This Day in Sports

New York can play on sundays

April 19, 1919 53

1916: Brown University’s Fredrick “Fritz” Pollard becomes the first African American back named to an All-American team in football.

December 30, 1916 43

Wilbert Robertson agrees to try to catch a baseball dropped from a plane

October 13, 2025 52

Nov. 21, 1914: The Yale Bowl opens with a Yale vs. Harvard football game.

November 21, 1914 50

Ebbets Field opens today

April 5, 1913 59

Navin Field in Detroit and Fenway Park in Boston open

April 20, 1912 56

Dec. 29, 1910: The IAAUS is renamed the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

December 29, 1910 53

William Howard Taft fires first pitch

April 14, 1910 52

1908 the Sacrifice Fly Rule Is Adopted.

October 13, 2025 47

1907: James Naismith, credited with the invention of basketball, steps down as men’s basketball coach at the University of Kansas, where his teams compiled a 55-60 record beginning in 1898.

May 1, 1907 47