1876 in sports

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Events

American Football

• The first binding set of rules for American football comes into force.

Baseball

• February 2: In the United States, the National League is founded in baseball, in the grounds of race separation are eligible to play exclusively white. The first championship win, the Chicago White Stockings under the this year for the club exchanged player and manager Albert Goodwill Spalding.

Football

• The Football Association of Wales is founded by the English and the Scottish Football Association as the third in the world.

Rowing

• April 8: Cambridge win the Boat Race against Oxford in the time of 20'02 ".
• July 14: The Bournemouth Premier Rowing Club hosted the first regulated by a regulatory framework in the water polo competition.

Sports facilities

• The Glaciarium in Chelsea opened the first artificial ice rink in the world.

Club -ups

• April 26: In Copenhagen, the sports club Kjøbenhavns Bold Club is founded.
• November 24: The Steiner Rowing Club is established as one of the first rowing club in Austria.

• The Scottish football club Falkirk Football Club is founded.
• The English Middlesbrough Football Club is founded by members of the local cricket club.

Born

• February 6: Eugène -Henri Gravelotte, French fencer († 1939)
• March 1: Henri de Baillet -Latour, French President of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC) († 1942)
• March 5: Elisabeth Moore, American tennis player († 1959)
• March 21: Walter Tewksbury, American track and field athlete and Olympic champion († 1968)
• March 25: Irving Baxter, American track and field athlete and Olympic champion († 1957)
• MARCH 29: Ioannis Georgiadis, a Greek fencer and forensic († 1961)
• MARCH 29: Adolph Friedrich Traun, German athlete, Olympic champion in tennis men's doubles in 1896 († 1908)

• May 2: Willy Arend, German cyclists ( † 1964)
• May 10: Paul Guignard, French cyclist († 1965)
• MAY 17: Alban Collignon, Belgian sports journalist, cycling official and president of the International Cycling Union, Union Cycliste Internationale ( † 1955)

• December 2: Leopold von Wiese, U.S. American football player and owner of NY Giants († 1969)
• December 12: Alvin Kraenzlein, American track and field athlete and Olympic champion († 1928)
• 16 December: Rodolphe William Seeldrayers, Belgian football official, FIFA President († 1955)

• 1876 ​​: Tessie Reynolds, English cyclist († 1955)

Died

• December 7: Hermann von Barth, German climbers (* 1845)