1864 in sports
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1864 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
| Centuries: | 18th century · 19th century · 20th century |
| Decades: | 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s |
| Years: | 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 |
Contents |
[edit] Association football
- 7 December – Notts County, then called Notts FC, is formally established and remains the oldest club in the Football League
[edit] Baseball
- National Association of Base Ball Players champion – Brooklyn Atlantics
- The Atlantic club of Brooklyn, New York suffers only one early tie. One match is at Rochester against the Young Canadian club of Woodstock, Ontario, 75-11.
- New rules empower the umpire to "call" balls (bad pitches) and eventually award first base on balls, practically limiting the number of pitches and the length of each batsman's turn.
[edit] Boxing
- Tom King retires and the English Championship becomes vacant till 1866
- American Champion Joe Coburn tries unsuccessfully to set up a fight with former English Champion Jem Mace. There are challenges to Coburn from Mike McCoole and Jimmy Elliott.
[edit] Cricket
Events
- Law 10 is rewritten by MCC to allow a bowler to bring his arm through at any height providing he keeps it straight and does not "throw" the ball. The issue of overarm bowling has crystallised in the Willsher-Lillywhite incident of August 1862.
- The concept of a champion county gains popularity when newspapers begin to publish tables of inter-county match results
- 12 January – formation of Lancashire CCC at a meeting in Manchester
- 27-29 January – Otago v. Canterbury at Dunedin is the start of first-class cricket in New Zealand
- Madras v. Calcutta is the start of first-class cricket in India
- First issue of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
Honours – England
- Champion County – Surrey
- Most runs – William Mortlock 855 @ 34.20 (HS 105)
- Most wickets – James Grundy 99 @ 11.31 (BB 9-19)
[edit] Golf
[edit] Horse racing
- Inaugural running of the Travers Stakes at Saratoga Springs, New York won by Kentucky
Steeplechases
- Grand National – Emblematic
Flat races
- Australia: Melbourne Cup – Lantern
- Canada: Queen's Plate – Brunette
- English Triple Crown Races:
- 2,000 Guineas Stakes – General Peel
- Epsom Derby – Blair Athol
- St. Leger Stakes – Blair Athol
[edit] Rowing
- Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race – Oxford
- The Harvard-Yale Regatta resumes after three years and will continue annually.
[edit] Rugby football
- Foundation of Huddersfield RLFC which is the oldest Rugby Football League member
[edit] References
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