1900 in sports

1900 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

American football edit

College championship

College football national championship – Yale Bulldogs

Professional Championships

Western Pennsylvania championship – Homestead Library & Athletic Club

Association football edit

England

The Football League – Aston Villa 50 points, Sheffield United 48, Sunderland 41, Wolves 39, Newcastle United 36, Derby County 36
FA Cup final – Bury 4–0 Southampton at Crystal Palace, London.

Germany

German Football Association (i.e., the Deutscher Fußball-Bund or DFB) founded in Leipzig by representatives of 86 clubs (28 January).
FC Bayern Munich founded on 27 February as Schwabinger Bayern at a meeting in Munich's Gisela Restaurant by dissident players from a club called MTV 1879. The name was later changed to Bayern Roten (Reds).

Italy

Lazio of Rome officially founded on January 9.^{[citation needed]}

Olympic Games

Football at the 1900 Summer Olympics:

Upton Park FC (Great Britain)
Club Française (France)
Université de Bruxelles (Belgium)

Scotland

Scottish Football League – Rangers
Scottish Cup final – Celtic 4–3 Queen's Park at Ibrox Park^[1]

Uruguay

Formation of the Uruguayan Football Association (Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol or AUF)

Athletics edit

USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
Jack Caffery wins the fourth running of the Boston Marathon^[2]

Australian rules football edit

VFL Premiership

Melbourne Football Club wins the 4th VFL Premiership: Melbourne 4.10 (34) d Fitzroy 3.12 (30) at East Melbourne

Baseball edit

National championship

National League championship – Brooklyn Superbas

Events

1900 – Six cities, Boston, Detroit, Milwaukee, Baltimore, Chicago and St. Louis, agree to form baseball's American League.^[3]
The National League contracts from twelve to eight clubs in a circuit of eight cities that will persist through 1952.
The Western League takes the name "American League" and moves teams into Chicago and Cleveland. The Chicago White Stockings win the pennant in this one season under the new name and the old minor league status.

Boxing edit

Lineal world champions^[4]

World Heavyweight Championship – James J. Jeffries
World Middleweight Championship – Tommy Ryan
World Welterweight Championship – "Mysterious" Billy Smith → William "Matty" Matthews → Eddie Connolly → James "Rube" Ferns → William "Matty" Matthews
World Lightweight Championship – Frank Erne
World Featherweight Championship – George Dixon → "Terrible" Terry McGovern
World Bantamweight Championship – title vacant

Events

11 May. After 23 rounds, James J. Jeffries knocks out James J. Corbett to retain the world heavyweight championship.^[5]

Cricket edit

Victor Trumper led the Australian batting averages

Events

Cricket is suspended in South Africa for the next three seasons on account of the Boer War.
Yorkshire completes the County Championship season unbeaten, the first time this has happened since the start of the official championship in 1890.
The Minor Counties Championship ends in a three-way tie between three future first-class clubs.

England

County Championship – Yorkshire
Minor Counties Championship – Durham, Glamorgan and Northamptonshire share the title
Most runs – K S Ranjitsinhji 3065 @ 87.57 (HS 275)
Most wickets – Wilfred Rhodes 261 @ 13.81 (BB 8–23)
Wisden Cricketers of the Year – R. E. Foster, Schofield Haigh, George Herbert Hirst, Tom Taylor, John Tunnicliffe

Australia

Sheffield Shield – New South Wales
Most runs – Victor Trumper 721 @ 72.10 (HS 208)
Most wickets – Monty Noble 37 @ 20.64 (BB 6–91)

India

Bombay Presidency – Europeans shared with Parsees

South Africa

Currie Cup – not contested

West Indies

Inter-Colonial Tournament – Barbados

Figure skating edit

World Figure Skating Championships

World Men's Champion – Gustav Hügel (Austria)

Golf edit

Harry Vardon won his only US Open title in 1900

Major tournaments

British Open – John Henry Taylor^[6]
U.S. Open – Harry Vardon

Other tournaments

British Amateur – Harold Hilton
British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship – Rhona Adair
US Amateur – Walter Travis
US Women's Amateur – Frances C. Griscom
Canadian Amateur Championship – George Lyon
Olympic Games (Men) – Charles Sands
Olympic Games (Women) – Margaret Ives Abbott

Horse racing edit

Diamond Jubilee won the Triple Crown in England

England

Australia

Melbourne Cup – Clean Sweep

Canada

Queen's Plate – Dalmoor

Ireland

Irish Grand National – Mavis of Meath
Irish Derby Stakes – Gallinaria

USA

Ice hockey edit

Stanley Cup

12–16 February — Montreal Shamrocks successfully defends the Stanley Cup, defeating Winnipeg Victorias in a best–of–three series 2–1.
5–7 March — Montreal Shamrocks defeats Halifax Crescents in a Cup challenge best–of–three series 2–0.

Other events

10 March — Montreal Shamrocks wins the Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) championship for the second successive season with a regular season record of 7–1.

Motor racing edit

Gordon Bennett Cup

James Gordon Bennett, Jr., owner of the New York Herald newspaper and the International Herald Tribune, establishes the Gordon Bennett Cup. He hopes that the creation of an international event will drive automobile manufacturers to improve their cars.^[8] Each country is allowed to enter up to three cars, which must be fully built in the country that they represent and entered by that country's automotive governing body.^[8] International racing colours are first established in this event.^[8]
The trophy is awarded annually until 1905, after which the Automobile Club de France (ACF) holds the first Grand Prix motor racing event on the Circuit de la Sarthe at Le Mans
The inaugural Gordon Bennett Cup (Paris to Lyon) is won by Fernand Charron (France) driving a Panhard & Levassor

Paris-Toulouse-Paris Trail

The Paris-Toulouse-Paris Trail is run on 25–28 July over 1347 km and won by Alfred Velghe (France) driving a Mors in a time of 20:50:09. The race is in retrospect sometimes referred to as the V Grand Prix de l'ACF.^[9]

Olympic Games edit

1900 Summer Olympics

The 1900 Summer Olympics takes place in Paris but the Olympic status of the games is underplayed and many competitors do not realise that they have participated in the modern Olympics.
Women take part in the modern Olympics for the first time. The first sportswomen to compete in the games are Mme. Brohy and Mlle. Ohnier of France in croquet. The first female champion is Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain in tennis.
France wins the most medals (100), and the most gold medals (25).

Rowing edit

The Boat Race

31 March — Cambridge wins the 57th Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

Rugby league edit

England

Championship – not contested
Challenge Cup final – Swinton 16–8 Salford at Fallowfield Stadium, Manchester
Lancashire League Championship – Runcorn
Yorkshire League Championship – Bradford FC

Rugby union edit

Home Nations Championship

18th Home Nations Championship series is won by Wales

Speed skating edit

Speed Skating World Championships

Men's All-round Champion – Edvard Engelsaas (Norway)

Tennis edit

Events

9 February — Davis Cup competition is established, the inaugural competition being called the International Lawn Tennis Challenge and involving only Great Britain and the USA.
15 August — Dwight F. Davis and Holcombe Ward win the first Davis Cup over Englishmen E.D.Black and H.R.Barett. (3-0, when the last match was halted by rain after Davis won the first set 9–7)^[10]

England

Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – Reginald Doherty (GB) defeats Sydney Smith (GB) 6–8 6–3 6–1 6–2
Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Blanche Bingley Hillyard (GB) defeats Charlotte Cooper-Sterry (GB) 4–6 6–4 6–4

France

French Men's Singles Championship – Paul Aymé (France) defeats André Prévost (France): details unknown
French Women's Singles Championship – Hélène Prévost (France) wins: details unknown

USA

American Men's Singles Championship – Malcolm Whitman (USA) defeats William Larned (USA) 6–4 1–6 6–2 6–2
American Women's Singles Championship – Myrtle McAteer (USA) defeats Edith Parker (USA) 6–2 6–2 6–0

Davis Cup

1900 International Lawn Tennis Challenge – United States 3–0 British Isles at Longwood Cricket Club (grass) Boston, United States

References edit

^ "Scottish Cup Past Winners | Scottish Cup | Scottish FA". www.scottishfa.co.uk. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
^ Boston Athletic Association (2011). "Boston Marathon History: 1897-1900". www.baa.org. Boston: Boston Athletic Association. Archived from the original on 2013-04-10. Retrieved March 2, 2011.
^ Legrand, Jacques (1987). Chronicle of the 20th Century. Ecam Publication. p. 10. ISBN 0-942191-01-3.
^ "Cyber Boxing Zone". Archived from the original on 2009-06-14. Retrieved 2009-06-20.
^ Legrand, Jacques (1987). Chronicle of the 20th Century. Ecam Publication. p. 14. ISBN 0-942191-01-3.
^ "John Henry Taylor | British golfer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
^ "Epsom Derby | History, Winners, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c Rendall, Ivan (1995). The Chequered Flag. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. p. 26. ISBN 0-297-83550-5.
^ 1900 Grand Prix and Paris Races Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 7 September 2009.
^ Legrand, Jacques (1987). Chronicle of the 20th Century. Ecam Publication. p. 18. ISBN 0-942191-01-3.

[1] "Scottish Cup Past Winners | Scottish Cup | Scottish FA". www.scottishfa.co.uk. Retrieved 5 February 2021.

[BAA_1897–1900-2] Boston Athletic Association (2011). "Boston Marathon History: 1897-1900". www.baa.org. Boston: Boston Athletic Association. Archived from the original on 2013-04-10. Retrieved March 2, 2011.

[3] Legrand, Jacques (1987). Chronicle of the 20th Century. Ecam Publication. p. 10. ISBN 0-942191-01-3.

[4] "Cyber Boxing Zone". Archived from the original on 2009-06-14. Retrieved 2009-06-20.

[5] Legrand, Jacques (1987). Chronicle of the 20th Century. Ecam Publication. p. 14. ISBN 0-942191-01-3.

[6] "John Henry Taylor | British golfer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 30 April 2021.

[7] "Epsom Derby | History, Winners, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 29 December 2021.

[cheqflag4-8] Rendall, Ivan (1995). The Chequered Flag. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. p. 26. ISBN 0-297-83550-5.

[9] 1900 Grand Prix and Paris Races Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 7 September 2009.

[10] Legrand, Jacques (1987). Chronicle of the 20th Century. Ecam Publication. p. 18. ISBN 0-942191-01-3.

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