1820s in sports

See also: 1810s in sports, 1830s in sports and the list of 'years in sports'.

Table of contents

1 Boat race 2 Rugby football 3 Births 4 Deaths

Boat race

• First Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race contested - won by Oxford (1829)

Rugby football

• William Webb Ellis said to have invented rugby (1823)

Births

Deaths