TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY

1913 — Notre Dame upsets Army 35-13, first to use forward pass effectively in football.

1924 — First U.S. NHL franchise, Boston Bruins founded.

1924 — Forest Peters of Montana State University hits 17 of 22 field goals. 1938 — Seabiscuit beats War Admiral in a match horse race at Pimlico.

1946 — New York Knicks first basketball game, beating Toronto Huskies 68-66.

1959 — Jacques Plante becomes the first NHL goalie to wear a mask.

1964 — George Blanda of Houston Oilers throws NFL-record 37 passes in 68 attempts.

1964 — Kansas City Chiefs’ Len Dawson passes for six touchdowns against Denver Broncos in a 49-39 win.

1966 — NFL awards New Orleans its 16th franchise (All Saints Day).

1968 — U.S. pro soccer’s 14 teams merge into one all star team.

1979 — Edward Bennett Williams buys the Baltimore Orioles for a reported US$12.3 million from Jerold Hoffberger.

1987 — 22,000 run in New York City Marathon (won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya 2:11:01).

1987 — New York Jets retire Don Maynard’s No. 13.

2001 — Derek Jeter hits the Major League Baseball’s first November home run at the World Series.

2007 — Martina Hingis of Switzerland announced her second retirement from professional tennis due to doping allegations and injuries.

Seabiscuit, foreground, with jockey George Woolf , leads Triple Crown winner War Admiral and jockey Charles Kurtsinger, in a much publicized match raace at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore before 40,000 in the stands and 40 million listening on the...