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1911--Driving a Marmon Wasp, Ray Harroun wins the first Indianapolis 500

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1920 -Jim Thorpe is named president of the new American Profesional Football Association, later renamed the National Football League.

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1927

The Yankees' Babe Ruth slugs 60 home runs, topping his own mark of 59 set six years earlier.

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1936

Amid Nazi pomp,black U.S. track star Jesse Owens wins four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics

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1941> The Yankees' Joe Dimaggio hits in 56 consecutive games and Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox bats .406--marks not equaled since.

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1947 Infielder Jackie Robinson plays his first game for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking major league baseball's color barrier.

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1960 Babe Zaharias sweeps the three women's golf majors, the U.S. Open, the Titleholders Championship and the Western Open.

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11/06/1869

Players per side in the first college football game, between Rutgers and Princeton was 25

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shootings............http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/35460269.html

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Consecutive games without a loss for Washington from 1907 through 1917-63[basketball]---an alltime record

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11 years (from 1860-1871) that football was banned on the Harvard campus after school officials deemed it too rough.

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77 Years after graduation that Rutgers end Paul Robeson was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame Robeson, All-American in 1917 and 1918 and later a singing and acting star, was shunned over his refusal to denounce communism.

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18 Estimated football fatalities in 1905 (three of them college players), leading to rules changes, including legalization of the forward pass.

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