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1911 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

College championship

• College football national championship –Princeton Tigers

Events

• 25 November — the tradition ofhomecoming begins at the1911 Kansas vs. Missouri football game.

Australia

• The Commonwealth Football Association is founded as a governing body for the whole of Australia

Cyprus

• Anorthosis Famagusta FC founded (30 January)

Egypt

• Zamalek SC is founded atGezira Island,Cairo as "Thakanat Qasr El-Nil Club" (5 January)

England

• The Football League –Manchester United 52 points,Aston Villa 51,Sunderland 45,Everton 45,Bradford City 45,The Wednesday 42
• FA Cup final –Bradford City 1–0Newcastle United atOld Trafford, Manchester (replay following 0–0 draw at Crystal Palace)

Germany

• National Championship –Viktoria Berlin 3–1VfB Leipzig at Dresden

Scotland

• Scottish Football League –Rangers
• Scottish Cup –Celtic 2–0Hamilton Academical atIbrox Park^[1]

VFL Premiership

• Essendon wins the 15thVFLPremiership: Essendon 5.11 (41) dCollingwood 4.11 (35) atMelbourne Cricket Ground (MCG)

Sweden

• Championship final –IFK Uppsala 6–0Djurgårdens IF

World Series

• 14–26 October —Philadelphia Athletics (AL) defeatsNew York Giants (NL) to win the1911 World Series by 4 games to 2

Events

• Chalmers Award –Frank Schulte, NL;Ty Cobb, AL

Events

• Monte Attell loses hisWorld Bantamweight Championship toFrankie Conley, but Conley holds the title a matter of days before losing toJohnny Coulon

Lineal world champions^[2]

• World Heavyweight Championship –Jack Johnson
• World Light Heavyweight Championship – vacant
• World Middleweight Championship – vacant
• World Welterweight Championship – vacant
• World Lightweight Championship –Ad Wolgast
• World Featherweight Championship –Abe Attell
• World Bantamweight Championship –Monte Attell →Frankie Conley →Johnny Coulon

• The Rugby Football Unions of Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan unite into theWestern Canada Rugby Football Union. The playoff series would see the champion of theMRFU host the champion of theSRFU, andARFU would play against the victor. This was changed the next year
• Calgary, who won the western Canadian competition, issued a challenge to play for theGrey Cup, but was rejected due to the WCRFU not being a member of the Canadian Rugby Union
• Interprovincial Rugby Football Union -Toronto Argonauts
• Western Canada Rugby Football Union - Calgary Tigers
• Ontario Rugby Football Union -Hamilton Alerts
• Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union -University of Toronto
• 3rd Grey Cup – University of Toronto defeats Toronto Argonauts 14–7

Events

• Warwickshire wins its first-everCounty Championship title, the first of the competition's "new clubs" to do so

England

• County Championship –Warwickshire
• Minor Counties Championship –Staffordshire
• Most runs –Phil Mead 2562 @ 54.51 (HS 223)
• Most wickets –Harry Dean 183 @ 17.43 (BB 9–109)
• Wisden Cricketers of the Year –Frank Foster,J W Hearne,Sep Kinneir,Phil Mead,Herbert Strudwick

Australia

• Sheffield Shield –New South Wales
• Most runs –Aubrey Faulkner 1534 @ 59.00 (HS 204)
• Most wickets –Bill Whitty 70 @ 20.27 (BB 6–17)

India

• Bombay Triangular –Europeans shared withHindus

New Zealand

• Plunket Shield –Canterbury

South Africa

• Currie Cup –Griqualand West

West Indies

• Inter-Colonial Tournament –Barbados

Tour de France

• Gustave Garrigou (France) wins the 9thTour de France^[3]

World Figure Skating Championships

• World Men's Champion –Ulrich Salchow (Sweden)
• World Women's Champion –Lily Kronberger (Hungary)
• World Pairs Champions –Ludowika Jakobsson-Eilers /Walter Jakobsson (Finland)

Events

• John McDermott becomes both the first American-born man and the youngest golfer (19 years, 10 months) to win the US Open

Major tournaments

• British Open –Harry Vardon
• US Open –John McDermott

Other tournaments

• British Amateur –Harold Hilton
• US Amateur –Harold Hilton

England

• Grand National – Glenside
• 1,000 Guineas Stakes –Atmah
• 2,000 Guineas Stakes –Sunstar
• The Derby – Sunstar^[4]
• The Oaks –Cherimoya
• St. Leger Stakes –Prince Palatine

Australia

• Melbourne Cup – The Parisian

Canada

• King's Plate – St. Bass

Ireland

• Irish Grand National – Reparator II
• Irish Derby Stakes – Shanballymore

USA

• Kentucky Derby – Meridian
• Preakness Stakes – Watervale
• Belmont Stakes –not contested due to anti-betting legislation in New York State

Stanley Cup

• March —Ottawa Hockey Club wins theNational Hockey Association (NHA)championship andStanley Cup
• 16 March — Ottawa forward Marty Walsh scores 10 goals in a 13–4 win over Port Arthur Seniors in a Stanley Cup challenge. His tally is second in Stanley Cup history to Frank McGee's 14-goal total on 16 January 1905.

Events

• March —Winnipeg Victorias wins theAllan Cup
• 13 November — NHA founding teamRenfrew Creamery Kings drops out of the league and the players under contract are dispersed to other teams. Two franchises are sold to Toronto interests who intend to start in the 1911–12 season, but Toronto's newArena Gardens is not ready for play.
• 7 December — upon completion of artificial ice rinks inVancouver andVictoria, British Columbia, the new professionalPacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) league is created by former NHA playersFrank andLester Patrick. A bidding war for players ensues with numerous NHA players leaving to play in the PCHA.

The Boat Race

• 1 April —Oxford wins the 68thOxford and Cambridge Boat Race

• 1911 New Zealand rugby league tour of Australia
• 1911–12 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain

England

• Championship –Oldham
• Challenge Cup final –Broughton Rangers 4–0Wigan atThe Willows,Salford
• Lancashire League Championship –Wigan
• Yorkshire League Championship –Wakefield Trinity
• LancashireCounty Cup –Oldham 4–3Swinton
• YorkshireCounty Cup –Wakefield Trinity 8–2Huddersfield

Australia

• NSW Premiership –Eastern Suburbs 11–8Glebe (grand final)

Five Nations Championship

• 29thFive Nations Championship series is won byWales who complete the inauguralGrand Slam by defeating all four of its opponents

Speed Skating World Championships

• Men's All-round Champion –Nikolay Strunnikov (Russia)

Australia

• Australian Men's Singles Championship –Norman Brookes (Australia) defeatsHorace Rice (Australia) 6–1 6–2 6–3

England

• Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship –Anthony Wilding (New Zealand) defeatsHerbert Barrett (GB) 6–4 4–6 2–6 6–2 retired
• Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship –Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (GB) defeatsDora Boothby (GB) 6–0 6–0

France

• French Men's Singles Championship –André Gobert (France) defeatsMaurice Germot (France): details unknown
• French Women's Singles Championship –Jeanne Matthey defeatsMarguerite Broquedis (France) (France): details unknown

USA

• American Men's Singles Championship –William Larned (USA) defeatsMaurice McLoughlin (USA) 6–4 6–4 6–2
• American Women's Singles Championship –Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (USA) defeatsFlorence Sutton (USA) 8–10 6–1 9–7

Davis Cup

• 1911 International Lawn Tennis Challenge – Australasia 4–0 United States atLancaster Park (grass),Christchurch, New Zealand

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