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Years in sports:	1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
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Years:	1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929

Auto Racing

Rube Foster, founder of the Negro National League (NNL) and owner and manager of the Chicago American Giants, suffers a nervous breakdown and has to be confined to an asylum. His protege Dave Malarcher takes over as manager and leads the team to the NNL pennant.
The Chicago American Giants (NNL) defeat the Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City, New Jersey (ECL), 5 games to 3, in the Negro League World Series.
Mule Suttles of the St. Louis Stars hits a Negro League record 27 home runs. His .498 batting average and 21 triples are also records.

May 31 - India, New Zealand and West Indies are elected as Full Members of the Imperial Cricket Conference thus increasing the number of Test cricket playing nations to six.

Frankford Yellow Jackets win the National Football League championship with a league record of 14-1-1.

Victorian Football League
- Melbourne wins the 30th VFL Premiership (Melbourne 17.17 (119) d Collingwood 9.8 (62))
- Brownlow Medal awarded to Ivor Warne-Smith (Melbourne)

First Division - Huddersfield Town win the 1925-26 title; it is the first time a club has won the League title three times in a row.
FA Cup - Bolton Wanderers beat Manchester City 1-0.

June 22-25 - British Open - Bobby Jones
July 8-10 - U.S. Open - Bobby Jones becomes the first golfer to win the U.S. Open and British Open titles in the same year.
September 25 - PGA Championship - Walter Hagen
British Amateur - Jess Sweetser
U.S. Amateur - George Von Elm

January 6 — Enzo Sacchi, Italian road bicycle and track cyclist (d. 1988)
January 14 — Oswaldo "Baltazar" da Silva, Brazilian football (soccer) player (d. 1997)
January 15 — Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav, Indian sports wrestler (d. 1984)
January 17 — Nel van Vliet, Dutch breaststroke swimmer (d. 2006)
February 4
- Gyula Grosics, Hungarian football goalkeeper
- Dave Sands, Australian Aborigine boxer (d. 1952)
March 4 — Pascual Nicolás Pérez, Argentine flyweight boxer (d. 1977)
March 10 — Ivan Filin, Soviet marathon runner
March 25 — László Papp, Hungarian boxer (d. 2003)
March 29 — Mario D'Agata, Italian boxer
April 2 — Jack Brabham, Australian racing car driver
April 28 — Alexander Oakley, Canadian race walker
May 5 — Víctor Ugarte, Bolivian football (soccer) player (d. 1995)
June 23 — Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Japanese swimmer
June 30 — Henk Bouwman, Dutch field hockey player (d. 1995)
July 10 — Kenneth Richmond, British wrestler (d. 2006)
July 12 — Tiberio Mitri, Italian boxer (d. 2001)
July 18 — Ernst Larsen, Norwegian athlete
July 26 — Paul Collins, Canadian long-distance runner (d. 1995)
July 27 - Eddie Thomas, boxing champion and manager (d. 1997)
August 3 — Loris Campana, Italian road bicycle and track cyclist
September 19 — Duke Snider, American baseball player
October 11 — Dennis Shepherd, South African boxer (d. 2006)
December 21 — Joe Paterno, American college football coach

April 19 — Willie Watkinson Grand National Winning jockey, three weeks after his victory in a fall at Bogside, Scotland