1880 in sports

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Association football

• 10 April – FA Cup
  FA Cup
  
  The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a Single-elimination tournament cup competition in Football in England, run by and named after The Football Association....
   : Clapham Rovers
  Clapham Rovers F.C.
  
  Clapham Rovers were an England association football club founded in 1869 in association football, that played in the late 19th century and are now defunct....
   beat Oxford University
  Oxford University A.F.C.
  
  Oxford University Association Football Club is an England football club representing the University of Oxford....
   1-0

Baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...

• Chicago White Stockings
  Chicago Cubs
  
  The Chicago Cubs are a professional baseball franchise based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members and currently the two-time defending champions of the National League Central of Major League Baseball's National League....
   win National League
  National League
  
  The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the National League , is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball, and the world's oldest existent professional team sports league....
   championship
• The latest National Association, a professional rival of the National League, goes out of business after its fourth season, contested by only three to four clubs.

Cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games team sport that originated in southern England. The earliest definite reference is dated 1598, and it is now played in more than 100 countries....

• 6-8 September – first ever Test match
  Test cricket
  
  Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. It has long been considered the ultimate test of playing ability between cricketing nations....
   in England. England defeated Australia by 5 wickets after W G Grace scored England's first Test century.

Golf

Golf

Golf is a sport in which players using many types of Golf club including wood , iron , and putter , attempt to hit golf ball into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes....

• British Open
  The Open Championship
  
  The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four men's major golf championships in men's golf. It is the only major held outside the USA and is administered by the R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico....
   - Bob Ferguson
  Bob Ferguson (golfer)
  
  Robert "Bob" Ferguson , was a Scotland golfer who won a hat-trick of titles at The Open Championship in 1880, 1881 and 1882. He was especially noted for his putting....
  

Horse racing

Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrianism sport that has been practiced over the centuries; the chariot racing of Ancient Rome are an early example, as is the contest of the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology....

• May 18 - Fonso wins the Kentucky Derby
  Kentucky Derby
  
  The Kentucky Derby is a graded stakes race for three year-old Thoroughbreds, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival....
  

Rowing

• Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race - Oxford

Births

• February 2 — Frederick Lane
  Frederick Lane
  
  Frederick Claude Vivian Lane was an Australian swimmer.Lane, from Manly NSW, was the first Australian to represent his country in swimming at the Olympic Games, although he was actually a part of the British team when he competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics and won two gold medals....
  , Australian swimmer (d. 1969)
• April 8 — Thomas Thomas
  Thomas Thomas (boxer)
  
  Thomas Thomas , was a Wales boxing, the first British middleweight boxing champion....
  , boxing champion (died 1911)
• June 22 - Rhys Gabe
  Rhys Gabe
  
  Rhys Thomas Gabe was a Welsh rugby union player who gained 24 caps for Wales national rugby union team, mainly as a centre.Rugby career...
  , Welsh rugby player (died 1967)
• September 14 — Archie Hahn
  Archie Hahn
  
  Charles Archibald "Archie" Hahn was a German American Athletics , and one of the best sprinters in the early 20th century.Having won sprint events at the 1903 American and Canadian championships, Hahn - born in Dodgeville, Wisconsin but running for the University of Michigan - was among the favourites at the 1904 Olympic Games in St....
  , American athlete (d. 1955)
• October 5 — Piet de Brouwer
  Piet de Brouwer
  
  Petrus "Piet" Godefridus de Brouwer was an Archery from the Netherlands.He was born in Gestel, Noord-Brabant and died in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant....
  , Dutch archer (d. 1953)