1880 in sports

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Events

Soccer / Rugby

• The Rugby Union clubs Leicester Tigers and Northampton Saints are founded.
• The football club SC Frankfurt 1880 is founded.

Rowing

• MARCH 22: Oxford defeated Cambridge in the Boat Race in 21'23 ".
• November 5: Members of the Berlin Rowing Club from 1876 found in Treptow an der Spree, under the leadership of Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Büxenstein the Berlin Rowing Club.

Gymnastics

• September 26: The Danish sports club Aarhus GF is established as pure gymnastics club.

Born

• FEBRUARY 22: John Daly, Irish athlete († 1969)
• March 9: Terry McGovern, American boxer († 1918)
• MARCH 12: Nikolaos Georg Anda, Greek Athlete († 1958)

• May 2: Bill Horr, American Athlete, Tauzieher and American football coach († 1955)
• May 30: Miel Mundt, Dutch soccer player († 1949)
• JUNE 11: Willem Janssen, Dutch soccer player († 1976)