Sports year 1895

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Sports year 1895
Horace Rawlins wins the first US Open in golf .	William G. Morgan invents the game of volleyball .

Events

Ball sports

Soccer and cricket

The British Ladies Football Club 1895

• March 23 : The first women's soccer match between England-North and England-South, organized on the initiative of Nettie Honeyball , ends 7-1.
• May 5th : SC Victoria Hamburg is founded.
• May: The Süddeutsche Fußball-Union dissolves after two years.
• June 3 : The Hamburger SV St. Georg from 1895 is founded.
• The Hamburg-Altona Football Association is organizing the first championship games. The first game will take place on September 1st: The Altonaer FC of 1893 is subject to the FC Association with 0: 5.
• September 1st : The Federation of Belgian Athletic Sports Societies is founded.

• The Swiss Football Association is founded.
• The Berlin FC Concordia is founded.
• The SC Wacker Leipzig is founded.

rugby

• August 29th : The Northern Rugby Football Union , consisting of 20 dissatisfied Northern England rugby clubs, splits off from the Rugby Football Union .

volleyball

• Probably December: William G. Morgan , PE teacher in Holyoke , developed the game Mintonette as a gentler alternative to basketball invented in 1891 . Under the name volleyball , it will become a sport that is popular around the world in the next few years.

golf

• October 4 : In Newport , Rhode Iceland, the first time US Open in golf held. The winner is the Briton Horace Rawlins .

Motorsport

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• May 18  : Turin – Asti – Turin.
• June 11. bis 13. June  : Paris-Bordeaux-Paris.
• November 2nd  : Times-Herald Expo Run.
• November 28th  : Times-Herald Contest.

Cycling

• 17th to 19th August : Track cycling world championships 1895 in Cologne-Riehl

• The Roubaix cycle track is built.
• Alexander Gayer opens the Graz training school .

Wrestling / swinging

• March 11th : The Swiss Wrestling Association is founded.
• August 18th : The first Swiss Wrestling and Alpine Festival takes place in Biel .

rowing

• March 30th : Oxford defeated Cambridge in the Boat Race in 20'05 ″.
• November 17th : The Brazilian rowing club Flamengo Rio de Janeiro is founded. In later years he is best known for his football department.

chess

Participants in the Hastings chess tournament in 1895: (from left)
Standing: Adolf Albin , Carl Schlechter , Dawid Janowski , Georg Marco , Joseph Henry Blackburne , Géza Maróczy , Emanuel Schiffers , Isidor Gunsberg , Amos Burn , Samuel Tinsley .
Sitting: Beniamino Vergani , Wilhelm Steinitz , Michail Iwanowitsch Tschigorin , Emanuel Lasker , Harry Nelson Pillsbury , Siegbert Tarrasch , Jacques Mieses , Richard Teichmann

• Summer: In Hastings , the first is Hastings International Chess Congress held. The surprise winner is the American Harry Nelson Pillsbury . Wilhelm Steinitz only finished third at the tournament - together with world champion Emanuel Lasker - although he , in his own estimation, played the best game of his life with Steinitz - von Bardeleben, Hastings against Curt von Bardeleben in 1895 .

Winter sports

figure skating

• January 26th : European figure skating championship 1895 in Budapest

Speed ​​skating records

• February 3 : Wilhelm Mauseth , Norway, runs the 500 meter speed skating in Trondheim in 46.8 s.

Jaap Eden around 1895

• February 23 : Jaap Eden , Netherlands, runs the 1500 meter speed skating in Hamar in 2: 25.4 min.
• February 23 : Jaap Eden , Netherlands, runs the 10,000 meter speed skating in Hamar in 17: 56.0 min.

Founding of clubs

• November 17th : The Brazilian football club Flamengo Rio de Janeiro is founded as a rowing club.

• The Berlin sports club is founded.

Born

• January 10 : Percy Cerutty , Australian athletics coach († 1975 )
• January 17 : John Duff , Canadian racing car driver († 1958 )
• January 22 : Ali Neffati , Tunisian cyclist († 1974 )
• January 24 : Albert Divo , French racing car driver († 1966 )

• 0February 2 : George Halas , American football player, coach and owner of an NFL team († 1983 )
• 0February 6 : George Herman Ruth , American baseball player of German descent († 1948 )
• 0February 9 : Dutch Sternaman , American football player and football official († 1973 )
• February 18 : Pete Henderson , Canadian racing car driver († 1940 )
• February 20 : Louis Zborowski , British racing driver and engineer († 1924 )

• 0March 3 : Ernie Collett , Canadian ice hockey player († 1951 )
• March 13 : Luigi Cevenini , Italian football player († 1968 )
• March 20 : Robert Benoist , French resistance fighter and racing car driver († 1944 )

• April 15 : Harry Edward , British athlete († 1973 )
• April 25 : Stanley Rous , British sports official, President of the world football association FIFA († 1986 )

• 0June 8 : Santiago Bernabéu , Spanish football player and coach († 1978 )
• June 14 : Jack Adams , Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1968 )
• June 24 : Jack Dempsey , American boxer († 1983 )
• June 28 : Hans Sutor , German football player († 1976 )

• August 29 : Carlo Bigatto , Italian football player and coach († 1942 )

• September 13 : Morris Kirksey , American athlete and Olympic champion († 1981 )
• September 27 : Woolf Barnato , British financier, racing car driver and cricketer († 1948 )

• 0October 5 : Edmond Bourlier , French racing car driver († 1935 )
• 0October 5 : Väinö Ikonen , Finnish wrestler († 1954 )
• October 21 : Pekka Johansson , Finnish javelin thrower († 1983 )
• October 22 : John Beckman , American basketball player († 1968 )

• 0December 2nd : Erwin Casmir , German fencer († 1982 )
• 0December 7th : Karl Flink , German national soccer player († 1958 )
• December 17 : Gerald Patterson , Australian tennis player († 1967 )
• December 23 : Adriaan Koonings , Dutch football player († 1963 )
• December 24th : Josef Uridil , Austrian football player († 1962 )

Died

• February 18 : Carl Abs , German wrestler (* 1851 )

See also

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