Events in Sport
- Sep 4 New York Yankees clinch their 3rd straight AL pennant; beat the Red Sox, 6-3; earliest date in baseball history a team has captured a flag
Tennis Open
Sep 7 61st U.S. Men's National Championship: Bobby Riggs beats Frank Kovacs (5-7, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3)
Bobby Riggs
- Sep 7 55th U.S. Women's National Championship: Sarah Palfrey Cooke beats Pauline Betz Addie (7-5, 6-2)
Event of Interest
Sep 17 Cards' Stan Musial makes his major league debut, going 2-for-4
Stan Musial
Event of Interest
Sep 28 Ted Williams ended the baseball season with .406 batting avg
Ted Williams
Boxing Title Fight
- Sep 29 Million jam downtown Brooklyn to cheer NL champ Dodgers in a parade
Birthdays in Sport
- Sep 2 Tommy Aycock, Edinburg TX, PGA golfer (1994 Las Vegas Senior-5th)
- Sep 4 Ramesh Sethi, East African cricketer
- Sep 15 Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer
- Sep 16 Tommy Carberry, Irish jockey
- Sep 17 William Grut, Swedish pentathlete (Olympic gold 1948), born in Stockholm (d. 2012)
- Sep 19 Jim Fox, British pentathlete (Olympics gold 1972), born in Pewsey, Wiltshire, England
- Sep 23 Simon Nolet, French-Canadian ice hockey player
- Sep 24 John Mackey, NFL tight end (Baltimore Colts, San Diego Chargers)
- Sep 27 Roger Claessen, Belgian soccer star, born in Warsage, Belgium (d. 1982)
- Sep 27 Peter Bonetti, English footballer
- Sep 28 Charley Taylor, NFL wide receiver/running back (Wash Redskin)
- Sep 29 David Steele, British cricketer (England batsman, courageous v Lillee 1975), born in Bradeley, Stoke-on-Trent, England
- Sep 29 Kermit Zarley, PGA golfer (1970 Canadian Open), born in Seattle, Washington
Deaths in Sport
- Sep 1 Benjamin Dwight, US tennis championship umpire, dies