Sports year 1937
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Events
American football
- The Washington Redskins became champions of the 1937 NFL .
- The Duquesne University wins the third Orange Bowl .
badminton
The climax of the badminton year 1937 were the All England , the Irish Open , the Scottish Open and the French Open .
International events
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Rockclimbing
- June: The German Nanga Parbat Expedition in 1937 , led by Karl Wien, ends, like the German Nanga Parbat Expedition in 1934, in a catastrophe. Most of the expedition members were killed when attempting to climb Nanga Parbat , which National Socialist propaganda had already stylized as the “German mountain of fate”.
fencing
Aviation
- September 14th , world altitude record in a glider by Joachim Küttner
Soccer
International football events
- February 1 : Argentina wins the 1937 Campeonato Sudamericano in the playoff against Brazil.
- from March: European Cup of National Football Teams 1936 to 1938
- April 17th : In Hampden Park in Glasgow , 149,547 visitors watch the international match between Scotland and England. It is the highest attendance at a pre-World War II football game.
- May 16 : The " Breslau-Elf " of the German national soccer team inflicts the highest defeat to date on the Danish team with 8-0 in a friendly match in Breslau .
- June 13 : The men's Nordic football championship begins. It was interrupted in October 1939 because of the World War and ended in 1947 .
- June 13 : The Stade Vélodrome in Marseille , built for the 1938 World Cup in France, is inaugurated.
- September 12th to October 24th : Mitropapokal 1937
- European Cup for the National Football Teams 1936 to 1938
National football championships
- January 3rd : The favorite FC Schalke 04 lost the Tschammer Cup 1936 with 1: 2 against VfB Leipzig . On June 20, Schalke won the final of the German championship with a 2-0 win against 1. FC Nürnberg .
- Beginning of the year: The Liga Mediterránea is held in republican parts of Spain, which is divided by civil war . The champions are FC Barcelona .
- Austrian Football Championship 1936/37 : SK Admira Vienna
- Swiss Football Championship 1936/37 : Grasshopper Club Zurich
- Serie A 1936/37 : FC Bologna successfully defends its title.
- Football League First Division 1936/37 : Manchester City wins its first title. The newly promoted Manchester United must return to the Second Division .
- The Austrian State Football Amateur Championship will be held for the last time. Post SV Wien is the last amateur champion.
athletics
World records
Middle distance run
- August 11 : Elroy Robinson , USA, runs the men's 800 meters in 1: 49.6 minutes.
Long distance running
- August 18 : Ilmari Salminen , Finland, runs the men's 10,000 meters in 30: 05.6 minutes.
Go
- June 30 : John Mikaelsson , Sweden, completes the men's 20,000 meter walk in 1:32:12 hours.
Jump disciplines
- May 29 : William Sefton , USA, jumps 4.54 m in the men's pole vault .
- May 29th: Earl Meadows , USA, reaches 4.54 m in the men's pole vault.
- August 12 : Mel Walker , USA, jumps 2.09 m in the men's high jump .
Motorsport
Motorcycling
European motorcycle championship
- At the European motorcycle championship held on the Bremgarten circuit in Switzerland, the Italian Omobono Tenni on Moto Guzzi wins the title in the quarter-liter class ahead of his compatriot and team-mate Nello Pagani and the German Ewald Kluge ( DKW ).
- In the 350s, British Norton works driver Jimmie Guthrie wins ahead of his compatriots Freddie Frith (also Norton) and Ernie Thomas ( Velocette ).
- In the half-liter class, Jimmie Guthrie also wins ahead of Freddie Frith (both Norton), third is the Omobono Tenni (Moto Guzzi).
- The German duo Karl Braun / Ernst Badsching on DKW wins the 600 cc team ahead of the Swiss Ferdinand Aubert / Rudi Grob and Max Hunziker (both Norton).
- In the race of the 1000 sidecar, the Germans Hans Schumann / Julius Beer prevail against their compatriots Hans Kahrmann / Heinrich Eder (both DKW) and Paul Weyres / C. Barths ( Harley-Davidson ).
German motorcycle road championship
- German champions are Ewald Kluge ( DKW , 250 cm³), Heiner Fleischmann ( NSU , 350 cm³), Karl Gall ( BMW , 500 cm³), Karl Braun / Ernst Badsching (DKW, sidecar 600 cm³) and Hans Kahrmann / Heinrich Eder (DKW , Carriages 1000 cm³).
- Braun won the title posthumously after a fatal accident on the Schleizer Dreieck . The increased number of serious sidecar accidents in 1936 and 1937 - in addition to Karl Braun, for example, Toni Babl , Albert Schneider , Hans Schneider and Josef Lohner had fatal accidents - prompted the National Socialist Motor Corps, the highest motor sports authority in Germany, to ban all trailer races for 1938. On some racetracks like the Solitude , the Schleizer Dreieck and on the Feldberg , racing was even completely stopped. Sidecar races were only allowed again after the Second World War .
Cycling
- May 8th to 30th : The Italian Gino Bartali wins the Giro d'Italia 1937 .
- June 6 to 20 : The German Otto Weckerling wins the 1937 International Tour of Germany .
- June 30th to July 25th : bikes with derailleur gears are allowed in the Tour de France . Roger Lapébie wins the tour, France wins the team championship.
- 21st bis 29. August : UCI Track Cycling World Championships 1937
chess
- December 4th : World Chess Championship 1937 : Alexander Alekhine wins the world chess title back by beating Max Euwe .
Swimming
Swimming records
Breaststroke
- May 11th : Jopie Waalberg , Netherlands, swims the 200 meter chest of women in Amsterdam in 03: 00,2.
- June 27th : Jopie Waalberg , Netherlands, swims the 200 meter chest of women in Zaandijk in 02: 58.0.
- August 6 : Jacques Cartonnet , France, swims the men's 100m chest in 01: 09.8 in Toulouse.
- October 2nd : Jopie Waalberg , the Netherlands, swims the 200 meter chest of women in Ghent in 02: 56.9.
Freestyle swimming
- February 10 : Ragnhild Hveger , Denmark, swims the women's 400 meter freestyle in Copenhagen in 05: 14.2.
- June 26th : The Hungarian swimming relay with Zoltan Kiss , Gyula Dienes , Árpád Lengyel and Ferenc Csik set the first world record in the 4 × 100 meter freestyle in Budapest with 04: 10.2.
- August 15 : The Hungarian swimming relay with Gyula Zolyomi , Istvan Korosi , Ödön Gróf and Ferenc Csik beat their own world record in the 4 × 100 meter freestyle in Budapest with 04: 06.6.
- October 3rd : Ragnhild Hveger , Denmark, swims the women's 400 meter freestyle in Ghent in 05: 14.0.
- November 14 : Ragnhild Hveger , Denmark, swims the 400 meter freestyle of women in Magdeburg in 5: 12.4.
- December 12 : Ragnhild Hveger , Denmark, swims the women's 400 meter freestyle in Copenhagen in 5: 11.0.
Backstroke
- February 2nd : Nida Senff , Netherlands, swims the 200 meters back of the women in Amsterdam in 02: 44.6.
- February 14th : Ragnhild Hveger , Denmark, swims the women's 200 meter back in Aarhus in 02: 41.3.
Table tennis
- Table tennis world championship 1937 1st to 7th February in the spa town of Baden (Austria)
- Internationals of Germany (friendlies)
- January 30th: Düsseldorf: D. - Netherlands 6-1 (men)
- October 22: Danzig: D. - Sweden 1: 4 (men)
- November 6: Prague: D. - CSR 0: 5 (men)
- November 6: Prague: D. - CSR 2-3 (women)
Winter sports
- February 12th / 13th : 1937 Men 's World Figure Skating Championships
- February 13th to 15th : Alpine World Ski Championships 1937
- February 14th to 18th : Nordic World Ski Championships 1937
- 17th bis 27. February : Ice Hockey World Championship 1937
- 1st / 2nd March : World Figure Skating Championships 1937 for women and couples
- 1937 World Bobsleigh Championship
- An ice hockey championship will be held in South Africa for the first time .
Founding of clubs
- January 1st : The Luxembourg soccer club US Sandweiler is founded.
- March 2nd : The English football club Colchester United is founded.
- March 18th : Today's football club Neftçi Baku PFK is founded under the name Neftjanik .
- April: The Belgrade football club FK BSK Borča is founded.
- April 21 : The Chilean sports club CD Universidad Católica is founded.
- May 8 : The Moroccan sports club Wydad Casablanca is founded as a swimming club.
- July 19 : Irish football club Limerick FC is founded.
- August 27 : The Russian football club RODKA is founded.
- September 25th : VfB Kurhessen is forcibly merged with TSV 1860/85 Marburg to form VfL 1860 Marburg .
- Irish football club Galway United is founded.
- The football club NK Slaven Živinice is founded.
- The Croatian-Bosnian football club NK Sloga Ljubuški is founded.
- The football club KF Liria is founded in the Kosovar city of Prizren .
- The football club Olympiakos Volos is founded in the Greek city of Volos .
- The Saudi sports club Al-Ahli is founded in Jeddah .
- The military football club Air Force United is founded in Bangkok .
- The football club Nadi FC is founded on the Fiji Islands .
Born
January
- January 2nd : Martin Lauer , German athlete, Olympic champion and pop singer
- January 5th : Herbert Kurwan , German soccer player
- January 8 : Klaus Fritzinger , German football player, racing car driver and entrepreneur († 2015 )
- January 16 : Luiz Bueno , Brazilian racing car driver († 2011 )
- January 18 : Dieter Lindner , German athlete
- January 20 : Özkan Sümer , Turkish football player, coach and official
- January 25 : Werner Schneyder , Austrian cabaret artist, author, actor, director and sports commentator
- January 30th : Henner Huhle , GDR gymnast, fencing master and sports teacher
- January 30th : Bruce Johnstone , South African racing car driver
- January 30th : Boris Spassky , Russian chess player
February
- February 1st : Maryan Wisnieski , French soccer player
- February 2nd : Toni Auer , German racing cyclist
- February 2 : Tony Shelly , New Zealand racing driver († 1998 )
- February 2 : Helmut Weinbuch , German sports official
- February 3 : Alex Young , Scottish football player († 2017 )
- February 8 : Aivars Gipslis , Latvian chess grandmaster († 2000 )
- February 9 : Fritz Ewert , German football player († 1990 )
- February 12 : Charles Dumas , American high jumper († 2004 )
- February 12 : Horst Tautenhahn , German soccer player († 2016 )
- February 12 : Josef Wenninghoff , German table tennis player († 2017 )
- February 17th : Willi Koslowski , German soccer player
- February 18 : Egon Adler , German cyclist († 2015 )
- February 21 : Ron Clarke , Australian athlete († 2015 )
- February 25 : Gyula Zsivótzky , Hungarian hammer thrower († 2007 )
- February 28 : Margarete Wulff , German badminton player
March
- March 1st : Günther Bosch , German-Romanian tennis coach
- March 1st : Aída dos Santos , Brazilian athlete
- March 1st : Urs von Wartburg , Swiss athlete
- March 3 : Eddie Perkins , American boxer († 2012 )
- March 5 : Denny Crum , American basketball coach
- March 7th : Georgi Tringow , Bulgarian chess master († 2000 )
- March 8 : Demissie Wolde , Ethiopian marathon runner
- March 9 : Marcel Vogel , Swiss biathlete
- March 11 : Alexandra Sabelina , Russian foil fencer and Olympic champion
- March 11th : Milan Vukcevich , Yugoslav chess grandmaster and chess problem composer († 2003 )
- March 18 : Rudi Altig , German racing cyclist († 2016 )
- March 18 : Mark Donohue , American Formula 1 racing driver († 1975 )
- March 18 : Wolfgang Utech , German athlete
- March 19 : Carlo Mazzone , Italian football player and coach
- March 19 : Ahmed Oudjani , Algerian-French football player († 1998 )
- March 19 : István Sztani , Hungarian football player and coach
- March 20 : Helmut Recknagel , German ski jumper
- March 21 : Tom Flores , American football player and coach
- March 21 : Sergei Koroljow , Russian-Soviet chess player († 2007 )
- March 22nd : Armin Hary , German athlete, two-time Olympic champion, two-time European champion
- March 22nd : Emerich Jenei , Romanian football player, coach and official
- March 26 : Albert Brülls , German football player († 2004 )
- March 27 : Francesco Janich , Italian football player († 2019 )
- March 27th : Carlo Pietromarchi , Italian racing car driver
- March 29 : Bruno Mora , Italian football player († 1986 )
- March 31 : Herbert Ninaus , Austrian-Australian football player and coach († 2015 )
April
- April 1 : Yuri Melichow , Soviet cyclist († 2000 )
- April 2nd : Waltraud Fischer , German handball player
- April 3 : Yevgeny Groschew , Soviet-Russian ice hockey player († 2013 )
- April 4th : Lajos Portisch , Hungarian chess player
- April 4th : Charoen Wattanasin , Thai badminton player
- April 8 : Tony Barton , English football player and coach († 1993 )
- April 11th : Gerd Osenberg , German athletics trainer
- April 14th : Jan-Erik Lundqvist , Swedish tennis player
- April 14 : Carlo Mattrel , Italian football player († 1967 )
- April 14 : Sepp Mayerl , Austrian mountaineer († 2012 )
- April 14 : Roy Vernon , Welsh football player († 1993 )
- April 22nd : Yevgeny Feofanov , Soviet boxer
- April 23 : Josef Parzl , German soccer player
- April 26 : Haílton Corrêa de Arruda , Brazilian soccer goalkeeper
- April 26 : Jean-Pierre Beltoise , French racing car driver († 2015 )
- April 26th : Gus Hutchison , American racing car driver
- April 28 : Karl von Wendt , German racing car driver and entrepreneur († 2006 )
- April 28 : John White , Scottish football player († 1964 )
May
- May 2 : Klaus Enders , German motorcycle racer († 2019 )
- May 3 : Hans Cieslarczyk , German football player
- May 6 : Shay Brennan , Irish football player († 2000 )
- May 6 : Rubin Carter , American boxer
- May 10 : Tamara Press , Soviet shot putter and discus thrower
- May 11th : Helga Herdy , Austrian ski racer
- May 11 : German Sweschnikow , Soviet fencer († 2003 )
- May 11th : Ildikó Ujlakiné-Rejtő , Hungarian fencer
- May 12 : Beryl Burton , English cyclist († 1996 )
- May 12 : Horst Kassner , German motorcycle racer († 2019 )
- May 15 : Yuri Sissikin , Soviet fencer
- May 16 : Herbert Kirchner , German biathlete (GDR)
- May 16 : Antonio Ubaldo Rattín , Argentinian football player
- May 22 : Viktor Ponedelnik , Soviet-Russian football player
- May 24th : Maryvonne Dupureur , French athlete and Olympian († 2008 )
- May 26th : Livio Trapè , Italian cyclist
- May 29th : Alwin Schockemöhle , German show jumper
June
- June 1st : Ezio Pascutti , Italian football player and coach
- June 3rd : Jean-Pierre Jaussaud , French racing car driver
- June 4th : Leo Tschenett , Austrian soccer player († 2012 )
- June 10 : Vilmos Varjú , Hungarian athlete († 1994 )
- June 11th : Rino Marchesi , Italian football coach
- June 12th : Christian Zickelbein , German chess official
- June 13 : Irina Kirichenko , Soviet track cyclist
- June 13th : Erich Ribbeck , German soccer coach and player
- June 14 : Fritz Wagnerberger , German ski racer and sports official († 2010 )
- June 17th : Heinz Wossowski , German badminton player
- June 19 : Émile Viollat , French ski racer († 2012 )
- June 26 : Yūji Yamanaka , Japanese biathlete
- June 27th : Adolfas Aleksejūnas , Lithuanian-Soviet athlete
- June 27th : Giwi Tschocheli , Soviet football player and coach († 1994 )
- June 27 : René Vanderveken , Belgian cyclist
- June 29th : Eva Maria Pracht , Canadian dressage rider
- June 29 : Oleg Tyurin , Soviet rower († 2010 )
- June 30 : Gainan Saidchushin , Soviet cyclist († 2015 )
July
- July 1 : Shak Suprikjan , Soviet football player († 2011 )
- July 2nd : Richard Petty , American racing driver
- July 7 : Konrad Wirnhier , German marksman († 2002 )
- July 12 : Raymond Ceulemans , Belgian billiards player
- July 14 : Claude Bloodgood , American murderer and chess player († 2001 )
- July 14th : Shelby Wilson , American wrestler
- July 17 : Maury Schleicher , American football player († 2004 )
- July 19 : Horst Gauß , German boxer and boxing trainer
- July 21 : Viktor Mamatov , Russian biathlete and Olympic champion
- July 22nd : Christa Kleinhans , German soccer player
- July 24 : George Young , American athlete
- July 27 : Helmut Fendel , German football player († 2019 )
- July 31 : Mauro Bianchi , Belgian racing driver of Italian origin
- July 31 : Manfred Walter , German football player and coach
August
- August 3rd : Andrés Gimeno , Spanish tennis player
- August 5 : Herb Brooks , American ice hockey coach († 2003 )
- August 9 : Hans Nowak , German football player († 2012 )
- August 9 : Klemens Tietmeyer , German table tennis player († 1993 )
- August 10 : Kurt Grüter , Swiss extreme mountaineer
- August 10 : Eddie Meador , American football player
- August 10 : Lucinda Williams , American athlete and Olympic champion
- August 15 : Lones Wigger Jr., American marksman († 2017 )
- August 20 : Georg Thoma , German ski jumper
- August 22nd : Francesco Musso , Italian Boxing Olympic Champion
- August 24 : Yuri Tsizinov , Soviet ice hockey player († 1994 )
- August 26 : Valery Popentschenko , Soviet boxer and Olympic champion († 1975 )
September
- September 2nd : Willi Giesemann , German soccer player
- September 2 : Peter Ueberroth , American sports official
- September 4th : Dawn Fraser , Australian swimmer
- September 5 : Antonio Angelillo , Argentine-Italian football player and coach († 2018 )
- September 14 : Eva-Maria ten Elsen , GDR swimmer
- September 19 : José Pedraza , Mexican athlete and Olympic medalist († 1998 )
- September 21 : Gilbert Desmit , Belgian swimmer
- September 21 : José Vicente Moura , Portuguese sports official
- September 22nd : Buddy Edelen , American marathon runner († 1997 )
- September 23 : Kurt Vossen , German football official, Chairman of Bayer 04 Leverkusen († 2007 )
- September 24th : Helga Hoffmann , German athlete
- September 26 : Helmut Waßmuth , German football player († 2011 )
- September 28 : Heinz Hornig , German football player
- September 28 : Bob Schul , American long-distance runner
- September 30 : Gary Hocking , Rhodesian motorcycle racer († 1962 )
October
- October 5 : Barry Switzer , American football coach
- October 7th : Jerzy Wojnar , Polish toboggan runner († 2005 )
- October 9 : David Prophet , British racing car driver († 1981 )
- October 10 : Erich Tschöp , German soccer player
- October 11 : Virgil Bălan , Romanian table tennis coach († 2008 )
- October 11th : Bobby Charlton , British soccer player
- October 16 : John Whitmore , British racing car driver, consultant and non-fiction author († 2017 )
- October 18 : Boyd Dowler , American football player
- October 19 : Teresa Ciepły , Polish athlete and Olympian († 2006 )
- October 23 : Werner Basel , GDR soccer player and coach
- October 25 : Wilf McGuinness , English football player and coach
- October 28 : Lenny Wilkens , American basketball player and coach
November
- November 1 : Tom Waddell , American doctor and athlete († 1987 )
- November 8th : Nilo Zandanel , Italian ski jumper and Nordic combined athlete († 2015 )
- November 10 : Zdeněk Zikán , Czech football player
- November 15th : Ron Yeats , Scottish soccer player
- November 18 : Juan José Timón , Uruguayan cyclist († 2001 )
- November 20th : Eero Mäntyranta , Finnish cross-country skier
- November 22nd : Hans-Dieter Pophal , German art jumper and trainer (GDR)
- November 23 : Karl Mildenberger , German boxer († 2018 )
- November 26th : Léo Lacroix , French ski racer
- November 29 : Tom Trana , Swedish rally driver († 1991 )
- November 30th : Tom Simpson , English cyclist († 1967 )
December
- December 2 : Chris Bristow , English Formula 1 racing driver († 1960 )
- December 3 : Bobby Boyd , American football player († 2017 )
- December 4th : William Lombardy , American chess player († 2017 )
- December 6 : Alberto Spencer , Ecuadorian football player and consul
- December 9 : Viktor Zyplakov , Soviet ice hockey player
- December 11th : Helga Hanel , Austrian ski racer
- December 12 : John McKenzie , Canadian ice hockey player († 2018 )
- December 12th : Joop van Oosterom , Dutch entrepreneur and chess player
- December 15th : Andreas Klaus , German motorcycle racer
- December 17th : Peter Noske , German football goalkeeper
- December 19 : Werner Pfeil , German athlete
- December 24th : Félix Miéli Venerando , Brazilian soccer player († 2012 )
- December 24th : Ola Wærhaug , Norwegian biathlete
- December 30th : Gordon Banks , English football goalkeeper († 2019 )
- December 30th : Sergio Castelletti , Italian football player and coach († 2004 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Álvaro Gómez , Colombian swimmer
- Abdul Patah Unang , Indonesian badminton player
Died
- January 13 : Hugo Winzer , German figure skater (* 1862 )
- January 15 : Josef Steinbach , Austrian weightlifter (* 1879 )
- February 15 : Vincenzo Lancia , Italian racing driver and designer (* 1881 )
- March 10 : Oskar Steinbach , German motorcycle racer (* 1913 )
- March 20 : Harry Vardon , English golfer (* 1870 )
- April 9 : Josef Lohner , German motorcycle racer (* unknown)
- April 10 : Kenelm Lee Guinness , Irish-British entrepreneur, record racing car driver (* 1887 )
- April 11th : Philip van Dijk , Dutch football player (* 1885 )
- April 12 : Frank Mount Pleasant , American athlete and American football coach (* 1884 )
- May 12 : Jorge de Paiva , Portuguese fencer (* 1887 )
- May 20 : Max von Arco-Zinneberg , German automobile racing driver (* 1908 )
- May 30th : Hans Frei , Swiss mountaineer (* 1910 )
- presumably June 14 : Karl Wien , German mountaineer (* 1906 )
- July 26 : Ernst von Delius , German racing driver (* 1912 )
- July 26th : Aldo Pigorini , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1907 )
- August 7th : Eddie Gerard , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (* 1890 )
- August 8 : Jimmie Guthrie , British motorcycle racer (* 1897 )
- August 22nd : Karl Braun , German motorcycle racer (* 1902 )
- September 2 : Pierre de Coubertin , founder of the modern Olympic Games (* 1863 )
- September 29 : Ray Ewry , American athlete and Olympic champion (* 1873 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Erich Kroner , German sports journalist and civil servant (* around 1888)
- Yabu Kentsū , Japanese karate master (* 1863 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Sports Year 1937 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
