1. American football

2. Association football

3. Baseball

4. Boxing

5. Cricket

6. Golf

7. Horse racing

8. Ice hockey

9. Rowing

10. Rugby football

11. References

1875 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

American football

• College football national championship – Harvard Crimson

• 13 November — first edition of "The Game", the annual contest between Yale Bulldogs and Harvard Crimson, is played under a modified set of rugby football rules known as "The Concessionary Rules". Yale loses 4–0, but finds that it prefers Harvard's adopted rugby style game.

Association football

• FA Cup final – Royal Engineers 2–0 Old Etonians in a replay following a 1–1 draw (both games played at The Oval).
• 5 November — Blackburn Rovers founded at a meeting of enthusiasts in the St Leger Hotel, King William St, Blackburn.
• Birmingham City founded as Small Heath Alliance by cricketers from Holy Trinity Church in the Bordesley Green area of Birmingham.
• Introduction of crossbars.
• Wing play develops and the practice of "middling" (i.e., crossing) the ball is found to be effective. Heading is also introduced, apparently by players in Sheffield. Billy Mosforth of Sheffield FC is noted for his "screw shot" which gives him the ability to "bend" the ball in flight.

• Scottish Cup final – Queen's Park 3–0 Renton at Hampden Park
• Hibernian FC founded in Edinburgh by Irish immigrants who give the club the Roman name for Ireland.

Baseball

• National Association of Professional Base Ball Players champion – Boston Red Stockings (fourth consecutive season)

Boxing

• No major bouts take place in 1875. Tom Allen retains the American Championship.^[1]

Cricket

• 18 August — formation of Somerset County Cricket Club by a team of amateurs at a meeting in Sidmouth, Devonshire, immediately after a match against a local side.

• Champion County^[2] – Nottinghamshire
• Most runs – W. G. Grace 1,498 @ 32.56 (HS 152)
• Most wickets – W. G. Grace 191 @ 12.94 (BB 9–48)

Golf

• British Open – Willie Park senior

Horse racing

• Inaugural running of the Kentucky Derby is won by Aristides

• Grand National – Pathfinder
• 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Spinaway
• 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Camballo
• The Derby – Galopin
• The Oaks – Spinaway
• St. Leger Stakes – Craig Millar

• Melbourne Cup – Wollomai

• Queen's Plate – Young Trumpeter

• Irish Grand National – Scots Grey
• Irish Derby Stakes – Innishowen

• Kentucky Derby – Aristides
• Preakness Stakes – Tom Ochiltree
• Belmont Stakes – Calvin

Ice hockey

• 3 March — first organised and recorded indoor game of ice hockey is played at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal.

Rowing

• 20 March — Oxford wins the 32nd Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

Rugby football

• Barrow RLFC and Leinster Rugby are established in 1875

References

• Henry Patterson Loomis
• Henry Paulet, 16th Marquess of Winchester
• Henry Payne (academic)
• Henry Payne (engineer)
• Henry Paynter
• Henry P. Chandler
• Henry P. Doe
• Henry Peacham
• Henry Peacham (1546-1634)
• Henry Peacham (1578-1644)
• Henry Peacham (born 1578)
• Henry Peacham (died 1634)
• Henry Peacham (died 1644)
• Henry Peacham (disambiguation)
• Henry Peacham I
• Henry Peacham II
• Henry Peacham jnr
• Henry Peacham Jr.
• Henry Peacham, Jr.
• Henry Peacham junior
• Henry Peacham senior
• Henry Peacham snr
• Henry Peacham Sr.
• Henry Peacham, Sr.
• Henry Peacham the Elder