1. American football

2. Association football

3. Australian rules football

4. Bandy

5. Baseball

6. Basketball

7. Boxing

8. Canadian football

9. Cricket

10. Cycling

11. Figure skating

12. Golf

13. Horse racing

14. Ice hockey

15. Lacrosse

16. Motorsport

17. Nordic skiing

18. Rowing

19. Rugby league

20. Rugby union

21. Snooker

22. Speed skating

23. Tennis

24. References

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

American football

• Green Bay Packers wins National Football League title
• 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

• Emelec of Guayaquil officially founded on April 28.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}

• 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

• Collingwood achieves the only perfect home-and-away season in VFL/AFL history, but lose the second semi-final to {{AFL Ric}} 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

• Championship final – IF Göta 5-1 Västerås SK

Baseball

• 8–14 October — Philadelphia Athletics (AL) defeat Chicago Cubs (NL) to win the 1929 World Series by 4 games to 1.

Basketball

• Cleveland Rosenblums win four games to none over the Fort Wayne Hoosiers

• Italian club Virtus Bologna, officially founded.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}

Boxing

• 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

• 17th Grey Cup – Hamilton Tigers 14–3 Regina Roughriders

Cricket

• 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 – not contested

• Inter-Colonial Tournament – British Guiana

Cycling

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

Figure skating

• World Men's Champion – Gillis Grafström (Sweden)
• World Women's Champion – Sonja Henie (Norway)
• World Pairs Champions – Lilly Scholz and Otto Kaiser (Austria)

Golf

• British Open – Walter Hagen
• US Open – Bobby Jones
• USPGA Championship – Leo Diegel

• British Amateur – Cyril Tolley
• US Amateur – Jimmy Johnston

Horse racing

• 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

• Queen'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

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

Lacrosse

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

Motorsport

Nordic skiing

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

Rowing

• 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.

• 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

• 42nd Five Nations Championship series is won by Scotland

Snooker

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

Speed skating

• Men's All-round Champion – Clas Thunberg (Finland)

Tennis

• 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 (USA) defeats Helen Jacobs (USA) 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 (USA) defeats Simonne Mathieu (France) 6–3 6–4

• American Men's Singles Championship – Bill Tilden (USA) defeats Francis Hunter (USA) 3–6 6–3 4–6 6–2 6–4
• American Women's Singles Championship – Helen Wills Moody (USA) defeats Phoebe Holcroft Watson (Great Britain) 6–4 6–2

• 1929 International Lawn Tennis Challenge – {{davis|FRA}} 3–2 {{davis|USA|1912}} at Stade Roland Garros (clay) Paris, France

References

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• Sean Giambrone
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• Sean Graham
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