THIS WEEKEND IN SPORTS HISTORY
Saturday
1906 — Football rules committee legalizes the forward pass.
1918 — Montreal Canadiens’ Joe Malone scores five goals beating Ottawa Senators 9-4.
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.
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.
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 Limeux has Hodgkin’s disease.
1994 — Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Sunday
1905 — Team Ottawa Silver Seven plays team Dawson City (Yukon) for the Stanley Cup in the National Hockey Association. Ottawa wins 23-2, with Frank McGee scoring 14 goals.
1962 — Wilt Chamberlain of Philadelphia Warriors scores NBArecord 73 points versus Chicago Bulls.
1968 — Minnesota North Stars’ centre Bill Masterton fatally injured (dies on Jan. 15).
1974 — Super Bowl VIII: Miami Dolphins beat Minnesota Vikings, 24-7 in Houston, Texas; MVP: Larry Csonka, running back.
1982 — Both Henry Aaron and Frank Robinson are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1983 — American Medical Association urges ban on boxing, cites Muhammad Ali’s deteriorating condition.
1991 — A fight and stampede at a pre-season exhibition match between South African football teams Chiefs and Pirates in the town of Orkney near Johannesburg, South Africa, leaves 42 dead.
1994 — Tonya Harding’s bodyguard Shawn Eric Eckardt, and Derrick Brian Smith are arrested and charged with conspiracy in attack of skater Nancy Kerrigan.
2002 — In the AFC Divisional Playoffs the New England Patriots defeat the Oakland Raiders 16-13 in overtime at Foxboro Stadium in the infamous tuck rule game.