1892 in sports
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- 2.1 First half of
- 2.2 Second half of
Events
American Football
Football
- In England, the merger of the Football Alliance with The Football League is formally adopted. This gives rise to the Football League First Division and Football League Second Division, which consists mostly of teams from the former Football Alliance.
- The FC Pro Vercelli is established as one of the first Italian football clubs.
Cycling
- April: The race Liège -Bastogne -Liège is first held. It is the oldest still discharged one-day races and is considered one of the five so-called monuments of cycling.
- The International Cyclists' Association is founded.
Chess
Winter sports
- January 24: The Austrian Eduard Engelmann Jr. is the winner of the European Figure Skating Championships in 1892.
- January 31: In Oslo takes place the first ski jumping competition at Holmenkollen. The Norwegian Arne Ustvedt wins with a jump of 21.5 meters.
- The International Skating Union is founded.
Speed skating records
- February 28: Einar Halvorsen, Norway, 500 meters speed skating runs in Hamar in 50.2 sec
- February 28: Einar Halvorsen, Norway, 5,000 meters speed skating runs in Hamar in 9:10,2 min.
More events
- April 9: Oxford defeated Cambridge in the Boat Race in 19'01 ".
- September 7: With his victory against the reigning world champion John L. Sullivan of the outsider James J. Corbett heavyweight champion in boxing.
Born
First half year
- January 2: Edoardo Agnelli, Italian industrialist and president of Juventus († 1935)
- January 6: Leonid Kubbel, Russian chess player († 1942)
- JANUARY 14: Paul Forell, German footballer († 1959)
- JANUARY 15: Hobey Baker, American professional ice hockey player († 1918)
- JANUARY 25: Toni Bauhofer German automobile and motorcycle racer († 1968)
- February 8: Elizabeth Ryan, American tennis player († 1979)
- February 9: Joseph Braunstein, Austrian musician, writer, mountaineer († 1996)
- March 9: Paul Suter, Swiss cyclist († 1966)
- MARCH 28: Gustave Ganay, French cyclist († 1926)
- April 3: Emile Aerts, Belgian cyclist († 1953)
- April 7: Julius Hirsch, German football player and Nazi victims († 1943)
- April 11: Isacco Mariani, Italian motorcycle racer († 1925)
- APRIL 21: Freddie Dixon, British motorcycle and car racer († 1956)
- May 6: Ernst Eikhof, German national football team († 1978)
- MAY 14: Kaarlo Edvin Mäkinen, Finnish wrestler and Olympic gold medalist († 1980)
- MAY 19: Christian Werner, German race car driver († 1932)
- MAY 23: Hans Dulfer, German climbers († 1915)
- June 8: Giuseppe Campari, Italian racing driver († 1933)
Second half- year
- August 5: Marius Hiller, German - Argentine football († 1964)
- August 8: Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer († 1922)
- August 11: Gerrit Bouwmeester, Dutch soccer player († 1961)
- September 7: Georg Mickler, German track and field athlete and Olympian († 1915)
- September 10: János Balogh, Hungarian correspondence chess players († 1980)
- September 11: Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist († 1980)
- September 12: Vahram Papazyan, Ottoman athlete and Olympian († 1986)
- 4 October: Luis Trenker, Tyrolean mountaineer, actor and writer († 1990)
- OCTOBER 11: Karl Hähnel, German track and field athlete and Olympian († 1966)
- October 14: Piet Bouman, a Dutch footballer
- OCTOBER 21: Otto mink, German football player and coach of the first kingdom of DFB († 1949)
- October 31: Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine, Russian chess player and fourth World Chess Champion († 1946)
- November 3: Jur Haak, Dutch footballer
- November 3: Lindley Murray, American tennis player († 1970)
- November 15: Clarence Horning, U.S. American football player († 1982)
- November 16: Tazio Nuvolari, Italian racing driver († 1953)
- November 22: Ermanno Aebi, Swiss- Italian footballer († 1976)
- NOVEMBER 25: Otto Harder, German footballer († 1956)
- November 26: Joe Guyon, U.S. American football player († 1971)
- December 29: Géza Nagy, Hungarian chess player († 1953)