1933 in sports

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 3rd FIS Alpine World Ski Championships are held at Innsbruck, Austria. The events are a downhill, a slalom and a combined race in both the men's and women's categories. The winners are:

• Men's Downhill – Walter Prager (Switzerland)
• Men's Slalom – Anton Seelos (Austria)
• Men's Combined – Anton Seelos (Austria)
• Women's Downhill – Inge Wersin-Lantschner (Austria)
• Women's Slalom – Inge Wersin-Lantschner (Austria)
• Women's Combined – Inge Wersin-Lantschner (Austria)

Events

• Taft Slalom, the first racing trail in North America, is cut on Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire

• NFL Championship: the Chicago Bears won 23–21 over the New York Giants at Wrigley Field
• Rose Bowl (1932 season):
  • The USC Trojans won 35–0 over the Pittsburgh Panthers to share the college football national championship
• College football national championship – Michigan Wolverines
• Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers all founded

Chile

• Chilean Primera Division, officially founded on May 31, and a first officially game held on July 22. ^{[citation needed]}

England

• The Football League – Arsenal 58 points, Aston Villa 54, Sheffield Wednesday 51, West Bromwich Albion 49, Newcastle United 49, Huddersfield Town 47
• FA Cup final – Everton 3–0 Manchester City at Empire Stadium, Wembley, London

Germany

• National Championship – Fortuna Düsseldorf 3–0 F.C. Schalke 04 at Köln

Italy

• Serie A won by Juventus

France

• The inaugural season of French professional football is won by Olympique Lillois.

VFL Premiership

• 30 September – South Melbourne wins the 37th VFL Premiership defeating Richmond 9.17 (71) to 4.5 (29) at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in the 1933 VFL Grand Final

Brownlow Medal

• The annual Brownlow Medal is awarded to “Chicken” Smallhorn (Fitzroy)

South Australian National Football League

• 14 October – West Torrens win their second SANFL premiership, defeating Norwood 13.10 (88) to 9.11 (65)
• Magarey Medal awarded to Keith Dunn (Sturt)

Western Australian National Football League

• 16 September – George Doig becomes the first player to score 100 goals in a WA(N)FL season, doing this in the season of his league debut. Doig would score 100 goals every season until 1941, after which World War II ended open-age football until 1945.
• 14 October – East Fremantle wins its seventeenth WANFL premiership, defeating Subiaco 10.13 (73) to 7.7 (49)
• Sandover Medal awarded to Sammy Clarke (Claremont-Cottesloe)

Sweden

• Championship final – IFK Uppsala beats IF Göta 11-1

World Series

• 3–7 October - New York Giants (NL) defeats Washington Senators (AL) to win the 1933 World Series by 4 games to 1

• Northwestern University wins the Big Ten Conference Championship in men's College Basketball.
• A first year of professional basketball game in Spain, Copa del Rey de Baloncesto was held on October 15. (as predecessor of Liga ACB)^{[citation needed]}

Events

• 29 June – Primo Carnera defeats Jack Sharkey by a sixth-round knockout at Long Island City to win the World Heavyweight Championship

Lineal world champions^[5]

• World Heavyweight Championship – Jack Sharkey → Primo Carnera
• World Light Heavyweight Championship – Maxie Rosenbloom
• World Middleweight Championship – vacant
• World Welterweight Championship – Jackie Fields → Young Corbett III → Jimmy McLarnin
• World Lightweight Championship – Tony Canzoneri → Barney Ross
• World Featherweight Championship – vacant
• World Bantamweight Championship – Panama Al Brown
• World Flyweight Championship – vacant

Events

• England, employing bodyline tactics, beat Australia 4–1 to regain The Ashes.

England

• County Championship – Yorkshire
• Minor Counties Championship – undecided^[a]
• Most runs – Wally Hammond 3323 @ 67.81 (HS 264)
• Most wickets – Tich Freeman 298 @ 15.26 (BB 8–22)
• Wisden Cricketers of the Year – Fred Bakewell, George Headley, Stan Nichols, Leslie Townsend, Cyril Walters
• The West Indies make a second tour of England, and lose the three Test series two games to nil

Australia

• Sheffield Shield – New South Wales
• Most runs – Herbert Sutcliffe 1,318 @ 73.22 (HS 194)
• Most wickets – Bill O‘Reilly 62 @ 19.95 (BB 6–36)

India

• Bombay Quadrangular – not contested

New Zealand

• Plunket Shield – Otago

South Africa

• Currie Cup – not contested

West Indies

• Inter-Colonial Tournament – not contested

• Georges Speicher won the 1933 Tour de France^[6]
• Alfredo Binda won the 1933 Giro d'Italia (5th win)
• Georges Speicher won the men's road race at the 1933 UCI Road World Championships

• September 1 – foundation of Oranje Zwart, a Dutch club located in Eindhoven

World Figure Skating Championships

• Men's singles – Karl Schäfer
• Ladies’ singles – Sonja Henie
• Pairs – Emília Rotter and László Szollás

Major tournaments

• British Open – Denny Shute
• U.S. Open – Johnny Goodman
• PGA Championship – Gene Sarazen

Other tournaments

• British Amateur – Michael Scott
• U.S. Amateur – George Dunlap
• Women's Western Open – June Beebe

England

• Champion Hurdle – Insurance (2nd successive win)
• Cheltenham Gold Cup – Golden Miller (2nd successive win)
• Grand National – Kellsboro Jack
• 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Brown Betty
• 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Rodosto
• The Derby – Hyperion^[7]
• The Oaks – Chatelaine
• St. Leger Stakes – Hyperion

Australia

• Melbourne Cup – Hall Mark

Canada

• King's Plate – King O'Connor

France

• Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe – Crapom

Ireland

• Irish Grand National – Red Park
• Irish Derby Stakes – Harinero

USA

• Kentucky Derby – Broker's Tip
• Preakness Stakes – Head Play
• Belmont Stakes – Hurryoff

• 4 April - 13 April – New York Rangers defeat Toronto Maple Leafs 3–1 in a best of five series to win their second Stanley Cup.

• February 22 - Malcolm Campbell sets world land speed record speed of 272.46 mph driving his famous Blue Bird car at Daytona Beach, Florida

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

• 7th FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1933 are held at Innsbruck, Austria

Events

• First ever ARRL Field Day contest held in July

The Boat Race

• 1 April — Cambridge wins the 85th Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

• 1933–34 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain

England

• Championship – Salford
• Challenge Cup final – at Empire Stadium, Wembley, London
• Lancashire League Championship – Salford
• Yorkshire League Championship – Castleford
• Lancashire County Cup – Warrington
• Yorkshire County Cup – Leeds

Australia

• NSW Premiership – Newtown 18–4 St. George (grand final)
• An exhibition match between Great Britain and Australia at Paris' Stade Pershing in December 1933 inspired the beginnings of rugby league in France.^[8]

Home Nations Championship

• 46th Home Nations Championship series is won by Scotland

World Championship

• 7th World Snooker Championship is won by Joe Davis who defeats Willie Smith 25–18

Speed Skating World Championships

• Men's All-round Champion – Hans Engnestangen (Norway)

Australia

• Australian Men's Singles Championship – Jack Crawford (Australia) defeats Keith Gledhill (USA) 2–6, 7–5, 6–3, 6–2
• Australian Women's Singles Championship – Joan Hartigan Bathurst (Australia) defeats Coral Buttsworth (Australia) 6–4, 6–3

England

• Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – Jack Crawford (Australia) defeats Ellsworth Vines (USA) 4–6, 11–9, 6–2, 2–6, 6–4
• Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Helen Wills Moody (USA) defeats Dorothy Round Little (Great Britain) 6–4, 6–8, 6–3

France

• French Men's Singles Championship – Jack Crawford (Australia) defeats Henri Cochet (France) 8–6, 6–1, 6–3
• French Women's Singles Championship – Margaret Scriven Vivian (Great Britain) defeats Simonne Mathieu (France) 6–2, 4–6, 6–4

USA

• American Men's Singles Championship – Fred Perry (Great Britain) defeats Jack Crawford (Australia) 6–3, 11–13, 4–6, 6–0, 6–1
• American Women's Singles Championship – Helen Jacobs (USA) defeats Helen Wills Moody (USA) 8–6, 3–6, 3–0, retired

Davis Cup

• 1933 International Lawn Tennis Challenge –  Great Britain at 3–2  France at Stade Roland Garros (clay) Paris, France

Associated Press Athlete of the Year

• Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year – Carl Hubbell (baseball)
• Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year – Helen Jacobs (tennis)

^a An error in calculating points caused Yorkshire Second Eleven to meet and defeat Norfolk in the Minor Counties Challenge Match when that honour should have gone to Wiltshire; by the time the error was discovered, it was October and the weather was unsuitable for cricket, so the Championship was ruled “undecided”