1852 in Sport

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Events in Sport

  • Mar 3 14th Grand National: Alec Goodman wins first of 2 GN victories (1866) aboard Miss Mowbray
  • Aug 3 America's first intercollegiate sporting event takes place as the Harvard heavyweight rowing crew beats Yale by 2 lengths over 2 miles on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire

Birthdays in Sport

  • Feb 16 Mary Ewing Outerbridge, American citizen credited with importing tennis to the US from Bermuda (1874), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1886)
  • Apr 17 Cap Anson, American baseball player, born in Marshalltown, Iowa (d. 1922)
  • May 25 William Muldoon, US wrestler and owner of NY health institute "The Olympia," (d. 1933)
  • May 27 Billy Barnes, cricketer (England all-rounder 1880-90)

Deaths in Sport

  • Oct 15 Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, German educator and founder of the turnverein (gymnastics) movement, dies at 74