TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY - OCTOBER 25TH

1621 - Govenor Bradford of colony of American

Plymouth disallows sport on Christmas Day.
1884 - 1st World Series OK by AA, Providence (NL) sweeps NY Mets (AA) in 3.

1889 - Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball pitcher (d. 1985) is born.
1904 - [Herman] Denny Shute, American golfer and

three-time major champion, born in Cleveland, Ohio is born.

1905 - 1st College Football Crab Bowl Classic:

Navy beats Maryland 17-0 in Annapolis.
1912 - Jack Kent Cooke, NFL team owner (Washington Redskins) is born.
1917 - Lee MacPhail, American baseball manager and league executive is born.
1925 - Lester Patrick takes over NY Rangers.
1926 - Lester Patrick becomes 1st coach & gm of NY Rangers.

1940 - Bobby Knight, college basketball coach (Indiana, Olympic-gold-1984) is born.

1948 - Dan Gable, Waterloo Iowa, 68kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-gold-72) is born.
1948 - Dan Issel, NBA coach/player (27,482 points, Denver Nuggets) is born.
1948 - Dave Cowens, Newport Kentucky, NBA forward

(Boston Celtics, Milwaukee Bucks) is born.
1953 - Cleveland Browns' QB Otto Graham sets club record with 4 fumbles.

1954 - Mike Eruzione, Winthrop Massachusetts,

American ice hockey player (Olympic Gold Medal 1980) is born.
1956 - White Sox manager Marty Marion resigns. AL Lopez replaces him.
1964 - Anton Geesink is 1st non-Japanese Olympic judo gold medal winner.

1964 - "The Wrong Way Run", Viking Jim Marshall runs 66 yards

in wrong direction for a safety (NFL's #1 blooper).

1973 - Cubs trade Ferguson Jenkins to Rangers for Bill Madlock & Vic Harris.
1973 - SF Giants trade Willie McCovey to SD Padres for pitcher Mike Caldwell.
1975 - Denver Nuggets 1st game at McNichols Sports Arena beat St Louis Spirits.
1978 - Padres Gaylord Perry is 1st to win Cy Young in both leagues (NL).
1980 - Mike Weaver KOs Gerrie Coetzee in 13 for heavyweight boxing title.

1990 - Evander Holyfield KOs Buster Douglas in 3 for heavyweight boxing title.
1992 - Rene Lachemann hired as Fla Marlins 1st manager.

1995 - Bobby Riggs, American tennis player ("The Battle of the Sexes",

US Open 1939, 41), dies of prostate cancer at 77.
1999 - Payne Stewart, American golfer, dies in a plane crash at 42.

2012 - John Connelly, English footballer, dies from cancer at 74.
2013 - Bill Sharman, American basketball player,

dies from complications from a stroke at 87.