1929 in sports

[American football]

• Green Bay Packers wins National Football League title
• Rose Bowl :
• * The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets won 8-7 over the California Golden Bears to share the college football national championship
• Notre Dame Fighting Irish – college football national championship
• 28 November – Ernie Nevers scores 6 rushing touchdowns for Chicago Cardinals against Chicago Bears

  [Association football]

• Emelec of Guayaquil officially founded on April 28.

• The Football League – Sheffield Wednesday 52 points, Leicester City 51, Aston Villa 50, Sunderland 47, Liverpool 46, Derby County 46
• FA Cup final – Bolton Wanderers 2–0 Portsmouth at Empire Stadium, Wembley, London

• National Championship – SpVgg Fürth 3–2 Hertha BSC at Nuremberg

  [Australian rules football]

• Collingwood achieves the only perfect home-and-away season in VFL/AFL history, but lose the second semi-final to 8.13 to 18.15
• Collingwood wins the 33rd VFL Premiership, beating Richmond 11.13 to 7.8 in the 1929 VFL Grand Final.

• The annual Brownlow Medal is awarded to Albert Collier

  [Bandy]

• Championship final – IF Göta 5-1 Västerås SK

  [Baseball]

• 8–14 October — Philadelphia Athletics defeat Chicago Cubs to win the 1929 World Series by 4 games to 1.

  [Basketball]

• Cleveland Rosenblums win four games to none over the Fort Wayne Hoosiers

• Italian club Virtus Bologna, officially founded.

  [Boxing]

• September — having successfully defended the World Light Heavyweight Championship this year against both Mickey Walker and James J. Braddock, Tommy Loughran relinquishes the title to fight as a heavyweight

• World Heavyweight Championship – vacant
• World Light Heavyweight Championship – Tommy Loughran → vacant
• World Middleweight Championship – Mickey Walker
• World Welterweight Championship – Joe Dundee → Jackie Fields
• World Lightweight Championship – Sammy Mandell
• World Featherweight Championship – Andre Routis → Bat Battalino
• World Bantamweight Championship – vacant → "Panama" Al Brown
• World Flyweight Championship – vacant

  [Canadian football]

• 17th Grey Cup – Hamilton Tigers 14–3 Regina Roughriders

  [Cricket]

• Marylebone Cricket Club organises the England tour of Australia in the 1928–29 season. England retains The Ashes, winning the first four Tests against Australia and losing the last for a 4–1 series victory. But, ominously for England, a young batsman called Don Bradman makes his Test debut for Australia.

• County Championship – Nottinghamshire
• Minor Counties Championship – Oxfordshire
• Most runs – Frank Woolley 2804 @ 56.08
• Most wickets – Tich Freeman 267 @ 18.27
• Wisden Cricketers of the Year – Ted Bowley, K. S. Duleepsinhji, Tuppy Owen-Smith, Walter Robins, Bob Wyatt

• Sheffield Shield – New South Wales
• Most runs – Don Bradman 1690 @ 93.88
• Most wickets – Clarrie Grimmett 71 @ 34.25

• Bombay Quadrangular – Parsees

• Plunket Shield – Auckland

• Currie Cup – not contested

• Inter-Colonial Tournament – British Guiana

  [Cycling]

• Maurice De Waele wins the 23rd Tour de France

  [Figure skating]

• World Men's Champion – Gillis Grafström
• World Women's Champion – Sonja Henie
• World Pairs Champions – Lilly Scholz and Otto Kaiser

  [Golf]

• British Open – Walter Hagen
• US Open – Bobby Jones
• USPGA Championship – Leo Diegel

• British Amateur – Cyril Tolley
• US Amateur – Jimmy Johnston

  [Horse racing]

• Champion Hurdle – Royal Falcon
• Cheltenham Gold Cup – Easter Hero
• Grand National – Gregalach
• 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Taj Mah
• 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Mr Jinks
• The Derby – Trigo
• The Oaks – Pennycomequick
• St. Leger Stakes – Trigo

• Melbourne Cup – Nightmarch

• Queen's Plate – Shorelint

• Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe – Ortello

• Irish Grand National – Alike
• Irish Derby Stakes – Kopi

• Kentucky Derby – Clyde Van Dusen
• Preakness Stakes – Dr. Freeland
• Belmont Stakes – Blue Larkspur

  [Ice hockey]

• 28–29 March — Boston Bruins defeats New York Rangers by 2 games to 0 in the 1929 Stanley Cup Finals

  [Lacrosse]

• The Intercollegiate Lacrosse League is renamed the U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association.

  [Motorsport]

[Nordic skiing]

• 4th FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1929 are held at Zakopane, Poland

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• 23 March — Cambridge wins the 81st Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

  [Rugby league]

• The Australia national rugby league team embarked on the 1929–30 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain.

• Championship – Huddersfield
• Challenge Cup final – Wigan 13–2 Dewsbury at Empire Stadium, Wembley, London
• Lancashire League Championship – Swinton
• Yorkshire League Championship – Huddersfield
• Lancashire County Cup – Wigan 5–4 Widnes
• Yorkshire County Cup – Leeds 5–0 Featherstone Rovers

• NSW Premiership – South Sydney 30–10 Newtown

  [Rugby union]

• 42nd Five Nations Championship series is won by Scotland

  [Snooker]

• 3rd World Snooker Championship is won by Joe Davis who defeats Tom Dennis 19–14

  [Speed skating]

• Men's All-round Champion – Clas Thunberg

  [Tennis]

• Australian Men's Singles Championship – Colin Gregory defeats Richard Schlesinger 6–2 6–2 5–7 7–5
• Australian Women's Singles Championship – Daphne Akhurst Cozens defeats Louise Bickerton 6–1 5–7 6–2

• Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – Henri Cochet defeats Jean Borotra 6–4 6–3 6–4
• Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Helen Wills Moody defeats Helen Jacobs 6–1 6–2

• French Men's Singles Championship – René Lacoste defeats Jean Borotra 6–3 2–6 6–0 2–6 8–6
• French Women's Singles Championship – Helen Wills Moody defeats Simonne Mathieu 6–3 6–4

• American Men's Singles Championship – Bill Tilden defeats Francis Hunter 3–6 6–3 4–6 6–2 6–4
• American Women's Singles Championship – Helen Wills Moody defeats Phoebe Holcroft Watson 6–4 6–2

• 1929 International Lawn Tennis Challenge – 3–2 at Stade Roland Garros Paris, France