1894 in sports

1894 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

Athletics

• USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships

American football

College championship

• College football national championship – Yale Bulldogs

• Western Pennsylvania champions – Allegheny Athletic Association

Events

• The 1894 Harvard–Yale game, known as the "Hampden Park Blood Bath", results in crippling injuries for four players; the contest is suspended until 1897. The annual Army–Navy Game is suspended from 1894 till 1898 for similar reasons. One of the major problems is the popularity of mass formations like the flying wedge, in which a large number of offensive players charge as a unit against a similarly arranged defense. The resultant collisions often lead to serious injury and sometimes even death.

Association football

Austria

• Foundation of First Vienna FC, which is the oldest club in Austria (22 August).

England

• Blackburn Rovers 34, Burnley 34, Everton
  33
• FA Cup final – Notts County 4–1 Bolton Wanderers at Goodison Park
• The Football League expands the Second Division from 15 to 16 clubs ahead of the 1894–95 season.
  Leicester City
  ).
• The Southern League is founded prior to the 1894–95 season. Some of its early members will eventually join the Football League.

Scotland

• Scottish Football League – Celtic
• Scottish Cup – Rangers 3–1 Celtic at Hampden Park^[1]

Baseball

National championship

• Baltimore Orioles win the first of three successive National League
  championships

• The
  Baltimore Orioles
  4 games to 0.
• 1894 is
  Boston Beaneaters set the current record for the most runs scored in a season (1220) and another standing record with seven players scoring 100 or more runs; in addition, Philadelphia Phillies
  bat .349 for the season with all four outfielders above .400, but finish fourth despite the feat

Boxing

Events

• 26 July —
  World Welterweight Championship
  . Ryan will hold the title until 1898, when he vacates it to challenge for the world middleweight title
• The inaugural
  World Bantamweight Champion is Jimmy Barry of Chicago who is recognised following his 28th-round knockout of Casper Leon at Lemont, Illinois on 15 September. Barry retains the title until 1899 when he retires undefeated in the whole of his career.^[2] The bantamweight
  division is for fighters weighing between 112 and 118 lb.

Lineal world champions[3]

• World Heavyweight Championship – James J. Corbett
• World Middleweight Championship – Bob Fitzsimmons
• "Mysterious" Billy Smith → Tommy Ryan
• World Lightweight Championship
  – title vacant
• World Featherweight Championship – George Dixon
• World Bantamweight Championship – Jimmy Barry

Cricket

Events

• The inaugural South African tour of England takes place but none of its 24 matches are currently regarded as first-class fixtures.

England

• Surrey
• Most runs – Bill Brockwell 1491 @ 38.23 (HS 128)
• Most wickets – Arthur Mold 207 @ 12.30 (BB 8–67)
• C B Fry, Tom Hayward, Archie MacLaren

• Sheffield Shield – South Australia
• Most runs – George Giffen 526 @ 75.14 (HS 205)
• Most wickets – Charlie Turner 30 @ 12.30 (BB 6–51)

India

• Bombay Presidency – Europeans

• Currie Cup – Western Province

West Indies

• Inter-Colonial Tournament – not contested

Golf

Major tournaments

• British Open – John Henry Taylor^[4]

Other tournaments

• British Amateur – John Ball

Horse racing

England

• Grand National – Why Not
• 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Amiable
• 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Ladas
• The Derby – Ladas^[5]
• The Oaks – Amiable
• St. Leger Stakes – Throstle

• Melbourne Cup – Patron

Canada

• Queen's Plate
  – Joe Miller

Ireland

• Irish Grand National – The Admiral
• Irish Derby Stakes
  – Blairfinde

USA

• Kentucky Derby – Chant
• Preakness Stakes – Assignee
• Belmont Stakes – Henry of Navarre

Ice hockey

Events

• 25 February —
  Ottawa Hockey Club
  resigns from the association, ending Ottawa participation in OHA titles and tournaments.
• 22 March 22 — In a playoff to decide the 1894 AHAC season title and the Stanley Cup, Montreal Hockey Club defeats Ottawa Hockey Club 3–1.
• March — Toronto Osgoode Hall defeats Queen's University of Kingston 3–2 to win the OHA championship.

Motor racing

Origin

• 22 July — the world's first competitive motor race was the
  Albert de Dion is first to arrive at Rouen in his de Dion-Bouton car, but he did not figure in the official results because his steam vehicle needed a 'stoker' and was thus ineligible. The 'official' victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his 3 hp petrol engined Peugeot Type 5
  .
• The
  automobiles
  during the 1880s. Racing of horse-drawn carriages has been popular among its participants in the past and it is a natural progression to race the new automobiles.

Rowing

The Boat Race

• 17 March — Oxford wins the 51st Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

Rugby football

Home Nations Championship

• 12th Home Nations Championship series is won by Ireland

Speed skating

Speed Skating World Championships

• Men's All-round Champion – none declared

Tennis

England

• Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – Joshua Pim (Ireland) defeats Wilfred Baddeley (GB) 10–8 6–2 8–6
• Blanche Bingley Hillyard (GB) defeats Edith Austin
  (GB) 6–1 6–1

• French Men's Singles Championship – André Vacherot (France) defeats Gérard Brosselin
  (France) 1–6 6–3 6–3

• American Men's Singles Championship – Robert Wrenn (USA) defeats Manliffe Goodbody (USA) 6–8 6–1 6–4 6–4
• Helen Hellwig (USA) defeats Aline Terry
  (USA) 7–5 3–6 6–0 3–6 6–3