1954 in sports

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See also: 1953 in sports, other events of 1954, 1955 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'.

Contents 1 Auto Racing 2 Baseball 3 Basketball 4 Boxing 5 Figure Skating 6 Football (American) 7 Football (Australian Rules) 8 Football (Canadian) 9 Football (soccer) 9.1 FIFA World Cup 9.2 England 10 Golf 11 Thoroughbred Horse Racing 12 Harness Racing 13 Ice Hockey 14 Skiing 15 Snooker 16 Tennis 17 General sporting events 18 Births 19 Deaths

Auto Racing

• NASCAR Championship - Lee Petty
• AAA Racing:
  • Bill Vukovich won the Indianapolis 500
  • Jimmy Bryan won the season championship
• Formula One Championship - Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina
• 24 hours of Le Mans: the team of Froilán González / Maurice Trintignant won, driving a Ferrari 375
• Rally racing - the team of Louis Chiron / Ciro Basadonna win the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Lancia Aurelia GT
• Drag racing - The NHRA expands, sanctioning other drag strip operators in the United States.

Baseball

• January 14: Former Yankees great Joe DiMaggio marries legendary actress Marilyn Monroe in a union of heavily publicized media stars.

• World Series: New York Giants win 4 games to 0 over the Cleveland Indians

Basketball

• FIBA World Championship:
  • USA World Champion

• NCAA Men's Basketball Championship:
  • La Salle wins 92-76 over Bradley

• NBA Finals:
  • Minneapolis Lakers win 4-3 over the Syracuse Nationals

• March 13: Milan High School, enrollment 161, defeated Muncie Central High School (enrollment over 1,600) 32-30 to win the Indiana state title. The 1986 movie classic Hoosiers was very loosely based on the story of this Milan team.

Boxing

• September 17 in New York City, Rocky Marciano retained his World Heavyweight title with an 8th round knockout of Ezzard Charles

Figure Skating

• World Figure Skating Championships:
  • Men's champion: Hayes Alan Jenkins, United States
  • Women's champion: Gundi Busch, Germany
  • Pairs champions: Frances Dafoe & Norris Bowden, Canada

Football (American)

• NFL Championship: Cleveland Browns win 56-10 over the Detroit Lions

Football (Australian Rules)

• Victorian Football League
  • Footscray wins the 58th VFL Premiership (Footscray 15.12 (102) d Melbourne 7.9 (51))
  • Brownlow Medal awarded to Roy Wright (Richmond)

Football (Canadian)

• The British Columbia Lions started play in the Western Interprovincial Football Union as the ninth professional team.

• The Ontario Rugby Football Union stops challenging for the Grey Cup, permanently establishing that trophy as one to be awarded only to professional teams.

• These changes result in the Grey Cup being an East vs. West competition. Although the Canadian Football League was not technically founded until the late 1950's, 1954 is often referred to as the start of the "modern era" of Canadian professional football. It is also considered to be the year the CFL was founded in substance if not in name.

• In the Grey Cup, the Edmonton Eskimos win 26-25 over the Montreal Alouettes.

Football (soccer)

FIFA World Cup

• 1954 World Cup held in Switzerland. West Germany beat Hungary 3-2.

England

• First Division - Wolverhampton Wanderers win the 1953-54 title.
• FA Cup - West Bromwich Albion beat Preston North End 3-2.

Golf

Men's Golf

• Grand Slam of golf results:
  1. April - The Masters - Sam Snead
  2. June - US Open - Ed Furgol
  3. July - The Open Championship - Peter Thomson
  4. August - PGA Championship - Chick Harbert

• PGA tour's leading money winner for the year: Bob Toski - $65,820

Women's Golf

• US Women's Open - Babe Zaharias
• Patty Berg: leading money winner on the LPGA tour, earning $16,011.

Thoroughbred Horse Racing

• Australia - Melbourne Cup - Rising Fast
• Canada - Queen's Plate - Collisteo
• France - Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe - Sica Boy
• Ireland - Irish Derby Stakes - Zarathustra

• English Triple Crown Races:
  1. Two Thousand Guineas Stakes - Darius
  2. Epsom Derby - Never Say Die
  3. St. Leger Stakes - Never Say Die

• United States Triple Crown Races:
  1. Kentucky Derby - Determine
  2. Preakness Stakes - Hasty Road
  3. Belmont Stakes - High Gun

Harness Racing

• Little Brown Jug for pacers won by Adios Harry
• Hambletonian for yrotters won by Newport Dream

• Australian Inter Dominion Harness Racing Championship:
  • Pacers: Tennessee Sky

Ice Hockey

• Art Ross Memorial Trophy as the NHL's leading scorer during the regular season: Gordie Howe, Detroit Red Wings

• Hart Memorial Trophy for the NHL's Most Valuable Player: Al Rollins, Chicago Blackhawks

• Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings win 4 games to 3 over the Montreal Canadiens

• World Hockey Championship
  • Men's champion: USSR wins 7-2 over Canada's East York Lyndhursts.

Skiing

• ISF World Championships:
  • Men's combined champion: Stein Eriksen, Norway
  • Women's combined champion: Ida Schöpfer, Austria

Snooker

• World Snooker Championship: Fred Davis beats Walter Donaldson 39-21

Tennis

• Grand Slam in tennis men's results:
  1. Australian Open - Mervyn Rose
  2. French Open - Tony Trabert
  3. Wimbledon championships - Jaroslav Drobny
  4. US Open - Vic Seixas

• Grand Slam in tennis women's results:
  1. Australian Open - Thelma Long
  2. French Open - Maureen Connolly
  3. Wimbledon championships - Maureen Connolly
  4. US Open - Doris Hart

• Davis Cup: United States wins 3-2 over Australia in world tennis.

General sporting events

• Asian Games held in Manila, The Philippines
• British Empire & Commonwealth Games held in Vancouver, British Columbia
• May 6 - Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run a sub four minute mile.

Births

• January 17 — Janet Dykman, American archer
• January 30 — Sergei Klevtsov, Soviet field hockey player
• February 3 — Maurice Marquet, New Zealand field hockey player
• February 9 — Alfonso Zamora, Mexican bantamweight boxer
• February 19 — Sócrates, Brazilian football (soccer) player
• February 22 — Russell Simpson, New Zealand tennis player
• March 8 — Julie Cook, British field hockey goalkeeper
• March 29 — Helen Volk, Zimbabwean field hockey player
• April 3 — Nico Landeweerd, Dutch water polo player
• April 7 — Tony Dorsett, American football star
• April 17 — Riccardo Patrese, Italian racing driver
• April 18 — Mary Geaney, Irish field hockey goalkeeper
• May 4 — Hans van Zeeland, Dutch water polo player and coach
• May 7 — Jane Swinnerton, British field hockey international
• May 9 — Balazs Taroczy, Hungarian tennis player
• May 17 — Daniel Londas, Martinique-born boxer from France
• June 8 — Mudashiru Lawal, Nigerian football (soccer) midfielder (d. 1991)
• June 24 — Mark Edmondson, Australian tennis player
• June 29 — Susan Huggett, Zimbabwean field hockey player
• July 5 — John Wright, coach of Indian national cricket team
• July 26 — Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (d. 1994)
• August 14 — Mark Fidrych, American baseball player
• August 15 — Farit Zigangirov, Soviet field hockey player
• August 18 — Sue McLeish, New Zealand field hockey player
• August 25 — Pauline Gibbon, British field hockey goalkeeper
• September 18 — Isobel Thomson, New Zealand field hockey player
• September 22 — Paul Kronk, Australian tennis player
• October 1 — Martin Strel, Slovene ultra marathon swimmer
• October 3 — Dennis Eckersley, Baseball Hall of Famer
• November 10 — Robert Colley, New Zealand boxer
• December 21 — Chris Evert, US tennis player
• December 24 — Graham Sligo, New Zealand field hockey player
• December 26 — Susan Butcher, American dog-sled racing champion

Deaths

• January 31 - Vivian Woodward, English amateur football player (b. 1879)
• July 29 - Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)fr:1954 en sport

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