The 1894
Harvard–Yale game, known as the "Hampden Park Blood Bath", results in crippling injuries for four players; the contest is suspended until 1897. The annual
Army–Navy Game is suspended from 1894 till 1898 for similar reasons. One of the major problems is the popularity of mass formations like the
flying wedge, in which a large number of offensive players charge as a unit against a similarly arranged defense. The resultant collisions often lead to serious injury and sometimes even death.
The
Temple Cup is introduced, lasting until 1897, and matches the National League winner and runner-up in a best–of–seven, post–season championship series. It is also known as the "World's Championship Series" but it fails to gain fan support, partly because three of the four series held will be won by the league runner-up. In 1894, runner-up
New York Giants defeats champion
Baltimore Orioles 4 games to 0.
1894 is
Major League Baseball's highest scoring season as
Boston Beaneaters set the current record for the most runs scored in a season (1220) and another standing record with seven players scoring 100 or more runs; in addition,
Philadelphia Phillies bat .349 for the season with all four outfielders above .400, but finish fourth despite the feat
The inaugural
World Bantamweight Champion is
Jimmy Barry of Chicago who is recognised following his 28th-round knockout of
Casper Leon at Lemont, Illinois on 15 September. Barry retains the title until 1899 when he retires undefeated in the whole of his career.[2] The
bantamweight division is for fighters weighing between 112 and 118 lb.
22 July — the world's first competitive motor race was the
Paris to Rouen. Although there have previously been some private events, this first real contest is organised by Paris magazine Le Petit Journal.
Albert de Dion is first to arrive at Rouen in his
de Dion-Bouton car, but he did not figure in the official results because his steam vehicle needed a 'stoker' and was thus ineligible. The 'official' victory was awarded to
Albert Lemaître driving his 3 hp petrol engined
Peugeot Type 5.
The
internal combustion engine has been developed from simple gas-fuelled designs during the preceding decades to the point where several technicians such as
Karl Benz in
Mannheim and the partnership of
Gottlieb Daimler and
Wilhelm Maybach in
Stuttgart have built the first true
automobiles during the 1880s. Racing of horse-drawn carriages has been popular among its participants in the past and it is a natural progression to race the new automobiles.
The 1894
Harvard–Yale game, known as the "Hampden Park Blood Bath", results in crippling injuries for four players; the contest is suspended until 1897. The annual
Army–Navy Game is suspended from 1894 till 1898 for similar reasons. One of the major problems is the popularity of mass formations like the
flying wedge, in which a large number of offensive players charge as a unit against a similarly arranged defense. The resultant collisions often lead to serious injury and sometimes even death.
The
Temple Cup is introduced, lasting until 1897, and matches the National League winner and runner-up in a best–of–seven, post–season championship series. It is also known as the "World's Championship Series" but it fails to gain fan support, partly because three of the four series held will be won by the league runner-up. In 1894, runner-up
New York Giants defeats champion
Baltimore Orioles 4 games to 0.
1894 is
Major League Baseball's highest scoring season as
Boston Beaneaters set the current record for the most runs scored in a season (1220) and another standing record with seven players scoring 100 or more runs; in addition,
Philadelphia Phillies bat .349 for the season with all four outfielders above .400, but finish fourth despite the feat
The inaugural
World Bantamweight Champion is
Jimmy Barry of Chicago who is recognised following his 28th-round knockout of
Casper Leon at Lemont, Illinois on 15 September. Barry retains the title until 1899 when he retires undefeated in the whole of his career.[2] The
bantamweight division is for fighters weighing between 112 and 118 lb.
22 July — the world's first competitive motor race was the
Paris to Rouen. Although there have previously been some private events, this first real contest is organised by Paris magazine Le Petit Journal.
Albert de Dion is first to arrive at Rouen in his
de Dion-Bouton car, but he did not figure in the official results because his steam vehicle needed a 'stoker' and was thus ineligible. The 'official' victory was awarded to
Albert Lemaître driving his 3 hp petrol engined
Peugeot Type 5.
The
internal combustion engine has been developed from simple gas-fuelled designs during the preceding decades to the point where several technicians such as
Karl Benz in
Mannheim and the partnership of
Gottlieb Daimler and
Wilhelm Maybach in
Stuttgart have built the first true
automobiles during the 1880s. Racing of horse-drawn carriages has been popular among its participants in the past and it is a natural progression to race the new automobiles.