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1 Boat race

• Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race - Oxford

2 Cricket

• County Cricket Championship - Lancashire

3 Football ( Australian Rules)

• Victorian Football League
  • Formation, with initial clubs being Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, MelbourneThe Melbourne Football Club known in their early days as "The Redlegs" and since 1933 as "The Demons", is an Australian Rules Football club in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1858, it is the oldest football club in Australia and is one of the oldest in t, St KildaThe St Kilda Football Club known by their nickname The Saints is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League. With only the one premiership in 1966 (beating Collingwood by one point), St Kilda have been the perennial dysfun and South Melbourne
  • Essendon wins the 1st VFL Premiership (under the finals system used, no grand final was played)
  • See also Victorian Football League season 1897Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1897 . Season 1897 Season 1898 See List of Australian Football League premiers for a complete list. Grand Final No grand final held. Essendon won the premiership for finishing on top of th

4 Speed skatingGaetan Boucher training for the 1976 Olympics Speed skating (as well Speedskating is a form of ice skating in which the competitors attempt to travel a certain distance over the ice as quickly as possible. Related sports are short track speed skating and

• CanadianCanada historically the Dominion of Canada is the second-largest, and northernmost, country in the world. It is a decentralized federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories, governed as a constitutional monarchy, and formed in 1867 through an act of Confe speed skater Jack McCulloch of Winnipeg, ManitobaWinnipeg (49° 53′ N, 97° 09′ W, CST) is a Canadian city, and the provincial capital of Manitoba. The city is located at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, and is protected from flooding by the Red River Floodway. It is the provi won the World Speed Skating Championship

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