1909 in sports

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See also: 1908 in sports, other events of 1909, 1910 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'.

• The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Detroit Tigers, four games to three, in the World Series.

Boxing

June 19 - Monte Attell, won the World Bantamweight Championship joining his brother Abe Attell, who held the World Featherweight Championship, to become the first pair of brothers to hold world titles simultaneously.

• June 15 - Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lords and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.

• Victorian Football League - South Melbourne wins the 13th VFL Premiership (South Melbourne 4.14 (38) d Carlton 4.12 (36))

• Canadian Football League - University of Toronto wins the 1st Grey Cup over Parkdale 26-6

• New South Wales Rugby League goes into its second season. Cumberland who were one of the nine original teams in the NSWRL competition in 1908, ended up being absorbed by Western Suburbs Magpies, and hence remain the shortest lived NSWRL/ARL/SL/NRL club, playing a mere 8 games.

• Eight teams competing in season 1909:

Balmain Tigers,

Eastern Suburbs Roosters,

Glebe Dirty Reds,

Newcastle Rebels,

Newtown Jets,

North Sydney Bears,

South Sydney Rabbitohs,

Western Suburbs Magpies.

Team	Played	Wins	Draws	Losses	For	Against	Points
''South Sydney Rabbitohs	10	9	0	1	210	41	18''
''Balmain Tigers	10	8	0	1	130	62	16''
''Newcastle Rebels	10	5	0	5	144	93	10''
''Eastern Suburbs Roosters	10	5	0	5	167	141	10''
Glebe Dirty Reds	10	4	0	6	62	159	8
Newtown Jets	10	3	1	6	73	107	7
North Sydney Bears	10	2	2	6	104	157	6
Western Suburbs Magpies	10	2	1	7	42	172	5

• *South Sydney Rabbitohs win the title on forfeit, defeating Balmain Tigers.

• West Auckland Town, an English amateur side, beat FC Winterthur of Switzerland 2-0 to win the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy, one of the very first international club competitions.

England

• First Division - Newcastle United win the 1908-09 title.
• FA Cup - Manchester United beat Bristol City 1-0.

• Ottawa Senators win their 1st Stanley Cup, defeating the Edmonton Eskimos 2 games to 0.

Events

• November 30 - A goal is scored in the St. Andrew's Day match of the Eton Wall Game at Eton College. As of 2003, no more goals have been scored in the St. Andrew's day game (which is the most important match of the year) but points have been scored by other methods.

Births

• February 11 — Max Baer (The Livermore Larruper), American boxer and actor (d. 1959)
• February 15 — Guillermo Gorostiza Paredes, Spanish football (soccer) player (d. 1966)
• April 5 — Cilly Aussem, German tennis player (d. 1963)
• November 4 — Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (d. 1974)

Deaths

• January 6 - George Dixon, the first black world boxing champion

 

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