The highlight of today’s sporting history:
1975 — The 10-team World Football League, citing lack of television and subscription support, disbands before the 12th week of a 20-week season.
On this date:
1933 — Primo Carnera retains the world heavyweight title with a 15-round decision over Paolino Uzcudun in Rome.
1950 — The Los Angeles Rams defeat the Baltimore Colts 70-27.
1961 — Erich Barnes of the New York Giants ties an NFL record by returning an interception 102 yards for a touchdown in a 17-16 loss to the Dallas Cowboys.
1966 — Bobby Orr of the Boston Bruins scores his first goal.
1975 — The Cincinnati Reds defeat the Boston Red Sox 4-3 at Fenway Park Four games to three to win the World Series.
1976 — Twin brothers Tom and Dick Van Arsdale play together in a game for the Phoenix Suns, becoming the first and only brothers to play for the same NBA club.
1984 — Future Pro Football HOF quarterback Ken Stabler retires after 17 seasons in the NFL with the Oakland Raiders, Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints.
1994 — Alcorn State’s Steve McNair becomes the NCAA career rushing leader with 15,049, surpassing the old mark set by Brigham Young’s Ty Detmer, who had 14,665. McNair’s 649 yards also broke his own career record. game in Division I-AA as he led the Braves to a 41-37 victory over Southern.
2000 — Bengals running back Corey Dillon rushes for an NFL single-game record 278 yards in a 31-21 victory over the Denver Broncos. Dillon improves 27-year-old Walter Payton’s mark by three yards.
2001 – New York defeats Seattle 12-3 in Game 5 to win the AL pennant for the 38th time. The Yankees become the first team since their predecessors in 1960-64 to win four consecutive pennants.
2005 — Mount Union drops a regular-season game for the first time since 1994, losing 21-14 to Ohio Northern in a Division III game. The Purple Raiders, winners of 110 straight regular season games, had not lost a regular season game since being defeated 23-10 by Baldwin-Wallace on October 15, 1994.
2012 — Lance Armstrong is stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life by cycling’s governing body following a report from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that accused him of leading a massive doping program in within its teams.
2014 — Serena Williams is defeated 6-0, 6-2 by Simona Halep in the WTA Finals round robin, one of the most one-sided defeats of the 18-time Grand Slam champion’s career. The last time Williams managed to win just two games in a WTA Tour or Grand Slam match was in 1998, when she was 16 years old.
2016 — Kyle Hendricks leads Clayton Kershaw, Anthony Rizzo and Willson Contreras on early home runs and the Chicago Cubs win their first pennant since 1945, beating the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-0 in Game 6 of the NFL Championship Series. NL.
2016 — Baker Mayfield has seven touchdown passes and 545 yards to help No. 16 Oklahoma beat Texas Tech 66-59 in the game that breaks the NCAA record for combined offensive yards with 1,708 yards.
2016 — Leonard Fournette breaks LSU’s single-game rushing record on just his first eight carries as the No. 25 Tigers defeat No. 23 Mississippi 38-21. Fournette finished with 284 rushing yards in his first action since aggravating a left ankle injury on September 24. He averages 17.8 yards on 16 carries and his touchdowns total 78, 76 and 59 yards.
2017 — Phoenix Suns Fire coach Earl Watson just three games into the NBA season.
2020 — The National Hockey League announced that the annual NHL All-Star Game and skills competition would be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
