13 March —
Liverpool Football Club is founded after
Everton is split by a faction fight at board level over the proposed purchase of the freehold at
Anfield. One faction, retaining the club's name and players, quits Anfield and moves across
Stanley Park to establish a new home at
Goodison Park. The other faction, which owns Anfield, decides to establish a new club there and this is called Liverpool F.C.. The new club joins the Lancashire League prior to the 1892–1893 season.
With the demise of the rival
Football Alliance, the Football League is able to expand by inviting former Alliance members to join it. Membership doubles from 14 to 28 clubs with divisions introduced for the first time in the
1892–93 season. The original Football League becomes the new
First Division, expanded to 16 teams; and the new
Second Division is formed with 12 teams, many of them former members of the Alliance.
The "National League and American Association" is the sole
major league in baseball after incorporating four clubs from the former
American Association into the expanded and restructured
National League and buying out the four others.
The National League plays a split season,
Boston Beaneaters winning the first half,
Cleveland Spiders winning the second. At the end of the season, Boston defeats Cleveland 5–0 in a championship series. The experiment will not be repeated but it will be adapted after two-month interruption of the
1981 season.
January 15 –
James Naismith's rules for basketball are published for the first time in the
Springfield YMCA International Training School's newspaper, in an article titled "A New Game." They said it was called "Basketball."
March 11 – First basketball game played in public, between students and faculty at the Springfield YMCA.[4] The final score was 5–1 in favor of the students, with the only goal for the faculty being scored by
Amos Alonzo Stagg.[4] A crowd of 200 spectators watched the game.[4]
2 March — Ottawa Hockey Club wins its second consecutive
Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) title, defeating Toronto Osgoode Hall 10–4.
7 March — Montreal Hockey Club defeats Ottawa 1–0 to regain the AHAC title for the
fifth consecutive year.
18 March — At a
celebration dinner to honour the Ottawa Hockey Club, Canadian Governor-General
Lord Stanley announces his new trophy to be awarded to the ice hockey champions of Canada. Originally known as the "Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup", it becomes known as the
Stanley Cup, the championship trophy of the
National Hockey League (NHL).
^Names, Larry D (1987). "The Myth". In Scott, Greg (ed.). The History of the Green Bay Packers: The Lambeau Years. Vol. 1. Angel Press of WI. pp. 24–25.
ISBN0-939995-00-X.
13 March —
Liverpool Football Club is founded after
Everton is split by a faction fight at board level over the proposed purchase of the freehold at
Anfield. One faction, retaining the club's name and players, quits Anfield and moves across
Stanley Park to establish a new home at
Goodison Park. The other faction, which owns Anfield, decides to establish a new club there and this is called Liverpool F.C.. The new club joins the Lancashire League prior to the 1892–1893 season.
With the demise of the rival
Football Alliance, the Football League is able to expand by inviting former Alliance members to join it. Membership doubles from 14 to 28 clubs with divisions introduced for the first time in the
1892–93 season. The original Football League becomes the new
First Division, expanded to 16 teams; and the new
Second Division is formed with 12 teams, many of them former members of the Alliance.
The "National League and American Association" is the sole
major league in baseball after incorporating four clubs from the former
American Association into the expanded and restructured
National League and buying out the four others.
The National League plays a split season,
Boston Beaneaters winning the first half,
Cleveland Spiders winning the second. At the end of the season, Boston defeats Cleveland 5–0 in a championship series. The experiment will not be repeated but it will be adapted after two-month interruption of the
1981 season.
January 15 –
James Naismith's rules for basketball are published for the first time in the
Springfield YMCA International Training School's newspaper, in an article titled "A New Game." They said it was called "Basketball."
March 11 – First basketball game played in public, between students and faculty at the Springfield YMCA.[4] The final score was 5–1 in favor of the students, with the only goal for the faculty being scored by
Amos Alonzo Stagg.[4] A crowd of 200 spectators watched the game.[4]
2 March — Ottawa Hockey Club wins its second consecutive
Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) title, defeating Toronto Osgoode Hall 10–4.
7 March — Montreal Hockey Club defeats Ottawa 1–0 to regain the AHAC title for the
fifth consecutive year.
18 March — At a
celebration dinner to honour the Ottawa Hockey Club, Canadian Governor-General
Lord Stanley announces his new trophy to be awarded to the ice hockey champions of Canada. Originally known as the "Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup", it becomes known as the
Stanley Cup, the championship trophy of the
National Hockey League (NHL).
^Names, Larry D (1987). "The Myth". In Scott, Greg (ed.). The History of the Green Bay Packers: The Lambeau Years. Vol. 1. Angel Press of WI. pp. 24–25.
ISBN0-939995-00-X.