Sport
- Boxing:
- January - Freddie Welsh dislocates his neck in a bout of wrestling, rendering him unable to compete.
- 3 June - Jim Driscoll wins the European featherweight title.
- 16 December - Freddie Welsh wins the Commonwealth lightweight title.
- Football
- Cardiff City F.C. win the Welsh Cup - the first time a club from south Wales has done so.
- Swansea Town play their first match at the Vetch Field.
- Rugby league - Ebbw Vale RLFC fold after five seasons, ending the first attempt to bring rugby league to Wales.
- Rugby union
- 14 December - The South African touring team defeats Wales 3-0 at Cardiff Arms Park.
- 26 December - Swansea RFC defeat the South African touring team 3-0 at St Helen's, Swansea.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“What sport shall we devise here in this garden
To drive away the heavy thought of care?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)
“Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain,
Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain,
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting summer’s lingering blooms delayed,
Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease,
Seats of my youth, when every sport could please,
How often have I loitered o’er the green,
Where humble happiness endeared each scene.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)