- Jan 1 17th Rose Bowl: Alabama beats Washington State, 24-0
- Jan 3 Montreal Maroons centre Nels Stewart scores fastest 2 goals in NHL history with a pair 4 seconds apart in a 5-3 win over Boston Bruins at Montreal Arena
- Jan 5 First woman to purchase a baseball team, Lucille Thomas buys Topeka Senators franchise in the Western League
- Feb 4 National League adopts a deader baseball
- Feb 5 Malcolm Campbell sets world land speed record speed of 246.08 mph driving his famous Blue Bird car at Daytona Beach, Florida
- 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 21 Chicago White Sox & NY Giants play 1st exhibition night game
- Feb 28 Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass
- Mar 4 Don Bradman is bowled for a rare first ball duck by Herman Griffith (4-50) on the last day of 5th cricket Test vs West Indies in Sydney; Windies win by 31 runs but lose series to Australia, 4-1
- Mar 8 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Coral McInnes Buttsworth beats Marjorie Cox Crawford 1-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Mar 8 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Jack Crawford wins 1st of 4 Australian titles; beats fellow Australian Harry Hopman 6-4, 6-2, 2-6, 6-1
- Mar 21 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
- Mar 21 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
- Mar 27 John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on
- Mar 27 90th Grand National: 9 year old Grakle, at odds of 100/6 and ridden by jockey Bob Lyall wins by 1.5 lengths from 1929 winner Gregalach
- Apr 1 Jackie Mitchell becomes the second female (after Lizzie Arlington 1898) in organised baseball when she signs with the Chattanooga Lookouts Baseball Club
Baseball Record
Apr 2 17-year old girl Jackie Mitchell strikes out New York Yankees stars Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition baseball game at Engel Stadium in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Sports History
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 Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 2-0 for a 3-2 series win; Canadiens' back-to-back Championships
- Apr 20 35th Boston Marathon won by Jim Henigan 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
- Apr 29 Cleveland Indians pitcher Wes Ferrell no-hits St Louis Browns, 9-0
- 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
Baseball Record
May 30 Phillies Chuck Klein homers off Ben Cantwell (Braves) in both ends DH
- May 30 Indianapolis 500: Defending champion Billy Arnold leads for 155 laps before axle trouble; Louis Schneider leads final 34 laps accompanied by riding mechanic Jigger Johnson
- May 31 French Championships Men's Tennis: Jean Borotra wins his only home title; beats fellow Frenchman Christian Boussus 2-6, 6-4, 7-5, 6-4
French Open Women's Tennis
May 31 French Championship Women's Tennis: Cilly Aussem of Germany beats England's Betty Nuthall 8-6, 6-1 for the first of 2 major titles in 1931
- Jun 5 British Open Men's Golf, Carnoustie: American based Scotsman Tommy Armour outlasts José Jurado of Argentina by 1 stroke to win his only Open title and his 3rd and final major championship
- Jun 6 NY Yankees turn triple-play but lose 7-5 to Cleveland Indians
- Jun 13 63rd Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard Twenty Grand wins in 2:29.6
Sports History
Jun 15 Eddie Collins & Harry Heilmann retire from baseball
Ryder Cup
Jun 27 Ryder Cup Golf, Scioto CC: Walter Hagen captains his 2nd victorious American team; US wins, 9-3
- Jul 1 Cleveland Municipal Stadium (MLB: Indians, NFL: Browns, 78,189 capacity) opens; demolished 1996
- Jul 3 German boxer Max Schmeling beats American Young Stribling by TKO in 15 in Cleveland in his first heavyweight title defence; first major fight broadcast live on national radio
- Jul 3 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: In the first ever all-German final, Cilly Aussem beats Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling 6-2, 7-5
- Jul 4 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Sidney Wood Jr beats fellow American Frank Shields in a walkover - ankle injury
- Jul 6 US Open Golf, Inverness Club, Ohio: Billy Burke wins by 1 stroke from George Von Elm in a second 36-hole playoff; longest playoff in tournament history
- 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
World Record
Jul 24 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2 mile (8:59.6)
- Jul 26 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Midlothian CC: June Beebe beats Mrs. Melvin Jones, 3 & 2 for golf's only major title
- Jul 26 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Paris, France: Henri Cochet beats Fred Perry 6-4, 1-6, 9-7, 6-3 to give France 3-2 win over Great Britain and 5th straight title
- 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 Washington Senators pitcher Bobby Burke no-hits Boston Red Sox, 5-0 at Griffith Stadium, Washington D. C.
- Aug 13 Cincinnati Reds second baseman Tony Cuccinello goes 6 for 6 in 17-3 rout of Boston at Braves Field
- Aug 15 Spakenburg soccer team forms
- Aug 18 Lou Gehrig hitless in Detroit, his 1,000th consecutively played game
US Open Women's Tennis
Aug 20 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Helen Wills Moody beats Eileen Bennett Whittingstall of England 6-4, 6-1 for her 7th and final US singles title
- Sep 1 Future Baseball Hall of Fame 1st baseman Lou Gehrig hits his 3rd grand slam in 4 days & 6th homer in consecutive games in NY Yankees' 5-1 win v Boston Red Sox
- Sep 10 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Ellsworth Vines beats George Lott 7-9, 6-3, 9-7, 7-5 for his first of 2 straight US singles titles
- 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
PGA Championship
Sep 19 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Wannamoisett CC: 20 year old American Tom Creavy beats Denny Shute, 2 & 1 in the final for his lone major title
- Sep 19 Lefty Grove wins his 30th game of season over White Sox, 2-1
- Sep 20 MLB's 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 MLB's Lou Gehrig completes his 6th straight season, playing in every game (.3486) Jim Bottomley (.3481)
- Sep 27 Closest NL batting race ends; St. Louis Cardinals Chick Hafey's .34889 beats NY Giants Bill Terry .34861 [1]
- Oct 1 Philadelphia Athletics seek 3rd straight World Series baseball title; beat St. Louis Cardinals, 6-2 in opener at Sportsman's Park; lose series, 4-3
- Oct 10 Baseball World Series: St Louis Cardinals beat Philadelphia A's, 4-2 at Sportsman's Park for a 4 games to 3 series win
- 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 28 Australian cricket master batsman Don Bradman scores 226 in his first Test appearance v South Africa in 1st Test in Brisbane
- Dec 5 CFL Grey Cup, Molson Stadium, Montreal: Montreal AAA Winged Wheelers shutout Regina Roughriders, 22-0 for their first title
- Dec 7 After scoring 226 in 1st Test in Brisbane, Don Bradman belts 219 for NSW against the visiting South Africa at the Sydney Cricket Ground
- Dec 9 Baseball cuts squad from 25 to 23 players & NL continues to prohibit uniform numbers
- Dec 13 National Football League Championship: Green Bay Packers (12-2-0) win 3rd straight first past the post title