TODAY'S EVENTS IN SPORTS HISTORY 2024

NOVEMBER 12

• 1885 Montreal & Britannia Football Clubs (QRFU) defeat Ontario Combined Team (ORFU) 3-0 in CRFU Championship game
• 1892 Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500 to become first professional football player in the Allegheny Athletic Association's 4-0 win over the Pittsburgh Athletic Club
• 1904 9th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 29-5 in Birmingham

First Baseball Commissioner

1920 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis elected first baseball commissioner by team owners


1st MLB CommissionerKenesaw Mountain Landis

• 1931 Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto - Chic Blackhawks beat Leafs, 2-1
• 1933 1st NFL football game on a Sunday at Philadelphia's Baker Bowl - sporting events on Sunday had been illegal on Sundays; Eagles tie Chicago Bears, 3-3
• 1933 1st NFL football game on a Sunday at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field - sporting events on Sunday had been illegal on Sundays; Pirates lose to Brooklyn Dodgers 32-0
• 1950 Gene Roberts sets NFL NY Giant rushing record (218 yds) vs Chic Cards
• 1952 Philadelphia A's pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP
• 1952 White Sox place Jim Rivera on 1 year probation after cleared of rape
• 1953 US district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games

Racing Hall of Fame
1955 Eddie Arcaro, Earl Sande and George Woolf inaugural inductees in (Horse) Racing Hall of Fame


Racing Hall of Fame JockeyEddie Arcaro

JockeyEarl Sande

• 1958 Bob Turley of NY Yankees wins Cy Young Award
• 1959 White Sox 2B Nellie Fox wins AL's MVP
• 1966 Dodgers complete an 18-game tour of Japan with a 9-8-1 record

Killebrew MVP
1969 Minnesota's Harmon Killebrew is voted AL MVP


Baseball PlayerHarmon Killebrew

• 1970 Cleveland Cavaliers notch 1st NBA victory, in their 16th game, beating the Trail Blazers 105-103, in Portland, Oregon

Petty Wins #4
1972 22nd NASCAR Sprint Cup: Richard Petty wins his fourth Cup


Auto RacerRichard Petty

• 1975 25th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Richard Petty wins his sixth Cup
• 1975 7h Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats England 25-0

Cy Young Award
1975 NY Mets Tom Seaver wins his 3rd Cy Young Award


Baseball Hall of Fame PitcherTom Seaver

• 1979 Tony Franklin of Philadelphia Eagles kicks 59-yard field goal

AL Manager of Year
1981 Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Oakland A's)


Baseball Player and ManagerBilly Martin

• 1982 Aaron Pryor scores a 14th round KO of Alexis Argüello in Miami to retain his WBA super lightweight boxing title in the first of 2 meetings between the Hall of Famers; The Ring’s 'Fight of the Decade'
• 1982 Zaheer Abbas scores his 100th first-class century while playing a Test for Pakistan against India, goes on to score 215 runs
• 1983 NJ Devils 1st overtime game, lose to Calgary Flames 4-3

Hadlee's 15 Wicket Game
1985 Richard Hadlee takes 15-123 for cricket match New Zealand v Australia at Brisbane


CricketerRichard Hadlee
Cy Young Award
1986 Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award unanimously


MLB Pitching LegendRoger Clemens

• 1988 Japan beats MLB All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7)
• 1990 "The Body Bag Game" - after Eagles coach Buddy Ryan threatens beating Redskins so badly "they'll have to be carted off in body bags" the Eagles defense score 3 touchdowns winning 28–14, knocking 8 Redskins out of the game

Cy Young Award
1991 Atlanta Brave Tom Glavine wins NL Cy Young Award


Baseball PitcherTom Glavine

• 1992 NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is reinstated for 8th time
• 1995 25th NYC Women's Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:28:06
• 1995 26th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:10:00

NASCAR Cup
1995 45th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Jeff Gordon wins


Auto RacerJeff Gordon
F1 World Champion
1995 German Benetton driver Michael Schumacher crashes in the season-ending Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide but claims second straight F1 World Drivers Championship by 33 points from Damon Hill


Formula 1 DriverMichael Schumacher
Martin Crowe Retires
1995 Last day of Test cricket for New Zealand batsman Martin Crowe


CricketerMartin Crowe

• 1995 Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL all-time passing yardage mark of 47,003
• 1998 NY Islanders tie Detroit Red Wings 1-1, to end 10 game losing streak

WTA Championship
2006 Belgian tennis star Justine Hénin-Hardenne wins WTA Tour Championship title decider in Madrid, Spain; beats defending champion Amélie Mauresmo 6-4, 6-3


Tennis PlayerJustine Henin

Tennis PlayerAmélie Mauresmo
Hockey Hall of Fame
2012 Joe Sakic, Mats Sundin, Pavel Bure and Adam Oates are inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame


NHL LegendJoe Sakic

Ice Hockey GreatPavel Bure
Đoković's Second ATP
2012 Novak Đoković of Serbia wins his second season-ending ATP World Tour Finals tennis title beating 6-time champion Roger Federer 7-6, 7-5 in the final in London. England


Tennis ChampionNovak Đoković

Tennis ChampionRoger Federer

• 2017 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Minsk, Belarus: American pair Shelby Rogers & Coco Vandeweghe beats Aryna Sabalenka & Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus 6-3, 7-6 to wrap up 3-2 win and record extending 18th title for the US
• 2019 Former Houston Astros MLB pitcher Mike Fiers reveals team secretly “stole signs” via camera from visiting teams 2015-17; comms between opposing pitchers & catchers intercepted and relayed to Astros batters
• 2022 New Zealand's Black Ferns win Women's World Rugby Championship defeating England 34-31 at Eden Park in Auckland in front of a capacity crowd [1]
• 2023 Billie Jean King Cup Women's Tennis, Seville, Spain: Leylah Fernandez & Marina Stakusic score straight sets singles wins over Italy to guide Canada to first BJKC title

 

NOVEMBER 13

• 1875 Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms
• 1900 Baltimore Orioles (now NY Yankees) enter baseball's American League
• 1906 C. W. Gregory out for 383 as NSW make 763 v Queensland, in record cricket innings by an Australian

• 1907 French cyclist Paul Cornu flies 1st helicopter (twin rotor)

Bradman Century

1946 Bradman scores 106 for an Australian XI v the MCC


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman
Lefty O'Doul's All-Stars
1951 Lefty O'Doul's all-stars, including Joe DiMaggio and Billy Martin, lose 3-1 to Pacific League all-star team (Japan)


Baseball PlayerJoe DiMaggio

Baseball Player and ManagerBilly Martin

• 1954 1st Rugby League World Cup, Parc des Princes, Paris: Great Britain beats France, 16-12; Man of The Match: GB second rower Don Robinson
• 1958 NYC Mayor Robert Wagner announces plans to begin a new baseball league called the Continental League, to fill the void created by the city's Giants and Dodgers moving to the west coast
• 1964 Bob Petit (St Louis Hawks) becomes 1st NBAer to score 20,000 points

Elvin Hayes
1968 As a rookie, future Basketball Hall of Fame forward Elvin Hayes scores 54 points in San Diego Rockets' 122-120 win over Detroit Pistons, a career-high


NBA ForwardElvin Hayes
Gibson NL MVP
1968 MLB St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson edges Cincinnati Reds Pete Rose to win NL MVP


MLB Player and ManagerPete Rose
Jackson AL MVP
1973 Oakland A's Reggie Jackson wins AL MVP unanimously


MLB Right FielderReggie Jackson
Garvey NL MVP
1974 Dodgers Steve Garvey wins NL MVP


Baseball PlayerSteve Garvey
NL MVP Shared
1979 Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Willie Stargell and St Louis Cardinals first baseman Keith Hernandez share National League MVP Award


MLB First BasemanKeith Hernandez

Baseball PlayerWillie Stargell
Sports History
1982 WBA lightweight champion Ray Mancini defeats South Korean challenger Duk Koo Kim by TKO in the 14th round in Las Vegas; Kim collapses, falls into a coma, and dies four days later; as a result, WBC shortens title bouts to 12 rounds; WBA and WBO follow in 1988, and IBF in 1989


BoxerRay Mancini
Sandberg NL MVP
1984 Ryne Sandberg wins the NL MVP Award


Baseball InfielderRyne Sandberg

Gooden Cy Young Award
1985 Dwight Gooden, youngest 20 game winner, wins Cy Young award


Baseball PitcherDwight Gooden
Ayrton Senna
1988 Brazilian McLaren driver Ayrton Senna finishes 2nd in the season ending Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide to win his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; wins title by 3 points from Alain Prost


Formula 1 DriverAyrton Senna

Formula 1 DriverAlain Prost
Clemens AL Cy Young
1991 Boston Red Sox Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award


MLB Pitching LegendRoger Clemens
Bowe vs. Holyfield
1992 Riddick Bowe wins the undisputed world heavyweight boxing crown with a unanimous points decision over Evander Holyfield in Las Vegas; first of their 3 meetings


BoxerRiddick Bowe

BoxerEvander Holyfield
NASCAR Cup
1994 44th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Dale Earnhardt wins


Auto RacerDale Earnhardt
Michael Schmacher
1994 Title contenders Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill famously collide on lap 35 of the season ending Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide; Schumacher wins his first F1 World Drivers Championship by 1 point from Hill


Formula 1 DriverMichael Schumacher

• 1996 Padres third baseman Ken Caminiti is 4th unanimous winner of NL MVP

Griffey AL MVP
1997 Ken Griffey Jr. unanimously wins AL MVP


Baseball Hall of Fame OutfielderKen Griffey Jr.
Holyfield vs. Lewis II
1999 Lennox Lewis defeats Evander Holyfield in 12 rounds by unanimous decision to become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionLennox Lewis

BoxerEvander Holyfield
Mauresmo WTA Champion
2005 French tennis star Amélie Mauresmo beats countrywoman Mary Pierce 5–7, 7–6, 6–4 for the season ending WTA Tour Championship at the Staples Center, Los Angeles


Tennis PlayerMary Pierce

Tennis PlayerAmélie Mauresmo

• 2014 Clayton Kershaw and Mike Trout wins the MVP awards in MLB for 2014
• 2014 Indian cricket batsman Rohit Sharma sets new world ODI record of 264 runs off 173 balls against Sri Lanka at Eden Gardens in Kolkata
• 2016 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Strasbourg, France: Czech pair Karolína Plíšková & Barbora Strýcová beats Caroline Garcia & Kristina Mladenovic of France 7-5, 7-5 to wrap up 3-2 win and 3rd straight title
• 2017 First Barbie doll to wear a hijab, modeled on Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad unveiled in New York
• 2017 Italy fails to qualify for 2018 Football World Cup (first time since 1958), after play-off defeat against Sweden
• 2020 Fly-half Nicolas Sanchez scores all the Pumas points as Argentina claim their 1st ever win over New Zealand's All Blacks, winning 25-15 in a Rugby Championship game in Sydney
• 2022 Billie Jean King Cup Women's Tennis, Glasgow, Scotland: Belinda Bencic & Jill Teichmann score singles victories to lead Switzerland to a 2-0 win over Australia; first BJKC title for Switzerland
• 2022 ICC Men's Cricket T20 World Cup, Melbourne: England beats Pakistan by 5 wickets to win their WC second title; Player of the match & series: England fast bowler Sam Curran; crowd 80,462
• 2022 Joel Embiid scores a career-high 59 points in a victory over the Utah Jazz

 

NOVEMBER 14

• 1888 St Andrews Golf Club, Yonkers NY, opens with just 6 holes

Bradman Scores 192

1936 More than 21,000 watch Don Bradman score 192 for South Australia v Victoria in a drawn Sheffield Shield match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground


Cricket LegendDonald Bradman

• 1943 Chic Bear Sid Luckman passes for 7 touchdowns vs NY Giants (56-7)

Aaron NL MVP
1957 Milwaukee Brave Hank Aaron wins NL MVP


Baseball PlayerHank Aaron
Howe's Record #627
1964 Detroit Red Wings Gordie Howe sets NHL record 627th career goal


Ice Hockey LegendGordie Howe
Ali vs. Williams
1966 Muhammad Ali TKOs Cleveland Williams in 3 for heavyweight title


Heavyweight Boxing ChampionMuhammad Ali

• 1973 Canada begins production of Olympic coins

Cy Young Award
1973 Jim Palmer is named AL Cy Young winner


Baseball PlayerJim Palmer

• 1976 Cleveland Browns' Jerry Sherk sets club record with 4 sacks
• 1979 California's Don Baylor, wins AL MVP

Benitez vs. Santos
1981 In the first world championship fight between 2 Puerto Ricans in boxing history, WBC Super Welterweight champion Wilfred Benitez beats Carlos Santos in a 15-round unanimous decision at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas


BoxerWilfred Benítez

• 1985 Brewers release 39-year-old pitcher Rollie Fingers
• 1986 Doubleday Publishing sells NY Mets to Nelson Doubleday and Fred Wilpon
• 1989 Padres reliever Mark Davis wins NL Cy Young Award

James Worthy Arrested
1990 James Worthy is arrested in Houston and charged with two counts of solicitation of prostitution


NBA Small ForwardJames Worthy

• 1991 Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long loses his steroids appeal and is suspended without pay by NFL for 4 weeks

Pippig Wins
1993 23rd NYC Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig in 2:26:24


Long Distance RunnerUta Pippig

• 1993 24th NYC Marathon won by Andres Espinosa in 2:10:04

Dale Earnhardt
1993 43rd NASCAR Sprint Cup: Dale Earnhardt wins


Auto RacerDale Earnhardt
Don Shula
1993 Don Shula becomes the coach with the most wins in NFL history


NFL Head CoachDon Shula

• 1996 Texas Ranger Juan Gonzalez wins AL MVP

F1 World Champion
2010 German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel wins the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at Yas Marina Circuit to claim his first F1 World Drivers Championship by 4 points from Fernando Alonso; Red Bull's first Constructors title


Formula 1 DriverSebastian Vettel

Auto RacerFernando Alonso

• 2014 American harness racing trainer/driver Dave Palone sets the world record for wins when he drive Missy Tap Tina to the winner's circle for his 16,754th career victory
• 2018 New York Mets pitcher Jacob deGrom wins NL Cy Young Award; his 10 wins fewest ever by a Cy Young winner in a non-strike-shortened season; MLB-leading 1.70 ERA; 29 consecutive start streak longest in MLB history

Team Manager
2019 Thierry Henry becomes manager of Major League Soccer side Montreal Impact


Footballer and ManagerThierry Henry

• 2021 ICC Men's Cricket T20 World Cup, Dubai: Australia beats New Zealand by 8 wickets with 7 balls remaining for their first title; Player of the series: Australian batsman David Warner (289 runs)