On This Day in Sport for January 16
Events in Sport
- 1883 Quebec Rugby Football Union forms
- 1905 Baseball outfielder Frank Huelsman completes eighth transaction in 8 months
- 1905 Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, ON: Ottawa Senators rout Dawson City (Yukon), 23-2 for 2-0 series sweep; most lopsided challenge playoff game in history; Frank McGee 14 goals
- 1931 Australian cricket batting prodigy Don Bradman scores 223 v West Indies in 3rd Test in Brisbane; most runs scored by a player in a Test match in Australia in one day
- 1933 Cricket's Bodyline Tour: Australian batsman Bert Oldfield's skull fractured by delivery bowled by Englishman Harold Larwood during the third test in Adelaide
- 1938 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Patty Berg retains title by a massive 14 strokes ahead of Jane Cothran
- 1952 US Standard Board clears Stan Musial to get an $85,000 salary
- 1955 5th NFL Pro Bowl, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum: Western Conference beats Eastern Conference, 26-19; MVP: Billy Wilson, SF 49ers, WR
- More Events in Sport
A. J. FoytWeddings in Sport
- 2016 Actress and singer Jamie-Lynn Sigler (35) weds baseball player Cutter Dykstra (53) in Palm Springs, California
More Weddings & Divorces in Sport
Deaths in Sport
- 1907 Alfred Shaw, English cricket medium/spin bowler (7 Tests; bowled first ball in Test cricket; first to take 5 wickets in a Test innings; Nottinghamshire CCC, MCC), dies at 64
- 1971 Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (three times winner of Tour de France), dies at 81
- 1993 Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strength athlete (b. 1960)
- 1993 Freddie Cochrane, American boxer (World Welterweight champion 1941-1946), dies at 77
January in Sport History
'The Most Famous of All Streaks'
Erika Roe bounced into the history books on this day when, topless, she skipped onto the pitch at a rugby game to the roar of 60,000 cheering spectators.
January 2, 1982Squaring Up for Radio Commentary
This was the day when the BBC broadcast live sports commentary for the first time and introduced a novel way of involving listeners in the action.
January 15, 19271st Winter Olympics
Einar Landvik, Nordic skier from Norway, competes in the first-ever Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, 1924
January 25, 1924
