TODAY, GOOD FRIDAY IN SPORTS HISTORY

Thursday

1906 — Stanley Cup: Montréal Wanderers sweep Kenora Thisles in two games.

1919 — Stanley Cup: Montréal (NHL) and Seattle (PCHA) win two games each with one tie; 1919 Stanley Cup not awarded due to flu epidemic.

1929 — NHL Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep New York Rangers in two games.

1940 — Joe Louis knocks out Johnny Paycheck in two rounds to retain heavyweight boxing title.

1966 — Muhammad Ali beats George Chuvalo in 15 rounds for heavyweight boxing title.

1970 — Manchester City wins 10th Europe Cup II.

1973 — Dave Cowens wins NBA Most Valuable Player.

1976 — 38th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Michigan 86-68.

1981 — The first London Marathon starts with 7,500 runners.

1982 — 44th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Georgetown 63-62.

1984 — NFL Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis under cover of night.

1985 — Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist.

1987 — 6th NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Louisiana Tech 67-44.

1989 — First Soviet hockey players are permitted to play for the NHL. 1992 — NCAA Basketball Women’s Championship at Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Stanford beats Western Kentucky 78-62.

1994 — Coach Jimmy Johnson quits Dallas Cowboys.

1996 — Cleveland Browns choose new name, Baltimore Ravens.

1999 — UConn defeats Duke 77-74, for the 61st NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship.

2009 — At least 22 people are killed and 132 injured in a stampede before a World Cup of soccer qualifying match in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Good Friday

1889 — John T. Reid opens first U.S. golf course (Yonkers, New York). 1916 — Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens (NHA) beat Portland Rosebuds (PCHA), 3 games to 2. 1918 — Stanley Cup: Toronto Arenas (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2.

1925 — Stanley Cup: Victoria Cougars (WCHL) beat Montréal Maroons (NHL), 3 games to 1.

1940 — Second NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Indiana University beats Kansas 60-42. 1943 — 5th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: University of Wyoming beat Georgetown 46-34. 1970 — USSR wins its 8th straight world hockey championship.

1981 — 43rd NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Indiana beats North Carolina 63-50.

1986 — 5th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: Texas beats Southern California 97-81.

1991 — 44th NCAA Ice Hockey Championship: Northern Michigan beats Boston University 8-7; Northern Michigan’s first NCAA hockey title.

1991 — PBA National Championship won by Mike Miller.

1993 — Peanuts comic strip character Charlie Brown hits a baseball game-winning home run, his first in 43 years.

1998 — 60th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship, at Alamodome, San Antonio. Kentucky beats Utah 78-69.

Player-manager Charlie Brown, whose team won just 10 games over a 35-year period with him as the starting pitcher, hit his first home run ever in league play and leads the team to victory, its first in 20 years, 25 years ago Friday.