Today In Sports History 9/5

Our past has shaped the present by many things in history including sports, here is how sports marked our history today.

Baseball

• In 1901 the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues forms

Boxing

• In 1923 flyweights Gene LaRue & Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously

Golf

• In 1925 the 29th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones

Miscellaneous

• In 1992 Dan O’Brien sets world record decathlon with 8891 points

NFL

• In 1906 St. Louis University quarterback Bradbury Robinson throws first legal forward pass in the history of American football for a TD to Jack Schneider at Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin, St. Louis wins 22-0

Olympics

• In 1960 Cassius Clay Muhammad Ali beats 3-time European champion Zbigniew Pietrzykowski of Poland by unanimous points decision to win Olympic light heavyweight boxing gold medal at the Rome Games

Tennis

• In 1949 at the women’s US National Championship, Defending champion Margaret Osborne duPont beats fellow American Doris Hart 6-4, 6-1