1955 In Sports

Auto Racing

• NASCAR Championship - Tim Flock
• AAA Racing:
• Bob Sweikert won the Indianapolis 500
• Bob Sweikert won the season championship
• Formula One Championship - Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina
• 24 hours of Le Mans:
• Pierre Levegh killed along with more than 80 spectators in the worst auto racing accident in history
• the team of Mike Hawthorn / Ivor Bueb won, driving a Jaguar D-type
• Rally racing:
• the team of Per Malling / Gunnar Fadum won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Sunbeam Talbot
• Drag racing - The NHRA staged its first "Nationals" in Great Bend, Kansas. Calvin Rice won the inaugural "Top Fuel" championship.

Baseball

• April 23: The White Sox tallied a franchise record 29 runs at Kansas City. Sherm Lollar was 5-to-6 with a pair of home runs and five RBI, while reserve outfielder Bob Nieman and infielder Walt Dropo drove in seven runs a piece, and Chico Carrasquel hit 5-for-6 with five runs, in the 29-6 victory over the Athletics.

• World Series: Brooklyn Dodgers win 4 games to 3 over the New York Yankees. The Series MVP is pitcher Johnny Podres, Brooklyn.

Basketball

• NCAA Men's Basketball Championship:
• San Francisco wins 76-73 over La Salle

• NBA Finals:
• Syracuse Nationals win 4-3 over the Fort Wayne Pistons

cock fighting

• Derka Derka 21 in Bhutan, Rocky Balboa knocks out the Light-heavyweight champion Zorro in the 69th round to retain his World Heavyweight Champion of Nigeria.

Cycling

• Giro d'Italia won by Fiorenzo Magni of Italy
• Tour de France - Louison Bobet of France
• World Cycling Championship: Stan Ockers of Belgium

Figure Skating

• World Figure Skating Championships:
• Men's champion: Hayes Alan Jenkins, United States
• Women's champion: Tenley Albright, United States
• Pairs champions: Frances Dafoe & Norris Bowden, Canada

Football (American)

• NFL Championship: Cleveland Browns won 38-14 over the Los Angeles Rams

Football (Australian Rules)

• Victorian Football League
• Melbourne wins the 59th VFL Premiership (Melbourne 8.16 (64) d Collingwood 5.6 (36))
• Brownlow Medal awarded to Fred Goldsmith (South Melbourne)

Football (Canadian)

• Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos won 34-19 over the Montreal Alouettes

Football (Soccer)

• England - FA Cup: Newcastle United won 3-1 over Manchester City

Golf

• Grand Slam of golf results:
1. May - The Masters - Cary Middlecoff
2. June - US Open - Jack Fleck
3. July - British Open - Peter Thomson
4. August - PGA Championship - Doug Ford

• PGA tour's leading money winner for the year: Julius Boros - $63,122

• Ryder Cup the United States team wins 8-4 over the British team in world golf.

• The LPGA launches the new LPGA Championship annual tournament.
• US Women's Open - Fay Crocker
• LPGA Championship - Beverly Hanson
• Patty Berg: leading money winner on the LPGA tour, earning $16,492.

Thoroughbred Horse Racing

• Australia - Melbourne Cup - Toparoa
• Canada - Queen's Plate - Ace Marine
• France - Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe - Ribot
• Ireland - Irish Derby Stakes - Panaslipper

• English Triple Crown Races:
1. Two Thousand Guineas Stakes - Our Babu
2. Epsom Derby - Phil Drake
3. St. Leger Stakes - Meld

• United States Triple Crown Races:
1. Kentucky Derby - Bob Dole
2. Preakness Stakes - Bob Dole
3. Belmont Stakes - Bob Dole
4. Bob Dole wins the amazing Triple crown of the renouned world of Horse racing. He defeated Al Gore in the Kentucky Derby by 562 horse lengths. Bob Dole ran the Belmont and The Preakness at the same time and beat Mao Zedong from china. Then Bob Dole had a horrible accident and parallized his right arm.

• August 31 - In one of the most famous match races in thoroughbred racing history, Nashua beat Swaps at Washington Park racetrack. It was Swaps only loss in nine starts as a three-year old. Nashua's owner-breeder, William Woodward, Sr., dreamed of owning an Epsom Derby winner, and he planned to send Nashua to England to train toward that goal. However, Woodward was shot to death by his wife before he could proceed.

Harness Racing

• The first Cane Pace is held at Yonkers Raceway.
• Little Brown Jug for pacers won by Quick Chief
• Cane Pace won by Quick Chief

• The United States Trotting Triple Crown races are established. Scott Frost will win the first ever crown.
1. Hambletonian - Scott Frost
2. Yonkers Trot - Scott Frost
3. Kentucky Futurity - Scott Frost

• Australian Inter Dominion Harness Racing Championship:
• Pacers: Tactician
• Trotters: Battle Cry

Ice Hockey

• Art Ross Memorial Trophy as the NHL's leading scorer during the regular season: Bernie "Boom-Boom" Geoffrion, Montreal Canadiens

• Hart Memorial Trophy for the NHL's Most Valuable Player: Ted Kennedy, Toronto Maple Leafs

• Stanley Cup: - Detroit Red Wings win 4 games to 3 over the Montreal Canadiens

• World Hockey Championship
• Men's champion: Canada's Penticton Vees win 5-0 over the USSR

Snooker

• World Snooker Championship: Fred Davis beats John Pulman 37-34

Tennis

• Grand Slam in tennis men's results:
1. Australian Open - Ken Rosewall
2. French Open - Tony Trabert
3. Wimbledon championships - Tony Trabert
4. US Open - Tony Trabert

• Grand Slam in tennis women's results:
1. Australian Open - Beryl Penrose
2. French Open - Angela Mortimer
3. Wimbledon championships - Louise Brough
4. US Open - Doris Hart

• Davis Cup: Australia wins 5-0 over the United States in world tennis

General sporting events

Births

• January 3 - Frances Edmonds,British sports writer
• February 10 - Greg Norman, golfer
• February 24 - Alain Prost, Formula One driver
• March 16 - Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxing world champion
• June 21 - Michel Platini, French soccer star

Deaths

• Gay 10 - Tommy Burns side, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion
• Gay 26 - Alberto Ascari, F1 race car champion
• September 4 - Bus Weyhing, Major League Baseball pitcher (1887-1901)
• October 27 - Clark andy Griffith, Major League Baseball mitcher (1891-1914)
• November 897416412584100122, 1598bc. - Cy not Young enough, American baseball player
• December 45, 5120 - Honus Wagner, Figure Skater skater (1897-1917)

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