Sports year 1915

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Sports year 1915
The Vancouver Millionaires win the Stanley Cup .
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Events

ice Hockey

• The Vancouver Millionaires win the Stanley Cup in the final against the Ottawa Senators .
• The International Swiss ice hockey championship is 1915/ 16 first held.
• Swiss ice hockey championship 1915/16

Soccer

• February 4th : FC Wacker Innsbruck is founded.

• The Italian football championship 1914/15 is interrupted by the world war.
• The Vienna AC wins the Austrian soccer championship 1914/15 .
• The first state championship in Paraná is held.

Handball

• The Berlin gymnastics warden Max Heiser designed the “goalball game” for girls, from which he developed the handball game in 1917 .

athletics

• August 14th / 15th / 28th / 29th : Finnish Athletics Championships 1915
• August 18 : Jonni Myyrä , Finland, reached in the javelin throw of 64.81 meters gentlemen.

Others

• April 10 : Because of the war, the International Olympic Committee moves from Paris to Lausanne in neutral Switzerland.

Born

First half of the year

• January 11th : Luise Krüger , German athlete († 2001 )
• January 14 : Felix Kaspar , Austrian figure skater († 2003 )
• January 16 : Heinz Brendel , German racing driver († 1989 )
• January 18 : Syl Apps , Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1998 )
• January 23 : Herma Bauma , Austrian athlete and handball player († 2003 )
• January 28 : Brian Shawe-Taylor , British racing car driver († 1999 )
• January 29 : Johnny McDowell , American racing car driver († 1952 )

• 0February 1 : Stanley Matthews , English football player († 2002 )
• 0February 4th : Joseph Greger , German racing car driver († 2010 )
• February 13 : Harriet Bland , American athlete and Olympian († 1991 )
• February 17 : Karl Herbolzheimer , German handball player († 2007 )
• February 21 : Godfrey Brown , British athlete and Olympic champion († 1995 )

• 0March 1 : Gianni Leoni , Italian motorcycle racer († 1951 )
• 0March 8 : Tapio Rautavaara , Finnish athlete, musician and actor († 1979 )
• March 11 : Vijay Hazare , Indian cricketer († 2004 )
• March 15 : Khadr Sayed El Touni , Egyptian weightlifter († 1956 )

• 0April 4 : Amedeo Biavati , Italian football player († 1979 )
• April 27 : Perry Schwartz , American football player († 2001 )
• 0May 1 : Archie Williams , American sprinter and Olympic champion († 1993 )

• 0June 4 : Günther Sabetzki , President of the German Ice Hockey Federation († 2000 )
• June 12 : Mildred Fizzell , Canadian athlete († 1993 )
• June 13 : Donald Budge , American tennis player († 2000 )
• June 14th : Nicolaas Cortlever , Dutch chess player († 1995 )

Second half of the year

• 0July 3 : Heinz Körvers , German handball player († 1942 )
• 0July 5 : John Woodruff , American athlete and Olympic champion († 2007 )
• 0July 7th : Erich Deisler , German table tennis player († 1999 )
• July 13 : Harry McKibbin , Irish rugby player and official († 2001 )
• July 14th : Guido Leoni , Italian motorcycle racer († 1951 )

• 0August 3 : Peter Newell , Canadian basketball coach († 2008 )
• August 10 : Carlos Menditéguy , Argentine Formula 1 racing driver, polo player († 1973 )
• August 12 : Alex Wojciechowicz , American football player († 1992 )
• August 28 : Hans Jakob Schudel , Swiss chess official and chess player († 2004 )

• 0September 1 : Ken Aston , British football referee († 2001 )
• 0September 9 : Jim Poole , American football player († 1994 )
• September 10th : Olavi "Olli" Huttunen , Finnish skier († 1940 )
• September 15 : Helmut Schön , German soccer coach and player († 1996 )
• September 23 : Sergio Bertoni , Italian football player and coach († 1995 )
• September 25 : Carlo Bandirola , Italian motorcycle racer († 1981 )

• 0October 9 : Henner Henkel , German tennis player († 1942 )
• October 22 : Heinrich Nettesheim , German wrestler († 2005 )
• October 26 : Raymond Crawford , American racing driver († 1996 )
• October 26 : Joe Fry , British racing car driver († 1950 )
• October 30 : Ben Carnevale , American basketball coach († 2008 )

• November 19 : Frank Cope , American football player († 1990 )

• 0December 8 : Johnny Lockett , British motorcycle and automobile racer († 2004 )
• December 17th : Leah Neuberger , American table tennis player († 1993 )
• December 18 : Dario Mangiarotti , Italian sword fencer († 2010 )
• December 20 : Fritz Pliska , German soccer player and coach († 1995 )
• December 27 : Gyula Zsengellér , Hungarian football player († 1999 )
• December 29 : Bill Osmanski , American football player († 1996 )

Died

• January 19 : Georg Krogmann , German football player (* 1886 )
• January 29th : Max Herrmann , German athlete (* 1885 )

• 0February 9 : Ernst Franz , Austrian cyclist (* 1894 )
• February 18 : Kenneth Powell , British hurdler and tennis player (* 1885 )

• March 31 : Wyndham Neck Shaft , British athlete and Olympic champion (* 1882 )

• April 17 : Floyd MacFarland , American cyclist (* 1878 )
• April 18 : Josef Lochmatter , Swiss mountaineer, mountain and ski guide pioneer (* 1872 )
• April 23 : James Duffy , Canadian athlete (* 1890 )
• April 25 : Edward Larkin , Australian rugby union player, rugby league official and politician (* 1880 )
• April 25 : Gilchrist Maclagan , British rower (* 1879 )

• 0May 9 : François Faber , Luxembourg cyclist (* 1887 )

Anthony Wilding a few weeks before his death in a Rolls-Royce armored car in World War I.

• 0May 9 : Anthony Wilding , New Zealand tennis player (* 1883 )

• 0June 2 : Leopold Sax , Austrian soccer player (* unknown)
• June 14th : Georg Mickler , German athlete and Olympian (* 1895 )
• June 15 : Hans Dülfer , German mountaineer (* 1892 )
• June 15 : Charles Simon , French athlete and football official (* 1882 )
• June 28 : Victor Trumper , Australian cricketer (* 1877 )

• 0July 4th : Sepp Innerkofler , Austrian mountaineer (* 1865 )

• August 15 : Rudolf Watzl , Austrian wrestler in the lightweight class (* 1882 )
• August 23 : Luigi Ferraris , Italian football player (* 1887 )

• 0September 1 : Emil Terschak , Austrian photographer, mountaineer and artist (* 1858 )
• 0September 8 : Anton Knubel , German racing cyclist, inventor and aviation pioneer (* 1857 )
• 0September 9 : Albert Goodwill Spalding , American baseball player and entrepreneur (* 1850 )
• September 10th : Marius Thé , French cyclist and pacemaker (* 1871 )
• September 12th : Fritz Bartholomae , German rower (* 1886 )
• September 14 : Josef Schediwy , Austrian soccer player (* unknown)
• September 18 : Jean-Marie Corre , French entrepreneur and cyclist (* 1864 )
• September 25 : Raymond Gigot , French football player (* 1885 )
• September 30th : Heinrich Schneidereit , German weightlifter (* 1884 )

• October 12 : Béla von Las-Torres , Hungarian swimmer (* 1890 )
• October 13 : Ferdinand Goetz , German doctor and politician (NLP), Member of the Bundestag, sports official (* 1826 )
• October 16 : Léon Hourlier , French cyclist (* 1885 )

Enrico Canfari

• October 22 : Enrico Canfari , Italian football player and official (* 1877 )
• October 23 : WG Grace , English cricketer (* 1848 )

• 0November 5 : Leo Dorn , German alpinist and hunter (* 1836 )
• November 10 : James Richardson Spensley , English doctor, football player and coach (* 1867 )
• November 11th : Felice Milano , Italian football player (* 1891 )
• November 12 : Tom Linton , Welsh cyclist (* 1876 )
• November 25th : Michel Bréal , French philologist and creator of the marathon (* 1832 )

• 0December 4th : Lajos Gönczy , Hungarian athlete (* 1881 )

See also

Portal: Sport  - Overview of Wikipedia content on sport

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