1933 in sports

Events calendar

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[[Alpine skiing]]

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 3rd FIS Alpine World Ski Championships are held at Innsbruck, Austria. The events are a downhill, a slalom and a combined race in both the men's and women's categories. The winners are:

• Men's Downhill – Walter Prager (Switzerland)
• Men's Slalom – Anton Seelos (Austria)
• Men's Combined – Anton Seelos (Austria)
• Women's Downhill – Inge Wersin-Lantschner (Austria)
• Women's Slalom – Inge Wersin-Lantschner (Austria)
• Women's Combined – Inge Wersin-Lantschner (Austria)

Events

• Taft Slalom, the first racing trail in North America, is cut on Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire

[[American football]]

• NFL Championship: the Chicago Bears won 23–21 over the New York Giants at Wrigley Field
• Rose Bowl (1932 season):
  • The USC Trojans won 35–0 over the Pittsburgh Panthers to share the college football national championship
• College football national championship – Michigan Wolverines
• Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers all founded

[[Association football]]

Chile

• Chilean Primera Division, officially founded on May 31, and a first officially game held on July 22. England
• The Football League – Arsenal 58 points, Aston Villa 54, Sheffield Wednesday 51, West Bromwich Albion 49, Newcastle United 49, Huddersfield Town 47
• FA Cup final – Everton 3–0 Manchester City at Empire Stadium, Wembley, London Germany
• National Championship – Fortuna Düsseldorf 3–0 F.C. Schalke 04 at Köln Italy
• Serie A won by Juventus France
• The inaugural season of French professional football is won by Olympique Lillois.

[[Australian rules football]]

VFL Premiership

• 30 September – South Melbourne wins the 37th VFL Premiership defeating Richmond 9.17 (71) to 4.5 (29) at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in the 1933 VFL Grand Final Brownlow Medal
• The annual Brownlow Medal is awarded to “Chicken” Smallhorn (Fitzroy) South Australian National Football League
• 14 October – West Torrens win their second SANFL premiership, defeating Norwood 13.10 (88) to 9.11 (65)
• Magarey Medal awarded to Keith Dunn (Sturt) Western Australian National Football League
• 16 September – George Doig becomes the first player to score 100 goals in a WA(N)FL season, doing this in the season of his league debut. Doig would score 100 goals every season until 1941, after which World War II ended open-age football until 1945.
• 14 October – East Fremantle wins its seventeenth WANFL premiership, defeating Subiaco 10.13 (73) to 7.7 (49)
• Sandover Medal awarded to Sammy Clarke (Claremont-Cottesloe)

[[Bandy]]

Sweden

• Championship final – IFK Uppsala beats IF Göta 11-1

[[Baseball]]

World Series

• 3–7 October - New York Giants (NL) defeats Washington Senators (AL) to win the 1933 World Series by 4 games to 1

[[Basketball]]

• Northwestern University wins the Big Ten Conference Championship in men's College Basketball.
• A first year of professional basketball game in Spain, Copa del Rey de Baloncesto was held on October 15. (as predecessor of Liga ACB)

[[Boxing]]

Events

• 29 June – Primo Carnera defeats Jack Sharkey by a sixth-round knockout at Long Island City to win the World Heavyweight Championship Lineal world champions
• World Heavyweight Championship – Jack Sharkey → Primo Carnera
• World Light Heavyweight Championship – Maxie Rosenbloom
• World Middleweight Championship – vacant
• World Welterweight Championship – Jackie Fields → Young Corbett III → Jimmy McLarnin
• World Lightweight Championship – Tony Canzoneri → Barney Ross
• World Featherweight Championship – vacant
• World Bantamweight Championship – Panama Al Brown
• World Flyweight Championship – vacant

[[Cricket]]

Events

• England, employing bodyline tactics, beat Australia 4–1 to regain The Ashes. England
• County Championship – Yorkshire
• Minor Counties Championship – undecided
• Most runs – Wally Hammond 3323 @ 67.81 (HS 264)
• Most wickets – Tich Freeman 298 @ 15.26 (BB 8–22)
• Wisden Cricketers of the Year – Fred Bakewell, George Headley, Stan Nichols, Leslie Townsend, Cyril Walters
• The West Indies make a second tour of England, and lose the three Test series two games to nil Australia
• Sheffield Shield – New South Wales
• Most runs – Herbert Sutcliffe 1,318 @ 73.22 (HS 194)
• Most wickets – Bill O‘Reilly 62 @ 19.95 (BB 6–36) India
• Bombay Quadrangular – not contested New Zealand
• Plunket Shield – Otago South Africa
• Currie Cup – not contested West Indies
• Inter-Colonial Tournament – not contested

[[Cycle sport|Cycling]]

• Georges Speicher won the 1933 Tour de France
• Alfredo Binda won the 1933 Giro d'Italia (5th win)
• Georges Speicher won the men's road race at the 1933 UCI Road World Championships

[[Field hockey]]

• September 1 – foundation of Oranje Zwart, a Dutch club located in Eindhoven

[[Figure skating]]

World Figure Skating Championships

• Men's singles – Karl Schäfer
• Ladies’ singles – Sonja Henie
• Pairs – Emília Rotter and László Szollás

[[Golf]]

Major tournaments

• British Open – Denny Shute
• U.S. Open – Johnny Goodman
• PGA Championship – Gene Sarazen Other tournaments
• British Amateur – Michael Scott
• U.S. Amateur – George Dunlap
• Women's Western Open – June Beebe

[[Horse racing]]

England

• Champion Hurdle – Insurance (2nd successive win)
• Cheltenham Gold Cup – Golden Miller (2nd successive win)
• Grand National – Kellsboro Jack
• 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Brown Betty
• 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Rodosto
• The Derby – Hyperion
• The Oaks – Chatelaine
• St. Leger Stakes – Hyperion Australia
• Melbourne Cup – Hall Mark Canada
• King's Plate – King O'Connor France
• Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe – Crapom Ireland
• Irish Grand National – Red Park
• Irish Derby Stakes – Harinero USA
• Kentucky Derby – Broker's Tip
• Preakness Stakes – Head Play
• Belmont Stakes – Hurryoff

[[Ice hockey]]

• 4 April - 13 April – New York Rangers defeat Toronto Maple Leafs 3–1 in a best of five series to win their second Stanley Cup.

[[Motorsport]]

Main article: 1933 in motorsport, List of 1933 motorsport champions

• February 22 - Malcolm Campbell sets world land speed record speed of 272.46 mph driving his famous Blue Bird car at Daytona Beach, Florida

[[Nordic skiing]]

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

• 7th FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1933 are held at Innsbruck, Austria

[[Radiosport]]

Events

• First ever ARRL Field Day contest held in July

[[Rowing (sport)|Rowing]]

The Boat Race

• 1 April — Cambridge wins the 85th Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

[[Rugby league]]

• 1933–34 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain England
• Championship – Salford
• Challenge Cup final – at Empire Stadium, Wembley, London
• Lancashire League Championship – Salford
• Yorkshire League Championship – Castleford
• Lancashire County Cup – Warrington
• Yorkshire County Cup – Leeds Australia
• NSW Premiership – Newtown 18–4 St. George (grand final)
• An exhibition match between Great Britain and Australia at Paris' Stade Pershing in December 1933 inspired the beginnings of rugby league in France.

[[Rugby union]]

Home Nations Championship

• 46th Home Nations Championship series is won by Scotland

[[Snooker]]

World Championship

• 7th World Snooker Championship is won by Joe Davis who defeats Willie Smith 25–18

[[Speed skating]]

Speed Skating World Championships

• Men's All-round Champion – Hans Engnestangen (Norway)

[[Tennis]]

Australia

• Australian Men's Singles Championship – Jack Crawford (Australia) defeats Keith Gledhill (USA) 2–6, 7–5, 6–3, 6–2
• Australian Women's Singles Championship – Joan Hartigan Bathurst (Australia) defeats Coral Buttsworth (Australia) 6–4, 6–3 England
• Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – Jack Crawford (Australia) defeats Ellsworth Vines (USA) 4–6, 11–9, 6–2, 2–6, 6–4
• Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Helen Wills Moody (USA) defeats Dorothy Round Little (Great Britain) 6–4, 6–8, 6–3 France
• French Men's Singles Championship – Jack Crawford (Australia) defeats Henri Cochet (France) 8–6, 6–1, 6–3
• French Women's Singles Championship – Margaret Scriven Vivian (Great Britain) defeats Simonne Mathieu (France) 6–2, 4–6, 6–4 USA
• American Men's Singles Championship – Fred Perry (Great Britain) defeats Jack Crawford (Australia) 6–3, 11–13, 4–6, 6–0, 6–1
• American Women's Singles Championship – Helen Jacobs (USA) defeats Helen Wills Moody (USA) 8–6, 3–6, 3–0, retired Davis Cup
• 1933 International Lawn Tennis Challenge – at 3–2 at Stade Roland Garros (clay) Paris, France

Awards

Associated Press Athlete of the Year

• Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year – Carl Hubbell (baseball)
• Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year – Helen Jacobs (tennis)

Notes

An error in calculating points caused Yorkshire Second Eleven to meet and defeat Norfolk in the Minor Counties Challenge Match when that honour should have gone to Wiltshire; by the time the error was discovered, it was October and the weather was unsuitable for cricket, so the Championship was ruled “undecided”

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