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See also: 1891 in sports, other events of 1892, 1893 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'.
Athletics
- C. B. Fry equals the world record for the long jump of 23 ft. 5in - the record stands for 18 months.
Basketball
- First official game of basketball played at a YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Boat race
- Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race - Oxford
Cricket
- County Cricket Championship - Surrey
Football (soccer)
England
- Football League - Sunderland win the 1891-92 title.
- FA Cup - West Bromwich Albion beat Aston Villa 3-0.
- The Football League absorbs the Football Alliance, and divided into two divisions. The First Division contains sixteen teams (mostly former League clubs), and the Second Division contains twelve (mostly former Alliance clubs) for the 1892-93 season.
Netherlands
- Vitesse Arnhem, a Dutch football club, is founded on May 14.
Horse Racing
- May 11: African-American jockey Alonzo "Lonnie" Clayton, age 15, became the youngest rider to ever win the Kentucky Derby.
Ice skating
- The International Skating Union, the governing body for ice skating, founded in the Netherlands.
Births
- November 3 — Lindley Murray, American tennis player (d. 1970)
- December 17 — Sam Barry, Hall of Fame basketball coach (d. 1950)
Deaths
"1892 in sports"