Events in Sport
Boxing Title Fight
Sep 23 Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
Jack Dempsey
Golf Major
Sep 25 9th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen wins at Salisbury Golf Club, Westbury, New York
Walter Hagen
- Sep 25 NHL grants franchises to Chicago Black Hawks & Detroit Red Wings
Birthdays in Sport
- Sep 3 Bill Flemming, American journalist and sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2007)
- Sep 4 Bert Olmstead, Canadian ice hockey player, born in Sceptre, Saskatchewan (d. 2015)
- Sep 7 Erich Juskowiak, German footballer, born in Oberhausen, Germany (d. 1983)
- Sep 11 Alfred Slote, American children's books author (Love & Tennis, Omega Station), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Sep 11 Eddie Miksis, American baseball player, born in Burlington, New Jersey (d. 2005)
- Sep 13 Emile Francis, NHL player, coach and general manager (Rangers, Blues, Whalers), born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Sep 18 Bud Greenspan, American documentary maker (Olympic Games), born in NYC, New York (d. 2010)
- Sep 18 Bob Toski, American professional golfer and instructor, born in Haydenville, Massachusetts
- Sep 19 Duke Snider, American baseball centerfielder (406 HRs), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2011)
- Sep 25 Sergei Filatov, Soviet equestrian dressage (Olympic gold 1960), born in Lysyye Gory, Tambov Governorate (d. 1997)
- Sep 30 Robin Roberts, American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (won 28 consecutive complete games 1952-53), born in Springfield, Illinois (d. 2010)