1929 in sports

1929 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

American football

 * NFL championship – Green Bay Packers (12–0–1)
 * Rose Bowl (1928 season):
 * The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets won 8–7 over the California Golden Bears to share the college football national championship
 * Notre Dame Fighting Irish – college football national championship
 * 28 November – Ernie Nevers scores 6 rushing touchdowns for Chicago Cardinals against Chicago Bears

Association football
Ecuador England Germany
 * Emelec of Guayaquil officially founded on April 28.
 * The Football League – Sheffield Wednesday 52 points, Leicester City 51, Aston Villa 50, Sunderland 47, Liverpool 46, Derby County 46
 * FA Cup final – Bolton Wanderers 2–0 Portsmouth at Empire Stadium, Wembley, London
 * National Championship – SpVgg Fürth 3–2 Hertha BSC at Nuremberg

Australian rules football
VFL Premiership Brownlow Medal
 * Collingwood achieves the only perfect home-and-away season in VFL/AFL history, but lose the second semi-final to 8.13 (61) to 18.15 (123)
 * Collingwood wins the 33rd VFL Premiership, beating Richmond 11.13 (79) to 7.8 (50) in the 1929 VFL Grand Final.
 * The annual Brownlow Medal is awarded to Albert Collier (Collingwood)

Bandy
Sweden
 * Championship final – IF Göta 5-1 Västerås SK

Baseball
World Series
 * April 16 - New York Yankees become 1st team to use numbers on uniforms
 * 8–14 October — Philadelphia Athletics (AL) defeat Chicago Cubs (NL) to win the 1929 World Series by 4 games to 1.

Basketball
ABL Championship Europe France
 * Cleveland Rosenblums over Fort Wayne Hoosiers (4–0)
 * Italian club Virtus Bologna, officially founded.
 * Limoges CSP, was founded in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, on November 13.

Boxing
Events Lineal world champions
 * September — having successfully defended the World Light Heavyweight Championship this year against both Mickey Walker and James J. Braddock, Tommy Loughran relinquishes the title to fight as a heavyweight
 * World Heavyweight Championship – vacant
 * World Light Heavyweight Championship – Tommy Loughran → vacant
 * World Middleweight Championship – Mickey Walker
 * World Welterweight Championship – Joe Dundee → Jackie Fields
 * World Lightweight Championship – Sammy Mandell
 * World Featherweight Championship – Andre Routis → Bat Battalino
 * World Bantamweight Championship – vacant → "Panama" Al Brown
 * World Flyweight Championship – vacant

Canadian football
Grey Cup
 * 17th Grey Cup – Hamilton Tigers 14–3 Regina Roughriders

Cricket
Events England Australia India New Zealand South Africa West Indies
 * Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) organises the England tour of Australia in the 1928–29 season. England retains The Ashes, winning the first four Tests against Australia and losing the last for a 4–1 series victory. But, ominously for England, a young batsman called Don Bradman makes his Test debut for Australia.
 * County Championship – Nottinghamshire
 * Minor Counties Championship – Oxfordshire
 * Most runs – Frank Woolley 2804 @ 56.08 (HS 176)
 * Most wickets – Tich Freeman 267 @ 18.27 (BB 10–131)
 * Wisden Cricketers of the Year – Ted Bowley, K. S. Duleepsinhji, Tuppy Owen-Smith, Walter Robins, Bob Wyatt
 * Sheffield Shield – New South Wales
 * Most runs – Don Bradman 1690 @ 93.88 (HS 340*)
 * Most wickets – Clarrie Grimmett 71 @ 34.25 (BB 6–109)
 * Bombay Quadrangular – Parsees
 * Plunket Shield – Auckland
 * Currie Cup – Western Province
 * Inter-Colonial Tournament – British Guiana

Cycling
Tour de France
 * Maurice De Waele (Belgium) wins the 23rd Tour de France

Figure skating
World Figure Skating Championships
 * World Men's Champion – Gillis Grafström (Sweden)
 * World Women's Champion – Sonja Henie (Norway)
 * World Pairs Champions – Lilly Scholz and Otto Kaiser (Austria)

Golf
Major tournaments Other tournaments
 * British Open – Walter Hagen
 * US Open – Bobby Jones
 * USPGA Championship – Leo Diegel
 * British Amateur – Cyril Tolley
 * US Amateur – Jimmy Johnston

Horse racing
England Australia Canada France Ireland US
 * Champion Hurdle – Royal Falcon
 * Cheltenham Gold Cup – Easter Hero
 * Grand National – Gregalach
 * 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Taj Mah
 * 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Mr Jinks
 * The Derby – Trigo
 * The Oaks – Pennycomequick
 * St. Leger Stakes – Trigo
 * Melbourne Cup – Nightmarch
 * King's Plate – Shorelint
 * Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe – Ortello
 * Irish Grand National – Alike
 * Irish Derby Stakes – Kopi
 * Kentucky Derby – Clyde Van Dusen
 * Preakness Stakes – Dr. Freeland
 * Belmont Stakes – Blue Larkspur

Ice hockey
Stanley Cup
 * 28–29 March — Boston Bruins defeats New York Rangers by 2 games to 0 in the 1929 Stanley Cup Finals

Lacrosse
Events
 * The Intercollegiate Lacrosse League is renamed the U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA).

Nordic skiing
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
 * 4th FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1929 are held at Zakopane, Poland

Rowing
The Boat Race
 * 23 March — Cambridge wins the 81st Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

Rugby league

 * The Australia national rugby league team embarked on the 1929–30 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain.

England Australia
 * Championship – Huddersfield
 * Challenge Cup final – Wigan 13–2 Dewsbury at Empire Stadium, Wembley, London
 * Lancashire League Championship – Swinton
 * Yorkshire League Championship – Huddersfield
 * Lancashire County Cup – Wigan 5–4 Widnes
 * Yorkshire County Cup – Leeds 5–0 Featherstone Rovers
 * NSW Premiership – South Sydney 30–10 Newtown (grand final)

Rugby union
Five Nations Championship
 * 42nd Five Nations Championship series is won by Scotland

Snooker
World Championship
 * 3rd World Snooker Championship is won by Joe Davis who defeats Tom Dennis 19–14

Speed skating
Speed Skating World Championships
 * Men's All-round Champion – Clas Thunberg (Finland)

Tennis
Australia England France US Davis Cup
 * Australian Men's Singles Championship – Colin Gregory (Great Britain) defeats Richard Schlesinger (Australia) 6–2 6–2 5–7 7–5
 * Australian Women's Singles Championship – Daphne Akhurst Cozens (Australia) defeats Louise Bickerton (Australia) 6–1 5–7 6–2
 * Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – Henri Cochet (France) defeats Jean Borotra (France) 6–4 6–3 6–4
 * Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Helen Wills Moody (US) defeats Helen Jacobs (US) 6–1 6–2
 * French Men's Singles Championship – René Lacoste (France) defeats Jean Borotra (France) 6–3 2–6 6–0 2–6 8–6
 * French Women's Singles Championship – Helen Wills Moody (US) defeats Simonne Mathieu (France) 6–3 6–4
 * American Men's Singles Championship – Bill Tilden (US) defeats Francis Hunter (US) 3–6 6–3 4–6 6–2 6–4
 * American Women's Singles Championship – Helen Wills Moody (US) defeats Phoebe Holcroft Watson (Great Britain) 6–4 6–2
 * 1929 International Lawn Tennis Challenge – 3–2  at Stade Roland Garros (clay) Paris, France