TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - JANUARY 2ND

1879 - Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford, Ill.
1911 - Brooklyn Dodgers president Charles Ebbets announces purchase

of grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30,000.

1918 - NHL Montreal Wanderers disband after Westmount arena burns down.

1927 - Gino Marchetti, NFL defensive end (Dallas Texans, Baltimore Colts) is born.

1945 - Kentucky begins 130 home basketball game win streak, ends in 1955.
1953 - NBA Baltimore Bullets begin a 32 game road losing streak.
1965 - NY Jets sign quarterback Joe Namath.
1966 - Green Bay Packers beat Cleveland Browns 23-12 in NFL Championship game.
1969 - "Soviet Sport" calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy.

1969 - Tommy Morrison, American boxer, (d. 2013) is born.
1971 - A barrier collapses at Ibrox Park football ground at end of a

soccer match in Glasgow Scotland, killing 66.
1972 - Dallas Cowboys beat SF '49ers 14-3 in NFC Championship game.
1972 - Miami Dolphins beat Balt Colts 21-0 in AFC championship game.
1977 - Bowie Kuhn suspends Braves owner Ted Turner for one year due to

tampering charges in Gary Matthews free-agency signing.

1984 - Miami beats Nebraska in Orange Bowl for college football championship.
1985 - Nevada-Las Vegas beats Utah 142-140, highest college basketball score.
1985 - Undefeated BYU becomes college football champions.
1986 - NY Islander, Mike Bossy, scores his 500th goal.

1986 - Bill Veeck, American baseball executive (b. 1914) dies.
1987 - Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for College Football champ.
1989 - Notre Dame beats West Virginia for College Football championship.