American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

• College football national championship
  NCAA Division I FBS National Football Championship
  A college football national championship in the highest level of collegiate play in the United States, currently the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Football Bowl Subdivision , is a designation awarded annually by various third-party organizations to their selection of the best...
  
   – Penn State Nittany Lions
  Penn State Nittany Lions football
  The Penn State Nittany Lions football team represents the Pennsylvania State University in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the Big Ten Conference. It is one of the most tradition-rich and storied college football programs in the...
  
   and Princeton Tigers
  Princeton Tigers football
  The Princeton Tigers football program represents Princeton University college football at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision...
  
   (shared)

Association football

• The Football League
  The Football League
  The Football League, also known as the npower Football League for sponsorship reasons, is a league competition featuring professional association football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888, it is the oldest such competition in world football...
  
   – Manchester United 52 points, Aston Villa 51, Sunderland 45, Everton 45, Bradford City 45, The Wednesday 42
• FA Cup final
  FA Cup Final
  The FA Cup Final, commonly referred to in England as just the Cup Final, is the last match in the Football Association Challenge Cup. With an official attendance of 89,826 at the 2007 FA Cup Final, it is the fourth best attended domestic club championship event in the world and the second most...
  
   – Bradford City
  Bradford City A.F.C.
  Bradford City Association Football Club is an English association football club based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, playing in League Two....
  
   1–0 Newcastle United at Crystal Palace
  Crystal Palace National Sports Centre
  The National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace in south London, England is a large sports centre and athletics stadium. It was opened in 1964 in Crystal Palace Park, close to the site of the former Crystal Palace, in the former parkland and also usurping part of the former grand prix circuit.It was...
  
  , London (replay following 0–0 draw at Crystal Palace)

• Scottish Football League
  Scottish Football League
  The Scottish Football League is a league of football teams in Scotland, comprising theScottish First Division, Scottish Second Division and Scottish Third Division. From the league's foundation in 1890 until the breakaway Scottish Premier League was formed in 1998, the Scottish Football League...
  
   – Rangers F.C.
  Rangers F.C.
  Rangers Football Club are an association football club based in Glasgow, Scotland, who play in the Scottish Premier League. The club are nicknamed the Gers, Teddy Bears and the Light Blues, and the fans are known to each other as bluenoses...
  
  
• Scottish Cup
  Scottish Cup
  The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,, commonly known as the Scottish Cup or the William Hill Scottish Cup for sponsorship purposes, is the main national cup competition in Scottish football. It is a knockout cup competition run by and named after the Scottish Football Association.The...
  
   – Celtic F.C.
  Celtic F.C.
  Celtic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, which currently plays in the Scottish Premier League. The club was established in 1887, and played its first game in 1888. Celtic have won the Scottish League Championship on 42 occasions, most recently in the...
  
   2–0 Hamilton Academical
  Hamilton Academical F.C.
  Hamilton Academical Football Club, often known as Hamilton Academical, or Accies, are a Scottish football club from Hamilton in South Lanarkshire. They were established in 1874 from the school football team at Hamilton Academy. They remain the only professional club in British football to have...
  
   at Ibrox Park
  Ibrox Stadium
  Ibrox Stadium is a football stadium located on the south side of the River Clyde, on Edmiston Drive in the Ibrox district of Glasgow. It is the home ground of Scottish Premier League club Rangers and has an all-seated capacity of 51,082...
  
  

Foundations

• January 5 – Zamalek SC is founded at Gezira Island
  Gezira Island
  Gezira Island is located in the Nile River, in central Cairo, Egypt. The southern portion of the island contains the Gezira District, and the northern third contains the affluent Zamalek District....
  
  , Cairo
  Cairo
  Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...
  
  , Egypt
  Egypt
  Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
  
  , Under The Name "Thakanat Qasr El-Nil Club"
• January 30 Anorthosis Famagusta FC
  Anorthosis Famagusta FC
  Αnorthosis Famagusta FC is a Cypriot football and volleyball club which is originally based in Famagusta, but is now temporarily based in Larnaca, due to the Turkish invasion. Anorthosis is one of the most successful clubs in Cypriot football, having won 13 league titles, 10 Cypriot Cups and 6...
  
   is formed in Famagusta, Cyprus

Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

• Essendon
  Essendon Football Club
  The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...
  
   wins the 15th VFL
  Australian Football League
  The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
  
   Premiership: Essendon 5.11 (41) d Collingwood
  Collingwood Football Club
  The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...
  
   4.11 (35) at Melbourne Cricket Ground
  Melbourne Cricket Ground
  The Melbourne Cricket Ground is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne and is home to the Melbourne Cricket Club. It is the tenth largest stadium in the world, the largest in Australia, the largest stadium for playing cricket, and holds the world record for the highest light...
  
   (MCG)

Bandy

Bandy

Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.The rules of the game have many similarities to those of association football: the game is played on a rectangle of ice the same size as a football field. Each team has 11 players,...

• Championship final
  Allsvenskan and Elitserien (bandy)
  The Allsvenskan and Elitserien was earlier the highest level of bandy in Sweden contested annually between Swedish bandy clubs. The Allsvenskan was split into two regional divisions. The Allsvenskan Norra and the Allsvenskan Södra...
  
   – IFK Uppsala
  IFK Uppsala
  IFK Uppsala is a Swedish sports club located in Uppsala, with several departments:* IFK Uppsala Fotboll, football department* IFK Uppsala Bandy, bandy department...
  
   6–0 Djurgårdens IF
  Djurgårdens IF Bandy
  Djurgårdens IF Bandy is the bandy department of Swedish sports club Djurgårdens IF, located in Stockholm. The club has been in the championship finals seven times, and won two of them, in 1908 and 1912. The 1912 champions title was shared with IFK Uppsala since the weather was too warm for a...
  
  

Baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

• 14–26 October — Philadelphia Athletics
  Oakland Athletics
  The Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Athletics have played in the O.co Coliseum....
  
   (AL) defeats New York Giants
  San Francisco Giants
  The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the National League West Division....
  
   (NL) to win the 1911 World Series
  1911 World Series
  -Game 1:Saturday, October 14, 1911 at Polo Grounds in Manhattan, New York-Game 2:Monday, October 16, 1911 at Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-Game 3:Tuesday, October 17, 1911 at Polo Grounds in Manhattan, New York-Game 4:...
  
   by 4 games to 2

• Chalmers Award – Frank Schulte, NL; Ty Cobb
  Ty Cobb
  Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb , nicknamed "The Georgia Peach," was an American Major League Baseball outfielder. He was born in Narrows, Georgia...
  
  , AL

Boxing

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

• Monte Attell
  Monte Attell
  Monte "The Nob Hill Terror" Attell , born in San Francisco, California, United States, was a champion boxer.-Early Career:...
  
   loses his World Bantamweight Championship to Frankie Conley, but Conley holds the title a matter of days before losing to Johnny Coulon
  Johnny Coulon
  John Frederic Coulon was the bantamweight boxing champion of the world from 6 March 1910, when he wrested the crown from England's Jim Kendrick, until 1914, when he was defeated by Kid Williams.-Biography:...
  
  

• World Heavyweight Championship – Jack Johnson
  Jack Johnson (boxer)
  John Arthur Johnson , nicknamed the “Galveston Giant,” was an American boxer. At the height of the Jim Crow era, Johnson became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion...
  
  
• World Light Heavyweight Championship – vacant
• World Middleweight Championship – vacant
• World Welterweight Championship – vacant
• World Lightweight Championship – Ad Wolgast
• World Featherweight Championship – Abe Attell
  Abe Attell
  Abraham Washington "Abe" Attell , known in the boxing world as Abe "The Little Hebrew" Attell, was a boxer who became known for his record-setting six-year reign as World Featherweight Champion...
  
  
• World Bantamweight Championship – Monte Attell
  Monte Attell
  Monte "The Nob Hill Terror" Attell , born in San Francisco, California, United States, was a champion boxer.-Early Career:...
  
   → Frankie Conley → Johnny Coulon
  Johnny Coulon
  John Frederic Coulon was the bantamweight boxing champion of the world from 6 March 1910, when he wrested the crown from England's Jim Kendrick, until 1914, when he was defeated by Kid Williams.-Biography:...
  
  

Canadian football

Canadian football

Canadian football is a form of gridiron football played exclusively in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area...

• 25 November — 3rd Grey Cup
  3rd Grey Cup
  The 3rd Grey Cup was played on November 25, 1911, before 13,687 fans at Varsity Stadium at Toronto.The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeated the Toronto Argonauts 14 to 7.-Game summary:U...
  
   – University of Toronto Varsity Blues 14–7 Toronto Argonauts
  Toronto Argonauts
  The Toronto Argonauts are a professional Canadian football team competing in the East Division of the Canadian Football League. The Toronto, Ontario based team was founded in 1873 and is one of the oldest existing professional sports teams in North America, after the Chicago Cubs and the Atlanta...
  
  

Cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

• Warwickshire wins its first-ever County Championship
  County Championship
  The County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales...
  
   title, the first of the competition's "new clubs" to do so

• County Championship
  County Championship
  The County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales...
  
   – Warwickshire
• Minor Counties Championship – Staffordshire
• Most runs – Phil Mead
  Phil Mead
  Charles Phillip Mead was a left-handed batsman for Hampshire and England between 1905 and 1936. He was born at 10 Ashton Buildings , second eldest of seven children...
  
   2562 @ 54.51 (HS 223)
• Most wickets – Harry Dean 183 @ 17.43 (BB 9–109)
• Wisden Cricketers of the Year
  Wisden Cricketers of the Year
  The Wisden Cricketers of the Year are cricketers selected for the honour by the annual publication Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, based primarily on their "influence on the previous English season"...
  
   – Frank Foster, J W Hearne, Sep Kinneir
  Sep Kinneir
  Septimus Paul Kinneir was an English cricketer who played in one Test in 1911 against Australia in Sydney. The tour had come as a reward for his most prolific season with the bat, when he scored 1629 runs in 20 matches, including a career best 268*, at an average of 49.36...
  
  , Phil Mead
  Phil Mead
  Charles Phillip Mead was a left-handed batsman for Hampshire and England between 1905 and 1936. He was born at 10 Ashton Buildings , second eldest of seven children...
  
  , Herbert Strudwick
  Herbert Strudwick
  Herbert Strudwick was an English wicket-keeper...
  
  

• Sheffield Shield – New South Wales
• Most runs – Aubrey Faulkner
  Aubrey Faulkner
  George Aubrey Faulkner was a leading cricketer for South Africa for two decades.-Early life:...
  
   1534 @ 59.00 (HS 204)
• Most wickets – Bill Whitty
  Bill Whitty
  William James "Bill" Whitty was an Australian Test cricketer who played 14 Tests from 1909 to 1912.-Early career:...
  
   70 @ 20.27 (BB 6–17)

• Bombay Triangular
  Bombay Quadrangular
  The Bombay Quadrangular was an influential cricket tournament held in Bombay, India from 1912 to 1936. At other times it was known variously as the Presidency Match, Bombay Triangular, and the Bombay Pentangular....
  
   – Europeans
  Europeans cricket team
  The Europeans cricket team was an Indian first-class cricket team which took part in the annual Bombay tournament. The team was founded by members of the European community in Bombay who played cricket at the Bombay Gymkhana....
  
   shared with Hindus
  Hindus cricket team
  The Hindus cricket team was an Indian first-class cricket team which took part in the annual Bombay tournament. The team was founded by members of the Hindu community in Bombay....
  
  

• Plunket Shield – Canterbury

• Currie Cup
  SuperSport Series
  The SuperSport Series is the main domestic first class cricket competition in South Africa, first contested in 1889-90. From 1990-91 it became known as the Castle Cup, and from 1996-97 by its current title...
  
   – Natal

• Inter-Colonial Tournament
  Inter-Colonial Tournament
  The Inter-Colonial Tournament was the main first class cricket competition in the West Indies before World War II.- Competing teams :* Barbados* British Guiana* Trinidad...
  
   – Barbados

Cycling

Cycling

Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport. Persons engaged in cycling are cyclists or bicyclists...

• Gustave Garrigou
  Gustave Garrigou
  Cyprien Gustave Garrigou was one of the best professional racing cyclists of his era. He rode the Tour de France eight times and won once...
  
   (France) wins the 9th Tour de France

Figure skating

Figure skating

Figure skating is an Olympic sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging moves on ice skates. Figure skaters compete at various levels from beginner up to the Olympic level , and at local, national, and international competitions...

• World Men's Champion
  World Figure Skating Championships
  The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...
  
   – Ulrich Salchow (Sweden)
• World Women's Champion
  World Figure Skating Championships
  The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...
  
   – Lily Kronberger (Hungary)
• World Pairs Champions
  World Figure Skating Championships
  The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...
  
   – Ludowika Jakobsson-Eilers / Walter Jakobsson (Finland)

Golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

• John McDermott
  John McDermott (golfer)
  John J. McDermott Jr. was the first U.S.-born golfer to win the U.S. Open, in 1911 and 1912, and he remains the youngest-ever champion of that event, at age 19. He was the first player to break par over 72 holes in a significant event, which he did at the 1912 U.S. Open...
  
   becomes both the first American-born man and the youngest golfer (19 years, 10 months) to win the US Open

• British Open
  The Open Championship
  The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...
  
   – Harry Vardon
  Harry Vardon
  Harry Vardon was a Jersey professional golfer and member of the fabled Great Triumvirate of the sport in his day, along with John Henry Taylor and James Braid. He won The Open Championship a record six times and also won the U.S. Open.-Biography:Vardon was born in Grouville, Jersey, Channel Islands...
  
  
• US Open – John McDermott
  John McDermott (golfer)
  John J. McDermott Jr. was the first U.S.-born golfer to win the U.S. Open, in 1911 and 1912, and he remains the youngest-ever champion of that event, at age 19. He was the first player to break par over 72 holes in a significant event, which he did at the 1912 U.S. Open...
  
  

• British Amateur
  The Amateur Championship
  The Amateur Championship is a golf tournament which is held annually in the United Kingdom. It is one of the two leading individual tournaments for amateur golfers, alongside the U.S. Amateur...
  
   – Harold Hilton
  Harold Hilton
  Harold Horsfall Hilton was an English amateur golfer.-Biography:Hilton was born in West Kirby. In 1892, he won The Open Championship at Muirfield, becoming the second amateur to do so. He won again in 1897 at his home club, Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake...
  
  
• US Amateur – Harold Hilton
  Harold Hilton
  Harold Horsfall Hilton was an English amateur golfer.-Biography:Hilton was born in West Kirby. In 1892, he won The Open Championship at Muirfield, becoming the second amateur to do so. He won again in 1897 at his home club, Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake...
  
  

Horse racing

Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrian sport that has a long history. Archaeological records indicate that horse racing occurred in ancient Babylon, Syria, and Egypt. Both chariot and mounted horse racing were events in the ancient Greek Olympics by 648 BC...

• Grand National
  Grand National
  The Grand National is a world-famous National Hunt horse race which is held annually at Aintree Racecourse, near Liverpool, England. It is a handicap chase run over a distance of four miles and 856 yards , with horses jumping thirty fences over two circuits of Aintree's National Course...
  
   – Glenside
• 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Atmah
• 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Sunstar
• Epsom Derby
  Epsom Derby
  The Derby Stakes, popularly known as The Derby, internationally as the Epsom Derby, and under its present sponsor as the Investec Derby, is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies...
  
   – Sunstar
• Epsom Oaks
  Epsom Oaks
  The Oaks Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred fillies. It is run at Epsom Downs over a distance of 1 mile, 4 furlongs and 10 yards , and it is scheduled to take place each year in early June....
  
   – Cherimoya
• St. Leger Stakes
  St. Leger Stakes
  The St. Leger Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain which is open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies. It is run at Doncaster over a distance of 1 mile, 6 furlongs and 132 yards , and it is scheduled to take place each year in September.Established in 1776, the St. Leger...
  
   – Prince Palatine

• Melbourne Cup
  Melbourne Cup
  The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major Thoroughbred horse race. Marketed as "the race that stops a nation", it is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over. It is the richest "two-mile" handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races...
  
   – The Parisian

• Queen's Plate
  Queen's Plate
  The Queen's Plate is Canada's oldest thoroughbred horse race. It is run at a distance of 1¼ miles for 3-year-old thoroughbred horses foaled in Canada. The race takes place each summer in June or July at Woodbine Racetrack, Etobicoke , Ontario...
  
   – St. Bass

• Irish Grand National
  Irish Grand National
  The Irish Grand National is a National Hunt chase in Ireland which is open to horses aged five years or older. It is run at Fairyhouse over a distance of about 3 miles and 5 furlongs , and during its running there are twenty-four fences to be jumped...
  
   – Repeator II
• Irish Derby Stakes
  Irish Derby Stakes
  The Irish Derby is a Group 1 flat horse race in Ireland open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies. It is run at the Curragh over a distance of 1 mile and 4 furlongs , and it is scheduled to take place each year in late June or early July.It is Ireland's equivalent of the Epsom Derby,...
  
   – Shanballymore

• Kentucky Derby
  Kentucky Derby
  The Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbred horses, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race is one and a quarter mile at Churchill Downs. Colts and geldings carry...
  
   – Meridian
• Preakness Stakes
  Preakness Stakes
  The Preakness Stakes is an American flat Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds held on the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. It is a Grade I race run over a distance of 9.5 furlongs on dirt. Colts and geldings carry 126 pounds ; fillies 121 lb...
  
   – Watervale
• Belmont Stakes
  Belmont Stakes
  The Belmont Stakes is an American Grade I stakes Thoroughbred horse race held every June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. It is a 1.5-mile horse race, open to three year old Thoroughbreds. Colts and geldings carry a weight of 126 pounds ; fillies carry 121 pounds...
  
   – not contested due to anti-betting legislation in New York State

Ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

• March — Ottawa Hockey Club
  Ottawa Senators (original)
  The Ottawa Senators were an amateur, and later, professional, ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Canada which existed from 1883 to 1954. The club was the first hockey club in Ontario, a founding member of the National Hockey League and played in the NHL from 1917 until 1934...
  
   wins the National Hockey Association
  National Hockey Association
  The National Hockey Association was a professional ice hockey organization with teams in Ontario and Quebec, Canada. It is the direct predecessor organization to today's National Hockey League...
  
   (NHA) championship and Stanley Cup
  Stanley Cup
  The Stanley Cup is an ice hockey club trophy, awarded annually to the National Hockey League playoffs champion after the conclusion of the Stanley Cup Finals. It has been referred to as The Cup, Lord Stanley's Cup, The Holy Grail, or facetiously as Lord Stanley's Mug...
  
  
• 16 March — Ottawa forward Marty Walsh scores 10 goals in a 13–4 win over Port Arthur Seniors in a Stanley Cup challenge. His tally is second in Stanley Cup history to Frank McGee’s 14-goal total on 16 January 1905.

• March — Winnipeg Victorias
  Winnipeg Victorias
  The Winnipeg Victorias were a former amateur senior-level men's amateur ice hockey team in Winnipeg, Manitoba, organized in 1889. They played in the Manitoba Hockey Association in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
  
   wins the Allan Cup
  Allan Cup
  The Allan Cup is the trophy awarded annually to the national senior amateur men’s ice hockey champions of Canada. It has been competed for since 1909. The current champion is the Clarenville Caribous hockey club of Newfoundland and Labrador.-History:...
  
  
• 13 November — NHA founding team Renfrew Creamery Kings
  Renfrew Creamery Kings
  The Renfrew Hockey Club, also known as the Creamery Kings and the "Renfrew Millionaires" was a founding franchise in 1909 of the National Hockey Association, the precursor to the National Hockey League...
  
   drops out of the league and the players under contract are dispersed to other teams. Two franchises are sold to Toronto interests who intend to start in the 1911–12 season, but Toronto's new Arena Gardens is not ready for play.
• 7 December — upon completion of artificial ice rinks in Vancouver
  Vancouver
  Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
  
   and Victoria
  Victoria, British Columbia
  Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...
  
  , British Columbia
  British Columbia
  British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
  
  , the new professional Pacific Coast Hockey Association
  Pacific Coast Hockey Association
  The Pacific Coast Hockey Association was a professional men's ice hockey league in western Canada and the western United States, which operated from 1911 to 1924 when it then merged with the Western Canada Hockey League...
  
   (PCHA) league is created by former NHA players Frank and Lester Patrick
  Lester Patrick
  Curtis Lester "The Silver Fox" Patrick born in Drummondville, Quebec, Canada, was a professional ice hockey player and coach associated with the Victoria Aristocrats/Cougars of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association , and the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League...
  
  . A bidding war for players ensues with numerous NHA players leaving to play in the PCHA.

Motor racing

• As in 1909 and 1910, there is no Grand Prix racing in Europe

• 30 May — inaugural Indianapolis 500
  Indianapolis 500
  The Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, also known as the Indianapolis 500, the 500 Miles at Indianapolis, the Indy 500 or The 500, is an American automobile race, held annually, typically on the last weekend in May at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana...
  
   at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
  Indianapolis Motor Speedway
  The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, located in Speedway, Indiana in the United States, is the home of the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race and the Brickyard 400....
  
   is won by Ray Harroun
  Ray Harroun
  Ray Harroun was an American racecar driver, born in Spartansburg, Pennsylvania.-Early driving:As noted in the Columbia Car webpages, Harroun participated in the original setting of the record from Chicago to New York in 1903, and the re-taking of that record in 1904...
  
   (USA) driving a Marmon "Wasp", which is based on Marmon's 1909 Model 32 and features the world's first rear-view mirror
  Rear-view mirror
  A rear-view mirror is a mirror in automobiles and other vehicles, designed to allow the driver to see rearward through the vehicle's backlight ....
  
  .

• 21 January — inaugural Monte Carlo Rally
  Monte Carlo Rally
  The Monte Carlo Rally or Rally Monte Carlo is a rallying event organised each year by the Automobile Club de Monaco which also organises the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix and the Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique. The rally takes place along the French Riviera in the Principality of Monaco and...
  
   is organised by Albert I, Prince of Monaco
  Albert I, Prince of Monaco
  Albert I was Prince of Monaco and Duke of Valentinois from 10 September 1889 until his death.-Early life:...
  
   and is won by Henri Rougier driving a Turcat-Mery.

• 27 November — 7th running of the Vanderbilt Cup
  Vanderbilt Cup
  The Vanderbilt Cup was the first major trophy in American auto racing.-History:An international event, it was founded by William Kissam Vanderbilt II in 1904 and first held at a course set out in Nassau County on Long Island, New York. The announcement that the race was to be held caused...
  
   at Savannah, Georgia
  Savannah, Georgia
  Savannah is the largest city and the county seat of Chatham County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. Established in 1733, the city of Savannah was the colonial capital of the Province of Georgia and later the first state capital of Georgia. Today Savannah is an industrial center and an important...
  
   over 468.93 km (27.52 km x 17 laps) is won by Ralph Mulford
  Ralph Mulford
  Ralph Mulford was an American racecar driver active during the formative years of the auto racing....
  
   (USA) driving a Lozier 6
  Lozier
  The Lozier Motor Company was a brass era producer of automobiles in the United States of America. The company produced luxury automobiles from 1900 to 1915, with a factory at 3703 Mack Avenue, Detroit, Michigan....
  
   in 3:56:00.

• 30 November — 3rd running of the American Grand Prize takes place at Savannah, Georgia
  Savannah, Georgia
  Savannah is the largest city and the county seat of Chatham County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. Established in 1733, the city of Savannah was the colonial capital of the Province of Georgia and later the first state capital of Georgia. Today Savannah is an industrial center and an important...
  
   over 660.48 km (27.52 km x 24 laps) and is won by David Bruce-Brown (USA) driving a FIAT S74
  Fiat
  FIAT, an acronym for Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino , is an Italian automobile manufacturer, engine manufacturer, financial, and industrial group based in Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont. Fiat was founded in 1899 by a group of investors including Giovanni Agnelli...
  
   in 5:31:29.13.

Rowing

Rowing (sport)

Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...

• 1 April — Oxford
  Oxford University Boat Club
  The Oxford University Boat Club is the rowing club of the University of Oxford, England, located on the River Thames at Oxford. The club was founded in the early 19th century....
  
   wins the 68th Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
  The Boat Race
  The event generally known as "The Boat Race" is a rowing race in England between the Oxford University Boat Club and the Cambridge University Boat Club, rowed between competing eights each spring on the River Thames in London. It takes place generally on the last Saturday of March or the first...
  
  

Rugby league

Rugby league

Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

• Championship – Oldham
  Oldham Roughyeds
  Oldham Roughyeds is an English professional rugby league club based in Oldham, Greater Manchester. They currently play in the Championship One. Oldham is one of the original twenty-two rugby clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895....
  
  
• Challenge Cup final
  Challenge Cup
  The Challenge Cup is a knockout cup competition for rugby league clubs organised by the Rugby Football League. Originally it was contested only by British teams but in recent years has been expanded to allow teams from France and Russia to take part....
  
   – Broughton Rangers
  Broughton Rangers
  Broughton Rangers was a British rugby football, and subsequently a rugby league club. It was based in Broughton, Salford.-History:Broughton Rangers was founded in 1877 as Broughton and added Rangers for its second season...
  
   4–0 Wigan
  Wigan Warriors
  Wigan Warriors is an English rugby league club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester. The club's first team squad competes in the engage Super League and the team are the current Challenge Cup holders as of the 27th August 2011....
  
   at The Willows, Salford
• Lancashire League Championship
  Rugby league county leagues
  The Yorkshire League and the Lancashire League formed two sections of the Rugby Football League Championship for much of its history. Initially, the 22 clubs that broke away in 1895 played in one combined league, however the following season saw the addition of many clubs, and the League was split...
  
   – Wigan
  Wigan Warriors
  Wigan Warriors is an English rugby league club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester. The club's first team squad competes in the engage Super League and the team are the current Challenge Cup holders as of the 27th August 2011....
  
  
• Yorkshire League Championship
  Rugby league county leagues
  The Yorkshire League and the Lancashire League formed two sections of the Rugby Football League Championship for much of its history. Initially, the 22 clubs that broke away in 1895 played in one combined league, however the following season saw the addition of many clubs, and the League was split...
  
   – Wakefield Trinity
  Wakefield Trinity Wildcats
  Wakefield Trinity Wildcats are a professional rugby league club that plays in the European Super League and is based in Wakefield. They achieved promotion in 1999 and have remained in the League since. They are known to their fans as Wakey, Trinity, Wildcats, or historically The Dreadnoughts...
  
  
• Lancashire Cup
  Rugby league county cups
  Historically, British rugby league clubs competed for the Lancashire Cup and the Yorkshire Cup, known collectively as the county cups. The leading rugby clubs in Yorkshire had played in a cup competition for several years prior to the schism of 1895...
  
   – Oldham
  Oldham Roughyeds
  Oldham Roughyeds is an English professional rugby league club based in Oldham, Greater Manchester. They currently play in the Championship One. Oldham is one of the original twenty-two rugby clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895....
  
   4–3 Swinton
  Swinton Lions
  Swinton Lions is an English professional rugby league club from Swinton, Greater Manchester. The club has won the Championship six times and three Challenge Cups. They currently play in the Championship.-Early years:...
  
  
• Yorkshire Cup
  Rugby league county cups
  Historically, British rugby league clubs competed for the Lancashire Cup and the Yorkshire Cup, known collectively as the county cups. The leading rugby clubs in Yorkshire had played in a cup competition for several years prior to the schism of 1895...
  
   – Wakefield Trinity
  Wakefield Trinity Wildcats
  Wakefield Trinity Wildcats are a professional rugby league club that plays in the European Super League and is based in Wakefield. They achieved promotion in 1999 and have remained in the League since. They are known to their fans as Wakey, Trinity, Wildcats, or historically The Dreadnoughts...
  
   8–2 Huddersfield
  Huddersfield Giants
  Huddersfield Giants are a professional rugby league club from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire who play in the European Super League competition. They play their home games at the Galpharm Stadium which is shared with Huddersfield Town F.C....
  
  

• NSW Premiership
  New South Wales Rugby League premiership
  The New South Wales Rugby League premiership was the first rugby league football club competition established in Australia. Run by the New South Wales Rugby League from 1908 until 1994, the premiership was the state's and later the country's elite rugby league competition...
  
   – Eastern Suburbs
  Sydney Roosters
  The Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. The club competes in the National Rugby League and is one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Australian rugby league history, having won twelve New South Wales Rugby League...
  
   11–8 Glebe (grand final)

Rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

• 29th Five Nations Championship
  Six Nations Championship
  The Six Nations Championship is an annual international rugby union competition involving six European sides: England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales....
  
   series is won by Wales
  Wales national rugby union team
  The Wales national rugby union team represent Wales in international rugby union tournaments. They compete annually in the Six Nations Championship with England, France, Ireland, Italy and Scotland. Wales have won the Six Nations and its predecessors 24 times outright, second only to England with...
  
   who complete the inaugural Grand Slam
  Grand Slam (Rugby Union)
  In rugby union, a Grand Slam occurs when one team in the Six Nations Championship manages to beat all the others during one year's competition...
  
   by defeating all four of its opponents

Speed skating

Speed skating

Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...

• Men's All-round Champion
  World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men
  The International Skating Union has organised the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men since 1893. Unofficial Championships were held in the years 1889-1892.-History:-Distances used:...
  
   – Nikolay Strunnikov
  Nikolay Strunnikov
  Nikolay Vasilyevich Strunnikov was a Russian World Champion in speed skating. In addition, he was also successful as a cyclist....
  
   (Russia)

Tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

• Australian Men's Singles Championship – Norman Brookes
  Norman Brookes
  Brookes was also an Australian rules footballer in his youth, playing two matches for Victorian Football League club St Kilda Football Club in 1898, kicking two goals.-Honours:Norman Brookes was knighted "in recognition of service to public service" in 1939...
  
   (Australia) defeats Horace Rice
  Horace Rice
  ----Horace "Horrie" Rice was a Australian tennis player.Rice won the men's singles title at the 1907 Australasian Championships. He was also Runner Up 3 times...
  
   (Australia) 6–1 6–2 6–3

• Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship
  The Championships, Wimbledon
  The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...
  
   – Anthony Wilding (New Zealand) defeats Herbert Barrett
  Herbert Barrett
  ----Herbert Roper Barrett, KC was a tennis player from Great Britain.-Biography:Barrett was born on 24 November 1873 in Upton, Essex....
  
   (GB) 6–4 4–6 2–6 6–2 retired
• Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship
  The Championships, Wimbledon
  The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...
  
   – Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers defeats Dora Boothby
  Dora Boothby
  Penelope Dora Harvey Boothby was a former English female tennis player. She was born in Finchley, Middlesex. She is best remembered for her ladies' singles title at the 1909 Wimbledon Championships.-Biography:...
  
   6–0 6–0

• French Men's Singles Championship – André Gobert
  André Gobert
  André Henri Gobert was a male tennis player from France.He was born and died in Paris.-Career:...
  
   defeats Maurice Germot
  Maurice Germot
  Maurice Germot was a French tennis player and Olympic champion. He received a gold medal in double at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm....
  
  : details unknown
• French Women's Singles Championship – Jeanne Matthey
  Jeanne Matthey
  Jeanne Matthey was a French tennis player. She competed during the first two decades of the 20th century. Matthey won the French Open Women's Singles Championship four times in succession from 1909 to 1912, but lost the 1913 final to Marguerite Broquedis....
  
   defeats Marguerite Broquedis
  Marguerite Broquedis
  Marguerite Broquedis was a French female tennis player.She was born in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques and died in Orléans.Broquedis won the Gold Medal at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics....
  
  : details unknown

• American Men's Singles Championship – William Larned
  William Larned
  William Augustus Larned was an American male tennis player.-Biography:He was raised in Summit, New Jersey on the estate of his father, William Zebedee Larned. Larned Road in Summit honors both father and son. William came from a family that could trace its American roots to shortly after the...
  
   defeats Maurice McLoughlin
  Maurice McLoughlin
  Maurice Evans McLoughlin was an American tennis player. Known for his powerful serve and overhead volley, McLoughlin was the first male tennis champion from the western United States.-Biography:...
  
   6–4 6–4 6–2
• American Women's Singles Championship – Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman
  Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman
  Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman was an American tennis player.-Personal life:Wightman was born in Healdsburg, California and married George Wightman of Boston in 1912. She died in Newton, Massachusetts...
  
   defeats Florence Sutton
  Florence Sutton
  Florence E. Sutton was an American tennis player.-Biography:She was born on September 2, 1883 to Adolphus De Gruchy Sutton and Adelina Esther Godfray. She was the sister of May Godfrey Sutton. She was a finalist for both singles and doubles titles in the US Open in 1911, losing to Hazel Hotchkiss...
  
   8–10 6–1 9–7

• 1911 International Lawn Tennis Challenge
  1911 International Lawn Tennis Challenge
  The 1911 International Lawn Tennis Challenge was the tenth edition of what is now known as the Davis Cup. After no country decided to challenge Australasia in 1910, only the British Isles and the United States would challenge for the Cup, for the third straight edition...
  
   – 4–0 at Hagley Park
  Hagley Park
  Hagley Park is the largest urban open space in Christchurch, New Zealand, and was created in 1855 by the Provincial Government. According to the government's decree at that time, Hagley Park is "reserved forever as a public park, and shall be open for the recreation and enjoyment of the public."...
  
   (grass) Christchurch
  Christchurch
  Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...
  
  , New Zealand
  New Zealand
  New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...