Sports year 1917

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Sports year 1917
Uruguay defends his title at the 1917 South American Championship .
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Events

American football

• October 10 : The Toledo Rockets American football team plays their first game. The college team representing the University of Toledo in Ohio lost to the University of Detroit football team 0-145.

Soccer

• September 30th to October 14th : Uruguay defends its title in the Campeonato Sudamericano 1917 at home without losing points or conceding a goal.

Founding of associations in Germany and Switzerland

• January 15th : 1. FC Haßfurt in Lower Franconia is founded.
• August 31 : FC Martigny-Sports is founded in the Swiss canton of Valais .
• Autumn: The German sports club Masovia Lyck is founded in Masuria in East Prussia .

• The Swiss FC Bülach is founded.

Founding of clubs in Europe

• April 2nd : The Norwegian football club Lillestrøm SK is founded through the merger of two local clubs .
• April 26 : The Danish football club Silkeborg IF is founded.
• May 1st : The football club SC União Torreense is founded in Portugal .
• May 19 : The Norwegian football club Rosenborg Trondheim is founded under the name Odd .

• The Greek football club Athinaikos Athens is founded.
• FC Barakaldo is founded in the Spanish Basque Country .
• The Domsjö IF football club is founded in Sweden .

Founding of clubs worldwide

• February 12 : The Mexican football club Deportivo Toluca is founded.
• April 22nd : The football club Plaza Colonia is founded in the Uruguayan city of Colonia del Sacramento .
• April 30 : The Uruguayan club Atlético Progreso has its official founding date after three years.

Handball

• October 29th : The Berlin Oberturnwart Max Heiser gives fixed rules to the "goalball game" he designed for women in 1915 and renames the game handball . With the game, he wants to create an opportunity for girls to let off steam, since boys' games, such as soccer, seem too physical to him. Accordingly, any kind of fight is prohibited and the game without physical contact.

athletics

• April 19 : American William Kennedy wins the 1917 Boston Marathon .
• July / August: Finnish Athletics Championships 1917
• August 5th : German Athletics Championships 1917
• September 4th : John Zander , Sweden, runs the men's 1500 meters in 3: 54.7 minutes.

chess

• The Swedish Chess Federation is founded.

swim

• German swimming championships 1917

Winter sports

• February 10th to 18th : The fifth edition of the Nordic Games takes place in Stockholm .
• November 22nd to 26th : Due to disagreements in the Eastern Canadian National Hockey Association , the leaders of the Montréal Canadiens , Montreal Wanderers , Ottawa Senators and Québec Bulldogs join forces and, after several meetings, found the National Hockey League . The first matchday of the first season is December 19th . Your first star will be Joe Malone .

• The Toronto Blueshirts' ice hockey team is disbanded after being excluded from the NHL due to disputes between the owner and other teams. Instead of the blueshirts , the Toronto Arenas are founded in Toronto .

Born

First half of the year

• January 8 : Len Younce , American football player († 2000 )
• January 11 : Cornelius Brown , Canadian ice hockey player († 1996 )
• January 16 : Ibrahim Shams , Egyptian weightlifter († 2001 )
• January 26 : Edgar Barth , German racing driver († 1965 )
• January 28 : Abdel-Kader Zaaf , Algerian racing cyclist († 1986 )
• January 30th : Paul Frère , Belgian racing driver, journalist and author († 2008 )

• February 1 : Ray Bray , American football player († 1993 )
• February 10 : Danny Kladis , American racing car driver († 2009 )
• February 12 : Al Cervi , American basketball player and coach († 2009 )
• February 16 : Willi Weyer , German sports official († 1987 )
• February 23 : Herbert Wunsch , Austrian table tennis player († 1970 )
• February 26 : Robert La Caze , French racing car driver († 2015 )

• March 6 : Oswald Karch , German racing car driver († 2009 )
• March 19 : László Szabó , Hungarian chess player († 1998 )

• April 7 : Albert Sing , German football player and coach († 2008 )
• April 12 : Robert Manzon , French Formula 1 racing driver († 2015 )
• April 22 : Erna Steuri , Swiss ski racer († 2001 )
• April 25 : Jean Lucas , French racing car driver († 2003 )

• June 16 : Rudolf Keller , German chess player († 1993 )
• June 22nd : George Fonder , American racing driver († 1958 )
• June 25 : Nils Karlsson , Swedish cross-country skier († 2012 )
• June 28 : Bert De Cleyn , Belgian football player († 1990 )

Second half of the year

• July 6 : Arthur Lydiard , New Zealand athletics coach († 2004 )
• July 7th : Yakovos Bilek , German basketball coach († 2005 )
• July 16 : Andy Marefos , American football player († 1996 )
• July 23 : Gisela Voss , German athlete († 2005 )
• July 26 : Bertil Nordahl , Swedish football player († 1998 )

• August 4 : John Fitch , American racing driver († 2012 )
• August 9 : Pierre Georget , French cyclist († 1964 )
• August 19 : Heinz Benthien , German table tennis player († 1981 )

• September 6th : Hilde Sommer , German athlete
• September 12 : Jürgen Seydel , German karateka († 2008 )
• September 14 : Mack Hellings , American racing driver († 1951 )
• September 20 : Red Auerbach , American basketball coach († 2006 )

• October 4 : Luis Carniglia , Argentinian football player and coach († 2001 )
• October 22 : John Tolan , American racing driver († 1986 )
• October 25 : Lee MacPhail , American baseball official († 2012 )
• October 30 : Maurice Trintignant , French racing driver († 2005 )

• November 7th : Ján Arpáš , Slovak football player († 1976 )
• November 22nd : Fritz Hillebrand , German motorcycle racer († 1957 )

• December 5 : Ken Downing , British racing driver († 2004 )
• December 7th : Ottorino Volonterio , Swiss racing driver († 2003 )
• December 26 : Joe Osmanski , American football player († 1993 )
• December 29 : David Hampshire , British racing car driver († 1990 )

Died

• 0January 2 : Léon Flameng , French cyclist (* 1877 )
• January 10 : Jean Gougoltz , Swiss cyclist (* 1875 )
• January 14th : Johann Grill , German mountaineer and mountain guide (* 1835 )
• January 15 : Ben Warren , English football player (* 1879 )
• January 31 : Arthur Beier , German football player (FC Phönix Karlsruhe) (* 1880 )

• February 26 : Joseph Jiel-Laval , French cyclist (* 1855 )

• March 19 : Christian Schmidt , German football player (* 1888 )
• March 29 : Alister Kirby , British rower (* 1886 )

• 0June 2nd : Percy Courtman , British swimmer (* 1888 )

Memorial plaque for Oscar Schuster on the Trinity Cemetery in Dresden

• 0June 2 : Oscar Schuster , German medic and alpinist (* 1873 )
• June 17 : Karl Zilgas , German national soccer player (* 1882 )
• July 14th : Octave Lapize , French cyclist (* 1887 )

• 0September 9 : Madge Syers , British figure skater, first world champion and Olympic champion in women's figure skating (* 1881 )
• September 25 : Bernhard von Gaza , German rower (* 1881 )

• 0October 4th : David Gallaher , New Zealand rugby union player, captain of the Original All Blacks (* 1873 )
• 0October 9 : Duncan Mackinnon , British rower (* 1887 )

• 0December 1 : George A. Banker , American cyclist (* 1874 )
• December 20 : Lucien Petit-Breton , French cyclist (* 1882 )

See also

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