1870 in sports
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Events
The second Olympien
Alpinism
- The gap Kogel is climbed for the first time as part of a survey.
Ball Games
- Georg Weber in Germany leads the fist ball game than a recreational sport for gymnastics.
- The Football Association limits the number of players at a football game to eleven.
Golf
- Young Tom Morris wins for the third consecutive time The Open Championship in golf. This is the Championship Belt, the trophy over in his possession.
Canoeing / Sailing
- April 6: Cambridge wins for the first time since 1860, again, the Boat Race against Oxford in the time of 22'04 ".
- August 8: Named after the yacht America America 's Cup was first held under this name, and won the New York Yacht Club.
Club -ups
- The Rotherham Football Club in England is founded.
- The Stranraer Football Club, the third oldest football club in Scotland is founded.
- The Chicago Cubs baseball team is founded under the name Chicago White Stockings.
Born
- JANUARY 24: Herbert Kilpin, English football player and coach, co-founder of AC Milan († 1916)
- JANUARY 26: Constant Huret, French cyclist († 1951)
- March 3: Géza Maroczy, Hungarian chess player († 1951)
- March 4: Verner Järvinen, a Finnish athlete († 1941)
- April 8: John Paine, American sport shooter († 1951)
- APRIL 12: Jacob Koch, German World Champion Ringer († 1918)
- MAY 31: Paul Lebreton, French tennis player († 1956)
- June 15: Maud Barger -Wallach, American tennis player († 1954)