1903 In Sports

Cycling

• First Tour de France won by Maurice Garin

Football (Australian Rules)

• Victorian Football League
• Collingwood wins the 7th VFL Premiership (Collingwood 4.7 (31) d Fitzroy 3.11 (29))
• See also Victorian Football League season 1903

Baseball

• Frank Ferrell and Bill Devery purchase the defunct Baltimore franchise of the American league for $18,000 and move it to Manhattan.

• The Winnipeg Maroons win the Northern League Championship for the second consecutive year.

Events

• October - World Series: Boston Americans, representing the American League, defeat the National League champion Pittsburgh Pirates in eight games (best of nine) to win the first modern World Series.

Births

• September 6 Maxie Rosenbloom, boxing champion and film actor (+ 1976)

Deaths

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