1876

Contents

1 Baseball
2 Boat race
3 Football (Soccer)
4 Births

[edit] Baseball

February 2 - The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs is formed in New York at the Grand Central Hotel in New York City. The Boston Red Caps, Chicago White Stockings, Cincinnati Red Stockings, Hartford Dark Blues, Louisville Grays, New York Mutuals, Philadelphia Athletics and the St. Louis Brown Stockings are the original teams.

[edit] Boat race

Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race - Cambridge

[edit] Football (Soccer)

March 11 FA Cup - Wanderers FC beat Old Etonians 1 - 1 (aet) ; March 18 Replay 3 - 0

[edit] Births

February 7 — Harry Freeman, British field hockey player (d. 1968)
March 21 — John Tewksbury, American track and field athlete (d. 1968)
June 16 — Gustav Schuft, German gymnast (d. 1948)

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