THIS WEEKEND IN SPORTS HISTORY
Saturday 1896 Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias beat Winnipeg Victorias, 6-5. 1908 Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers outscore Edmonton, 13-10 in two-game series. 1954 First use of 24-second shot clock in pro basketball (Rochester versus Boston). 1956 New York Giants beat Chicago Bears 47-7 in NFL championship game. 1962 Green Bay Packers beat New York Giants 16-7 in NFL championship game. 1978 Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach. 1981 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record of 50 goals by 39th game of season. 2002 Roger Clemens agrees to a $10.1million, one-year deal with the New York Yankees. Sunday 1918 Kid Gleason replaces Pants Rowland as Chicago White Sox manager. 1958 Willie Shoemaker becomes first jockey to win national riding championship four times. 1961 Green Bay Packers shutout New York Giants 37-0 in NFL championship game. 1962 American Basketball League announces suspension of operation. 1964 Donald Campbell of the United Kingdom sets world water speed record (276.33 m.p.h.). 1967 Oakland Raiders beat Houston Oilers 40-7 in AFL championship game. 1967 Green Bay Packers beat Dallas Cowboys 21-17 in NFL championship game (-13 degrees F). 1972 Pittsburgh Pirates’ outfielder Roberto Clemente is killed at age 38 when a cargo plane crashes during a relief effort to bring supplies to the victims of the Nicaraguan earthquake. 1988 Mario Lemieux scores a goal in each of the five different ways possible in one game (even-strength, powerplay, short-handed, penalty shot, and empty-net) 1989 Fog Bowl: Heavy fog rolls in on Chicago Bears 20-12 victory over Philadelphia Eagles. 1991 J. Donald Crump resigns as Canadian Football League Commissioner. 1997 Marv Levy retires as coach of Buffalo Bills. New Year’s Day 1840 First recorded bowling match in U.S.; Knickerbocker Alleys, New York City. 1897 First football game between black colleges: Atlanta University 10, Tuskegee 0. 1902 First Rose Bowl football game (Pasadena); (University of Michigan 49, Stanford 0). 1916 First football game in Rose Bowl (Washington State versus Brown University). 1923 The very first radio broadcast of the Rose Bowl is beamed in Los Angeles over KHJ radio. 1927 First U.S. coast-to-coast network radio broadcast of football’s Rose Bowl is made. Graham McNamee provides the play-by-play on NBC Radio. 1929 Roy Riegels runs 60 yards the wrong way with Rose Bowl fumble recovery. 1942 Rose Bowl played in North Carolina due to Japanese threat: Oregon 20, Duke 16. 1944 Army defeats Navy 10-7 in football “Arab Bowl,” Oran, Algeria. 1967 CRU becomes the CAFA and turns over the Grey Cup trophy to the Canadian Football League. 1967 Green Bay Packers beat Dallas Cowboys 34-27 in NFL championship game. 1967 Kansas City Chiefs beat Buffalo Bills 31-7 in AFL championship game. 1977 Tony Dorsett runs for record 202 yards in the Sugar Bowl.