1935 - Sports

Sports

Bucknell defeats Miami 26 to 0 in the first Orange Bowl game played January 1 at Miami. Tulane beats Temple 20 to 14 in the first Sugar Bowl game played January 1 at New Orleans.

College football's Heisman Memorial Trophy is awarded for the first time by New York's Downtown Athletic Club, whose first athletic director is former University of Pennsylvania football coach John Heisman, now 58. He has started the Touchdown Club of New York to honor all college players who have scored on the gridiron, the first award winner chosen by sportswriters and sportscasters is University of Chicago halfback John J. "Jay" Berwanger, 21, and the trophy will be awarded annually after Heisman's death in October of next year to honor not only the recipient but also the man who introduced the center snap, the vocal "hike" as a signal for starting play, the hidden-ball play, the scoreboard listing downs and yardage, etc. Heisman has been a leader in the fight to legalize the forward pass and reduce games into quarters instead of halves. Ohio-born Yale junior Larry Kelley, 20, stunned Princeton last year with a 43-yard pass reception off a fake-punt play, enabling the Elis to win 7 to 0 and break the Tigers' 15-game winning streak; he leads Yale to a 7-to-1 record in the fall and next year will be the first to win the Heisman Trophy under that name.

James J. Braddock, 29, wins the world heavyweight title from Max Baer in an upset June 13 at Long Island City, N.Y. The New York-born boxer gains a 15-round decision over Baer.

Fred Perry wins in men's singles at Wimbledon, Helen Wills Moody in women's singles; Wilmer Lawson Allison, 30, wins in men's singles at Forest Hills, Helen Jacobs in women's singles.

The ocean-going yacht Stormy Weather wins the Trans-Atlantic and Fastnet races with a crew commanded by Rod Stephens (see Dorade, 1931). Designed by Sparkman & Stephens, she is 53 feet 11 inches in length overall, 12 feet six inches in the beam, draws seven feet 10 inches, and has a sail area of 1,322 square feet. The New York Yacht Club has been looking for boats to replace the "Thirties" created by Herreshoff and turns to Olin J. Stephens II and the Nevins Yard on City Island, which comes up with the 32-foot (48 feet four inches overall) Mustang. Priced at only $11,000 with heavy Philippine mahogany planking and a low, solid deck house, it is 10 feet seven inches in the beam, draws six feet six inches, and carries 990 square feet of sail (see Lightning, 1938).

Hot Springs, Va., golf caddy Samuel Jackson "Sammy" Snead, 22, becomes a professional golfer to begin an outstanding career.

Eddie Arcaro wins a race on a thoroughbred gelding named No More at Chicago's Washington Park to begin a 31-year career that will make him a legend in his own time. Cincinnati-born jockey George Edward Arcaro, 19, will be the top money winner six years, will twice bring home Triple Crown winners, and will generally pocket a flat 10 percent of the winnings.

Major league baseball has its first night game May 14 at Cincinnati's Crosley Field. A button pressed by President Roosevelt at Washington, D.C., turns on 363 lights of 1,000 kilowatts each that are mounted on eight giant towers to illuminate the field and begin a new era in "America's favorite pastime."

The Detroit Tigers win the World Series, defeating the Chicago Cubs 4 games to 2 with help from Hank Greenberg, who will continue with Detroit through 1941, rejoin the Tigers in 1945, and move to Pittsburgh for his final season in 1947.