NFL Championship – Cleveland Browns win 30–28 over the Los Angeles Rams
Coaches Poll established to rank top 20 American college football teams
FIFA World Cup
1950 World Cup held in Brazil. Uruguay are the winners after beating Brazil in the final group decider.
United States defeats England 1-0 in one of the great upsets in sports history
England
First Division – Portsmouth win the 1949–50 title.
FA Cup – Arsenal beat Liverpool 2–0.
France
Olympique Lyonnais, officially rename from Lyon Olympique on August 3.
The 4th European Athletics Championships were held from 23 August to 27 August at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels.
The Victorian Football Association began playing as an affiliated member of the Australian National Football Council and playing under the same rules as the rest of the country. This ended a decade-long schism which had begun in 1938, during which the VFA had played under its own rival set of rules under which throwing the football in general play was legalised.
Victorian Football League
Essendon wins the 54th VFL Premiership (Essendon 13.14 (92) d North Melbourne 7.12 (54))
Brownlow Medal awarded to Allan Ruthven (Fitzroy)
The Japanese Baseball League is reorganized, creating the modern Nippon Professional Baseball.
World Series – The New York Yankees sweep the Philadelphia Phillies four games to none.
Japan Series – In the inaugural Japan Series, the Mainichi Orions defeat the Shochiku Robins 4 games to 2.
NBA Finals
Minneapolis Lakers win four games to two over the Syracuse Nats
January – Joey Maxim wins the light-heavyweight world title, stopping champion Freddie Mills in 10 rounds.
September 27 – Ezzard Charles retains his World Heavyweight Championship with a 15-round unanimous decision over Joe Louis in New York City.
Grey Cup – Toronto Argonauts win 13–0 over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Giro d'Italia – Hugo Koblet of Switzerland
Tour de France – Ferdinand Kubler of Switzerland
Vuelta a España – Emilio Rodriguez of Spain
UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race – Briek Schotte of Belgium
World Figure Skating Championships –
Men's champion: Dick Button, United States
Ladies' champion: Aja Zanova, Czechoslovakia
Pairs skating champions: Karol Kennedy & Michael Kennedy, United States
Men's professional
Masters Tournament – Jimmy Demaret
U.S. Open – Ben Hogan
PGA Championship – Chandler Harper
British Open – Bobby Locke
PGA Tour money leader – Sam Snead – $35,759
Men's amateur
British Amateur – Frank Stranahan
U.S. Amateur – Sam Urzetta
Women's professional
Thirteen women golfers found the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA).
Women's Western Open – Babe Zaharias
U.S. Women's Open – Babe Zaharias
Titleholders Championship – Babe Zaharias
Babe Zaharias named Woman Athlete of the Half–Century by the Associated Press.
LPGA Tour money leader – Babe Zaharias – $14,800
Little Brown Jug for pacers – Dudley Hanover
Hambletonian for trotters – Lusty Song
Australian Inter Dominion Harness Racing Championship for pacers – Captain Sandy
The United States National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame is founded in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Steeplechases
Cheltenham Gold Cup – Cottage Rake for the third successive year
Grand National – Freebooter
Hurdle races
Champion Hurdle – Hatton's Grace
Flat races
Australia – Melbourne Cup won by Comic Court
Canada – Queen's Plate won by McGill
France – Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe won by Tantieme
Ireland – Irish Derby won by Dark Warrior
English Triple Crown Races:
- 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Palestine
- Epsom Derby – Galcador
- St. Leger Stakes – Scratch
United States Triple Crown Races:
- Kentucky Derby – Middleground
- Preakness Stakes – Hill Prince
- Belmont Stakes – Middleground
Art Ross Memorial Trophy as the NHL's leading scorer during the regular season: Ted Lindsay, Detroit Red Wings
Hart Memorial Trophy – for the NHL's Most Valuable Player: Charlie Rayner, New York Rangers
Stanley Cup – Detroit Red Wings win 4 games to 3 over the New York Rangers
World Hockey Championship
Men's champion: Canada's Edmonton Mercurys
NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship – Colorado College Tigers defeat Boston University Terriers 13–4 in Colorado Springs, Colorado
30 May – Johnnie Parsons wins the 34th running of the Indianapolis 500 in the Wynn's Friction Special Kurtis Kraft–Offenhauser
NASCAR Championship – Bill Rexford
AAA Racing –
Henry Banks won the series championship
Formula One – The first World Drivers' Championship under FIA Formula A (Formula One) open-wheel racing rules is contested.
13 May—the British Grand Prix at Silverstone is the first event of the new World Drivers' Championship. It is won by Giuseppe Farina in an Alfa Romeo 158 Alfetta. Farina would go on to become the first FIA World Champion.
Rally racing –
M. Becquart/H. Secret won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Hotchkiss
Drag racing – the first commercial drag strip, the Santa Ana Drags, begins at Orange County Airport (now John Wayne Airport) in Santa Ana, in Southern California. Admission is 50 cents; or 75 cents if the ticket holder wants to watch the mechanics work. (This special access becomes known as a pit pass.)
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
13th FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1950 are held in the United States at Lake Placid (ski jumping) and Rumford, Maine (cross-country skiing). These are the first world championships since 1939.
The Boat Race
1 April — Cambridge wins the 96th Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
Australia
1950 NSWRFL season
England
1949–50 Northern Rugby Football League season/1950–51 Northern Rugby Football League season
Five Nations Championship
56th Five Nations Championship series is won by Wales who complete the Grand Slam
World Snooker Championship – Walter Donaldson beats Fred Davis 51–46.
Speed Skating World Championships
Men's All-round Champion – Hjalmar Andersen (Norway)
Women's All-round Champion – Maria Isakova (USSR)
Australia
Australian Men's Singles Championship – Frank Sedgman (Australia) defeats Ken McGregor (Australia) 6–3, 6–4, 4–6, 6–1
Australian Women's Singles Championship – Louise Brough (USA) defeats Doris Hart (USA) 6–4, 3–6, 6–4
England
Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – Budge Patty (USA) defeats Frank Sedgman (Australia) 6–1, 8–10, 6–2, 6–3
Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Louise Brough Clapp (USA) defeats Margaret Osborne duPont (USA) 6–1, 3–6, 6–1
France
French Men's Singles Championship – Budge Patty
French Women's Singles Championship – Doris Hart
USA
American Men's Singles Championship – Arthur Larsen
American Women's Singles Championship – Margaret Osborne duPont
Davis Cup
1950 Davis Cup – Australia 4–1 United States at West Side Tennis Club (grass) New York City, United States
British Empire Games held in Auckland
