In Sports
- Norm Van Brocklin threw 173 touchdowns in his NFL career from 1949–1960
- Elbert Dubenion rushed for 173 yards and a touchdown for the Buffalo Bills in 1961
- Joe Namath threw 173 touchdowns in his NFL career from 1965–1977
- Bill Goldberg won 173 consecutive wrestling matches
- 173 players competed in badminton at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China
- Duffy Dyer hit 173 RBIs in his MLB career from 1968–1981
- The Texas Rangers hit 173 home runs in the 2000 season
- Billy Harrell played 173 games in his Major League Baseball career between 1955 and 1961 for the Cleveland Indians (1955, 1957) and Boston Red Sox (1958, 1961)
- Pitcher Patsy Flaherty, in 173 games, had a win-loss record of 67-84
- Goose Goslin had 173 career triples from 1921 - 1937
- Colby Rasmus's Batting Average with the blue jays in 2011
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Come, my Celia, let us prove
While we may the sports of love;
Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)