Sports year 1916
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Events
Olympic games
- The Olympic Games in 1916 , which have been awarded four years ago to Berlin, come the World War II victims.
Soccer
- March 1st : The Brazilian football club EC Ferro Carril is founded.
- June 9 : The Erkenschwick sports club is founded.
- July 2nd to 17th : The Campeonato Sudamericano 1916 , the first official South American championship , takes place on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the independence of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata in Argentina. Uruguay becomes the first South American champion.
- July 9 : The South American Football Confederation CONMEBOL is founded.
- August 20 : The United States national football team, which has existed for around 30 years , plays its first official international match against Sweden .
- The SK Rapid Wien won the Austrian Football Championship 1915/16 , scorer is Richard Kuthan .
athletics
- July 27th : Ted Meredith , USA, runs the men's 400 meters in 47.4 s.
Motorsport
swim
Born
January to June
- January 1 : Giacomo Neri , Italian football player and coach († 2010 )
- January 3 : Erik Alfred Ågren , Swedish boxer († 1985 )
- January 7th : Paul Keres , Estonian-Soviet chess player († 1975 )
- January 7th : Gerrit Schulte , Dutch cyclist († 1992 )
- January 21 : Pietro Rava , Italian football player and coach († 2006 )
- January 22 : Riza Lushta , Albanian football player († 1997 )
- January 31 : Frank Parker , American tennis player († 1997 )
- February 5 : Ugo Locatelli , Italian football player († 1993 )
- February 6 : Clifford Griffith , American racing car driver († 1996 )
- February 7th : Helmut Schubert , German national soccer player († 1988 )
- February 8 : Al Coppage , American football player († 1992 )
- February 8 : Hans-Hugo Hartmann , German automobile racing driver († 1991 )
- February 23 : George Gordon Abel , Canadian ice hockey player († 1996 )
- February 24 : Guglielmo Gabetto , Italian football player († 1949 )
- March 8 : Yvon Petra , French tennis player († 1984 )
- March 9 : Jack Ferrante , American football player († 2006 )
- March 15 : Charley Brock , American football player († 1987 )
- March 18 : Arie van Vliet , Dutch cyclist († 2001 )
- March 21 : Ken Wharton , English Formula 1 racing driver († 1957 )
- April 19 : Bruno Chizzo , Italian football player († 1969 )
- April 20 : Phil Walters , American racing driver († 2000 )
- May 8 : João Havelange , Brazilian football official
- May 14 : Hermann Böhm , German motorcycle racer († 1983 )
- May 20 : Trebisonda Valla , Italian athlete and Olympic champion († 2006 )
- May 21 : Martinus Osendarp , Dutch athlete and Olympian († 2002 )
- May 24th : Ottilie Graszl , Austrian table tennis player († 1993 )
- June 3 : Leslie Thorne , American racing driver († 1993 )
- June 15 : Gene Force , American racing car driver († 1983 )
- June 15 : Walter Hellman , Swedish-American world champion in checkers († 1975 )
- June 16 : Hank Luisetti , American basketball player († 2002 )
- June 23 : Ernst Willimowski , German-Polish soccer player († 1997 )
- June 23 : Siegfried Wünsche , German motorcycle racer († 2000 )
July to December
- July 3 : John Kundla , American basketball coach († 2017 )
- July 22nd : Gino Bianco , Italian racing driver († 1984 )
- July 22nd : Marcel Cerdan , French middleweight boxer († 1949 )
- August 11 : Johnny Claes , Belgian racing driver († 1956 )
- August 14 : Wellington Mara , American football player and official († 2005 )
- August 19 : Dennis Poore , British racing driver († 1987 )
- August 20 : Paul Felix Schmidt , Baltic-German chess player († 1984 )
- September 1 : Dorothy Bundy , American tennis player († 2014 )
- September 11 : Josef Gauchel , German football player († 1963 )
- September 12 : Tony Bettenhausen , American racing driver († 1961 )
- September 15 : Antonio Branca , Swiss Formula 1 racing driver († 1985 )
- September 15 : Ettore Puricelli , Uruguayan-Italian football player and coach († 2001 )
- November 12th : Paul Emery , British racing car driver and designer († 1993 )
- November 21 : Sid Luckman , American football player († 1998 )
- November 23 : Ken Kavanaugh , American football player and coach († 2007 )
- November 25th : Maria Anikanowa , Russian-Soviet speed skater († 2005 )
- November 27 : Chick Hearn , American sports reporter († 2002 )
- November 30th : Günter Ortmann , German handball player († 2002 )
- November 30th : Heinz Raack , German table tennis player († 2003 )
- December 11 : Jakob Streitle , German football player († 1982 )
- December 15 : Kenshiro Abe , Japanese Jūdō teacher († 1985 )
- December 24th : Hans Affentranger , Swiss racing driver († 2005 )
Died
- February 13 : Fritz Ryser , Swiss cyclist (* 1883 )
- February 17th : Maurice Vignaux , French world billiards champion and specialist book author (* 1846 )
- July 16 : Luigi Forlano , Italian football player (* 1884 )
- September 10 : Lucy Walker , British mountaineer (* 1836 )
- September 23 : Oliver Godfrey , British motorcycle racer and aviator in World War I (* 1887 )
- October 22 : Herbert Kilpin , English football player and coach (* 1870 )
- November 6th : Émile Friol , French cyclist (* 1881 )
- November 8th : Ernst Möller , German national soccer player (* 1891 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Sports Year 1916 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
