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Sports-related events of 1846
Overview of the events of 1846 in sports
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Field hockey
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Handball
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Ice sports
Korfball
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Motorsport
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1845–46
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Table tennis
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1846 in sports
describes the year's events in world sport.
Baseball
Events
19 June — first match certainly played under the
Knickerbocker
rules at
Elysian Fields
in
Hoboken, New Jersey
.
Boxing
Events
William Thompson
retains the Championships of England but there is no record of any fights involving him in 1846.
[1]
Cricket
Events
25 & 26 May — the earliest-known first-class match at
The Oval
was Surrey Club v.
MCC
25 & 26 June — the new
Surrey County Cricket Club
played its inaugural first-class match v.
Kent County Cricket Club
at The Oval, winning by 10 wickets
Foundation of the travelling
All-England Eleven
(AEE) by
William Clarke
. Making good use of the developing railway network, the team plays its first matches at Sheffield, Manchester and Leeds.
England
Most runs –
Thomas Box
413 @ 20.65 (HS 79)
Most wickets –
William Hillyer
152 @ 6.83 (BB 7–?)
Horse racing
England
Grand National
– Pioneer
1,000 Guineas Stakes
– Mendicant
2,000 Guineas Stakes
–
Sir Tatton Sykes
The Derby
–
Pyrrhus the First
[2]
The Oaks
– Mendicant
St. Leger Stakes
–
Sir Tatton Sykes
Rowing
The Boat Race
3 April —
Cambridge
wins the 8th
Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
References
^
Cyber Boxing Zone – Bendigo
. Retrieved on 7 November 2009.
^
"Epsom Derby | History, Winners, & Facts | Britannica"
.
www.britannica.com
. Retrieved
23 December
2021
.
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