Events in Sports History in February 1953

  • Feb 6 Ian Craig makes Test Cricket debut at 17 yrs 239 days, youngest Aussie
  • Feb 10 Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Westwood & Demmy GRB

Albright World Champion

Feb 10 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Tenley Albright USA

Sports History

Feb 16 Ted Williams safely crash-lands his damaged Panther jet, later awarded the Air medal

  • Feb 17 DSB soccer team forms in Eindhoven (now PSV Eindhoven), Netherlands
  • Feb 20 August A. Busch buys St. Louis Cardinals MLB club from Fred Saigh for $3.75 million; pledges not to move the team from St. Louis, Missouri
  • Feb 20 US Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport & not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling
  • Feb 21 Longest collegiate basketball game (6 OTs) Niagara beats Siena 88-81