TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY
1906 Football rules committee legalizes the forward pass. 1918 Montreal Canadiens’ Joe Malone scores five goals beating Ottawa Senators 9-4. 1920 Annual drafting of baseball players from minor leagues is agreed to be done in inverse order of the final standings. 1921 Kenesaw Mountain Landis becomes first commissioner of Major League Baseball. 1930 NHL’s Boston Bruins win record 14th consecutive game. 1946 NFL champions Cleveland Rams given permission to move to Los Angeles. 1951 Ezzard Charles TKOs Lee Oma in 10 rounds for heavyweight boxing title. 1958 NCAA adds two-point conversion to football scoring. 1958 Syracuse National Dolph Schayes sets NBA record at 11,770 points. 1960 Syracuse National Dolph Schayes is first NBA player to score 15,000 points. 1966 Red Auerbach wins his 1,000th game as coach of NBA Boston Celtics. 1969 Super Bowl III: New York Jets beat Baltimore Colts, 16-7 in Miami, Florida. MVP: Joe Namath, quarterback for New York Jets. 1975 Super Bowl IX: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Minnesota Vikings, 16-6 in New Orleans, Louisiana. MVP: Franco Harris, Running Back. 1977 Anti-French demonstrations takes place in Israel after Paris releases Abu Daoud, responsible for 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes. 1983 Brooks Robinson and Juan Marichal elected to Baseball Hall of Fame. 1988 Willie Stargell (Pittsburgh Pirates player) elected to Baseball Hall of Fame. 1993 Doctors announce Pittsburgh Penguins’ player Mario Lemieux has Hodgkin’s disease. 1994 Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. 1997 Tiger Woods wins Mercedes Golf Championships. 1999 Setting an all-time record, Mark McGwire’s 70th home run ball in one season is purchased at an auction by an anonymous buyer for $3 million.