1921 in sports

1921 in sports describes the year’s events in world sport.

Years in sports: 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924
Centuries: 19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years: 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924

American football

Association football

Brazil

England

Germany

Republic of Ireland

Athletics

Men's 100 metres

Lithuania

Monaco

  • first Women’s Olympiad in Monte Carlo

Australian rules football

VFL Premiership

South Australian Football League

West Australian Football League

Bandy

Sweden

Baseball

World Series

Major League Baseball

Negro leagues

Boxing

Events

  • 2 July — boxing’s first “million dollar gate” occurs when Jack Dempsey meets Georges Carpentier in a “hastily assembled outdoor arena built on a farm in Jersey City, New Jersey”. A crowd of more than 80,000 attends an event billed by its promoter Tex Rickard as the "Battle of the Century". Dempsey wins by a fourth round knockout in a scheduled 12-round fight which is also special for its radio broadcast. It is the first-ever broadcast to a "mass audience" with ringside commentary relayed over the new radiophone to hundreds of thousands of people in the northeastern United States.[1]
  • Pete “Kid” Herman regains the World Bantamweight Championship but is beaten soon afterwards by new champion Johnny Buff.

Lineal world champions[2]

Canadian football

Grey Cup

Cricket

Events

  • England tours Australia and becomes the first team to lose every match in a five-match Test series. In the 1921 English season, Australia emphasises the post-war superiority that it owes, in particular, to the pace duo of Jack Gregory and Ted McDonald. Having won 5–0 in Australia the previous winter, the Australians win the first three Tests of the 1921 tour and then draw the last two.

England

Australia

India

New Zealand

South Africa

West Indies

Cycling

Tour de France

Giro d'Italia

Figure skating

World Figure Skating Championships

  • The championships are not held in 1921

Golf

Major tournaments

Other tournaments

Horse racing

England

Australia

Canada

France

Ireland

USA

Ice hockey

Stanley Cup

Motorsport

Multi-sport events

Far Eastern Championship Games

Women's World Games

Rowing

The Boat Race

Rugby league

England

Australia

Rugby union

Five Nations Championship

Shooting

Germany

  • National championship won by Mr. Janich firing an Ortgies semi-automatic pistol.[3]

Speed skating

Speed Skating World Championships

  • not contested

Tennis

Australia

England

France

USA

Davis Cup

Notes

a Awarded retrospectively by the SANFL in 1998.
b By Westar Rules in 1997.

References

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