1918_in_sports

1918 in sports

Years in sports: 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921

Centuries: 19th century · 20th century · 21st century

Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s

Years: 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921

Contents

1 Baseball

2 Football (Australian rules football)

3 Golf

4 Horse racing

5 Ice hockey

6 Births

7 Deaths

Baseball

The United States curtails professional baseball September 2 in order to accelerate mobilization for war
World Series - Boston Red Sox defeat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2; Boston will not repeat for 86 years, until 2004. Chicago uses three lefty pitchers in rotation so Boston lefty batter Babe Ruth is benched during the four games he does not pitch himself; Ruth pitches brilliantly and George Whiteman stars as a full-time outfielder.
Babe Ruth leads the American League in home runs for the first time, hitting 11

Victorian Football League - South Melbourne wins the 22nd VFL Premiership (South Melbourne 9.8 (62) d Collingwood 7.15 (57))

January 2 - The Montreal Wanderers' arena burns down leading to the team's disbandment.
March 11–13 - In a two-game total-goals series, the temporary Torontos team defeats the Montreal Canadiens 10–7 to win the inaugural National Hockey League (NHL) championship.
March 11–13 - In a two-game total-goals series, the Vancouver Millionaires defeat the Seattle Metropolitans 3–2 to win the Pacific Coast Hockey Association championship.
March 20–30 - In a best-of-five series, the Torontos defeat the Millionaires to win the Stanley Cup.
March - The Kitchener Greenshirts win the Allan Cup.

January 1 — Willy den Ouden, Dutch freestyle swimmer (d. 1997)
January 25 — Ernie Harwell, longtime Detroit Tigers announcer
January 26 — Al Bummy Davis, American lightweight and welterweight boxer (d. 1945)
February 3 — Helen Stephens, American athlete (d. 1994)
March 10 — Fernando Peyroteo, Angola-born Portuguese football player (d. 1978)
May 16 — Wilf Mannion, English football (soccer) player (d. 2000)
June 18 — Reinaldo Gorno, Argentine long-distance runner(d. 1994)
June 27 — Adolph Kiefer, American swimmer
July 13 — Alberto Ascari, Italian racing car driver (d. 1955)
July 27 — Jopie Selbach, Dutch swimmer (d. 1998)
October 24 — James Peters, English long-distance runner (d. 1999)
November 9 — Florence Chadwick, American long distance swimmer (d. 1995)
December 7 — Max Merkel, Austrian football (soccer) player and coach (d. 2006)
December 31 — Gunder Hägg, Swedish runner (d. 2004)