1878 in sports

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Events

Events

• The Australian National Cricket Team is taking a tour of Britain, which also makes them a trip to the United States.
• On the velodrome Preston Park in Brighton, the first races are.

Club -ups

• February: The football club Blackburn Olympic is founded.
• March 5: The English football club Manchester United was founded by members of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway as Newton Heath LYR.
• September 14: Ferdinand Wilhelm Fricke founded with some other students the sports club Hannover 78, played in the predominantly rugby and hockey.
• October 16: The Ipswich Town Football Club is founded.

• The Augsburger EV is founded, the oldest ice driving club in Germany.
• The football club St. Domingo 's F. C. is founded. A year later he changed his name to Everton.
• The football club Grimsby Pelham is founded.

Born

• April 5: Albert Champion, French - American bicycle and motorcycle racer († 1927)
• April 5: Paul Weinstein, German athlete († 1964)
• MAY 21: Glenn Curtiss, American racing driver, aviation pioneer, pilot and entrepreneur († 1930)

• AUGUST 28: Rudolf Swiderski, German chess master († 1909)
• AUGUST 31: Frank Jarvis, American athlete († 1933)

• September 3: Dorothea Douglass, British tennis player († 1960)
• October 16: Eugenio Canfari, Italian football functionary and Entrepreneurs ( † 1962)
• October 16: Maxie Long, American sprinter and Olympic gold medalist († 1959)

Died

• March 2: John Cochrane, Scottish chess player (* 1798)