Events in Sports History on February 27

Figure Skating History

1921 US Female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard; US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger

1925 Test Cricket debut of Clarrie Grimmett, who took 5-45 & 6-37 v England
1936 Dutch swimmer Willy den Ouden sets new women's world 100m freestyle record (1:04.6) in Amsterdam; lasts 22 years until broken in 1956 by Dawn Fraser of Australia

1937 Australian cricketer Don Bradman scores 169 in 5th Test match v England in 223 minutes, ensuring Australia wins the Ashes 3-2

1959 Boston Celtic Bob Cousy sets NBA record with 28 assists Boston Celtics score 173 points against Minneapolis Lakers

1960 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

1960 US Olympic Ice Hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal

1960 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)

1963 Mickey Mantle of NY Yankees sign a baseball contract worth $100,000

1966 8th Daytona 500: Polesitter Richard Petty comes from 2 laps down to win the event after 198 laps were completed because of rain

1966 Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Diane Towler and Bernard Ford of great Britain

1966 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Peggy Fleming of US

1984 Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor (8.675 m)

1987 American Mike Conley sets world indoor triple jump record (17.76m) in New York
1987 NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption

1988 Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympic 500m speed skating in record 39.1

1988 Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympic figure skating
1992 Larry Smith named 9th Commissioner of the CFL
1994 XVII Winter Olympic Games close in Lillehammer, Norway
1999 Aston Villa are the last Premier League team to play a match with an all-English starting XI in a 4-1 defeat by Coventry