Events in Sports History in 1892

Basketball Rules Published

Jan 15 Basketball rules first published in Triangle Magazine, written by James Naismith

Feb 2 Longest boxing match under modern rules; 77 rounds in Nameoki, Illinois between Harry Sharpe & Frank Crosby
Feb 22 Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms
Mar 11 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Massachusetts)
Mar 18 Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)
Mar 19 3 brothers Hearne play in same Test Cricket England v South Africa (Cape Town)
Mar 20 54th Grand National: Capt. Roddy Owen wins aboard 20/1 chance Father O'Flynn
Apr 17 1st Sunday NL baseball game, Reds beat Cards 5-1
Apr 29 Charlie Reilly is baseball's 1st pinch hitter
May 11 18th Kentucky Derby: Lonnie Clayton aboard Azra wins in 2:41½
Jun 7 John J. Doyle of Clev Spiders is 1st to pinch hit in a baseball game
Jun 9 26th Belmont: W Hayward aboard Patron wins in 2:12
Jun 10 Baltimore catcher Wilbert Robinson sets MLB record by going 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game; Orioles rout St. Louis Cardinals, 25-4 at Oriole Park
Jun 25 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Philadelphia Cricket Club: Defending champion Mabel Cahill beats Elisabeth Moore 5-7, 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2
Jun 28 Phillies tie club record of 16 straight victories

Wimbledon Men's Tennis

Jul 4 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Defending champion Wilfred Baddeley beats Joshua Pim 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-2

Wimbledon Women's Tennis

Jul 7 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Lottie Dod beats Blanche Bingley-Hillyard for a 4th time in a Wimbledon final 6-1, 6-1

Tennis Player and All-Round Athlete Lottie Dod

Aug 30 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, R.I.: Three straight US singles titles to Oliver Campbell; beats Fred Hovey 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5

Corbett KOs Sullivan

Sep 7 James Corbett KOs 4 to 1 favourite and defending champion John L. Sullivan in 21 rounds at the Olympic Club, New Orleans for world heavyweight boxing title; Sullivan's only defeat and his last fight

Heavyweight Boxing Champion John L. Sullivan

Sep 16 Amsterdam swimming club renamed "The Y"
Sep 23 British Open Men's Golf, Muirfield: Harold Hilton wins by 3 shots from amateur John Ball, Sandy Herd & Hugh Kirkaldy
Oct 10 Entire Hong Kong national cricket team dies in shipwreck off Taiwan
Oct 24 "World Championship" Baseball Series, South End Grounds, Boston: Boston Beaneaters beat Cleveland Spiders, 8-3 for a 5-0-1 championship victory; last of the pre-modern-era World Series
Nov 12 Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500 to become first professional football player in the Allegheny Athletic Association's 4-0 win over the Pittsburgh Athletic Club
Nov 23 Pierre de Coubertin launches plan for modern Olympic Games at the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques AGM
Dec 9 English football club Newcastle United founded
Dec 16 Commencement of 1st Sheffield Shield cricket game, SA v NSW
Dec 27 Biddle University beats Livingstone College 5-0 in 1st black college football game, in Salisbury, North Carolina