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| Years in sports: | 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 |
| Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
| Decades: | 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s |
| Years: | 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 |
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Auto Racing
Baseball (Negro League)
- Rube Foster, founder of the Negro National League (NNL) and owner and manager of the Chicago American Giants, suffers a nervous breakdown and has to be confined to an asylum. His protege Dave Malarcher takes over as manager and leads the team to the NNL pennant.
- The Chicago American Giants (NNL) defeat the Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City, New Jersey (ECL), 5 games to 3, in the Negro League World Series.
- Mule Suttles of the St. Louis Stars hits a Negro League record 27 home runs. His .498 batting average and 21 triples are also records.
Baseball - Major Leagues
- World Series - St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Yankees 4 games to 3
Cricket
- May 31 - India, New Zealand and West Indies are elected as Full Members of the Imperial Cricket Conference thus increasing the number of Test cricket playing nations to six.
Football (American)
- Frankford Yellow Jackets win the National Football League championship with a league record of 14-1-1.
Football (Australian rules football)
- Victorian Football League
- Melbourne wins the 30th VFL Premiership (Melbourne 17.17 (119) d Collingwood 9.8 (62))
- Brownlow Medal awarded to Ivor Warne-Smith (Melbourne)
Football (soccer)
England
- First Division - Huddersfield Town win the 1925-26 title; it is the first time a club has won the League title three times in a row.
- FA Cup - Bolton Wanderers beat Manchester City 1-0.
Golf
- June 22-25 - British Open - Bobby Jones
- July 8-10 - U.S. Open - Bobby Jones becomes the first golfer to win the U.S. Open and British Open titles in the same year.
- September 25 - PGA Championship - Walter Hagen
- British Amateur - Jess Sweetser
- U.S. Amateur - George Von Elm
Hockey (Ice)
- Stanley Cup: Montreal Maroons defeat the Victoria Cougars
Horse racing
- May 15 - Bubbling Over wins the Kentucky Derby
- Jack Horner ridden by Willie Watkinson wins the Grand National at Aintree defeating 29 rivals.
Lacrosse
- Rosabelle Sinclair establishes the United States' first women's lacrosse team at Bryn Mawr School.
Births
- January 6 — Enzo Sacchi, Italian road bicycle and track cyclist (d. 1988)
- January 14 — Oswaldo "Baltazar" da Silva, Brazilian football (soccer) player (d. 1997)
- January 15 — Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav, Indian sports wrestler (d. 1984)
- January 17 — Nel van Vliet, Dutch breaststroke swimmer (d. 2006)
- February 4
- Gyula Grosics, Hungarian football goalkeeper
- Dave Sands, Australian Aborigine boxer (d. 1952)
- March 4 — Pascual Nicolás Pérez, Argentine flyweight boxer (d. 1977)
- March 10 — Ivan Filin, Soviet marathon runner
- March 25 — László Papp, Hungarian boxer (d. 2003)
- March 29 — Mario D'Agata, Italian boxer
- April 2 — Jack Brabham, Australian racing car driver
- April 28 — Alexander Oakley, Canadian race walker
- May 5 — Víctor Ugarte, Bolivian football (soccer) player (d. 1995)
- June 23 — Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Japanese swimmer
- June 30 — Henk Bouwman, Dutch field hockey player (d. 1995)
- July 10 — Kenneth Richmond, British wrestler (d. 2006)
- July 12 — Tiberio Mitri, Italian boxer (d. 2001)
- July 18 — Ernst Larsen, Norwegian athlete
- July 26 — Paul Collins, Canadian long-distance runner (d. 1995)
- July 27 - Eddie Thomas, boxing champion and manager (d. 1997)
- August 3 — Loris Campana, Italian road bicycle and track cyclist
- September 19 — Duke Snider, American baseball player
- October 11 — Dennis Shepherd, South African boxer (d. 2006)
- December 21 — Joe Paterno, American college football coach
Deaths
- April 19 — Willie Watkinson Grand National Winning jockey, three weeks after his victory in a fall at Bogside, Scotland
