- Jan 1 17th Rose Bowl: Alabama beats Washington State, 24-0
- Jan 3 Nels Stewart of Montreal Maroons scores 2 goals in 4 sec (record)
- Jan 5 1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League
- Jan 8 Philadelphia Quakers set then NHL record of 15 straight loses
- Jan 10 Philadelphia Quakers defeat Montreal, ends NHL-record 15-game losing streak
Donald Bradman
Event of Interest
Jan 31 NHL's Quebec Bulldogs' Joe Malone scores a record 7 goals
Joe Malone
- Feb 4 National League adopts a deader baseball
- Feb 14 Don Bradman scores 152 for Australia v West Indies, 154 minutes, 13 fours 2 fives
- Feb 15 Spring training site of NY Yankees in St Petersburg is renamed Miller Huggins Field in honor of the team's late manager
- Feb 17 1st telecast of a sporting event in Japan (baseball)
- Feb 21 Chicago White Sox & NY Giants play 1st exhibition night game
- Feb 28 Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass
- Mar 4 Bradman bowled by Herman Griffith for a duck as W I win the Test
- Mar 8 24th Women's Australian Championships: Coral McInnes Buttsworth beats Marjorie Cox Crawford (1-6, 6-3, 6-4)
- Mar 8 24th Men's Australian Championships: Jack Crawford beats Harry Hopman (6-4, 6-2, 2-6, 6-1)
- Mar 27 John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on
- Mar 27 90th Grand National: Bob Lyall aboard Grakle wins
- Apr 1 Jackie Mitchell became 1st female in professional baseball
Event of Interest
Apr 2 Teenage girl strikes out Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Lou Gehrig
- Apr 9 Chicago Cy Wentworth beats Montreal Canadiens at 13:50 of 6th period
- Apr 12 Joe McCarthy debuts as NY Yankee manager
- Apr 14 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 3 games to 2
- Apr 20 35th Boston Marathon won by Jim Henigan of Mass in 2:46:45.8
- Apr 20 British House of Commons agrees for sports play on Sunday
- Apr 26 Lou Gehrig hits a HR but is called out for passing a runner, mistake costs him AL home run crown; he & Babe Ruth tie for season
- Apr 28 Program for woman athletes approved for 1932 Olympics track & field
- May 9 56th Preakness: George Ellis aboard Mate wins in 1:59
- May 10 Golf ball size hail falls in Burlington, New Jersey
- May 16 57th Kentucky Derby: Charley Kurtsinger on Twenty Grand wins 2:01.8
- May 30 Phillies Chuck Klein homers off Ben Cantwell (Braves) in both ends DH
- May 30 Indianapolis 500: Louis Schneider wins in 5:10:27.948 (155.509 km/h)
- May 31 36th Men's French Championships: Jean Borotra beats Christian Boussus (2-6, 6-4, 7-5, 6-4)
Tennis Open
May 31 36th Women's French Championships: Cilly Aussem beats Betty Nuthall (8-6, 6-1)
Betty Nuthall
Event of Interest
Jun 15 Eddie Collins & Harry Heilmann retire from baseball
Eddie Collins
- Jun 27 3rd Ryder Cup: US wins, 9-3 at Scioto Country Club (Columbus, Ohio, US)
- Jul 1 Phillies Chuck Klein hits for cycle vs Chicago Cubs
- Jul 3 51st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Sid Wood Jr beats F X Shields (walkover)
- Jul 3 Max Schmeling TKOs Young Stribling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
- Jul 3 44th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Cilly Aussem beats H Sperling (6-2 7-5)
- Jul 6 35th US Golf Open: Billy Burke shoots a 292 at Inverness Club Ohio
- Jul 11 NY Giants beat Phillies 23-8
- Jul 12 45,715 fans in 35,000 seat Sportsman Park St Louis, help cause many ground ruled doubles, 11 in 1st game & 21 in 2nd game for 32
- Jul 23 France announces it can't afford to send a team to 1932 LA Olympics
- Jul 26 26th Davis Cup: France beats Great Britain in Paris (3-2)
- Jul 26 25th Tour de France won by Antonin Magne of France
- Jul 28 White Sox score 11 in 8th to beat Yankees 14-12
- Aug 8 Wash Senator Bob Burke no-hits Boston Red Sox, 5-0
- Aug 13 Cincinnati Red Tony Cuccinello goes 6 for 6
- Aug 15 Spakenburg soccer team forms
- Aug 18 Lou Gehrig hitless in Detroit, his 1,000th consecutively played game
Tennis Open
Aug 20 45th U.S. Women's National Championship: Helen Wills Moody beats Eileen Bennett Whittingstall (6-4, 6-1)
Helen Wills Moody
Baseball Record
- Sep 10 51st U.S. Men's National Championship: Ellsworth Vines beats George Lott (7-9, 6-3, 9-7, 7-5)
- Sep 16 St Louis Cards repeat as NL champions with a 6-3 win over Phillies
- Sep 17 Red Sox Earl Webb sets record with 65 en route to 67 doubles
- Sep 19 14th PGA Championship: Tom Creavy at Wannamoisett CC Rumford RI
- Sep 19 Lefty Grove wins his 30th game of season over White Sox, 2-1
- Sep 20 Lou Gehrig's 4 RBIs break his old RBI mark of 175 en route to 184
- Sep 24 Round-robin playoff among NYC's 3 major league teams, to raise money for unemployed, concludes with Brooklyn losing to both Giants & Yanks
- Sep 27 Lou Gehrig completes his 6th straight season, playing in every game (.3486) Jim Bottomley (.3481)
- Oct 1 World Series is a rematch as A's seek 3rd straight title vs Cards
- Oct 10 St Louis Cards beat Philadelphia A's, 4 games to 3 in 28th World Series
- Oct 10 9th College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Maryland beats Navy 6-0 in Washington (Maryland's first win in the series)
- Oct 27 Chuhei Numbu of Japan, sets then long jump record at 26' 2½"
- Oct 29 Lefty Grove, A's pitcher who won 31 games, is named the AL's MVP
- Nov 12 Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto - Chic Blackhawks beat Leafs, 2-1
- Nov 17 Bradman scores 135 NSW v South Africa, 128 mins, 15 fours
- Nov 28 Bradman scores 226, the 1st Test Cricket century at Gabba, v South Africa
- Dec 5 CFL Grey Cup: Mtl AAA beats Regina, 22-0 at Montreal
- Dec 7 Bradman scores 219 NSW v South Africa, 234 mins, 15 fours
- Dec 9 Baseball cuts squad from 25 to 23 players & NL continues to prohibit uniform numbers
- Dec 19 Bradman scores 112 Australia v South Africa at cricket SCG