1955 in sports

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Contents 1 Auto Racing 2 Baseball 3 Basketball 4 Boxing 5 Cycling 6 Figure Skating 7 Football (American) 8 Football (Australian Rules) 9 Football (Canadian) 10 Football (soccer) 10.1 England 11 Golf 12 Thoroughbred Horse Racing 13 Harness Racing 14 Ice Hockey 15 Snooker 16 Tennis 17 General sporting events 18 Births 19 Deaths

Auto Racing

• NASCAR Championship - Tim Flock
• AAA Racing:
  • Bob Sweikert won the Indianapolis 500
  • Bob Sweikert won the season championship
• Formula One Championship - Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina
• 24 hours of Le Mans:
  • Pierre Levegh killed along with more than 80 spectators in the worst auto racing accident in history
  • the team of Mike Hawthorn / Ivor Bueb won, driving a Jaguar D-type
• Rally racing:
  • the team of Per Malling / Gunnar Fadum won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Sunbeam Talbot
• Drag racing - The NHRA staged its first "Nationals" in Great Bend, Kansas. Calvin Rice won the inaugural "Top Fuel" championship.

Baseball

• April 23: The White Sox tallied a franchise record 29 runs at Kansas City. Sherm Lollar was 5-for-6 with a pair of home runs and five RBI, while reserve outfielder Bob Nieman and infielder Walt Dropo drove in seven runs a piece, and Chico Carrasquel hit 5-for-6 with five runs, in the 29-6 victory over the Athletics.

• World Series: Brooklyn Dodgers win 4 games to 3 over the New York Yankees. The Series MVP is pitcher Johnny Podres, Brooklyn.

Basketball

• NCAA Men's Basketball Championship:
  • San Francisco wins 76-73 over La Salle

• NBA Finals:
  • Syracuse Nationals win 4-3 over the Fort Wayne Pistons

• The ninth European basketball championship, Eurobasket 1955, is won by Hungary.

• March 1: Allen Fieldhouse opens at the University of Kansas as the Jayhawks defeat Kansas State.

Boxing

• September 21 in New York City, Rocky Marciano knocks out the Light-heavyweight champion Archie Moore in the 9th round to retain his World Heavyweight Championship.

Cycling

• Giro d'Italia won by Fiorenzo Magni of Italy
• Tour de France - Louison Bobet of France
• World Cycling Championship: Stan Ockers of Belgium

Figure Skating

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

Football (American)

• NFL Championship: Cleveland Browns won 38-14 over the Los Angeles Rams

Football (Australian Rules)

• Victorian Football League
  • Melbourne wins the 59th VFL Premiership (Melbourne 8.16 (64) d Collingwood 5.6 (36))
  • Brownlow Medal awarded to Fred Goldsmith (South Melbourne)

Football (Canadian)

• Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos won 34-19 over the Montreal Alouettes

Football (soccer)

England

• First Division - Chelsea win the 1954-55 title.
• FA Cup - Newcastle United beat Manchester City 3-1.

Golf

Men's Golf

• Grand Slam of golf results:
  1. May - The Masters - Cary Middlecoff
  2. June - US Open - Jack Fleck
  3. July - British Open - Peter Thomson
  4. August - PGA Championship - Doug Ford

• PGA tour's leading money winner for the year: Julius Boros - $63,122

• Ryder Cup the United States team wins 8-4 over the British team in world golf.

Women's Golf

• The LPGA launches the new LPGA Championship annual tournament.
• US Women's Open - Fay Crocker
• LPGA Championship - Beverly Hanson
• Patty Berg: leading money winner on the LPGA tour, earning $16,492.

Thoroughbred Horse Racing

• Australia - Melbourne Cup - Toparoa
• Canada - Queen's Plate - Ace Marine
• France - Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe - Ribot
• Ireland - Irish Derby Stakes - Panaslipper

• English Triple Crown Races:
  1. Two Thousand Guineas Stakes - Our Babu
  2. Epsom Derby - Phil Drake
  3. St. Leger Stakes - Meld

• United States Triple Crown Races:
  1. Kentucky Derby - Swaps
  2. Preakness Stakes - Nashua
  3. Belmont Stakes - Nashua

• August 31 - In one of the most famous match races in thoroughbred racing history, Nashua beat Swaps at Washington Park racetrack. It was Swaps only loss in nine starts as a three-year old. Nashua's owner-breeder, William Woodward, Sr., dreamed of owning an Epsom Derby winner, and he planned to send Nashua to England to train toward that goal. However, Woodward was shot to death by his wife before he could proceed.

Harness Racing

• The first Cane Pace is held at Yonkers Raceway.
• Little Brown Jug for pacers won by Quick Chief
• Cane Pace won by Quick Chief

• The United States Trotting Triple Crown races are established. Scott Frost will win the first ever crown.
  1. Hambletonian - Scott Frost
  2. Yonkers Trot - Scott Frost
  3. Kentucky Futurity - Scott Frost

• Australian Inter Dominion Harness Racing Championship:
  • Pacers: Tactician
  • Trotters: Battle Cry

Ice Hockey

• Art Ross Memorial Trophy as the NHL's leading scorer during the regular season: Bernie "Boom-Boom" Geoffrion, Montreal Canadiens

• Hart Memorial Trophy for the NHL's Most Valuable Player: Ted Kennedy, Toronto Maple Leafs

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

• World Hockey Championship
  • Men's champion: Canada's Penticton Vees win 5-0 over the USSR

Snooker

• World Snooker Championship: Fred Davis beats John Pulman 37-34

Tennis

• Grand Slam in tennis men's results:
  1. Australian Open - Ken Rosewall
  2. French Open - Tony Trabert
  3. Wimbledon championships - Tony Trabert
  4. US Open - Tony Trabert

• Grand Slam in tennis women's results:
  1. Australian Open - Beryl Penrose
  2. French Open - Angela Mortimer
  3. Wimbledon championships - Louise Brough
  4. US Open - Doris Hart

• Davis Cup: Australia wins 5-0 over the United States in world tennis

General sporting events

• Second Pan American Games held in Mexico City, Mexico

• Second Mediterranean Games held in Barcelona, Spain

Births

• January 2 — Jinty Stewart, Scottish field hockey goalkeeper
• January 3 — Frances Edmonds, British sports writer
• January 14 — Dominique Rocheteau, French soccer player
• January 19 — Uwe Reinders, German soccer player
• January 21 — Peter Fleming, American tennis player
• January 21 — Juan Pellón, Spanish field hockey player
• January 21 — Nikolina Shtereva, Bulgarian middle distance runner
• January 24 — Jim Montgomery, American swimmer
• January 29 — John Tate, American boxer
• January 31 — Virginia Ruzici, Romanian tennis player
• February 2 — Aleksandr Gusev, Soviet field hockey player
• February 3 — Bruno Pezzey, Austrian soccer player
• February 10 — Miguel Chaves, Spanish field hockey player
• February 10 — Greg Norman, Australian golfer
• February 24 — Alain Prost, French Formula I driver
• March 4 — David Jackson, New Zealand boxer (d. 2004)
• March 6 — Peter Dignan, New Zealand rower
• March 11 — David Bell, Australian field hockey player
• March 14 — Daniel Bertoni, Argentinian soccer player
• March 16 — Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxing world champion
• March 18 — Philippe Boisse, French fencer
• March 18 — Elaine Jensen, New Zealand field hockey goalkeeper
• April 25 — Américo Gallego, Argentinian soccer player
• April 26 — Ulrika Knape, Swedish diver
• May 6 — Ann Grant, Zimbabwean field hockey player
• June 21 — Michel Platini, French soccer player
• June 23 — Jean Tigana, French soccer player and manager
• June 26 — Maxime Bossis, French soccer player
• June 28 — Heribert Weber, Austrian soccer player
• July 5 — Peter McNamara, Australian tennis player
• July 8 — Gillian Cowley, Zimbabwean field hockey player
• July 9 — Steve Coppell, English soccer player
• August 4 — Gerrie Coetzee, South African boxer
• August 5 — John Whitaker, British equestrian
• September 1 — Maureen George, Zimbabwean field hockey player
• September 9 — Gernot Jurtin, Austrian soccer player
• September 15 — Linda Watson, Zimbabwean field hockey player
• September 25 — Ludo Coeck, Belgian soccer player
• September 25 — Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German soccer player
• October 3 — José Valencia, Argentinian soccer player
• October 4 — Anton Pichler, Austrian soccer player
• October 4 — Jorge Valdano, Argentinian soccer player
• October 11 — Hans-Peter Briegel, German soccer player
• November 1 — Anne Audain, New Zealand middle and long distance athlete
• November 26 — Barbara Tilden, New Zealand field hockey player
• November 27 — Sarah English, Zimbabwean field hockey player
• November 28 — Alessandro Altobelli, Italian soccer player
• December 5 — Juha Tiainen, Finnish hammer thrower (d. 2003)
• December 6 — Tony Woodcock, English soccer player
• December 12 — Mikhail Nichepurenko, Soviet field hockey player
• December 19 — Marek Dziuba, Polish soccer player

Deaths

• January 21 — Archie Hahn (74), American athlete (b. 1880)
• January 26 — Holger Nielsen, Danish fencer, shooter and athlete (b. 1866)
• May 10 — Tommy Burns, world heavyweight boxing champion
• May 26 — Alberto Ascari, F1 race car champion
• September 4 — Gus Weyhing, Major League Baseball pitcher (1887-1901)
• October 27 — Clark Griffith, Major League Baseball pitcher (1891-1914)
• November 4 — Cy Young, American baseball player
• December 6 — Honus Wagner, Major League Baseball player (1897-1917)fr:1955 en sport

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