Sport
- Boxing
- 23 August - Freddie Welsh wins the European lightweight title.
- 8 November - Freddie Welsh wins the British lightweight title, and becomes the first Welshman to be awarded a Lonsdale Belt.
- Thomas Thomas is awarded the first Lonsdale Belt at middleweight.
- Athletics (track and field)
- 23 August - Welshman Fred 'Tenby' Davies beats Irishman Bert Day at Pontypridd to become world champion over the half-mile distance.
- Rugby league
- Aberdare RLFC, Barry RLFC and Mid-Rhondda RLFC fold after just one season. The first Welsh League competition is won by Ebbw Vale.
- Rugby union
- Wales win their second Grand Slam.
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“What sport shall we devise here in this garden
To drive away the heavy thought of care?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“How long, then, Catiline, while you abuse our patience? How long is this madness of yours to make sport of us?”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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