1858 in sports

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Events

Mountaineering

• June 3: Francis Thomas Gregory climbs in Western Australia was the first European to see the largest monolith on earth. Gregory designate the mountain shortly after Mount Augustus, where he takes his brother, the explorer Augustus Gregory to name godparents.
• June 29: Johann Jakob Weilenmann succeed the first ascent of the tourist Muttler in the Samnaun group in the Swiss Grisons.

Football

• Summer: The first experimental Australian football game is played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
• October 21: At the first annual general meeting of the company founded in the year Sheffield FC Sheffield rules are decided, the first documented set of football rules. Among other things, it is determined that the impetus of the center must be run from the dead ball. Under certain conditions, the catching of the ball is allowed.

Rowing

• Cambridge wins on March 27, the 15th Boat Race against Oxford in 21'23 ".

Chess

• The American Paul Morphy goes to 1859 on a trip to Europe after London and Paris, where he beats anyone who competes against him.
• October or November: Paul Morphy wins the game Morphy - Karl of Brunswick and Count Isoard, Paris in 1858 during an opera performance of the Barber of Seville.

• The Austrian Johann Jacob Loewenthal wins the heavily-stocked chess tournament in Birmingham.

Gymnastics

• Ferdinand Goetz takes over the editorship of the German Gymnastics newspaper of Ernst Keil.

Born

• MARCH 22: Hans Meyer, German geographer, mountaineer and explorer († 1929)
• May 8: Dan Brouthers, American baseball player († 1932)
• August 27: George Lyon, Canadian golfer and sports official († 1838)
• OCTOBER 15: John L. Sullivan, American boxer, world heavyweight champion († 1918)

Died

• MAY 9: Adolf Spiess, German sports teacher (* 1810)