Sports year 1897
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Events
Alpinism
- January 14th : Swiss mountaineer Matthias Zurbriggen is the first person to reach the summit of Aconcagua at an altitude of 6961 meters.
Ball sports
- February 8 : The Budapesti Torna Club becomes the first football club in Hungary by forming a football section .
- September 11th : The Association of German Ball Game Clubs is founded in Berlin as an alternative to the German Football and Cricket Association , in which internal disputes have escalated.
- October 17th : The Association of South German Football Associations is founded in Karlsruhe .
- October 14th : The Vienna Athletics Club is founded.
- November 1st : The Juventus Turin football club is founded. Eugenio Canfari becomes the first president of the association.
- The championship of the north in Berlin will be held for the first and only time.
- Eight Australian football teams from the Australian state of Victoria are leaving the Victorian Football Association and forming the Victorian Football League .
- The SC des Westens 1897 Berlin is founded.
fencing
Willibald Gebhardt , the first chairman of the German and Austrian Fencing Federation
Members of 29 fencing clubs in Germany and Austria found the German Fencing Federation on March 7th in Berlin . Willibald Gebhardt is elected first chairman. The inclusion of an Aryan paragraph in the statutes is only rejected by a narrow majority. In order to avoid a split of the fencing federation, this at the second Fechtertag in Dresden is 16 / 17 October in German and Austrian Fechter Bund (DÖFB) renamed. In June the first German fencing championships organized by the DÖFB will be held in Vienna.
athletics
- April 19 : The Boston Marathon is the first outside the Olympic Games organized marathon in sports. 15 athletes start in Boston . John J. McDermott from the USA is the first winner of the new event.
Cycling
- July 18 : In Paris, the Velodrome Stade du vélodrome Parc des Princes , now the Parc des Princes stadium opened. Henri Desgrange becomes the first director of the racecourse.
- July 30th - August 2nd : World Track Cycling Championships 1897
- The Friedenau cycling track is built and opened with the Berlin Grand Prix . The winner of the race is Willy Arend .
rowing
Wrestling
chess
- June 23rd : The first international chess tournament for women begins in London .
- The Vienna Chess Society and the New Vienna Chess Club merge to form the Vienna Chess Club . This marks the beginning of a heyday for the game of chess in Vienna .
swim
Winter sports
- February 7th : Peder Ostlund , Norway, runs the 500 meter speed skating in Trondheim in 46.6 s.
- 13 / 14 February : The World Figure Skating Championships 1897 in Stockholm wins the Austrian Gustav hill despite a pulled tendon before Sweden Ulrich Salchow and Johan Lefstad from Norway.
- February 14th : The oldest recorded ice hockey game in Germany takes place on Halensee in Berlin , the Academic Sport Club Berlin wins against a student team 11: 4.
- The Norwegian Svein Sollid reached 31.5 m in ski jumping on the Hegnibakken in Morgedal, Norway.
Others
- March 7th : The Swedish sports club Hammarby Roddförening changes its name to Hammarby IF , as other sports are practiced here besides rowing .
- June 16 : The FuCC Cricket-Viktoria 1897 Magdeburg is founded.
- October 27 : The Chilean football club CD Magallanes is founded.
- The Finnish sports club Helsingfors IFK is founded.
Born
- January 17th : Donald Marcus Kelway Marendaz , British fighter pilot, entrepreneur, racing car driver and designer († 1988 )
- February 1 : Duke Osborn , American football player († 1976 )
- February 8 : Pierre Clause , French racing driver († 1967 )
- February 9 : Hans Breitensträter , German heavyweight boxer († 1972 )
- February 21 : Paul Torchy , French racing car driver († 1925 )
- March 9 : Zdeněk Heydušek , Czech table tennis player and official († 1973 )
- March 11 : René Dély , French racing car driver († 1965 )
- March 15 : Jackson Scholz , American athlete and Olympic champion († 1986 )
- March 22 : Ferruccio Novo , Italian football coach and official († 1974 )
- March 28 : Sepp Herberger , German soccer player and coach († 1977 )
- March 28 : Tillie Voss , American football player († 1975 )
- May 7 : Walter Claus-Oehler , German football player († 1941 )
- May 18 : Edgard Colle , Belgian chess master († 1932 )
- May 23 : Jimmie Guthrie , British motorcycle racer († 1937 )
- May 25 : Gene Tunney , American boxer and heavyweight world champion († 1978 )
- May 30th : Milada Skrbková , Czechoslovak tennis player († 1935 )
- June 1 : Erik Bohlin , Swedish cyclist and motorcycle racer († 1977)
- June 9 : Kees Pijl , Dutch football player († 1976)
- June 13 : Paavo Nurmi , Finnish athlete († 1973)
- June 23 : Tewfik "Toothpick" Abdullah , Egyptian soccer player († unknown)
- June 27 : Russ Method , American football player († 1971 )
- June 28 : André Dubonnet , French military pilot, sportsman, racing driver, entrepreneur and inventor († 1980 )
- July 27 : Adolfo Baloncieri , Italian football player and coach († 1986)
- August 2 : Rudolf Schleicher , German engineer and motorcycle racer († 1989 )
- August 10 : Edward Gourdin , American athlete and lawyer († 1966 )
- August 19 : Ilse Thouret , German motorcycle and automobile racing driver, athlete and sports journalist († 1969 )
- September 16 : Wacław Kuchar , Polish athlete († 1981 )
- October 12 : Otto Montag , German soccer player († 1973)
- October 31 : Pete Henry , American football player and coach († 1952 )
- November 4th : Charles Lacquehay , French cyclist († 1975)
- December 5 : Ernst Zündorf , German motorcycle racer († 1964 )
Died
- April 14 : Émile Levassor , French automobile pioneer and racing driver (* 1843 )
- December 18 : Choppy Warburton , British long-distance runner, cycling manager and trainer (* 1845 )
See also
Web links
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