Green Bay Packers wins National Football League title
Rose Bowl (1928 season):
The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets won 8-7 over the California Golden Bears to share the college football national championship
Notre Dame Fighting Irish – college football national championship
28 November – Ernie Nevers scores 6 rushing touchdowns for Chicago Cardinals against Chicago Bears
Ecuador
Emelec of Guayaquil officially founded on April 28.
England
The Football League – Sheffield Wednesday 52 points, Leicester City 51, Aston Villa 50, Sunderland 47, Liverpool 46, Derby County 46
FA Cup final – Bolton Wanderers 2–0 Portsmouth at Empire Stadium, Wembley, London
Germany
National Championship – SpVgg Fürth 3–2 Hertha BSC at Nuremberg
VFL Premiership
Collingwood achieves the only perfect home-and-away season in VFL/AFL history, but lose the second semi-final to Richmond 8.13 (61) to 18.15 (123)
Collingwood wins the 33rd VFL Premiership, beating Richmond 11.13 (79) to 7.8 (50) in the 1929 VFL Grand Final.
Brownlow Medal
The annual Brownlow Medal is awarded to Albert Collier (Collingwood)
Bandy
Sweden
Championship final – IF Göta 5-1 Västerås SK
World Series
8–14 October — Philadelphia Athletics (AL) defeat Chicago Cubs (NL) to win the 1929 World Series by 4 games to 1.
ABL Championship
Cleveland Rosenblums win four games to none over the Fort Wayne Hoosiers
Europe
Italian club Virtus Bologna, officially founded.
Events
September — having successfully defended the World Light Heavyweight Championship this year against both Mickey Walker and James J. Braddock, Tommy Loughran relinquishes the title to fight as a heavyweight
Lineal world champions
World Heavyweight Championship – vacant
World Light Heavyweight Championship – Tommy Loughran → vacant
World Middleweight Championship – Mickey Walker
World Welterweight Championship – Joe Dundee → Jackie Fields
World Lightweight Championship – Sammy Mandell
World Featherweight Championship – Andre Routis → Bat Battalino
World Bantamweight Championship – vacant → "Panama" Al Brown
World Flyweight Championship – vacant
Grey Cup
17th Grey Cup – Hamilton Tigers 14–3 Regina Roughriders
Events
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) organises the England tour of Australia in the 1928–29 season. England retains The Ashes, winning the first four Tests against Australia and losing the last for a 4–1 series victory. But, ominously for England, a young batsman called Don Bradman makes his Test debut for Australia.
England
County Championship – Nottinghamshire
Minor Counties Championship – Oxfordshire
Most runs – Frank Woolley 2804 @ 56.08 (HS 176)
Most wickets – Tich Freeman 267 @ 18.27 (BB 10–131)
Wisden Cricketers of the Year – Ted Bowley, K. S. Duleepsinhji, Tuppy Owen-Smith, Walter Robins, Bob Wyatt
Australia
Sheffield Shield – New South Wales
Most runs – Don Bradman 1690 @ 93.88 (HS 340*)
Most wickets – Clarrie Grimmett 71 @ 34.25 (BB 6–109)
India
Bombay Quadrangular – Parsees
New Zealand
Plunket Shield – Auckland
South Africa
Currie Cup – not contested
West Indies
Inter-Colonial Tournament – British Guiana
Tour de France
Maurice De Waele (Belgium) wins the 23rd Tour de France
World Figure Skating Championships
World Men's Champion – Gillis Grafström (Sweden)
World Women's Champion – Sonja Henie (Norway)
World Pairs Champions – Lilly Scholz and Otto Kaiser (Austria)
Major tournaments
British Open – Walter Hagen
US Open – Bobby Jones
USPGA Championship – Leo Diegel
Other tournaments
British Amateur – Cyril Tolley
US Amateur – Harrison R. Johnston
England
Champion Hurdle – Royal Falcon
Cheltenham Gold Cup – Easter Hero
Grand National – Gregalach
1,000 Guineas Stakes – Taj Mah
2,000 Guineas Stakes – Mr Jinks
Epsom Derby – Trigo
Epsom Oaks – Pennycomequick
St. Leger Stakes – Trigo
Australia
Melbourne Cup – Nightmarch
Canada
Queen's Plate – Shorelint
France
Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe – Ortello
Ireland
Irish Grand National – Alike
Irish Derby Stakes – Kopi
USA
Kentucky Derby – Clyde Van Dusen
Preakness Stakes – Dr. Freeland
Belmont Stakes – Blue Larkspur
Stanley Cup
28–29 March — Boston Bruins defeats New York Rangers by 2 games to 0 in the 1929 Stanley Cup Finals
Events
The Intercollegiate Lacrosse League is renamed the U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA).
Grand Prix racing
14 April — the 1st Monaco Grand Prix is run at Monte Carlo. The winner is William Grover-Williams (Great Britain) driving a Bugatti T35B in 3:56:11.0 over 318 km (198 mi) (100 laps).
30 June — the 15th French Grand Prix, organised by the Automobile Club de France (ACF), is run at Circuit de la Sarthe, near Le Mans, over 604.58 km (375.67 mi) (37 laps). The winner is William Grover-Williams driving a Bugatti T35B in 4:33:01.2. The race is retrospectively referred to as the XXIII Grand Prix de l'ACF.
Indianapolis 500
30 May — 17th running of the Indianapolis 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is won by Ray Keech in the Simplex Piston Ring Special Miller.
Le Mans 24 hours
The 7th Le Mans 24 hours race is won by Woolf Barnato (Great Britain) and Henry Birkin (Great Britain) driving a Bentley Speed Six over 174 laps 2,843.83 km (1,767.07 mi).
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
4th FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1929 are held at Zakopane, Poland
The Boat Race
23 March — Cambridge wins the 81st Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
The Australia national rugby league team embarked on the 1929–30 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain.
England
Championship – Huddersfield
Challenge Cup final – Wigan 13–2 Dewsbury at Empire Stadium, Wembley, London
Lancashire League Championship – Swinton
Yorkshire League Championship – Huddersfield
Lancashire Cup – Wigan 5–4 Widnes
Yorkshire Cup – Leeds 5–0 Featherstone Rovers
Australia
NSW Premiership – South Sydney 30–10 Newtown (grand final)
Five Nations Championship
42nd Five Nations Championship series is won by Scotland
World Championship
3rd World Snooker Championship is won by Joe Davis who defeats Tom Dennis 19–14
Speed Skating World Championships
Men's All-round Champion – Clas Thunberg (Finland)
Australia
Australian Men's Singles Championship – Colin Gregory (Great Britain) defeats Richard Schlesinger (Australia) 6–2 6–2 5–7 7–5
Australian Women's Singles Championship – Daphne Akhurst Cozens (Australia) defeats Louise Bickerton (Australia) 6–1 5–7 6–2
England
Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – Henri Cochet (France) defeats Jean Borotra (France) 6–4 6–3 6–4
Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Helen Wills Moody (USA) defeats Helen Jacobs (USA) 6–1 6–2
France
French Men's Singles Championship – René Lacoste (France) defeats Jean Borotra (France) 6–3 2–6 6–0 2–6 8–6
French Women's Singles Championship – Helen Wills Moody (USA) defeats Simonne Mathieu (France) 6–3 6–4
USA
American Men's Singles Championship – Bill Tilden (USA) defeats Francis Hunter (USA) 3–6 6–3 4–6 6–2 6–4
American Women's Singles Championship – Helen Wills Moody (USA) defeats Phoebe Holcroft Watson (Great Britain) 6–4 6–2
Davis Cup
1929 International Lawn Tennis Challenge – France 3–2 United States at Stade Roland Garros (clay) Paris, France
