On This Day in Sport for February 7
Events in Sport
- 1882 Last bare knuckle champion John L. Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss
- 1884 Canadian Rugby Football Union forms
- 1893 Vanderbilt University claims it participated in the first organised intercollegiate basketball game at the Nashville YMCA Gymnasium; Vanderbilt beats YMCA, 9-3
- 1903 VVV '03 soccer club is established in the Dutch southeastern city of Venlo
- 1908 Philadelphia A's manager/owner Connie Mack sells future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Rube Waddell to St Louis Browns for $5,000
- 1914 Charlie Chaplin debuts silent film character The Tramp in "Kid Auto Races at Venice"
- 1942 1st indoor 15' pole vault (Cornelius Warmerdam 15' 3/8")
- 1948 After winning Lake Placid (1932) and Garmisch-Partenkirchen (1936) Olympic ski jumping gold medals, Birger Ruud comes out of retirement to win silver in St. Moritz in a Norwegian medal sweep
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Frank RobinsonWeddings in Sport
- 1925 Heavyweight boxing champ Jack Dempsey (29) weds actress Estelle Taylor (30)
- 1988 Heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson marries actress Robin Givens
- 2009 Actress and skating champ Kristy Swanson (39) weds 1993 World Pair Skater Champion Lloyd Eisler (45) at The Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, California
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