Sports

20th Century Sports

Sports of 1920

- National Football League formed; baseball's Negro National League formed; Babe Ruth sold to New York Yankees and hits 54 home runs, signalling the arrival of the lively ball era in baseball. Also boxing.

 

Sports of 1926 -Wmens first year in the olympics,
also Jack Dempsey loses his world heavyweight boxing title to Gene Tunney; Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English channel.