1922 in sports

1922 in sports

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cf=21st century

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yp2=1920
yp3=1921
year=1922
ya1=1923
ya2=1924
ya3=1925
dp3=1890s
dp2=1900s
dp1=1910s
d=1920s
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dn1=1930s
dn2=1940s
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= Baseball (Major League)=

*World Series - New York Giants defeat New York Yankees, 4 games to 0 with one tie. The best-of-seven format will remain in place.


=Baseball (Negro League)=

* The Chicago American Giants win their third consecutive Negro National League pennant

Football (American Football)

*June 24 - The American Professional Football Association adopts the name of the National Football League
* Canton Bulldogs win the National Football League title with a record of 10 wins 0 loses and 2 ties

Football (Australian rules football)

* Victorian Football League - Fitzroy wins the 26th VFL Premiership (Fitzroy 11.13 (79) d Collingwood 9.14 (68))

Football (soccer)

England

*First Division - Liverpool win the 1921-22 title
*FA Cup - Huddersfield Town beat Preston North End 1-0

Golf

*June 20-23 - British Open - Walter Hagen
*July 13-15 - U.S. Open - Gene Sarazen
*August 18 - PGA Championship - Gene Sarazen
*British Amateur - Ernest Holderness
*U.S. Amateur - Jess Sweetser


=Hockey (Ice)=

* Toronto St. Pats win their 1st Stanley Cup, defeating the Vancouver Millionaires 3 games to 2

Horse racing

* May 13 - Morvich wins the Kentucky Derby

Events

* June-July - Water skiing invented in Lake City, Minnesota by Ralph Samuelson
* July 9 - Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking a world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'

Births

*March 7 — Július Torma, Slovak boxer (d. 1991)
*March 28 — Joey Maxim, American boxer, world champion (d. 2001)
*July 10 — Herb McKenley, Jamaican athlete (d. 2007)
*September 9 — Fortune Gordien, American athlete (d. 1990)
*September 19 — Willie Pep, American featherweight boxer (d. 2006)
*November 8 — Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian football (soccer) player (d. 1996)
*November 19 — Curt Stone, American long-distance runner
*December 1 — Vsevolod Bobrov, Soviet footballer and ice hockey player (d. 1979)
*December 23 — Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and pianist (d. 2001)

Deaths

*December 25 - Percy Jones, former world boxing champion (b. 1892)


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