1924 in sports
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1924 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
| Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
| Decades: | 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s |
| Years: | 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 |
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[edit] American football
- Cleveland Bulldogs win National Football League title
[edit] Association football
England
- First Division – Huddersfield Town win the 1923–24 title.
- FA Cup – Newcastle United beat Aston Villa 2–0.
[edit] Australian rules football
- Essendon wins the 28th VFL Premiership (under the finals system used, no grand final was played)
- Brownlow Medal awarded for the first time, to Edward Greeves (Geelong).
[edit] Baseball
- Washington Senators def. New York Giants (4–3) in the World Series.
- Kansas City Monarchs (NNL) defeats Hilldale (ECL) 5 games to 4 with 1 tie in the first official Negro League World Series.
- Pitcher Nip Winters wins a record 27 games for Hilldale in the ECL regular season.
[edit] Field hockey
- The International Hockey Federation (FIH) is founded on January 7 in Paris by seven member states: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Spain, and Switzerland.
[edit] Golf
- U.S. Open – Cyril Walker
- British Open – Walter Hagen
- PGA Championship – Walter Hagen
- British Amateur – Ernest Holderness
- U.S. Amateur – Bobby Jones
[edit] Horse racing
- Inaugural running of the Cheltenham Gold Cup
- Black Gold wins the Kentucky Derby
[edit] Ice hockey
- March 25 - Montreal Canadiens win their second Stanley Cup, defeating the Calgary Tigers 2 games to 0.
- March - The Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds defeat the Winnipeg Selkirks 6-3 to win the Allan Cup.
- December 1 - The expansion Boston Bruins and Montreal Maroons of the NHL play their first-ever game against each other at Boston. Boston won the game 2-1. Boston then lost eleven games in a row.
[edit] Olympic Games
- 1924 Summer Olympics takes place in Paris, France
- United States wins the most medals (99), and the most gold medals (45).
- 1924 Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics, takes place in Chamonix, France
- Norway wins the most medals (18), and the most gold medals (5).
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