1932 – U.S. athlete Eddie Eagan becomes the first athlete to win gold medal at both the Summer and Winter Olympics after being part of the first place four man bobsled team. Eagan had previously won gold in boxing in the 1920 Summer games in Antwerp. 1978 – Leon...
1951 – Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta to win the middleweight title. 1966 – Wilt Chamberlain breaks the NBA scoring record with 20,884 career points. 1995 – The Portland Trailblazers trade Clyde Drexler to the Houston Rockets. 2018 – Shaun White wins his 3rd...
1920 – The National Negro Baseball League is formed. 1937 – The Boston Redskins receive permission from the NFL to move to Washington D.C. 1952 – Rocky Marciano wins his 40th straight fight with a second round knockout of Gino Buonvino. 1974 – James “Cool Papa” Bell...
1878 – Harvard’s Frederick Thayer receives and official US patent number for the invention of the catcher’s mask. 1908 – An auto race from New York to Paris (through Alaska and Siberia) begins. George Schuster wins the race, which takes him 88 days. 1909 – American...
1928 – The Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland open. 1970 – The Atlanta Hawks set an NBA record for points in the second half by putting up 97 in the second half in a 155-131 win over San Diego. 1971 – John Believau of the Montreal Canadiens scores his 500th...
1920 – Baseball outlaws all pitches that involve tampering with the baseball. 1949 – Joe Fulks of Philadelphia scores 63 points in a 108-87 win over Indianapolis to set an NBA scoring record that would last for nearly a decade. 1952 – The Baltimore Bullets play a 48...
1895 – The sport of volleyball is invented by WG Morgan in Massachusetts. 1942 – The Philadelphia Phillies temporarily change their name to the “Phils”. 1960 – The AFL and NFL agree to a no tampering pact. 1966 – The NHL expands to double the size of the league,...
1936 – Jay Berwanger from the University of Chicago is the first player ever selected in the NFL Draft. Berwanger is drafted by the Eagles and then traded to the Bears. 1945 – Paul Brown agrees to coach the new expansion football team in Cleveland, which would later...
