1904 in sports

See also: 1903 in sports, other events of 1904, 1905 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'.

Baseball

• World Series - The NL champion New York Giants refuse to participate in the 1904 World Series
• May 5: Boston Americans ace Cy Young pitches a perfect game, the second of his three no-hitters. He will complete 24 hitless innings, still the record, and 45 scoreless innings, a record broken by Jack Coombs in 1910

minor leagues

• The Duluth White Sox win the Northern League championship

Football (Australian rules football)

• Victorian Football League
  • Fitzroy wins the 8th VFL Premiership (Fitzroy 9.7 (61) d Carlton 5.7 (37)).
  • See also Victorian Football League season 1904

Football (soccer)

• World governing body FIFA is founded. The football associations of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland do not join.

England

• First Division - The Wednesday retain the title in 1903-04, having won it the previous season as well.
• FA Cup - Billy Meredith scores the only goal in Manchester City's 1-0 win over Second Division Bolton Wanderers. It is City's first major honour.

Horse racing

• The world's greatest steeplechase, the Aintree Grand National is won by the New Zealand bred Moifaa ridden by Arthur Birch, trained by Bill Hickey and owned by Spencer Gollan. There is a popular but false myth that Moifaa had been shipwrecked on his way from the Antipodes to England.

Ice Hockey

• Ottawa Silver Seven win their 2nd Stanley Cup, defeating the Brandon Wheat Kings 2 games to 0.

Olympic Games

• 1904 Summer Olympics takes place in St. Louis, Missouri, United States
  • Lacrosse is played in the Olympics for the first time (it was dropped after the 1908 Summer Olympics). Three teams competed: one from the United States and two from Canada.
  • Only 42 of the 94 events included athletes not from the United States.
  • The first Africans take part in the Olympics - two Tswana tribesmen who were taking part in a Boer War exhibit at the World's Fair in St. Louis run in the marathon.
  • United States wins the most medals (236), and the most gold medals (77).

Births

• March 7 — Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969)
• May 25 — Marcel Thil, French world champion boxer (d. 1968)
• July 2 — René Lacoste, French champion tennis player (d. 1996)
• November 29 — Héctor Castro, Uruguayan football player and coach (d. 1960)
• December 14 — Attila Petschauer, Hungarian fencer (d. 1943)

Deaths