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 9. As a bonus, we place the jersey number worn at the time with the athlete as well.
9 December in Sports History
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Daily Digits December 9
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.
99 - 48 - 72 - 54 - 25 - 29 - 33 - 24 - 27 - 10 - 89 - 6 - 12 - 29
December 9, 1931 - Baseball cuts squad from 25 to 23 players & NL continues to prohibit uniform numbers
December 9, 1935 - 1st Heisman Trophy Award was won by Chicago Maroons Quarterback, Number 99, Jay Berwanger
December 9, 1938 - 1939 NFL Draft: Ki Aldrich, Number 48 from TCU first pick by Chicago Cardinals
December 9, 1939 - 1940 NFL Draft: George Cafego, Number 72 from University of Tennessee first pick by Chicago Cardinals
December 9, 1941 - 7th Heisman Trophy Award Minnesota half back, Number 54, Bruce Smith
December 9, 1949 - NFL merged with AAFC; Cleveland Browns, San Francisco 49ers & Baltimore Colts join league intact, other teams in New York and Los Angeles are merged with existing units
December 9, 1973 - NFL St. Louis Cardinal, Number 25, Jim Bakken kicks 6 field goals vs Atlanta Falcons
December 9, 1984 - LA Ram Number 29, Eric Dickerson rushed 215 yards for season record 2,105 yards
December 9, 1987 - Boston Celtic's legend, Number 33, Larry Bird's streak of 59 consecutive free throws ended
December 9, 1990 - NFL NY Giant Number 24, Otis Anderson became the 8th NFO player to rush for 10,000 yards or more
December 9, 1992 - NHL's New Jersey Devils organization announced that it would change its colors to black, red, & white for the 1992-93 season
December 9, 1995 - 61st Heisman Trophy Award was won by Ohio State running back Number 27, Eddie George
December 9, 2006 - 72nd Heisman Trophy Award was won by Ohio State Quarterback Number 10, Troy Smith
December 9, 2013 - Mike Ditka's Number 89 jersey is retired by the Chicago Bears
December 9, 2017 - 83rd Heisman Trophy Award was won by Oklahoma Quarterback Number 6, Baker Mayfield
December 9, 2018 - New England Patriots quarterback Number 12 Tom Brady breaks Peyton Manning's record for most touchdown passes in NFL history; moves to 582 with 3 TD passes during 34-33 defeat by Miami Dolphins; record includes TDs thrown in regular season & post-season
December 9, 2018 - Green Bay quarterback, Number 12, Aaron Rogers breaks Tom Brady's NFL record with his 359th straight pass without an interception during Packers 34-20 win over Atlanta Falcons; finishes game with streak intact at 368
December 9, 2021 - Chicago Black Hawks Number 29, Marc-Andre Fleury became just the 3rd NHL goaltender to reach 500 career wins in 2-0 shut-out over the Canadiens at Montreal
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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 Everhardus runs for touchdown at Chicago, 1933, taken by an unknown photographer
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