In this edition of the Sports Break, we cover the top events in sports history along with the players and athletes that were a part of them on December 15. As a bonus, we place the jersey number worn at the time with the athlete as well.
15 December in Sports History
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Daily Digits December 15
Sports history is made every day of the year. We will preserve at least a small sampling from some great athletes every day based on the uniform number they wore.
9 - 7 - 31 - 16 - 3 - 14
December 15, 1925 - 1st hockey game played at Madison Square Garden, NYC took place on this day between the Montreal Canadiens 3, NY Americans 1
December 15, 1959 - Ballon d'Or: Real Madrid forward Number 9, Alfredo Di Stéfano won his second award for best football player in Europe ahead of teammate Number 7, Raymond Kopa and Juventus' Welsh utility John Charles
December 15, 1973 - Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game
December 15, 1980 - New York Yankees Number 31, Dave Winfield became the highest-paid MLB player, on a 10 years $15 million contract
December 15, 1997 - SF 49ers retired Joe Montana's Number 16 jersey
December 15, 2002 - 68th Heisman Trophy Award was won by USC Quarterback Number 3, Carson Palmer
December 15, 2008 - 74th Heisman Trophy Award was won by Oklahoma Quarterback Number 14, Sam Bradford
Credits
A Very Special thanks to information obtained from the following brilliant internet sites: On This Day Sports, the Sports Reference's family of website databases & Stathead.com.
Banner photo is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons of ROSE BOWL FOOTBALL GAME, VIEW NORTHEAST, 1923 - Rose Bowl Stadium, from Positive Image Photographic Services.
The other photo above is also from Wikimedia Commons and is of the Rose Bowl construction in 1921.After crowds out-grew Pasadena's Tournament Park, architect Myron Hunt drew up plans for the construction of the Rose Bowl stadium in 1920. On January 1, 1923, USC beat Penn State, 14-3, in the first Rose Bowl game. The stadium was enlarged several times, with the south end completed in 1928, taken by an unknown.
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