- Jan 1 26th Orange Bowl: #5 Georgia beats #18 Missouri, 14-0
- Jan 1 26th Sugar Bowl: #2 Mississippi beats #3 LSU, 21-0
- Jan 1 46th Rose Bowl: #8 Washington beats #6 Wisconsin, 44-8
West Indies 399 Stand
Jan 12 Garfield Sobers and Frank Worrell complete 399 stand for 4th wkt WI v England
Schayes 1st to 15,000 Points
Jan 12 Syracuse National Dolph Schayes is the 1st NBA player to score 15,000 points
Howe Leading Scorer
Jan 16 Detroit right wing Gordie Howe scores a goal and assist in his 888th career game, a 3-1 win at home over Chicago; becomes NHL's all-time leading scorer, with 947 points passing Montreal's Maurice Richard
10th NFL Pro Bowl
Jan 17 10th NFL Pro Bowl, LA Memorial Coliseum: Western Conference beats Eastern Conference, 38-21; MVPs: Johnny Unitas, Baltimore Colts, QB; Eugene Lipscomb, Baltimore Colts, DL
10th NBA All-Star Game
Jan 22 10th NBA All-Star Game, Convention Hall, Philadelphia, Pa: East beats West, 125-115; MVP: Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia Warriors, C
- Jan 22 Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson for middleweight boxing title
- Jan 25 Wilt Chamberlain scores 58 points, the most ever by an NBA rookie, as Philadelphia Warriors beat Detroit Pistons, 127-117 at Bethlehem, PA
- Jan 26 High-school basketball sensation Danny Heater scores 135 points
- Jan 26 Oakland Raiders enter the American Football League
Rozelle Elected Commissioner
Jan 26 Pete Rozelle elected NFL commissioner on 23rd ballot
Laver Beats Fraser
Feb 1 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: In a classic all-Australian final Rod Laver beats Neale Fraser 5-7, 3-6, 6-3, 8-6, 8-6; Laver's first Grand Slam title
- Feb 1 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: Margaret Smith wins first of 11 Australian singles titles; beats fellow Australian Jan Lehane 7-5, 6-2
- Feb 4 Voters fail to elect a new Baseball Hall of Fame member
Russell's 50 Rebounds
Feb 8 Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51)
Sports History
Feb 18 Continental League President Branch Rickey and Toronto team owner Jack Kent Cooke announce the opening date of their new baseball league as April 18, 1961
- Feb 18 VIII Winter Olympic Games open in Squaw Valley, California
- Feb 18 Walter O'Malley, LA Dodger owner, purchases Chavez Ravine for $494,000
- Feb 19 Swedish cross country skier Sixten Jernberg follows his 50k gold medal in Cortina d'Ampezzo (1956) with victory in 30k event at the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics
- Feb 19 Three time Canadian world champions Barbara Wagner and Robert Paul win the pairs figure skating Olympic gold medal at Squaw Valley, California
- Feb 20 Soviet females sweep the 10k cross country event at Squaw Valley; first medal sweep for the Soviets at a Winter Olympics; Maria Gusakova wins from Lyubov Kozyreva and Radya Yeroshina
- Feb 21 Biathlon debuts at the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics; Klas Lestander from Sweden becomes the first Olympic champion ahead of Finland's Antti Tyrväinen and Soviet Aleksandr Privalov
- Feb 22 German skier Georg Thoma becomes the first non-Nordic athlete to win the Nordic combined event at the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics
- Feb 23 Carol Heiss wins the women's figure skating gold medal at the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics; US takes the singles double after David Jenkins wins men's event
- Feb 24 Austria goes 1-2 in the men's slalom at the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics; Ernst Hintersteer wins gold ahead of teammate Hias Leitner
- Feb 26 David Jenkins wins the men's figure skating gold medal at the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics; US takes the singles double after Carol Heiss wins women's event
- Feb 26 USA's David Jenkins wins Olympic Gold for men's figure skating
- Feb 27 Five Nations Rugby Championship is won jointly by England and France with the pivotal game a 3-3 draw between the teams at Stade Colombes, Paris
Olympic Games
Feb 27 US Olympic Ice Hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal
- Feb 27 Veikko Hakulinen of Finland wins his 3rd career Olympic cross country gold medal as part of Finland's 4 x 10k relay team at Squaw Valley, CA; winner: 50k (Oslo, 1952) and 30k (Cortina d’Ampezzo, 1956)
- Feb 28 Home team United States wins its first Olympic ice hockey gold medal at Squaw Valley; with 9-4 win over Czechoslovakia
- Feb 28 VIII Winter Olympic Games close in Squaw Valley, California
- Mar 5 7th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Duke beats Wake Forest, 63-59
- Mar 5 Ice Dance Championship at Vancouver won by Denny & Jones (GRB)
- Mar 5 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vancouver won by Alain Giletti (FRA)
- Mar 5 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champions in Vancouver won by Carol E Heiss (USA)
- Mar 13 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Fay Crocker of Uruguay wins by 7 strokes ahead of Kathy Cornelius
- Mar 13 NFL's Chicago Cardinals moves to St Louis
- Mar 13 White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number
- Mar 14 Philadelphia center Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA playoff record of 53 points in Warriors' 132-112 win over Syracuse Nationals at Philadelphia Civic Center
Sports History
Mar 19 22nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Ohio State beats California, 75-55; Buckeyes' future Hall of Fame forward Jerry Lucas is named tournament MOP
- Mar 25 Ford Frick voids Indians-Red Sox deal as Sam White retires
- Mar 26 114th Grand National: Gerry Scott wins aboard 13/2 favourite Merryman II; first clear favourite to win in 33 years
- Mar 26 Orioles-Reds series planned for Havana is moved to Miami
- Mar 26 USC captures NCAA swimming title
- Apr 9 14th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat St Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3
US Masters Golf
Apr 10 24th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: 1958 champion Arnold Palmer birdies the final 2 holes to win by 1 stroke over runner-up Ken Venturi
Sports History
Apr 12 MLB Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck debuts "Exploding Scoreboard" at Chicago's Comiskey Park
- Apr 14 Stanley Cup Final, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON: Montreal Canadiens beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4-0 for a 4 game sweep; 5th consecutive title
Baseball Trade
Apr 17 MLB Cleveland Indians trade reigning home run champion Rocky Colavito to Detroit Tigers for reigning AL batting champion Harvey Kuenn; fans are unhappy
- Apr 18 64th Boston Marathon won by Paavo Kotila of Finland in 2:20:54
- Apr 19 Baseball uniforms begin displaying players' names on their backs
- May 7 86th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Venetian Way wins in 2:02.4
- May 7 Dodgers Larry & Norm Sherry are baseball's 10th brother battery
- May 7 LA Dodger Norm Sherry's 11th HR wins the game for brother Larry
- May 7 Michael Tal beats Mikhail Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship
- May 13 Phillies lose 3rd consecutive 1-0 game
European Cup Final
May 18 European Cup Final, Glasgow: Ferenc Puskás scores 4, Alfredo Di Stéfano 3 as Real Madrid routs Eintracht Frankfurt, 7-3; 5th consecutive title for Los Blancos
Baseball History
May 19 SF Giants rookie Juan Marichal beats Philadelphia Phillies, 2-0 on debut at Candlestick Park; first National League hurler since 1900 to debut with a one-hitter
- May 20 Baseball game in Milwaukee postponed due to dense fog
- May 21 85th Preakness: Bobby Ussery aboard Bally Ache wins in 1:57.6
- May 27 Baltimore manager Paul Richards devises oversized catcher's mitt, used by Baltimore Oriole Clint Courtney
- May 28 59th Men's French Championships: Nicola Pietrangeli beats Luis Ayala (3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3)
French Open Women's Tennis
May 28 59th Women's French Championships: Darlene Hard beats Yola Ramirez (6-3, 6-4)
1st Win for Cordero Jr.
Jun 15 Ángel Cordero Jr. wins his 1st of over 7,000 horse races
Baseball History
Jun 17 Ted Williams hit his 500th HR
- Jun 18 San Francisco Giants hire Tom Sheehan to replace Bill Rigney; baseball's oldest debuting manager (66) goes 46-50-2 for remainder of season
- Jun 18 US Open Men's Golf, Cherry Hills CC: Arnold Palmer stages greatest comeback in tournament history; erases a 7-stroke final round deficit to win his only US Open title by 2 strokes ahead of Jack Nicklaus
Patterson KOs Johansson
Jun 20 Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
- Jun 21 German sprinter Armin Hary runs world record 100m (10.0)
- Jun 25 South Africa beats New Zealand 13-0 in the first rugby test of the series in Johannesburg
- Jun 26 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Beverly CC: Joyce Ziske wins on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff with Barbara Romack
- Jul 1 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Neale Fraser wins is first and only Wimbledon singles title; beats Rod Laver 6-4, 3-6, 9-7, 7-5
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 2 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Defending champion Maria Bueno of Brazil beats South African Sandra Reynolds 8–6, 6–0
LPGA Championship
Jul 4 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Sheraton Hotel CC: Mickey Wright wins by 3 from Louise Suggs
Baseball Record
Jul 4 Yankees outfielder Mickey Mantle hits 3-run homer vs Washington, 18th MLB player to hit 300 HRs
Sports History
Jul 8 Fidel Castro ends Havana's International League team, Sugar Kings move to New Jersey
- Jul 9 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Australian Kel Nagle wins his only major title by 1 stroke from Arnold Palmer in the centenary year of the Open Championship
- Jul 10 UEFA European Championship Final, Parc des Princes, Paris, France: Viktor Ponedelnik scores in extra time as Soviet Union beats Yugoslavia, 2-1
- Jul 11 28th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, KC
- Jul 13 29th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Yankee Stadium, New York
Sports History
Jul 15 Baltimore's future Baseball Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle in the Orioles' 5-2 win over the Chicago White Sox
US Women's Golf Open
Jul 23 US Open Women's Golf, Worcester CC: Betsy Rawls wins her 4th Open title, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Joyce Ziske
- Jul 24 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Firestone CC: Jay Hebert wins his only major title by 1 stroke from Australian Jim Ferrier
- Jul 30 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7)
- Aug 2 Baseball's new Continental League formally disbands without ever having played a game after established MLB promise of expansion including New York City achieved the owners' desired effect; on August 2, 1960, the Continental League formally disbanded.
- Aug 3 For the only time in MLB history teams exchange managers as Detroit trades Jimmy Dykes (44-52) for Cleveland's Joe Gordon (49-46)
- Aug 3 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in exhibition game at CNE Stadium in Toronto
- Aug 7 Arnold Palmer's 20th PGA Tour win; rallies from a 5-stroke deficit to enter a playoff, then beats Jack Fleck and Bill Collins to win the Insurance City Open
- Aug 12 27th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 32, All-Stars 7 (70,000)
Sports History
Aug 12 Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 8.21m
- Aug 14 Australian driver Jack Brabham clinches his second consecutive F1 World Drivers Championship by winning the Portuguese Grand Prix at Boavista
- Aug 15 CFL's Calgary Stampeders move into McMahon Stadium
- Aug 15 Chicago Bears beat NY Giants 16-7 in Toronto (NFL expo)
- Aug 18 Milwaukee Braves pitcher Lew Burdette no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0 at County Stadium, Milwaukee
Baseball Record
Aug 22 Gil Hodges set NL right handed HR record with #352
- Aug 25 AFL begins placing players names on back of their jerseys
- Aug 25 XVII Summer Olympic Games open in Rome, Italy
- Aug 27 Anita Lonsbrough swims world/olympic record 200m (2:49.5)
- Aug 27 Australian swimmer John Devitt controversially wins the 100m freestyle gold medal at the Rome Olympics; recorded same time 55.2 as silver medallist American Lance Larson
- Aug 27 British swimmer Anita Lonsbrough sets 200m breaststroke world record 2:49.5 to beat German pair Wiltrud Urselmann & Barbara Göbel for the gold medal at the Rome Olympics
- Aug 28 White Sox Ted Kluzewski's 3-run HR is disallowed as umpire called time
Olympic Gold
Aug 29 Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser wins blue ribband 100m freestyle gold medal at the Rome Olympics; retains title won in Melbourne 1956; will win unprecedented 3rd consecutive 100m gold in Tokyo 1964
- Aug 29 Italy wins cycling team pursuit and Sante Gaiardoni takes the sprint gold medal at the Rome Olympics; Italy wins all 4 track events and road team time trial to thoroughly dominate sport
Olympic Gold
Aug 29 Swedish canoeists Gert Fredriksson and Sven-Olov Sjödelius win the K2-1,000m in 3:34.73 at the Rome Olympics; Fredriksson's 6th gold medal in 4 Olympic Games
- Aug 30 Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7
- Aug 30 US women's 4 x 100m medley relay team swims world record 4:41.1 to beat Australia and win the gold medal at the Rome Olympics; Lynn Burke, Patty Kempner, Carolyn Schuler & Chris von Saltza
- Aug 31 US sweeps the medals in the shot put at the Rome Olympics; Bill Nieder wins gold with 19.68m, ahead of countrymen Parry O'Brien and Dallas Long
- Sep 1 German sprinter Armin Hary wins the coveted 100m gold medal in 10.2 at the Rome Olympics; first non-American to win the event since 1928
- Sep 1 US 4 x 100m medley relay team swims world record 4:05.4 to beat Australia and win the gold medal at the Rome Olympics; Frank McKinney, Paul Hait, Lance Larson & Jeff Farrell
- Sep 1 US 4 x 200m freestyle relay team of George Harrison, Dick Blick, Mike Troy & Jeff Farrell swim world record 8:10.2 to beat Japan by 3.3 seconds and win gold medal at the Rome Olympics
- Sep 2 American Mike Troy swims 200m butterfly world record 2:12.8 to win the gold medal from Australian Neville Hayes at the Rome Olympics
Sports History
Sep 2 American sprinter Wilma Rudolph wins the coveted 100m gold medal at the Rome Olympics in 11.0; beats Britain's Dorothy Hyman by 0.3; 1st of 3 gold medals for Rudolph
- Sep 2 New Zealand middle distance runner Peter Snell claims first of 3 career Olympic gold medals when he wins the 800m in Rome
- Sep 2 Tamara & Irina Press (Soviet Union) become first sisters to win Olympic gold medals; Tamara wins Rome Olympics shot put one day after Irina takes out 80m hurdles
- Sep 3 Livio Berruti of Italy runs a world record 20.5 to win the gold medal in the 200m at the Rome Olympics
- Sep 3 US women's 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Joan Spillane, Shirley Stobs, Carolyn Wood & Chris von Saltza swim world record 4:08.9 to beat Australia by 2.4 seconds and win gold medal at Rome Olympics
Sports History
Sep 5 A. J. Foyt wins the first of 67 Indy car victories at Du Quoin, Illinois. State Fairgrounds
Olympic Gold
Sep 5 Cassius Clay [Muhammad Ali] beats 3-time European champion Zbigniew Pietrzykowski of Poland by unanimous points decision to win Olympic light heavyweight boxing gold medal at the Rome Games
Olympic Gold
Sep 5 Future world middleweight boxing champion Nino Benvenuti of Italy beats Yuri Radonyak of the Soviet Union to win welterweight gold medal at the Rome Olympics
- Sep 6 American Otis Davis runs a world record 44.9 to win the gold medal in the 400m at the Rome Olympics; German Carl Kaufmann records same time but ruled second via photo finish
- Sep 6 Australian middle distance runner Herb Elliott breaks his own world record in winning the 1,500m at the Rome Olympics in 3:35.6
- Sep 6 In a famous victory American decathlete Rafer Johnson scores Olympic record 8,392 points to win the gold medal in Rome; beats rival & friend C.K. Yang of China by 58 points
- Sep 7 American weightlifter Charles Vinci wins 2nd consecutive bantamweight gold medal at the Rome Olympics with world-record equalling 3-lift (snatch, clean & jerk, overhead press) total of 345.0 kilograms
- Sep 7 Danish yachtsman Paul Elvstrøm wins the Finn class at the Rome Olympics; his 4th straight Olympic gold medal in the category
- Sep 7 Future Constantine II, last King of Greece, wins Dragon class sailing gold medal at the Rome Olympics
- Sep 7 Japan wins the men's gymnastics teams combined exercises gold for the first of 5 consecutive Olympics at the Rome Games; beats Soviet Union by just 2.5 points
- Sep 7 Ljudmila Shevcova runs female olympic record 800m (2:04.3)
- Sep 8 American sprinter Wilma Rudolph wins her third gold medal of the Rome Olympics anchoring the US 4 x 100m relay team; earlier won 100/200m double
- Sep 8 German 4 x 100m relay team equal world record 39.5 to win the gold medal at the Rome Olympics; Bernd Cullmann, Armin Hary, Walter Mahlendorf & Martin Lauer
- Sep 8 US 4 x 400m relay team of Jack Yerman, Earl Young, Glenn Davis & Otis Davis run a world record 3:02.2 to win the gold medal at the Rome Olympics
- Sep 9 Denver Broncos beat Boston Patriots, 13-10 in the American Football League's first game before 21,597 fans at Nickerson Field in Boston
- Sep 9 Pakistan ends India's run of 6 consecutive Olympic field hockey gold medals with a 1-0 win over their sub-continent rivals at the Rome Games
Olympic Gold
Sep 10 Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia runs WR 2:15:16.2 barefoot to take out the men's marathon at the Rome Olympics; Africa's first ever Olympic gold medal
- Sep 10 Fencer Aladár Gerevich is part of the gold medal winning Hungarian sabre team at the Rome Olympics; Gerevich's 6th consecutive gold medal in the event
- Sep 10 Future Hall of Famer Jerry Lucas scores 23 points as the US wins its 5th straight men's basketball Olympic gold medal with a 90-63 drubbing of Brazil at the Rome Games
Olympic Gold
Sep 10 Gymnastics competition at the Rome Olympics concludes with the Soviet Union taking 10 of the 15 gold medals; Soviet gymnasts Boris Shakhlin & Larisa Latynina win 3 gold medals each
- Sep 10 NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 643' HR over right field roof in Detroit
- Sep 10 Yugoslavia dominates Denmark 3-1 to win the men's football gold medal at the Rome Olympics
- Sep 11 17th Olympic games close in Rome Italy
- Sep 13 Dutch 1st Chamber condemns soccer-law
Maurice Richard Retires
Sep 15 Maurice Richard announces his retirement. He finishes his career with 544 goals, an NHL record at the time.
Sports History
Sep 16 Milwaukee Braves' future HOF pitcher Warren Spahn no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 4-0 at County Stadium
- Sep 17 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: In an all-Australian final Neale Fraser wins 2nd straight US title; beats Rod Laver 6-4, 6-4, 9-7
- Sep 17 US National Championship Women's Tennis: American Darlene Hard wins her first US singles title; beats defending champion Maria Bueno of Brazil 6-4, 10-12, 6-4
- Sep 25 NY Yankees clinch AL pennant
- Sep 25 Phillies beat Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday loses
- Sep 28 Ted Williams hits his final homer #521 (off Jack Fisher)
- Oct 1 14th NHL All-Star Game, Montreal Forum, Montreal, QC: All-Stars beat Montreal Canadiens, 2-1
- Oct 2 Mickey Wright becomes first player in LPGA Tour history to average fewer than 74 strokes per round to win the Vare Trophy after a season average of 73.25; first of 5 consecutive Vare Trophies for Wright
- Oct 3 New York Yankees beat rival Boston Red Sox, 8-7 at Yankee Stadium, ending season on 15 game winning streak & MLB record 193 HRs
- Oct 8 3rd Rugby League World Cup: Great Britain beats Australia 10-3
- Oct 10 Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards
- Oct 11 Radio/TV executive John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Detroit Tigers
- Oct 13 Baseball World Series: Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski's bottom of 9th lead off HR beats NY Yankees, 10-9 at Forbes Field in series deciding Game 7; MVP: Yankees 2B Bobby Richardson
Sports History
Oct 18 Casey Stengel retired by NY Yankees (won 10 pennants in 12 years)
- Oct 20 Ralph Houk, 41, replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager
- Oct 26 MLB: American League approves existing Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins, and two new expansion franchises - Los Angeles Angels & Washington (D.C.) Senators; 1961 season schedule grows from 154 to 162 games
- Oct 29 Cassius Clay's [Muhammad Ali] 1st professional fight; beats Tunney Hunsaker on points in 6 rounds in Louisville, Kentucky
- Oct 30 12th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Rex White wins
Sports History
Nov 2 New York Yankees outfielder Roger Maris beats teammate Mickey Mantle for American League MVP Award, 225-222; second-closest vote ever
Elgin Baylor
Nov 15 Elgin Baylor of NBA LA Lakers scores 71 points vs NY Knicks
- Nov 17 New MLB Washington franchise is awarded to Elwood Quesada
- Nov 18 Charlie Finley makes a bid to purchase expansion LA Angels
- Nov 20 Australian driver Jack Brabham finishes 4th in season-ending US Grand Prix at Riverside Raceway to retain his F1 World Drivers Championship by 9 points from Bruce McLaren of New Zealand
- Nov 21 Bob Scheffing signs to manage Tigers after Casey Stengel turns it down
- Nov 23 Dodgers outfielder Frank Howard is voted NL Rookie of Year
- Nov 24 Philadelphia center Wilt Chamberlain pulls down NBA record 55 rebounds in Warriors 132-129 defeat to Boston Celtics at Philadelphia Civic Center
- Nov 26 25th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 3-0 in Birmingham
- Nov 26 CFL Grey Cup, Empire Stadium, Vancouver: Ottawa Rough Riders defeat Edmonton Eskimos, 16-6 for their 5th Championship
- Nov 26 Minneapolis-St Paul baseball club takes the name Twins
- Nov 27 Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHLer to score 1,000 points
- Nov 27 Trailing 38-7 late in 3rd quarter, Buffalo Bills tie Broncos at 38-38
- Nov 29 26th Heisman Trophy Award: Joe Bellino, Navy (HB)
- Dec 6 MLB American League grants American entertainer and businessman Gene Autry a franchise: Los Angeles Angels
- Dec 8 MLB expansion team Los Angeles Angels sign a 4 year lease to use Dodger Stadium
Ballon d'Or
Dec 13 Ballon d'Or: Barcelona midfielder Luis Suárez is named best football player in Europe ahead of Real Madrid's Hungarian forward Ferenc Puskás and Hamburg striker Uwe Seeler
- Dec 13 Italy beats US in Davis Cup (1st time in 24 years US not in finals)
- Dec 14 Australia v West Indies 1st Test Cricket at the Gabba ends in a tie
- Dec 14 Washington Senators joins American League
Eagles Defeat Packers
Dec 26 National Football League Championship, Franklin Field, Philadelphia: Philadelphia Eagles beat Green Bay Packers, 17-13; lone playoff defeat for Packers coach Vince Lombardi before Packers establish dynasty
Baseball Players
Basketball Stars
Boxers
Footballers
NFL Stars
Tennis Champions