1916 in sports

[American football]

• College football national championship – Pittsburgh Panthers

• 7 October — Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets defeats the Cumberland College Bulldogs by a score of 222–0, the most one-sided game in college football history.

  [Association football]

• There is no major football in Europe due to World War I

• 9 July — CONMEBOL, the governing body of South American football, is founded

  [Australian rules football]

• 2 September: Fitzroy wins the 20th VFL Premiership: Fitzroy 12.13 d Carlton 8.8 at Melbourne Cricket Ground. Fitzroy wins the title despite having finished last in the regular season.

• not contested due to World War I

• 9 September: South Fremantle 7.12 defeat East Fremantle 5.5 for their first WAFL premiership.

  [Bandy]

• Championship final – IFK Uppsala 3–2 Djurgårdens IF

  [Baseball]

• 7–12 October — Boston Red Sox defeats the Brooklyn Robins by 4 games to 1 to win the 1916 World Series.

• The Philadelphia Athletics finish the season with a record of 36–117 or a.235 winning percentage, the worst Major League Baseball record since 1900.
• Winnipeg Maroons wins the Northern League Championship
• The Federal League goes out of business in a settlement with organised baseball that leaves out one club; the Baltimore Terrapins pursue a legal remedy

  [Boxing]

• Having already lost to him earlier in the year, Battling Levinsky defeats Jack Dillon in 12 rounds at Boston to claim the World Light Heavyweight Championship.
• The series of fights between Ted "Kid" Lewis and Jack Britton continues with Britton taking the World Welterweight Championship into 1917.

• World Heavyweight Championship – Jess Willard
• World Light Heavyweight Championship – Jack Dillon → Battling Levinsky
• World Middleweight Championship – Al McCoy
• World Welterweight Championship – Ted "Kid" Lewis → Jack Britton
• World Lightweight Championship – Freddie Welsh
• World Featherweight Championship – Johnny Kilbane
• World Bantamweight Championship – Kid Williams
• World Flyweight Championship – Jimmy Wilde

  [Canadian football]

• not contested due to World War I

  [Cricket]

• There is no first-class cricket in England, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa or the West Indies due to World War I

• Bombay Quadrangular – Europeans

  [Cycling]

• not contested due to World War I

• not contested due to World War I

  [Figure skating]

• not contested due to World War I

  [Golf]

• The inaugural USPGA Championship is held as a matchplay tournament

• British Open – not contested due to World War I
• June 29–30 — US Open – Chick Evans
• October 10–14 — USPGA Championship – Jim Barnes

• British Amateur – not contested due to World War I
• US Amateur – Chick Evans

  [Horse racing]

• Grand National – not held due to World War I
• 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Canyon
• 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Clarissimus
• The Derby – Fifinella
• The Oaks – Fifinella
• St. Leger Stakes – Hurry On

• Melbourne Cup – Sasanof

• Queen's Plate – Mandarin

• Irish Grand National – All Sorts
• Irish Derby Stakes – Furore

• May 13 — Kentucky Derby – George Smith
• Preakness Stakes – Damrosch
• Belmont Stakes – Friar Rock

  [Ice hockey]

• Montreal Canadiens wins the National Hockey Association championship
• Portland Rosebuds wins the Pacific Coast Hockey Association championship, the first United States team to do so
• 20–30 March — Montreal Canadiens defeats Portland Rosebuds in the 1916 Stanley Cup Finals by 3 games to 2

• Winnipeg 61st Battalion wins the Allan Cup

  [Motor racing]

[Olympic Games]

• The 1916 Summer Olympics, due to take place in Berlin, are cancelled due to World War I

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• Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race – not contested due to World War I

  [Rugby league]

• All first-class competitions are cancelled due to World War I

• NSW Premiership – Balmain 5–3 South Sydney

• 1916 New Zealand rugby league season

  [Rugby union]

• Five Nations Championship series is not contested due to World War I

  [Speed skating]

• not contested due to World War I

  [Tennis]

• Australian Men’s Singles Championship – not contested due to World War I

• Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – not contested due to World War I
• Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – not contested due to World War I

• French Men’s Singles Championship – not contested due to World War I
• French Women’s Singles Championship – not contested due to World War I

• American Men's Singles Championship – Richard Norris Williams defeats Bill Johnston 4–6 6–4 0–6 6–2 6–4
• American Women’s Singles Championship – Molla Bjurstedt Mallory defeats Louise Hammond Raymond 6–0 6–1

• 1916 International Lawn Tennis Challenge – not contested