TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY
1873 Columbia, Princeton, Rutgers, and Yale set rules for collegiate football.
1918 NHL’s Quebec Bulldogs team is sold to Toronto businessman, P.J. Quinn.
1924 Harold (Red) Grange plays finest collegiate football game (four long touchdown runs).
1930 Joseph Sylvester becomes first jockey to win 7 races in one day.
1950 Connie Mack retires as manager of the Philadelphia Athletics after 50 years.
1955 Track and Field names Jesse Owens best all-time track athlete.
1960 Casey Stengel retired by New York Yankees (won 10 pennants in 12 years).
1963 International Olympic Committee votes Mexico City to host 1968 Olympics.
1967 Major League Baseball’s American League votes to allow the Athletics team to move from Kansas City to Oakland and expand the league to 12 teams in 1971 with Kansas City and Seattle teams.
1968 Bob Beamon of U.S.A. sets the long jump record (29 feet, 2.5 inches) in Mexico City.
1968 Lee Evans sets world record of 43.8 seconds in the 400 metres.
1968 U.S. Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving “black power” salute as a protest during victory ceremony.
1974 Chicago Bulls’ Nate Thurmond becomes first in NBA to complete a quadruple double-22 points, 14 rebounds, 13 assists and 12 blocks.
1977 Reggie Jackson hits three consecutive homers tying Babe Ruth’s series record.
1977 New York Yankees beat Los Angeles Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championship and first in 15 years.
1981 New York Giants Joe Danelo ties NFL record of six field goals in a game.
1982 The International Olympic Committee reinstates Jim Thorpe’s amateur status for 1909-12, allowing his 1912 Olympic gold medals to be posthumously returned.