioneer, mountaineer and writer († 1974 )
- April 29 : Dionys Schönecker , Austrian football player and coach († 1938 )
- April 30 : David Jacobs , British athlete and Olympic champion († 1976 )
- May 20 : Mannes Francken , Dutch football player († 1948 )
- May 21 : Evasio Lampiano , Italian racing driver († 1923 )
- May 24th : Juho Halme , Finnish athlete († 1918 )
- June 1 : Imre Payer , Hungarian football player and coach († 1956 )
- June 9 : Christian Schmidt , German football player († 1917 )
- June 15 : Frank Clement , British racing car driver († 1970 )
- June 22nd : Lo La Chapelle , Dutch football player († 1966 )
July to December
- July 14 : Odile Defraye , Belgian cyclist († 1965 )
- August 1 : Charles Winslow , South African tennis player († 1963 )
- August 21 : Giulio Foresti , Italian racing car driver († 1965 )
- August 22nd : Adolf Fischera , Austrian soccer player († 1938 )
- August 24 : Leo Bosschart , Dutch football player († 1951 )
- September 13 : Fritz Becker , German football player († 1963 )
- September 15 : Antonio Ascari , Italian racing car driver († 1925 )
- September 24th : Kanken Toyama , Japanese karate master and nobleman († 1966 )
- October 10 : Pietro Lana , Italian football player († 1950 )
- October 30 : Konstantinos Tsiklitiras , Greek athlete and Olympic champion († 1913 )
- November 4 : Richard Queck , German football player († 1968 )
- November 7th : Reggie McNamara , Australian-American cyclist († 1971 )
- November 8 : Piet Valkenburg , Dutch football player († 1950 )
- November 12 : Max Breunig , German football player († 1961 )
- November 19 : José Raúl Capablanca , Cuban chess player and world chess champion († 1942 )
- December 3 : Algernon Kingscote , British tennis player († 1964 )
- December 9th : Filippo Bottino , Italian weightlifter and Olympic champion († 1969 )
- December 15 : Marcel Dupuy , French cyclist († 1960 )
- December 21 : Jean Bouin , French athlete († 1914 )
- December 24th : Willi Schlage , German chess master and trainer († 1940 )
Date unknown
- Rudolf Steinweg , German automobile racing driver († 1935 )
Died
- June 20 : Johannes Hermann Zukertort , Polish chess player (* 1842 )
- July 11 : Peter Taugwalder , Swiss mountaineer and mountain guide (* 1820 )
See also
Web links
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