1901 in sports

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• 2.1 First half of
• 2.2 Second half of
• 2.3 Exact date of birth unknown

Events

Badminton

• All England 1901

Football

• The Liverpool FC wins for the first time the English Championship.
• AC Milan is the Italian soccer champions.
• The Hungarian Football League Nemzeti National Championship is opened.
• The Wiener AC wins the first Wiener Tageblatt Cup.
• The FC Askania forest is established.

Athletics

Athletics Championships

• German Athletics Championships 1901

Track and Field World Records

• August 5: Peter O'Connor, Ireland, in Dublin jumps in the long jump of 7.61 m gentlemen, after it has already jumped 7.51 m, 7.54 m and 7.60 m in the same year. The world record is held by more than 20 years and in 1912 by the International Amateur Athletics Federation ( IAAF) was added to the first official world record list.

Cycling

• UCI Track World Championships 1901

Motorsport

• Motorsport 1901

Rowing

• Oxford defeated Cambridge in the Boat Race.

Rugby

• March 9: Scotland win the Home Nations Championship 1901.

Swimming

• German Swimming Championships 1901

Winter sports

• Carl Benzing designed the first German Fünferbob. The named him Black Peter open Bob steel pipe runs in the same year for the first time on the Red Trail at Friedrichroda.

Born

First half year

• FEBRUARY 21: Emilio Comici, Italian mountaineer and caver († 1940)
• FEBRUARY 26: József Braun, Hungarian football player and coach († 1943)
• FEBRUARY 27: Goffredo Zehender, Italian racing driver († 1958)

• April 5: Doggie Julian, American basketball coach († 1967)
• April 15: Joe Davis, English snooker and billiards player († 1978)
• APRIL 30: György Orth, Hungarian football player and coach († 1962)

Second half- year

• July 5th: Julio " Matador" Libonatti, Argentine footballer († 1981)
• JULY 23: Eugene Oberst, American athlete († 1991)
• July 26: Umberto Caligari, Italian footballer and coach († 1940)

• September 2: Adolph Rupp, American basketball coach († 1977)
• September 6: Wildcat Wilson, U.S. American football player († 1963)
• September 30: Oskar Ritter, German national football team († 1985)

• November 3: Al LeConey, American track and field athlete and Olympic champion († 1959)
• November 20: Jose Leandro Andrade, Uruguayan footballer († 1957)
• November 23: Louis Clarke, American track and field athlete and Olympic champion († 1977)

• December 2: Raimundo Orsi, Argentine- Italian footballer († 1986)
• December 13: Friedrich Gschweidl, Austrian footballer and coach († 1970)
• December 19: Kurt Friedrich, German motorcycle racer († 1995)

Exact date of birth unknown

• William Nichol, British Sprinter

Died