1929 in sports
1929 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
American football
- Green Bay Packers wins National Football League title
- Rose Bowl (1928 season):
- The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets won 8-7 over the California Golden Bears to share the college football national championship
- Notre Dame Fighting Irish – college football national championship
- 28 November – Ernie Nevers scores 6 rushing touchdowns for Chicago Cardinals against Chicago Bears
Association football
England
- The Football League – Sheffield Wednesday 52 points, Leicester City 51, Aston Villa 50, Sunderland 47, Liverpool 46, Derby County 46
- FA Cup final – Bolton Wanderers 2–0 Portsmouth at Empire Stadium, Wembley, London
Germany
- National Championship – SpVgg Fürth 3–2 Hertha BSC at Nuremberg
Australian rules football
VFL Premiership
- Collingwood achieves the only perfect home-and-away season in VFL/AFL history, but lose the second semi-final to Richmond 8.13 (61) to 18.15 (123)
- Collingwood wins the 33rd VFL Premiership, beating Richmond 11.13 (79) to 7.8 (50) in the 1929 VFL Grand Final.
Brownlow Medal
- The annual Brownlow Medal is awarded to Albert Collier (Collingwood)
Bandy
Sweden
Baseball
World Series
- 8–14 October — Philadelphia Athletics (AL) defeat Chicago Cubs (NL) to win the 1929 World Series by 4 games to 1
Basketball
ABL Championship
- Cleveland Rosenblums win four games to none over the Fort Wayne Hoosiers
Boxing
Events
- September — having successfully defended the World Light Heavyweight Championship this year against both Mickey Walker and James J. Braddock, Tommy Loughran relinquishes the title to fight as a heavyweight
Lineal world champions[1]
- World Heavyweight Championship – vacant
- World Light Heavyweight Championship – Tommy Loughran → vacant
- World Middleweight Championship – Mickey Walker
- World Welterweight Championship – Joe Dundee → Jackie Fields
- World Lightweight Championship – Sammy Mandell
- World Featherweight Championship – Andre Routis → Bat Battalino
- World Bantamweight Championship – vacant → "Panama" Al Brown
- World Flyweight Championship – vacant
Canadian football
Grey Cup
Cricket
Events
- Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) organises the England tour of Australia in the 1928–29 season. England retains The Ashes, winning the first four Tests against Australia and losing the last for a 4–1 series victory. But, ominously for England, a young batsman called Don Bradman makes his Test debut for Australia.
England
- County Championship – Nottinghamshire
- Minor Counties Championship – Oxfordshire
- Most runs – Frank Woolley 2804 @ 56.08 (HS 176)
- Most wickets – Tich Freeman 267 @ 18.27 (BB 10–131)
- Wisden Cricketers of the Year – Ted Bowley, K. S. Duleepsinhji, Tuppy Owen-Smith, Walter Robins, Bob Wyatt
Australia
- Sheffield Shield – New South Wales
- Most runs – Don Bradman 1690 @ 93.88 (HS 340*)
- Most wickets – Clarrie Grimmett 71 @ 34.25 (BB 6–109)
India
New Zealand
South Africa
- Currie Cup – not contested
West Indies
Cycling
Tour de France
- Maurice De Waele (Belgium) wins the 23rd Tour de France
Figure skating
World Figure Skating Championships
- World Men's Champion – Gillis Grafström (Sweden)
- World Women's Champion – Sonja Henie (Norway)
- World Pairs Champions – Lilly Scholz and Otto Kaiser (Austria)
Golf
Major tournaments
Other tournaments
Horse racing
England
- Champion Hurdle – Royal Falcon
- Cheltenham Gold Cup – Easter Hero
- Grand National – Gregalach
- 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Taj Mah
- 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Mr Jinks
- Epsom Derby – Trigo
- Epsom Oaks – Pennycomequick
- St. Leger Stakes – Trigo
Australia
- Melbourne Cup – Nightmarch
Canada
- Queen's Plate – Shorelint
France
- Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe – Ortello
Ireland
- Irish Grand National – Alike
- Irish Derby Stakes – Kopi
USA
Ice hockey
Stanley Cup
- 28–29 March — Boston Bruins defeats New York Rangers by 2 games to 0 in the 1929 Stanley Cup Finals
Lacrosse
Events
- The Intercollegiate Lacrosse League is renamed the U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA).
Motor racing
Grand Prix racing
- 14 April — the 1st Monaco Grand Prix is run at Monte Carlo. The winner is William Grover-Williams (Great Britain) driving a Bugatti T35B in 3:56:11.0 over 318 km (198 mi) (100 laps).
- 30 June — the 15th French Grand Prix, organised by the Automobile Club de France (ACF), is run at Circuit de la Sarthe, near Le Mans, over 604.58 km (375.67 mi) (37 laps). The winner is William Grover-Williams driving a Bugatti T35B in 4:33:01.2. The race is retrospectively referred to as the XXIII Grand Prix de l'ACF.
Indianapolis 500
- 30 May — 17th running of the Indianapolis 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is won by Ray Keech in the Simplex Piston Ring Special Miller.
Le Mans 24 hours
- The 7th Le Mans 24 hours race is won by Woolf Barnato (Great Britain) and Henry Birkin (Great Britain) driving a Bentley Speed Six over 174 laps 2,843.83 km (1,767.07 mi).
Nordic skiing
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
- 4th FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1929 are held at Zakopane, Poland
Rowing
The Boat Race
- 23 March — Cambridge wins the 81st Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
Rugby league
- The Australia national rugby league team embarked on the 1929–30 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain.
England
- Championship – Huddersfield
- Challenge Cup final – Wigan 13–2 Dewsbury at Empire Stadium, Wembley, London
- Lancashire League Championship – Swinton
- Yorkshire League Championship – Huddersfield
- Lancashire Cup – Wigan 5–4 Widnes
- Yorkshire Cup – Leeds 5–0 Featherstone Rovers
Australia
- NSW Premiership – South Sydney 30–10 Newtown (grand final)
Rugby union
Five Nations Championship
- 42nd Five Nations Championship series is won by Scotland
Snooker
World Championship
- 3rd World Snooker Championship is won by Joe Davis who defeats Tom Dennis 19–14
Speed skating
Speed Skating World Championships
- Men's All-round Champion – Clas Thunberg (Finland)
Tennis
Australia
- Australian Men's Singles Championship – Colin Gregory (Great Britain) defeats Richard Schlesinger (Australia) 6–2 6–2 5–7 7–5
- Australian Women's Singles Championship – Daphne Akhurst Cozens (Australia) defeats Louise Bickerton (Australia) 6–1 5–7 6–2
England
- Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – Henri Cochet (France) defeats Jean Borotra (France) 6–4 6–3 6–4
- Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Helen Wills Moody (USA) defeats Helen Jacobs (USA) 6–1 6–2
France
- French Men's Singles Championship – René Lacoste (France) defeats Jean Borotra (France) 6–3 2–6 6–0 2–6 8–6
- French Women's Singles Championship – Helen Wills Moody (USA) defeats Simonne Mathieu (France) 6–3 6–4
USA
- American Men's Singles Championship – Bill Tilden (USA) defeats Francis Hunter (USA) 3–6 6–3 4–6 6–2 6–4
- American Women's Singles Championship – Helen Wills Moody (USA) defeats Phoebe Holcroft Watson (Great Britain) 6–4 6–2
Davis Cup
- 1929 International Lawn Tennis Challenge –
France 3–2 
United States at Stade Roland Garros (clay) Paris, France
References
{{Sports by year 1901 – 1950}}
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