1901 in sports

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Baseball

*The "American League War"
**The AL leaves the National Agreement and competes with the National League as a second major league --we say in retrospect, knowing its success. The AL abandons four western cities for Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Boston and signs about 30 prominent NL players before the season.
**The National League violates its National Agreement in the summer and there will be no major-minor agreement until 1903.
*In December numerous minor leagues establish their own National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, commonly called Minor League Baseball (1902 to date).

Football (Australian rules football)

* Victorian Football League
** Essendon wins the 5th VFL Premiership (Essendon 6.7 (43) d Collingwood 2.4 (16))
** "See also Victorian Football League season 1901"

Football (soccer)

England

* First Division - Liverpool win the 1900-01 title.
* FA Cup - Tottenham Hotspur beat Sheffield United 3-1 in a replay after drawing 2-2 in the first match. Tottenham are the first (and so far only) non-League side to win the FA Cup.
* Brighton & Hove Albion FC formed.

Golf

*June 3-6 - British Open - James Braid
*June 14-17 - U.S. Open - Willie Anderson
*British Amateur - Harold Hilton
*U.S. Amateur - Walter Travis

Horse racing

* April 29 - Kentucky Derby - His Eminence
* Preakness - The Parader
* Belmont Stakes - Comando

Ice hockey

*January 29–31, 1901 -Winnipeg Victorias win their 2nd Stanley Cup, defeating the defending champion Montreal Shamrocks in a Cup challenges two games to none.
* February 1901 - Winnipeg Victorias win the Manitoba Hockey Association (MHA) title over the Winnipeg Hockey Club and defend the Stanley Cup title.
* March 1901 - Ottawa Hockey Club wins the Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) championship. Ottawa declines to challenge Winnipeg for the Stanley Cup.

Lacrosse

*Sir Donald Mann donates the Mann Cup.
*Lord Minto, the Governor General of Canada, donates the Minto Cup.
*The Ottawa Capitals win the first Mann Cup and the first Minto Cup.

Yacht racing

*The New York Yacht Club retains the America's Cup as "Columbia" defeats British challenger "Shamrock II", of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club, 3 races to 0

Events

* March 25 - At the five-day "Week of Nice" race in Nice, France, Mercedes wins its first racing victory.
* November 15 - James Jeffries defends the heavyweight boxing title in San Francisco against Gus Rublin
* The first Mann Cup of lacrosse is won by the Ottawa Capitals

Births

* January 20 — Cecil Griffiths, British athlete (d. 1973)
* January 21 — Ricardo Zamora, Spanish football (soccer) player (d. 1978)
* January 27 — Art Rooney, American pro football owner (d. 1988)
* January 30 — Rudolf Caracciola, German champion racing driver (d. 1959)
* February 18 — Paul Berlenbach, American light heavyweight boxer (d. 1985)
* May 24 — José Nasazzi, Uruguayan football (soccer) player (d. 1968)
* June 2 — Terence Sanders, British rower (d. 1985)
* July 26 — Umberto Caligaris, Italian football (soccer) player and coach (d. 1940)
* August 1 — Gérard Blitz, Belgian swimmer and water polo player (d. 1979)
* August 18 — Arne Borg, Swedish swimmer (d. 1987)
* August 26 — Frankie Genaro, American boxer (d. 1966)
* September 16 — Ugo Frigerio, Italian athlete (d. 1968)
* October 25 — Cor Blommers, Dutch boxer (d. 1983)
* December 10 — Ivor Jones, rugby player (d. 1982)
* December 14 — Henri Cochet, French champion tennis player (d. 1987)
* December 26 — James MacNabb, British rower (d. 1990)

Deaths

*October 26 — Alfred Tysoe (27), British athlete (b. 1874)