On This Day in Sport for January 7
Events in Sport
- 1899 Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier's
- 1910 Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, ON: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (ON), 3-1 for a 2-0 sweep of challenge series
- 1927 Harlem Globetrotters play their 1st game in Hinckley, Illinois
- 1932 1st game played at Orchard Lake Curling Club, Mich
- 1936 Tennis champs Helen Moody & Howard Kinsley volley 2,001 times (1h18m)
- 1947 Australia v England at MCG drawn in 6 days, 1st cricket draw in Australia since 1882
- 1955 Marian Anderson becomes the 1st African American to perform with the New York Metropolitan Opera
- 1955 20 year-old future world heavyweight boxing champion Floyd Patterson scores a 5th-round TKO of Willie Troy in a non-title super middleweight bout at New York’s Madison Square Garden
- More Events in Sport
Lewis Hamilton
Bronko Nagurski
Tommy LasordaWeddings in Sport
- 1989 MLB pitcher Greg Maddux (22) weds Kathy Ronnow
- 2006 Punky pop singer P!nk (26) weds motocross daredevil and "The Surreal Life" actor Carey Hart (30) at the Four Seasons Resort at Peninsula Papagayo in Guanacaste, Costa Rica
More Weddings & Divorces in Sport
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
