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Elizabeth Wilkinson enters the boxing ring.
London had the first staged women fights. The women would punch, use their feet and knee lifting/kicking to all parts of their opponents body. They also could maul, scratch and throw. This resulted in serious injury for either or both fighters. In other reports, in London in 1722 at the Boarded House, near what is now Oxford Circus, Elizabeth Wilkinson, the Cockney Championess, defeated Martha Jones. -
First women's golf tournament
The first known women’s golf tournament is held at Musselburgh Golf Club, Scotland, among the town fishwives. -
First women's basketball championship
The first women's intercollegiate game takes place at the Armory Hall in San Francisco between Stanford and Cal. Stanford won the contest 2-1. -
first professional baseball contract
Lizzie Arlington becomes the first woman to sign a professional baseball contract, appearing in her first professional game pitching for the Philadelphia Reserves. -
First woman on TIME magazine
Edith Cummings was one of the premier amateur golfers of her generation. She was one of the Big Four debutantes in Chicago, at the end of the First World War. She became nationally famous following her 1923 victory in the U.S. Women's Amateur. On August 25, 1924, she became the first golfer and first female athlete to appear on the cover of Time magazine. -
soccer hall of fame
April Heinrichs is the first female player to ever be into the Hall of Fame (two other women have been elected for their contributions to soccer as administrators). During her playing career, Heinrichs was captain of the 1991 women's national team that won the USA's first world championship in China. She was voted as the top female player of the 1980s by Soccer America and was a tw -
Woman in Division 1 football
Clip of first woman to score a point in football
Ashley Martin becomes the first woman to score points in a Division I football game when she kicks three extra points for Jacksonville State who defeat the Cumberland Bulldogs, 71-10. She is the first woman to play Division I football. -
Woman scores in men's hockey
Canadian Olympian Hayley Wickenheiser, 24, becomes the first woman to score a goal in a men's pro hockey game on a backhander for her Finnish League Kirkkonummi Salamat. -
first coach of men's basketball team
Ashley McElhiney, 22, becomes the new coach of the expansion Nashville Rhythm of the American Basketball Association, the first female head coach of a professional men's basketball team. -
Woman in Men's wrestling
News report of first girl in men's wrestlingSophomore Michaella Hutchinson, Anchorage, AL, becomes the first girl in the nation to win a state high school wrestling title while competing with boys, winning the final in the 103-pound class, 1-0. -
Woman wins Olympic Chariot event
The first woman to participate in the horse races in the early fourth century BC, who immediately also won them, was the Spartan princess Kyniska. Plutarch tells that her brother Agesilaos encouraged her to participate to demonstrate that winning the horse races depended on wealth and not on male virtues. Kyniska won twice and made a statue of herself and of her horses at Olympia. Her victories made her world-famous. After her death a shrine was built in which she was honoured as a heroine.
