1884 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 4th congressional district
Incumbent Democratic Congressman John H. Evins of the 4th congressional district, in office since 1877, died on October 20, 1884. William H. Perry was nominated by the Democrats and was unopposed in his bid for election to the 49th Congress.


1884 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 5th congressional district
Incumbent Democratic Congressman John J. Hemphill of the 5th congressional district, in office since 1883, defeated Republican challenger C.C. Macoy.


1884 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 6th congressional district
Incumbent Democratic Congressman George W. Dargan of the 6th congressional district, in office since 1883, defeated Republican challenger Edmund H. Deas.


1884 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 7th congressional district special election
Incumbent Republican Congressman Edmund William McGregor Mackey of the 7th congressional district, in office since 1883, died on January 27, 1884. A special election was called for March 18 and Republican Robert Smalls was unopposed in his bid for election.


1884 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 7th congressional district
Incumbent Republican Congressman Robert Smalls of the 7th congressional district, in office since 1884, defeated Democratic challenger William Elliott.


1884 United States elections
The 1884 United States elections was held on November 4, electing the members of the 49th United States Congress. The election took place during the Third Party System.


1884 United States elections
In the Presidential election, Democratic Governor Grover Cleveland of New York defeated Republican former Secretary of State James G. Blaine. Though Cleveland won the popular vote by less than 1%, he won by a fairly comfortable margin in the electoral college. Cleveland won the South and the critical state of New York, while Blaine took most of the rest of the country. This was the most recent example of an incumbent President being denied nomination by his party for another term, as Blaine defeated President Chester A. Arthur at the 1884 Republican National Convention. Cleveland took the Democratic nomination on the second ballot of the 1884 Democratic National Convention, defeating Delaware Senator Thomas F. Bayard and several other candidates. Cleveland's win made him the first Democratic President to win election since the 1856 election.


1884 United States elections
Republicans picked up several seats in the House, but Democrats continued to command a majority in the chamber. In the Senate, Republicans made moderate gains and established a clear majority. As of 2020, these are the last elections in which the new incoming president's party held control of the House of Representatives but not the Senate.


1884 United States presidential election
The 1884 United States presidential election was the 25th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 1884. It saw the first election of a Democrat as President of the United States since James Buchanan in 1856 and the first Democratic president since the American Civil War. Governor Grover Cleveland of New York defeated Republican James G. Blaine of Maine. The election was set apart by unpleasant mudslinging and shameful allegations that eclipsed substantive issues, for example, civil administration change.


1884 United States presidential election
Cleveland won the presidential nomination on the second ballot of the 1884 Democratic National Convention. President Chester A. Arthur had acceded to the presidency in 1881 following the assassination of James A. Garfield, but he was unsuccessful in his bid for nomination to a full term. Blaine, who had served as Secretary of State under President Garfield, defeated Arthur and other candidates on the fourth ballot of the 1884 Republican National Convention. A group of reformist Republicans known as "Mugwumps" abandoned Blaine's candidacy, viewing him as corrupt. The campaign was marred by exceptional political acrimony and personal invective. Blaine's reputation for public corruption and his inadvertent alienation of Catholic voters proved decisive.


1884 United States presidential election
In the election, Cleveland won 48.9% of the nationwide popular vote and 219 electoral votes, carrying the Solid South and several key swing states. Blaine won 48.3% of the popular vote and 182 electoral votes. Cleveland won his home state by just 1,149 votes; had he lost New York, he would have lost the election. Two third-party candidates, John St. John of the Prohibition Party and Benjamin Butler of the Greenback Party and the Anti- Monopoly Party, each won less than 2% of the popular vote.


1884 United States presidential election
Blaine was the last former or current Secretary of State to be nominated by a major political party until the nomination of Hillary Clinton in 2016, while Cleveland became the only sitting Democratic president between the end of the civil war and the election of Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 United States presidential election, a span of almost 50 years.


1884 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination
The Democrats convened in Chicago on July 8–11, 1884, with New York Governor Grover Cleveland as clear frontrunner, the candidate of northern reformers and sound-money men (as opposed to inflationists). Although Tammany Hall bitterly opposed his nomination, the machine represented a minority of the New York delegation. Its only chance to block Cleveland was to break the unit rule, which mandated that the votes of an entire delegation be cast for only one candidate, and this it failed to do. Daniel N. Lockwood from New York placed Cleveland's name in nomination.


1884 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination
But this rather lackluster address was eclipsed by the seconding speech of Edward S. Bragg from Wisconsin, who roused the delegates with a memorable slap at Tammany. "They love him, gentlemen," Bragg said of Cleveland, "and they respect him, not only for himself, for his character, for his integrity and judgment and iron will, but they love him most of all for the enemies he has made." As the convention rocked with cheers, Tammany boss John Kelly lunged at the platform, screaming that he welcomed the compliment.


1884 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination
On the first ballot, Cleveland led the field with 392 votes, more than 150 votes short of the nomination. Trailing him were Thomas F. Bayard from Delaware, 170; Allen G. Thurman from Ohio, 88; Samuel J. Randall from Pennsylvania, 78; and Joseph E. McDonald from Indiana, 56; with the rest scattered. Randall then withdrew in Cleveland's favor. This move, together with the Southern bloc scrambling aboard the Cleveland bandwagon, was enough to put him over the top of the second ballot, with 683 votes to 81.5 for Bayard and 45.5 for Thomas A. Hendricks from Indiana. Hendricks was nominated unanimously for vice president on the first ballot after John C. Black, William Rosecrans, and George Washington Glick withdrew their names from consideration.


1884 United States presidential election, Nominations, Republican Party nomination
The 1884 Republican National Convention was held in Chicago, Illinois, on June 3–6, with former Secretary of State James G. Blaine from Maine, President Arthur, and Senator George F. Edmunds from Vermont as the frontrunners. Though he was still popular, Arthur did not make a serious bid for a full-term nomination, knowing that his increasing health problems meant he would probably not survive a second term (he ultimately died in November 1886). Blaine led on the first ballot, with Arthur second, and Edmunds third. This order did not change on successive ballots as Blaine increased his lead, and he won a majority on the fourth ballot. After nominating Blaine, the convention chose Senator John A. Logan from Illinois as the vice-presidential nominee. Blaine remains the only Presidential nominee ever to come from Maine.


1884 United States presidential election, Nominations, Republican Party nomination
Famed Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman was considered a possible Republican candidate, but ruled himself out with what has become known as the Sherman pledge: "If drafted, I will not run; if nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve." Robert Todd Lincoln, Secretary of War of the United States, and son of the past President Abraham Lincoln, was also strongly courted by politicians and the media of the day to seek the presidential or vice-presidential nomination, but Lincoln was as averse to the nomination as Sherman.


1884 United States presidential election, Nominations, Other parties and candidates, Anti-Monopoly Party nomination
The Anti- Monopoly National Convention assembled in the Hershey Music Hall in Chicago, Illinois on May 14. The party had been formed to express opposition to the business practices of the emerging nationwide companies. There were around 200 delegates from 16 states, but 61 of them were from Michigan and Illinois.


1884 United States presidential election, Nominations, Other parties and candidates, Anti-Monopoly Party nomination
Alson Streeter was the temporary chairman and John F. Henry was the permanent chairman.


1884 United States presidential election, Nominations, Other parties and candidates, Anti-Monopoly Party nomination
Benjamin F. Butler was nominated for president on the first ballot. Delegates from New York, Washington D.C. and Maryland bolted the convention when it appeared that no discussion of other candidates would be allowed. Allen G. Thurman and James B. Weaver were put forward as alternatives to Butler, but Weaver declined, not wishing to run another national campaign for political office, and Thurman generated little enthusiasm. Butler, while far from opposed to the nomination, hoped to be nominated by the Democratic or Republican party, or at least in the case of the former, to make its platform more favorable to greenbacks. Ultimately only the Greenback Party endorsed his candidacy.


1884 United States presidential election, Nominations, Other parties and candidates, Anti-Monopoly Party nomination
The convention chose not to nominate a candidate for vice president, hoping that other conventions would endorse a similar platform and name a suitable vice-presidential nominee.


1884 United States presidential election, Nominations, Other parties and candidates, Greenback Party nomination
The 3rd Greenback Party National Convention assembled in English's Opera House in Indianapolis, Indiana. Delegates from 28 states and the District of Columbia attended. The convention nominated Benjamin F. Butler for president over its Party Chairman Jesse Harper on the first ballot. Absolom M. West was nominated unanimously for vice president, and subsequently was also endorsed by the Anti- Monopoly Party.


1884 United States presidential election, Nominations, Other parties and candidates, Greenback Party nomination
Butler had initially hoped to form a number of fusion slates with the "minority party" in each state, Democratic or Republican, and for his supporters of various parties to come together under a single "People's Party". But many in the two major parties, while maybe agreeing with Butler's message and platform, were unwilling to place their support beyond the party line.


1884 United States presidential election, Nominations, Other parties and candidates, Greenback Party nomination
In a number of places, Iowa in particular, fusion slates were nominated; essentially, Butler's and Cleveland's votes would be added together for the total vote of the fusion slate, allowing them to carry the state even if neither won a plurality, with the electoral vote being divided according to the percentage of the vote each party netted.


1884 United States presidential election, Nominations, Other parties and candidates, Greenback Party nomination
But even if Fusion had been carried out in every state in which it was considered possible (Indiana, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Illinois), it would not have changed the result, none of the states flipping from Blaine to Cleveland, with Butler winning a single electoral vote from Indiana.


1884 United States presidential election, Nominations, Other parties and candidates, American Prohibition Party nomination
The American Prohibition Party held its national convention in the YMCA building in Chicago, Illinois. There were 150 delegates, including many non-voting delegates. The party sought to merge the reform movements of anti-masonry, prohibition, anti-polygamy, and direct election of the president into a new party. Jonathan Blanchard was a major figure within the party. He traveled throughout northern states in the spring and gave an address entitled "The American Party – Its Principles and Its Claims."


1884 United States presidential election, Nominations, Other parties and candidates, American Prohibition Party nomination
During the convention, the party name was changed from the American Party to the American Prohibition Party. The party had been known as the Anti-Masonic Party in 1880. Many of the delegates at the convention were initially interested in nominating John St. John, the former governor of Kansas, but it was feared that such a nomination might cost him that of the Prohibition Party, which he was actively seeking.


1884 United States presidential election, Nominations, Other parties and candidates, American Prohibition Party nomination
Party leaders met with Samuel C. Pomeroy, a former senator from the same state who was the convention's runner-up for the nomination, and at Pomeroy's suggestion they agreed to withdraw the ticket from the race should St. John win the Prohibition Party nomination. Nominated alongside Pomeroy was John A. Conant from Connecticut.


1884 United States presidential election, Nominations, Other parties and candidates, American Prohibition Party nomination
St. John later unanimously won the Prohibition Party nomination, with Pomeroy and Conant withdrawing from the presidential contest and endorsing him. The New York Times speculated that the endorsement would "give him 40,000 votes".


1884 United States presidential election, Nominations, Other parties and candidates, Prohibition Party nomination
The fourth Prohibition Party National Convention assembled in Lafayette Hall, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There were 505 delegates from 31 states and territories at the convention. The national ticket was nominated unanimously: John St. John for president and William Daniel for vice president. The straightforward single-issue Prohibition Party platform advocated the criminalization of alcoholic beverages.


1884 United States presidential election, Nominations, Other parties and candidates, Equal Rights Party nomination
Dissatisfied with resistance by the men of the major parties to women's suffrage, a small group of women announced the formation in 1884 of the Equal Rights Party.


1884 United States presidential election, Nominations, Other parties and candidates, Equal Rights Party nomination
The Equal Rights Party held its national convention in San Francisco, California, on September 20. The convention nominated Belva Ann Lockwood, an attorney in Washington, D.C., for president. Chairman Marietta Stow, the first woman to preside over a national nominating convention, was nominated for vice president.


1884 United States presidential election, Nominations, Other parties and candidates, Equal Rights Party nomination
Lockwood agreed to be the party's presidential candidate even though most women in the United States did not yet have the right to vote. She said, "I cannot vote but I can be voted for." She was the first woman to run a full campaign for the office (Victoria Woodhull conducted a more limited campaign in 1872). The Equal Rights Party had no treasury, but Lockwood gave lectures to pay for campaign travel. She received approximately 4,194 votes nationally.


1884 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign
The issue of personal character was paramount in the 1884 campaign. Blaine had been prevented from getting the Republican presidential nomination during the previous two elections because of the stigma of the "Mulligan letters": in 1876, a Boston bookkeeper named James Mulligan had located some letters showing that Blaine had sold his influence in Congress to various businesses. One such letter ended with the phrase "burn this letter", from which a popular chant of the Democrats arose – "Burn, burn, burn this letter!"


1884 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign
In just one deal, he had received $110,150 (over $1.5 million in 2010 dollars) from the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad for securing a federal land grant, among other things. Democrats and anti-Blaine Republicans made unrestrained attacks on his integrity as a result. Cleveland, on the other hand, was known as "Grover the Good" for his personal integrity; in the space of the three previous years he had become successively the mayor of Buffalo, New York, and then the governor of the state of New York, cleaning up large amounts of Tammany Hall's graft.


1884 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign
Commentator Jeff Jacoby notes that, "Not since George Washington had a candidate for president been so renowned for his rectitude." In July the Republicans found a refutation buried in Cleveland's past. Aided by sermons from a minister named George H. Ball, they charged that Cleveland had fathered an illegitimate child while he was a lawyer in Buffalo. When confronted with the scandal, Cleveland immediately instructed his supporters to "Above all, tell the truth."


1884 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign
Cleveland admitted to paying child support in 1874 to Maria Crofts Halpin, the woman who claimed he fathered her child, named Oscar Folsom Cleveland after Cleveland's friend and law partner, but asserted that the child's paternity was uncertain.


1884 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign
Shortly before election day, the Republican media published an affidavit from Halpin in which she stated that until she met Cleveland her "life was pure and spotless," and "there is not, and never was, a doubt as to the paternity of our child, and the attempt of Grover Cleveland, or his friends, to couple the name of Oscar Folsom, or any one else, with that boy, for that purpose is simply infamous and false." In a supplemental affidavit, Halpin also implied Cleveland had raped her, hence the conception of their child. Republican cartoonists across the land had a field day.


1884 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign
Cleveland's campaign decided that candor was the best approach to this scandal: it admitted that Cleveland had formed an "illicit connection" with the mother and that a child had been born and given the Cleveland surname. They also noted that there was no proof that Cleveland was the father, and claimed that, by assuming responsibility and finding a home for the child, he was merely doing his duty. Finally, they showed that the mother had not been forced into an asylum; her whereabouts were unknown. Blaine's supporters condemned Cleveland in the strongest of terms, singing "Ma, Ma, Where's my Pa?"


1884 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign
(After Cleveland's victory, Cleveland supporters would respond to the taunt with: "Gone to the White House, Ha, Ha, Ha.") However, the Cleveland campaign's damage control worked well enough and the race remained a tossup through Election Day. The greatest threat to the Republicans came from reformers called "Mugwumps" who were angrier at Blaine's public corruption than at Cleveland's private affairs.


1884 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign
In the final week of the campaign, the Blaine campaign suffered a catastrophe. At a Republican meeting attended by Blaine, a group of New York preachers castigated the Mugwumps. Their spokesman, Reverend Dr. Samuel Burchard, said, "We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been rum, Romanism, and rebellion." Blaine did not notice Burchard's anti-Catholic slur, nor did the assembled newspaper reporters, but a Democratic operative did, and Cleveland's campaign managers made sure it was widely publicized. The statement energized the Irish and Catholic vote in New York City heavily against Blaine, costing him New York state and the election by a narrow margin.


1884 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign
In addition to Burchard's statement, it is also believed that John St. John's campaign was responsible for winning Cleveland the election in New York. Since Prohibitionists tended to ally more with Republicans, the Republican Party attempted to convince St. John to drop out. When they failed, they resorted to slandering him. Because of this, he redoubled his efforts in upstate New York, where Blaine was vulnerable on his prohibition stance, and took votes away from the Republicans.


1884 United States presidential election, General election, Results
In Burke County, Georgia, 897 votes were cast for bolting "Whig Republican" electors for president (they were not counted for Blaine).


1884 United States presidential election, General election, Geography of results
Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote


1884 United States presidential election, General election, Results by state
Source: Data from Walter Dean Burnham, Presidential ballots, 1836–1892 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1955) pp 247–57.


1884 United States presidential election, General election, Close states
Margin of victory between 1% and 5% (117 electoral votes):


1884 United States presidential election, General election, Close states
Margin of victory between 5% and 10% (104 electoral votes):


1884 United States presidential election in Alabama
The 1884 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the nationwide presidential election. Alabama voters chose ten representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Alabama
Alabama was won by Grover Cleveland, the 28th governor of New York, (D–New York), running with the former governor of Indiana Thomas A. Hendricks, with 60.37% of the popular vote, against Secretary of State James G. Blaine (R-Maine), running with Senator John A. Logan, with 38.69% of the vote.


1884 United States presidential election in Arkansas
The 1884 United States presidential election in Arkansas took place on November 4, 1884. All contemporary 38 states were part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Arkansas voters chose seven electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Arkansas
Arkansas voted for the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland, over the Republican nominee, James G. Blaine by a margin of 17.12%.


1884 United States presidential election in California
The 1884 United States presidential election in California was held on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. State voters chose eight representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. .


1884 United States presidential election in California
California voted for the Republican nominee, former Secretary of State James G. Blaine, by a comfortable margin, over the Democratic nominee, New York Governor Grover Cleveland.


1884 United States presidential election in Colorado
The 1884 United States presidential election in Colorado took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Colorado
Colorado voted for the Republican nominee, James G. Blaine, over the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland. Blaine won the state by a margin of 12.57 points. In its earliest years as a state Colorado was like the Plains States to its east  solidly Republican, with that party continuously controlling the legislature and holding the governorship for five of seven terms. This was in spite of widespread criticism of the national GOP for its monetary policy in a state that was the major producer of silver in the United States


1884 United States presidential election in Connecticut
The 1884 United States presidential election in Connecticut took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose six representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Connecticut
Connecticut voted for the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland, over the Republican nominee, James G. Blaine. Cleveland won the state by a very narrow margin of 0.94%.


1884 United States presidential election in Delaware
The 1884 United States presidential election in Delaware took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Delaware
Delaware voted for the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland, over the Republican nominee, James G. Blaine. Cleveland won the state by a margin of 13.35%.


1884 United States presidential election in Florida
The 1884 United States presidential election in Florida took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Florida voters chose four representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Florida
Florida was won by Grover Cleveland, the 28th governor of New York, (D–New York), running with the former governor of Indiana Thomas A. Hendricks, with 52.96% of the popular vote, against Secretary of State James G. Blaine (R-Maine), running with Senator John A. Logan, with 46.73% of the vote.


1884 United States presidential election in Georgia
The 1884 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the wider United States Presidential election. Voters chose twelve representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Georgia, Background and vote
Following Reconstruction, Georgia would be the first former Confederate state to substantially disenfranchise its newly enfranchised freedmen and many poor whites, doing so in the early 1870s. This largely limited the Republican Party to a few North Georgia counties with substantial Civil War Unionist sentiment – chiefly Fannin but also to a lesser extent Pickens, Gilmer and Towns – and in presidential elections to a small number of counties elsewhere where blacks were not fully disenfranchised.


1884 United States presidential election in Georgia, Background and vote
The Democratic Party served as the guardian of white supremacy against a Republican Party historically associated with memories of Reconstruction, and the main competition became Democratic primaries, which were restricted to whites on the grounds of the Democratic Party being legally a private club. This restriction was done by local county laws, but combined with the highly efficacious cumulative poll tax introduced in 1877 meant that turnout declined steadily throughout the 1880s, unlike any other former Confederate state except South Carolina.


1884 United States presidential election in Georgia, Background and vote
Despite economic problems in the mountain counties due to deflation produced by the gold standard and large-scale government spending reductions by the “Redeemer” Democrats, voter turnout, especially for opposition parties, would maintain its poll tax-driven decline until the Populist movement, which did not begin until five years after the 1884 election. Consequently, Cleveland and Hendricks were able to stabilise the decline from 1880, again carrying Georgia by almost a two-to-one margin.


1884 United States presidential election in Illinois
The 1884 United States presidential election in Illinois took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose 22 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Illinois
Illinois voted for the Republican nominee, James G. Blaine, over the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland. Blaine won the state by a narrow margin of 3.74%.


1884 United States presidential election in Indiana
The 1884 United States presidential election in Indiana took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose 15 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Indiana
Indiana voted for the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland over the Republican nominee, James G. Blaine. Cleveland won the state by a narrow margin of 1.31%.


1884 United States presidential election in Iowa
The 1884 United States presidential election in Iowa took place on November 4, 1884. All contemporary 38 states were part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Iowa voters chose thirteen electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Iowa
Iowa was won by Secretary of State James G. Blaine (R-Maine), running with Senator John A. Logan, with 52.25% of the vote, against Grover Cleveland, the 28th governor of New York, (D–New York), running with the former governor of Indiana Thomas A. Hendricks, with 47.01% of the popular vote.


1884 United States presidential election in Iowa
The Prohibition party chose the 8th Governor of Kansas, John St. John and Maryland State Representative William Daniel, received 0.40% of the popular vote.


1884 United States presidential election in Kansas
The 1884 Presidential Election held in Kansas took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose nine representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Kansas
Kansas was won by Republican nominee, James G. Blaine, over the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland. Blaine won the state by a margin of 24.18%.


1884 United States presidential election in Kansas
With 58.08% of the popular vote, Kansas would prove to be Blaine's third strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote after Vermont and Minnesota. The state would also prove to be Greenback Party candidate Benjamin Butler's second strongest state after Massachusetts.


1884 United States presidential election in Kentucky
The 1884 United States presidential election in Kentucky took place on November 4, 1884. All contemporary thirty-eight states were part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Kentucky voters chose thirteen electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Kentucky, Background and vote
Ever since the Civil War, Kentucky had been shaped politically by divisions created by that war between secessionist, Democratic counties and Unionist, Republican ones, although the state as a whole leaned Democratic throughout this era and the GOP would never carry the state during the Third Party System at either presidential or gubernatorial level.


1884 United States presidential election in Kentucky, Background and vote
What would become a long-lived partisan system after the state was freed from the direct control of former Confederates would not be seriously affected by the first post-war insurgency movement – that of the Greenback Party at the tail end of the 1870s in the secessionist Jackson Purchase and other western regions. The Democratic Party would permanently lose some of the Greenback voters, especially in the Western Coal Field region, with the result that nominee Grover Cleveland lost three points on Winfield Scott Hancock’s 1880 margin.


1884 United States presidential election in Kentucky, Background and vote
As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last occasion when Russell County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.


1884 United States presidential election in Louisiana
The 1884 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 4, 1884. All contemporary 38 states were part of the 1884 United States presidential election. State voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Louisiana voted for the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland, over the Republican nominee, James G. Blaine by a margin of 14.85%.


1884 United States presidential election in Maine
The 1884 United States presidential election in Maine took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose six representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Maine
Maine voted for the Republican nominee, James G. Blaine, over the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland. Blaine won his home state by a margin of 15.37%.


1884 United States presidential election in Maryland
The 1884 United States presidential election in Maryland took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose eight representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Maryland
Maryland voted for the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland, over the Republican nominee, James G. Blaine. by a margin of 5.98%.


1884 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
The 1884 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose 14 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
Massachusetts voted for the Republican nominee, James G. Blaine, over the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland. Blaine won the state by a margin of 8.03%.


1884 United States presidential election in Michigan
The 1884 United States presidential election in Michigan took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Michigan
Michigan was won by the Republican nominee James G. Blaine over Democrat Grover Cleveland in a close race by only 3,308 votes, a margin of less than 1%.


1884 United States presidential election in Minnesota
The 1884 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose seven representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Minnesota
Minnesota was won by Republican nominee, James G. Blaine, over the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland. Blaine won the state by a margin of 21.91%.


1884 United States presidential election in Minnesota
With 58.78% of the popular vote, Minnesota would prove to be Blaine's second strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote after Vermont.


1884 United States presidential election in Mississippi
The 1884 United States presidential election in Mississippi took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose 9 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Mississippi
Mississippi voted for the Democratic candidate, New York Governor Grover Cleveland over the Republican candidate, former Secretary of State James G. Blaine. Cleveland won Mississippi by a margin of 28.68%.


1884 United States presidential election in Missouri
The 1884 United States presidential election in Missouri took place on November 4, 1884. All contemporary 38 states were part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose 16 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Missouri
Missouri was won by Governor Grover Cleveland of New York,  and Governor Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana, with 53.49% of the vote, against former Secretary of State and Senator James G. Blaine of Maine and his running mate Senator John A. Logan of Illinois, with 46.02% of the vote.


1884 United States presidential election in Nebraska
The 1884 United States presidential election in Nebraska took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose five representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Nebraska
Nebraska voted for the Republican nominee, James G. Blaine, over the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland. Blaine won the state by a margin of 16.78%.


1884 United States presidential election in Nebraska
With 57.31% of the popular vote, Nebraska would prove to be Blaine's fifth strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote after Vermont, Minnesota, Kansas and Rhode Island.


1884 United States presidential election in Nevada
The 1884 United States presidential election in Nevada took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Nevada voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Nevada
Nevada was won by Secretary of State James G. Blaine (R-Maine), running with Senator John A. Logan, with 56.21% of the vote, against Grover Cleveland, the 28th governor of New York, (D–New York), running with the former governor of Indiana Thomas A. Hendricks, with 43.59% of the popular vote.


1884 United States presidential election in Nevada
The Greenback and Anti- Monopoly Parties both chose major general and former governor of Massachusetts Benjamin Butler and Absolom M. West, an unseated Mississippi representative, received 0.20% of the vote for the scant 26 votes they received.


1884 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
The 1884 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
New Hampshire voted for the Republican nominee, James G. Blaine, over the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland. Blaine won the state by a narrow margin of 4.80%. This would be the last occasion a Democratic presidential candidate won Belknap County until Woodrow Wilson won it in 1912.


1884 United States presidential election in New Jersey
The 1884 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose nine representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in New Jersey
New Jersey voted for the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland, over the Republican nominee, James G. Blaine. Cleveland won his birth state by a very narrow margin of 1.67%.


1884 United States presidential election in New York
The 1884 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 4, 1884. All contemporary 38 states were part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose 36 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in New York
New York was won by the Democratic nominees, Governor Grover Cleveland of New York and his running mate former Senator and Governor Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana. Cleveland and Hendricks defeated the Republican nominees, former Secretary of State and Senator James G. Blaine of Maine and his running mate Senator John A. Logan of Illinois.


1884 United States presidential election in New York
Cleveland narrowly carried New York State with a plurality of 48.25% of the vote to Blaine's 48.15%, a victory margin of 0.10%. In a distant third came the Prohibition Party candidate John St. John with 2.14%, while Greenback Party candidate Benjamin Butler came in fourth, with 1.46%.


1884 United States presidential election in New York
New York weighed in for this election as less than 1% more Republican than the national average.


1884 United States presidential election in New York
Cleveland's narrow victory in his home state, with its 36 electoral votes, proved decisive in clinching him the 1884 election and allowing him to win the presidency. He won despite strong opposition to Cleveland from the corrupt Tammany Hall machine, which held significant influence over New York's politics.


1884 United States presidential election in New York
Cleveland performed most strongly downstate in the New York City area, where he won New York County, Kings County, Queens County, and received over 60% of the vote in Richmond County. Cleveland also won nearby Suffolk County, Westchester County, and Rockland County. Blaine won much of upstate New York, including a victory in Erie County, home to the city of Buffalo, although Cleveland did manage to win Albany County, home to the state capital of Albany, along with several rural upstate counties.


1884 United States presidential election in North Carolina
The 1884 United States presidential election in North Carolina took place on November 6, 1888, as part of the 1888 United States presidential election. North Carolina voters chose 11 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in North Carolina
North Carolina was won by Grover Cleveland, the 28th governor of New York, (D–New York), running with the former governor of Indiana Thomas A. Hendricks, with 53.25 percent of the popular vote, against Secretary of State James G. Blaine (R-Maine), running with Senator John A. Logan, with 46.59 percent of the popular vote.


1884 United States presidential election in Ohio
The 1884 United States presidential election in Ohio was held on November 4, 1884 as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. State voters chose 23 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Ohio
Ohio was narrowly won by the Republican Party candidate, James G. Blaine, with 50.99% of the popular vote. The Democratic Party candidate, Grover Cleveland, garnered 46.94% of the popular vote.


1884 United States presidential election in Oregon
The 1884 United States presidential election in Oregon took place on November 4, 1884. All contemporary 38 states were part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Oregon
Oregon was won by Secretary of State James G. Blaine (R-Maine), running with Senator John A. Logan, with 50.99% of the vote, against Grover Cleveland, the 28th governor of New York, (D–New York), running with the former governor of Indiana Thomas A. Hendricks, with 46.70% of the popular vote. Blaine won the state by a narrow margin of 4.29%.


1884 United States presidential election in Oregon
The Greenback and Anti- Monopoly Parties both chose major general and former governor of Massachusetts Benjamin Butler and Absolom M. West, an unseated Mississippi representative, received 1.38% of the popular vote.


1884 United States presidential election in Oregon
The Prohibition party chose the 8th Governor of Kansas, John St. John and Maryland State Representative William Daniel, received 0.93% of the popular vote.


1884 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
The 1884 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose 30 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania voted for the Republican nominee, James G. Blaine, over the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland. Blaine won Pennsylvania by a margin of 9.51%. This was the first time since 1824 that the national winner of the election did not carry Pennsylvania.


1884 United States presidential election in Rhode Island
The 1884 United States presidential election in Rhode Island took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Rhode Island
Rhode Island voted for the Republican nominee, James G. Blaine, over the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland. Blaine won the state by a margin of 20.26%.


1884 United States presidential election in Rhode Island
With 58.07% of the popular vote, Rhode Island would prove to be Blaine's fourth strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote after Vermont, Minnesota and Kansas.


1884 United States presidential election in South Carolina
The 1884 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose 9 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in South Carolina
South Carolina voted for the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland, over the Republican nominee, James G. Blaine. Cleveland won the state by a wide margin of 51.84%.


1884 United States presidential election in Tennessee
The 1884 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Tennessee voters chose twelve representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Tennessee, Background and vote
For over a century after the Civil War, Tennessee’s white citizenry was divided according to partisan loyalties established in that war. Unionist regions covering almost all of East Tennessee, Kentucky Pennyroyal-allied Macon County, and the five West Tennessee Highland Rim counties of Carroll, Henderson, McNairy, Hardin and Wayne voted Republican – generally by landslide margins – as they saw the Democratic Party as the “war party” who had forced them into a war they did not wish to fight.


1884 United States presidential election in Tennessee, Background and vote
Contrariwise, the rest of Middle and West Tennessee who had supported and driven the state’s secession was equally fiercely Democratic as it associated the Republicans with Reconstruction. After the state’s white landowning class re-established its rule in the early 1870s, blacks and Unionist whites nonetheless forged adequate support for the GOP to produce a competitive political system for two decades, although during this era the Republicans could only capture statewide offices when the Democratic Party was divided on this issue of payment of state debt.


1884 United States presidential election in Tennessee, Background and vote
White Democrats in West Tennessee were always aiming to eliminate black political influence, and during the 1880s they attempted to do this by election fraud and stuffing of ballot boxes. However, at this stage the Republican Party was a strong force throughout the state and the Democratic Party had not yet achieved a monopoly in power in secessionist areas, with its statewide vote not rising above sixty percent in any year’s congressional race.


1884 United States presidential election in Tennessee, Background and vote
Tennessee was won by the Democratic nominees, Governor Grover Cleveland of New York and his running mate former Senator and Governor Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana. Cleveland and Hendricks defeated the Republican nominees, former Secretary of State and Senator James G. Blaine of Maine and his running mate Senator John A. Logan of Illinois, with 51.45% of the vote.


1884 United States presidential election in Texas
The 1884 United States presidential election in Texas was held on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. State voters chose 13 electors to represent the state in the Electoral College, which chose the president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Texas
Texas voted for the Democratic nominee Grover Cleveland, who received 69.3% of the vote. With 69.3% of the popular vote, the Lone Star State would prove to be Cleveland's second strongest state only after South Carolina.


1884 United States presidential election in Vermont
The 1884 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Vermont
Vermont voted for the Republican nominee, James G. Blaine, over the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland. Blaine won the Green Mountain State by a margin of 37.34%.


1884 United States presidential election in Vermont
With 66.52% of the popular vote, Vermont would be Blaine's strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote.


1884 United States presidential election in Virginia
The 1884 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose 12 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Virginia
Virginia voted for the Democratic candidate, New York Governor Grover Cleveland over the Republican candidate, former Secretary of State James G. Blaine. Cleveland won Virginia by a margin of 2.15%.


1884 United States presidential election in Virginia
The city of  Portsmouth supported Blaine in this election. It has proceeded to do so for president only twice since  1928, and  1972


1884 United States presidential election in West Virginia
The 1884 United States presidential election in West Virginia took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. West Virginia voters chose six representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in West Virginia
West Virginia was won by Grover Cleveland, the 28th governor of New York, (D–New York), running with the former governor of Indiana Thomas A. Hendricks, with 50.94% of the popular vote, against Secretary of State James G. Blaine (R-Maine), running with Senator John A. Logan, with 47.75% of the vote.


1884 United States presidential election in West Virginia
The Prohibition Party chose John St. John, the former governor of Kansas, and former Maryland State Senator William Daniel as their presidential and vice-presidential candidates and received 0.71% of the vote. The Greenback and Anti- Monopoly Parties both chose major general and former governor of Massachusetts Benjamin Butler and Absolom M. West, an unseated Mississippi representative, received 0.60% of the vote.


1884 United States presidential election in Wisconsin
The 1884 United States presidential election in Wisconsin was held on November 4, 1884 as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. State voters chose 11 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1884 United States presidential election in Wisconsin
Republican Party candidate James G. Blaine won Wisconsin with 50.38 percent of the popular vote, winning the state's eleven electoral votes.


1884 VFA season
The 1884 Victorian Football Association season was the eighth season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Geelong Football Club. It was the club's sixth VFA premiership in just seven seasons, and was the third in a sequence of three consecutive premierships won from 1882 to 1884.


1884 VFA season, Association membership
The senior metropolitan membership of the Association (including Geelong) increased from six to eight clubs in 1884. The two new clubs were the Williamstown Football Club, which was elevated from junior status; and the newly established Fitzroy Football Club.


1884 VFA season, Association membership
At this time, three other provincial senior clubs were full Association members represented on the Board of Management: Ballarat, South Ballarat (formerly known as Albion Imperial) and Horsham Unions. Due to distance, these clubs played too few matches against the rest of the VFA to be considered relevant in the premiership.


1884 VFA season, 1884 VFA premiership
The 1884 premiership was won by the Geelong Football Club, which won twenty-two and drew one of its twenty-five matches. Essendon finished second with sixteen wins and two draws from twenty-four matches; Hotham finished third.


1884 VFA season, 1884 VFA premiership, Club senior records
The below table details the playing records of the eight clubs in all matches during the 1884 season. Two sets of results are given:


1884 VFA season, 1884 VFA premiership, Club senior records
The clubs are listed in the order in which they were ranked in the Sportsman newspaper. The VFA had no formal process by which the clubs were ranked, so the below order should be considered indicative only, particularly since the fixturing of matches was not standardised; however, the top three placings were later acknowledged in publications including the Football Record and are considered official.


1884 Vermont gubernatorial election
The 1884 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on September 2, 1884. Incumbent Republican John L. Barstow, per the "Mountain Rule", did not run for re-election to a second term as Governor of Vermont. Republican candidate Samuel E. Pingree defeated Democratic candidate Lyman W. Redington to succeed him.


1884 Wabash football team
The 1884 Wabash College football team represented Wabash College during the 1884 college football season. The team would not garner the nickname "Little Giants" until late in its 1904 football season.


1884 Washington Nationals (UA) season
The 1884 Washington Nationals finished with a 47–65 record in the Union Association, finishing in seventh place. This was the only season the team existed, and indeed the only season the Union Association existed.


1884 Washington Nationals (UA) season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs


1884 Washington Nationals (UA) season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs


1884 Washington Nationals (UA) season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1884 Washington Nationals season
The 1884 Washington Nationals (sometimes called the Washington Statesmen) had a 12–51 record in the American Association when the team folded without finishing the season.


1884 Washington Nationals season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1884 Washington Nationals season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1884 Washington Nationals season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1884 Washington Nationals season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1884 Washington Nationals season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1884 West Macquarie colonial by-election
A by-election for the seat of West Macquarie in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly was held on 2 July 1884 because of the resignation of Thomas Hellyer.


1884 West Virginia gubernatorial election
The 1884 West Virginia gubernatorial election took place on October 14, 1884, to elect the governor of West Virginia.


1884 Wimbledon Championships
The 1884 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from 5 July until 19 July. It was the 8th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the first Grand Slam tennis event of 1884. The men's doubles (previously hosted by the Oxford University Club) and women's singles (originally planned by the London Athletic Club) were added to the Wimbledon Championships, but these were not started until after the men's singles competition had been completed.


1884 Wimbledon Championships
The first prize for the women was valued at twenty guineas, and the second prize was valued at ten guineas There were thirteen female competitors. James Dwight, Arthur Rives and Dick Sears from the United States entered the men's singles event and were the first non-British and overseas players to enter the Wimbledon Championships. The South Western Railway ran special trains to the ground from Waterloo and the temporary Stand A at the Centre Court was converted into a permanent and covered stand.


1884 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Gentlemen's Doubles
Ernest Renshaw /  William Renshaw defeated  Ernest Lewis /  Teddy Williams 6–3, 6–1, 1–6, 6–4


1884 Wimbledon Championships – Gentlemen's Doubles
Ernest Renshaw and William Renshaw defeated Ernest Lewis and Teddy Williams 6–3, 6–1, 1–6, 6–4 to win the inaugural Gentlemen' Doubles tennis title at the 1884 Wimbledon Championships.


1884 Wimbledon Championships – Gentlemen's Singles
Herbert Lawford defeated Charles Walder Grinstead 7–5, 2–6, 6–2, 9–7 in the All Comers' Final, but the reigning champion William Renshaw defeated Herbert Lawford 6–0, 6–4, 9–7 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1884 Wimbledon Championships. James Dwight, Arthur Rives, and Richard Sears were the first overseas players to compete at Wimbledon.


1884 Wimbledon Championships – Ladies' Singles
Maud Watson defeated her elder sister Lilian Watson 6–8, 6–3, 6–3 to win the inaugural Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1884 Wimbledon Championships.


1884 Wisconsin gubernatorial election
The 1884 Wisconsin gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1884.


1884 Wisconsin gubernatorial election
Republican nominee Jeremiah McLain Rusk defeated Democratic nominee Nicholas D. Fratt and two other nominees with 51.00% of the vote.


1884 Wisconsin gubernatorial election
This was the first Wisconsin gubernatorial election held in an even-numbered year. In 1882, a constitutional amendment was carried moving gubernatorial elections from odd-numbered to even-numbered years.


1884 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, Bibliography
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1884 World Series
In baseball, the 1884 World Series was a post-season championship series between the Providence Grays of the National League and the New York Metropolitans of the American Association at the Polo Grounds in New York City.


1884 World Series
While the 1884 post-season championship series was the first such to be referred to as the "World's Series," Major League Baseball considers the 1903 World Series the first. Nonetheless, the 1884 series was baseball's first inter-league championship contest.


1884 World Series, History
In 1884, Metropolitans manager Jim Mutrie issued a challenge to his NL counterpart, Frank Bancroft of the Grays. Mutrie's challenge was for a best-of-three series. Each team would put up a thousand dollars with the winner taking the booty.


1884 World Series, History
This pre-modern-era World Series would feature a pitching match-up of future Hall of Famers and 300-game winners Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn and Tim Keefe. That was the year Radbourn won his season-record 59 games (some sources say 60) for the Grays. Keefe was a "mere" 37–17. Playing under American Association rules, Radbourn and the Grays defeated the New York team in the first two games, 6–0 and 3–1.


1884 World Series, History
Only the first game went the full nine innings; the others were called after seven and six, because of darkness and extreme cold, respectively. The third game arguably should never have been played as the format was best-of-three, and Providence clinched in two. It was played with the hope of generating further revenue.


1884 World Series, History
The crowd for the third game comprised only 300 people due to bitter cold. The Grays did not want to play due to the weather but were given the option of choosing the umpire if they would play. The Grays accepted and strategically chose Keefe, the Mets best pitcher. Radbourn, pitching his third complete game in three days, led the Grays to a 12–2 rout. For the series, Radbourn allowed 11 hits and no earned runs in 22 innings.


1884 World Series, History
Local newspaper The New York Clipper called the series "The Championship of the United States." Several newspapers such as The Sporting Life penned the Grays as "World Champions", and the new title stuck.


1884 World Series, History
The total attendance for the three games was 3,800. Despite the low attendance, the two leagues continued the series, and attendance and prize money increased each of the next two years.


1884 World Series, The World Series of 1884
Providence Grays (NL) (84–28) vs New York Metropolitans (AA) (75–32)


1884 Yale Bulldogs football team
The 1884 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1884 college football season. The team compiled an 8–0–1 record, shut out eight of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents, 495 to 10. The team was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and National Championship Foundation and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.


1884 and 1885 United States Senate elections
The United States Senate elections of 1884 and 1885 were elections that coincided with the presidential election of 1884. Both Republicans and Democrats lost seats in the United States Senate due to the failure of three state legislatures to finish elections in time. Republicans, nevertheless, retained majority control and the Readjusters joined their caucus. By the beginning of the first session, in December 1885, Republicans had won all three vacant seats, increasing their majority.


1884 and 1885 United States Senate elections
As these elections were prior to ratification of the seventeenth amendment, Senators were chosen by state legislatures.


1884 and 1885 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Special elections during the 48th Congress
In this election, the winner was seated in 1885 before March 4.


1884 and 1885 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Races leading to the 49th Congress
In these regular elections, the winners were elected for the term beginning March 4, 1885; ordered by state.


1884 and 1885 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections during the 49th Congress
In these elections, the winners were elected in 1885 after March 4, sorted by election date.


1884 and 1885 United States Senate elections, Complete list of races, New York
The New York election was held January 20, 1885, by the New York State Legislature.


1884 and 1885 United States Senate elections, Complete list of races, New York
Republican Elbridge G. Lapham had been elected to this seat in a special election in 1881 to succeed Roscoe Conkling who had resigned. Lapham's term would expire on March 3, 1885.


1884 and 1885 United States Senate elections, Complete list of races, New York
At the State election in November 1883, 19 Republicans and 13 Democrats were elected for a two-year term (1884-1885) in the State Senate. At the State election in November 1884, 73 Republicans and 55 Democrats were elected for the session of 1885 to the Assembly. The 108th New York State Legislature met from January 6 to May 22, 1885, at Albany, New York.


1884 and 1885 United States Senate elections, Complete list of races, New York
The caucus of Republican State legislators met on January 19, President pro tempore of the State Senate Dennis McCarthy presided. 19 State senators and 73 assemblymen attended. The Evarts faction required the nomination to be made by viva voce vote, which was opposed by the Morton faction, but was carried by a vote of 64 to 28. The caucus nominated Ex-U.S. Secretary of State William M. Evarts on the first ballot.


1884 and 1885 United States Senate elections, Complete list of races, New York
The Democratic caucus nominated Ex-Mayor of New York Edward Cooper.


1884 and 1885 United States Senate elections, Complete list of races, New York
William M. Evarts was the choice of both the Assembly and the State Senate, and was declared elected.


1884 and 1885 United States Senate elections, Complete list of races, New York
Note: The votes were cast on January 20, but both Houses met in a joint session on January 21 to compare nominations, and declare the result.


1884 and 1885 United States Senate elections, Complete list of races, Ohio
In 1884, the Democrats held a majority in the Ohio legislature. In a caucus meeting to determine the party's choice for United States Senator, many Democratic legislators looked to replace the incumbent Senator, Democrat George H. Pendleton, because they disagreed with his advocacy of civil service reform and low tariffs. Some of Pendleton's opponents, led by Oliver Payne, promoted Henry B. Payne for the Senate seat, recalling his opposition to both of those positions during his time in the House. After a secret ballot by the Democratic caucus, Henry B. Payne received 46 out of 80 votes. Because Oliver was a trustee and treasurer of the Standard Oil company, many of the Pendleton supporters immediately alleged that $100,000 from the oil trust had been used to bribe Democratic legislators, and claimed that an open ballot would not have favored Payne.


1884 and 1885 United States Senate elections, Complete list of races, Ohio
When the full legislature met, Henry B. Payne was elected with 78 votes out of 120. The Democratic legislature initially refused to investigate their members' alleged corruption, but when Republicans regained the majority in the next session, the legislature looked into the allegations and forwarded the results to the federal Senate. The evidence gathered was voluminous, but the Senate declined to expel Payne, who proclaimed his innocence. While there was never enough evidence for definitive proof of bribery, biographer Dewayne Burke wrote that the "circumstantial evidence seems to convict Payne" of the charge.


1884 and 1885 United States Senate elections, Complete list of races, Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania election was held January 20, 1885. The Pennsylvania General Assembly convened January 20, 1885. Incumbent Republican J. Donald Cameron, who was elected in an 1877 special election and re-elected in 1879, was a successful candidate for re-election to another term. The results of the vote of both houses combined are as follows:


1884 attack on London Bridge
On Saturday 13 December 1884 two American-Irish Republicans carried out a dynamite attack on London Bridge as part of the Fenian dynamite campaign. The bomb went off prematurely while the men were in a boat attaching it to a bridge pier at 5.45 pm during the evening rush hour. There was little damage to the bridge, and no casualties other than the bombers. However, there was considerable collateral damage and "hundreds of windows were shattered" on both banks of the Thames. The men's boat was so completely destroyed the police initially thought the bombers had fled.


1884 attack on London Bridge
The front-page of the Illustrated London News on 20 December 1884 featured a full-page illustration depicting the flash of the explosion from under the bridge as seen by witnesses. On 25 December the discovery was made of the mutilated remains of one of the bombers. The body of the other man were never recovered, but the police were later able to identify the dead men as two Americans, William Mackey Lomasney, and John Fleming.


1884 attack on London Bridge
The men were identified after a landlord reported to police that dynamite had been found in the rented premises of two American gentlemen who had disappeared after 13 December, enabling police to piece together who was responsible for the attack. The men had already been under surveillance by the police in America and in Britain. While most accounts claim that there were three men killed, a Fenian History website reports only two deaths.


1884 college football season
The 1884 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Princeton and Yale as having been selected national champions.


1884 in Argentina, Deaths
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1884 in Australia
The following lists events that happened during 1884 in Australia.


1884 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1884.


1884 in Australian literature, Births
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1884 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.


1884 in Australian literature, Deaths
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1884 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.


1884 in Australian soccer
The 1884 season was the first season of competitive Australia. The Anglo-Queensland Football Association introduced the Anglo Queensland FA Cup in 1884.


1884 in Australian soccer, Anglo Queensland FA Cup
The Anglo Queensland FA Cup began in 1884. Rangers won the annual championship by beating St. Andrews 1–0 in the Final.


1884 in Australian soccer, Honours
(Note: figures in parentheses display the club's competition record as winners/runners-up.)


1884 in Belgium
The following lists events that happened during 1884 in the Kingdom of Belgium.


1884 in Canada, Historical documents
Opposition Leader Edward Blake touches on several Liberal Party principles and political points


1884 in Canada, Historical documents
Winnipegger Alexander Begg lectures in London on his years in the Northwest


1884 in Canada, Historical documents
Report on Indigenous peoples of Northwest (Note: "savage," other stereotypes)


1884 in Canada, Historical documents
Witnesses describe tense stand-off between Mounties and armed group of Cree


1884 in Canada, Historical documents
Touring British scientists find Chief Crowfoot selling his personal items at Gleichen, Alberta


1884 in Canada, Historical documents
Letter of Louis Riel declining invitation to speak in Prince Albert


1884 in Canada, Historical documents
Anglophone Quebeckers assess agricultural and forestry advantages of Calgary region


1884 in Canada, Historical documents
Newspaper controversy over encouraging deaf people to settle in Northwest


1884 in Canada, Historical documents
Nova Scotia woman writes to her mother about losing her newborn child


1884 in Canadian football
The 1884 Canadian football season was the second season since the creation of the Ontario Rugby Football Union (ORFU) and the Quebec Rugby Football Union (QRFU) in 1883 and the first since the re-establishment of the Canadian Rugby Football Union (CRFU). The season was highlighted by the first ever Rugby Football Dominion Championship where the Montreal Football Club defeated the Toronto Football Club by a score of 30 to 0.


1884 in Canadian football, Canadian football news in 1884
On February 7, 1884, the Canadian Rugby Football Union was formed to provide a regulatory body for Rugby Football in Canada along with establishing a national championship game. The QRFU adopted a point based system this year, adopting the ORFU model, as opposed to the previous year where they recorded the number of tries and goals scored.


1884 in Canadian football, QRFU results, Quebec Challenge Cup
The Montreal Football Club and the Britannia Football Club played for the Quebec Challenge Cup. The teams proved evenly matched with Montreal only scoring one rouge in the entire game while the Brits did not score. Since Montreal did not record enough points, the game ended in a draw. Because Britannia was not able to defeat Montreal, Montreal retained their Quebec title and were declared the champions of Quebec.


1884 in Canadian football, ORFU results
At the beginning of the season, 14 Ontario rugby clubs were eligible to compete for the Ontario Challenge Cup. Five of these clubs either did not participate or forfeited immediately. The remaining nine teams competed in a series of sudden death matches until one undefeated team remained, being named the Ontario Rugby Challenge Cup champion.


1884 in Canadian football, ORFU results, Ontario Challenge Cup
Prior to the scheduled final between Toronto and Ottawa, Ottawa declared forfeit due to seven of their players being unable to make the trip to Toronto. Given the short notice, since the Toronto club received the telegram one day before the scheduled match, the integrity of the Ottawa club was questioned since they had at least 35 members and appeared reluctant to send a replacement team that would only lose. Since tickets had been paid for, Toronto attempted to schedule a match with Hamilton, but were refused due to the justifiably short notice. Consequently, the Toronto Football Club were Ontario Challenge Cup champions due to Ottawa's forfeit.


1884 in Chile
The following lists events that happened during 1884 in Chile.


1884 in Ireland, Sport, Gaelic Games
Michael Cusack, Maurice Davin and other Gaelic games enthusiasts meet to establish the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) on Saturday, November 1, 1884, in Hayes' Hotel, Thurles, County Tipperary.


1884 in Mexico, Notable deaths
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1884 in New Zealand
The following lists events that happened during 1884 in New Zealand.


1884 in New Zealand, Incumbents, Government and law
The 1884 general election is held on 22 July. Afterwards the 9th New Zealand Parliament is formed.


1884 in Norwegian music
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1884 in Norwegian music.


1884 in South Africa
The following lists events that happened during 1884 in South Africa.


1884 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1884 to Wales and its people.


1884 in architecture
The year 1884 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.


1884 in association football
The following are the association football events of the year 1884 throughout the world.


1884 in baseball
The following are the baseball events of the year 1884  throughout the world.


1884 in baseball, All-Time Statistical Leaders (Strikeouts)
The 1884 season was memorable in that six of the top 10 all-time Major League Baseball single season strikeout totals were set that season:


1884 in baseball, Notable seasons
Old Hoss Radbourn won a record 59 or 60 games (depending on the sources), a record that will almost certainly never be broken. In addition to wins, Radbourn led the National League in games (75), games started (73), complete games (73), ERA (1.38), saves (2), strikeouts (441), and innings pitched (678.2).


1884 in baseball, Notable seasons
The season record for pitching strikeouts (369, by Tim Keefe 1883) is broken by seven players, with Hugh Daily beating Keefe's record by 114. To this day (as of 2020), six of the top ten strikeout seasons were accomplished in 1884 (including five of the top seven). 1884 was the first season in which pitchers were allowed to throw overhand.


1884 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1884.


1884 in paleontology
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1884.


1884 in poetry
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1884 in poetry, Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:


1884 in poetry, Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:


1884 in rail transport
This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1884.


1884 in science
The year 1884 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.


1884 in sports
1884 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.


1884–85 Bolton Wanderers F.C. season
The 1881–82 season was due to be the fourth season in which Bolton Wanderers competed in a senior competitive football competition. The club originally entered the FA Cup and were drawn to play Preston Zingari. However, both clubs withdrew due to a professional argument with The Football Association.


1884–85 British Home Championship
The 1884–85 British Home Championship was the second football tournament between the Home Nations and was, like the previous competition, won by a Scottish team which completely dominated proceedings. The English also performed well, beginning with a strong victory over Ireland but failing to capitalise on this start with 1–1 draws with Wales and Scotland. The Welsh thrashed Ireland 8–1 but were well beaten 8–2 by the Scots who won their final game in a similar scoreline against the Irish, who finished last having conceded 20 goals in three games. The Scots, who had scored 16 goals two games, would win (individually or shared) six of the first seven tournaments.


1884–85 Dumbarton F.C. season
The 1884–85 season was the 12th Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed at a national level.


1884–85 Dumbarton F.C. season, Scottish Cup
Dumbarton's run in the Scottish Cup was short-lived as they were knocked out in the third round by Pollokshields Athletic.


1884–85 Dumbarton F.C. season, Dumbartonshire Cup
As the sport continued to grow, so did the demand for more competitive football, and so began the setting up of regional competitions for clubs in specific counties/cities. The first was nine years earlier with the first playing of the East of Scotland Shield (formerly the Edinburgh FA Cup) and with the formation of the Dumbartonshire Football Association in March 1884, the first Dumbartonshire Cup was put up for competition.


1884–85 Dumbarton F.C. season, Dumbartonshire Cup
With three of the strongest teams in the country at the time playing out of Dumbartonshire, it was no easy feat to win the cup, and Dumbarton required to see off both of their strongest local rivals, Renton in the first round and Vale of Leven in the final, to become the first winners for the county cup.


1884–85 Dumbarton F.C. season, Glasgow Charity Cup
Dumbarton reached the final of the Glasgow Charity Cup for the second time. Three tough matches against Rangers were followed by a final against their old adversary Queen's Park, where they lost by the only goal.


1884–85 Dumbarton F.C. season, Friendlies
During the season, 22 'friendly' matches were played, including a 0-0 draw against Queen's Park to celebrate the opening of the 'new' Hampden Park and 5 games against English opposition with mixed success. In all, 9 were won, 7 drawn and 6 lost, scoring 50 goals and conceding 30.


1884–85 Dumbarton F.C. season, Player statistics
Of note amongst those donning the club's colours for the first time was Ralph Aitken.


1884–85 Dumbarton F.C. season, Player statistics
Only includes appearances and goals in competitive Scottish Cup matches.


1884–85 Dumbarton F.C. season, Player statistics, International caps
An international trial match was played on 7 March 1885 to consider selection of teams to represent Scotland in the 1885 British Home Championship. Robert 'Plumber' Brown, Joe Lindsay, James McAulay and Michael Paton played for a 'Counties XI' against a 'Glasgow XI' with the latter winning 3-1, Brown scoring the 'Counties' goal.


1884–85 Dumbarton F.C. season, Player statistics, International caps
Subsequently, five Dumbarton players were selected to play, as follows:


1884–85 Dumbarton F.C. season, Player statistics, International caps
- Robert 'Plumber' Brown and Leitch Keir both earned their first caps against Wales.


1884–85 Dumbarton F.C. season, Player statistics, International caps
- Joe Lindsay earned his sixth and seventh caps against England and Wales respectively. He scored the only goal in the 1-1 draw against the English - and scored a hat-trick in the 8-1 defeat of Wales.


1884–85 Dumbarton F.C. season, Player statistics, International caps
- James McAulay earned his fifth and sixth caps against England and Wales respectively.


1884–85 Dumbarton F.C. season, Player statistics, International caps
- Michael Paton earned his third and fourth caps against England and Wales respectively.


1884–85 Dumbarton F.C. season, Player statistics, Representative matches
The Dumbartonshire Football Association played three representative matches during the season and Dumbarton players were selected to play as follows:


1884–85 Dumbarton F.C. season, Reserve team
Dumbarton withdrew from the Second Eleven Association in protest at the unsuccessful attempt to have the previous year's final against Kilmarnock Athletic replayed.


1884–85 Eastville Rovers F.C. season
The 1884–85 season was the second to be played by the team that are now known as Bristol Rovers, and their first playing under the name Eastville Rovers.


1884–85 Eastville Rovers F.C. season, Season review
As well as a new name, the team moved to a new ground known as Three Acres in the Ashley Down area of Bristol, and appointed Bill Somerton as captain. As with their previous season, the club played only friendly matches. Boxing, Cricket and Rugby were the most popular sports in Bristol at the time, and only a small number of association football teams played in the city, limiting the potential opposition for Rovers.


1884–85 Eastville Rovers F.C. season, Season review
The full details of the games played this season are not known, but they suffered a 7–1 defeat at the hands of Warmley some time before a second eleven lost 2–1 to the same opposition on 8 November 1884. Two matches were scheduled against Gloucester, in Gloucester on 27 December and in Bristol on 7 February, and there were also games played against Bristol Wagon Works, Clifton Wanderers, Melksham, Right Against Might, St George, and Wotton-under-Edge.


1884–85 Eastville Rovers F.C. season, Season review
In addition to these games, a match was arranged against a team in Cardiff, but this had to be cancelled when the Rovers team refused to travel on the Aust Ferry.


1884–85 FA Cup
The 1884–85 Football Association Challenge Cup was the fourteenth staging of the FA Cup, England's oldest football tournament. 114 teams entered, 14 more than the previous season, although 8 of these never played a match.


1884–85 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season
Season 1884–85 was the tenth season in which Heart of Midlothian competed at a Scottish national level, entering the Scottish Cup for the tenth time.


1884–85 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season, Overview
Hearts entered the Scottish Cup at the second round winning their match against Dunfermline. Hearts should have proceeded to the third round but were disqualified for professionalism.


1884–85 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season, Overview
Later that season Hearts reached the fourth round of the Edinburgh Shield losing to Rival Hibernian.


1884–85 Hibernian F.C. season
Season 1884–85 was the 9th season in which Hibernian competed at a Scottish national level, entering the Scottish Cup for the 8th time.


1884–85 Hibernian F.C. season, Overview
Hibs reached the semi-final of the Scottish Cup, losing 2–1 to the Renton.


1884–85 Leicester Fosse F.C. season
The 1884–85 season was the first season in which Leicester Fosse competed in a senior football competition, though they would not play competitive football until 1887 and did not join the Football League until 1892, so only friendly matches were played.


1884–85 Morton F.C. season
The 1884–85 season was Morton Football Club's eighth season in which they competed at a national level, entering the inaugural Scottish Cup. The club competed in the Scottish Cup.


1884–85 Newton Heath LYR F.C. season
The 1884–85 season was Newton Heath LYR's second season of competitive football. Having entered the Lancashire Cup for the first time the previous year, they reached the Second Round this time around. However, it was to be the last time that the club entered a senior team in the competition until 1889.


1884–85 Newton Heath LYR F.C. season
The Heathens also entered a team in the Manchester and District Challenge Cup for the first time in 1885, and found much more success than in the Lancashire Cup; they reached the final at the first attempt, where they lost 3–0 to Hurst. Apart from the final, the team scored three goals or more in every round of the competition.


1884–85 Newton Heath LYR F.C. season, Lancashire Cup
The Heathens' first entry into the Lancashire Cup had seen them drawn against Blackburn Olympic, who beat them comfortably despite playing their reserve team. The 1884–85 tournament paired Newton Heath with Haydock Temperance, to be played at North Road. The match was won 4–0 and set up a clash with Baxenden the following month. However, Baxenden proved to be tougher opposition than Haydock and beat the Heathens 4–1.


1884–85 Newton Heath LYR F.C. season, Manchester and District Senior Cup
The 1884–85 Manchester Cup was Newton Heath's first foray into that competition. The competition was geared towards teams in and around the Manchester area, a narrower focus than the Lancashire Cup, thus limiting the number of quality teams that Newton Heath would come up against. Therefore, although it displayed less ambition from the club, it also provided them with a more likely chance of silverware.


1884–85 Newton Heath LYR F.C. season, Manchester and District Senior Cup
Their first opposition in the competition was Eccles, whom they beat 3–2 at North Road on 31 January 1885. However, Eccles appealed against the result, claiming that Newton Heath's third goal was invalid and should not have stood. The match was replayed two weeks later at Henrietta Street, Old Trafford, home of the Manchester Association club. This time, Newton Heath won the match 3–0, putting the result beyond doubt.


1884–85 Newton Heath LYR F.C. season, Manchester and District Senior Cup
In the second round, the Heathens were pitted against the favourites for the cup, Manchester. However, despite being the home team and their status as favourites, Manchester were unable to compete with Newton Heath, who ran out 3–0 winners. The Railwaymen racked up another four goals in the semi-final against Owens College (which would go on to become the University of Manchester), winning 4–3 to put them into their first ever final. Their opponents in the final, played at Whalley Range in south Manchester, were Hurst. The Heathens went into the game with high hopes, coming off the back of some high-scoring games in the earlier rounds, but ultimately lost 3–0.


1884–85 Rangers F.C. season
The 1884–85 season is the 11th season of competitive football by Rangers.


1884–85 Scottish Cup
The 1884–85 Scottish Cup was the 12th season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. Renton won the competition for the first tie after they defeated Vale of Leven in a replayed final.


1884–85 Scottish Cup
Defending champions Queen's Park lost to Battlefield in the third round.


1884–85 Scottish Cup, Teams
All 130 teams entered the competition in the first round.


1884–85 Scottish Cup, First round
Campsie Central, Dean Park, Heart of Midlothian and Maybole received a bye to the second round.


1884–85 Scottish Cup, Second round
Cartvale, Hamilton Academical, Morton, Partick, St Bernard's and Vale of Nith received a bye to the third round.


1884–85 Scottish Cup, Fifth round
Battlefield, Renton, Thornliebank, Vale of Leven and the winners of the replayed Arbroath vs Rangers tie received a bye to the quarter-finals.


1884–85 Scottish Districts season
The 1884–85 Scottish Districts season is a record of all the  rugby union matches for Scotland's district teams.


1884–85 Scottish Districts season
It includes the East of Scotland District versus West of Scotland District trial match.


1884–85 Scottish Districts season, Results, Inter-City
Glasgow District: F. Macindoe (Glasgow Academicals), R. G. Eaglesham (West of Scotland), M. F. Reid (West of Scotland), A. E. Stephen (West of Scotland), H. Kennedy (Glasgow Academionls), J. M. Ross (West of Scotland), J. B. Brown (Glasgow Academicals), G. H. Robb (Glasgow Academicals), J. French (Glasgow Academicals), A. Young (Glasgow Academicals), J. Jamieson (West of Scotland) [ captain], D. Morton (West of Scotland), J. G. Mitchell (West of Scotland), A. Findlay (West of Scotland), and W. A. McDonald (1st Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers).


1884–85 Scottish Districts season, Results, Inter-City
Edinburgh District: Cameron (Watsonians), A. Ronald (Edinburgh Wanderers), Evans (Edinburgh University), G. Maitland (Edinburgh Institution), A. R. Don Wauchope (Edinburgh Wanderers), P. Cosens (Royal HSFP), William Peterkin (Edinburgh University). Reid (Edinburgh Academicals), T. Ainslie (Edinburgh Institution). Robert Maitland (Edinourgh Institution). J. Tod (Watsoniana), J. Brown (St. George), G. Henderson (Edinburgh Institution), J. Greig (Edinburgh Wanderers), Irvine (Edinburgh Academicals)


1884–85 Scottish Districts season, Results, Other Scottish matches
East: J. P. Veitch (Royal HSFP), G. Maitland (Edinburgh Institution) L. Evans (Edinburgh University), McKenzie (Institution), A. R Don Wauchope (Fettesian-Lorrettonians) P. H. Cosens (Royal HSFP), C. Reid (Edinburgh Academicals), T. Ainslie (Edinburgh Institution), Dr. Tod (Watsonians), William Peterkin (Edinburgh University), Robert Maitland (Edinburgh Institution), R. Ainslie (Edinburgh Institution), W. Irvine (Edinburgh Academicals), Horsburgh (Royal HSFP), McEwen (Edinburgh Academicals) Reserves: W. Cameron (Watsonians), Aitken (Edinburgh Wanderers), Rutherford (Royal HSFP), W. J. Laing (Watsonians), Cosens (Royal HSFP), P. H. Don Wauchope (Edinburgh Wanderers), Greig (Edinburgh Wanderers), Douglas (Collegiate), Henderson (Edinburgh Institution)West: Macindoe (Glasgow Academicals), Holms (Blair Lodge), Stephen (West of Scotland), Eaglesham (West of Scotland), Kennedy (Glasgow Academicals), Graham (Glasgow Academicals), Jamieson (West of Scotland), Morton (West of Scotland), Mitchell (West of Scotland), Robb (Glasgow Academicals), Young (Glasgow Academicals), French (Glasgow Academicals), Macdonald (Glasgow University)Reserves: Finlay, W. Macdonald, Ker, Macdonald (lst Lanarkshire Volunteers), Holm, Bruce, Orr, W. McKendrick


1884–85 Stoke F.C. season
The 1884–85 season was the second season Stoke took part in the FA Cup; they, however, withdrew at the First Qualifying Round.


1884–85 Stoke F.C. season, Season review
Stoke were drawn to play Scottish side Queens Park away; however, the directors were unhappy about having to pay the full travel costs and so decided to withdraw from the match.


1884–85 Welsh Cup
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1884–85 Welsh Cup
The 1884–85 FAW Welsh Cup was the 8th edition of the annual knockout tournament for competitive football teams in Wales.


1884–85 West Bromwich Albion F.C. season
The 1884–85 season was the seventh season in the history of West Bromwich Albion Football Club. It was their third and final season at the Four Acres and their last season as an amateur club. Continuing the trial of various coloured kits during the club's early years, the players wore cardinal red and blue halved shirts. The club reached the FA Cup quarter-final for the first time, played in the semi-finals of the Staffordshire Senior Cup and Birmingham Charity Cup and were eliminated from the Birmingham Senior Cup at the third round stage.


1884–85 West Bromwich Albion F.C. season, FA Cup
Albion's second season in the FA Cup began with a first round match away at Junction Street School, Derby. The 7–1 victory was Albion's first ever win in the competition, with Jem Bayliss scoring the club's first FA Cup goal. In round two, Wednesbury Old Athletic were defeated by a 4–2 scoreline. Aston Villa provided the opposition in the third round; after a goalless draw in the initial match, Albion won the replay 3–0 in "drenching rain".


1884–85 West Bromwich Albion F.C. season, FA Cup
In the fourth round, Albion faced Welsh side, Druids, who did not take to the field by the time the match was due to start. Peter Morris records that the Welshmen refused to start the match until one of their late-arriving players turned up, while according to G. A. Willmore, the entire Druids team was late to arrive. Either way, Albion scored unopposed straight from the kick-off, after which the Druids players did take to the field. Albion scored again, through Arthur Loach, but the earlier goal was not counted and the score was recorded as 1–0.


1884–85 West Bromwich Albion F.C. season, FA Cup
Albion were then given a bye to the sixth round, the first time that they had reached this stage of the competition. They lost 0–2 to eventual FA Cup winners Blackburn Rovers in front of 16,393 spectators, the highest ever attendance at the Four Acres.


1884–85 West Bromwich Albion F.C. season, Birmingham Senior Cup
Participating in their fourth Birmingham Senior Cup campaign, Albion faced Darlaston All Saints in the first round. Harry Aston scored a hat-trick in an 8–0 victory. In the second round, Jem Bayliss scored six goals in the team's 15–0 win against Bloxwich Strollers. Albion were eliminated in round three, losing 2–3 to St George's.


1884–85 West Bromwich Albion F.C. season, Staffordshire Senior Cup
Albion, taking part in the Staffordshire Senior Cup for the third time, beat Burton Swifts 7–1 in the first round. In round two, a hat-trick from Arthur Loach contributed to an 8–0 win against Leek. Another hat-trick in the third round, this time from Jem Bayliss, saw Albion beat Stoke 6–2. Despite having scored 21 goals in the first three rounds, Albion failed to find the net in the semi-final, losing 0–2 to Walsall Town at Stoke's Victoria Ground.


1884–85 West Bromwich Albion F.C. season, Birmingham Charity Cup
In the Birmingham Charity Cup semi-final, Albion were defeated 1–4 by Aston Villa. This was the second season in succession that Villa had beaten Albion in the competition, and by the same scoreline.


1884–85 West Bromwich Albion F.C. season, Friendlies and benefit matches
As league football had yet to be established, West Bromwich Albion played in a number of friendly matches throughout the season. On 6 April 1885, Albion played their last game at the Four Acres, ahead of their move to Stoney Lane the following season. They beat Wednesbury Old Athletic 3–2, in front of 3,500 spectators.


1884–85 in English football
The 1884–85 season was the 14th season of competitive football in England.


1884–85 in English football, National team
England finished second in the British Home Championship, which was won by Scotland.


1884–85 in English football, National team
Note – Some sources credit England's third goal as a Joe Lofthouse goal, but match reports clearly state an Eames own goal.


1884–85 in English football, Honours
Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition


1884–85 in Scottish football
The 1884–85 season was the 12th season of competitive football in Scotland. This season saw three further additions to the list of regional competitions with the inaugural playing of the Dumbartonshire Cup, the Linlithgowshire Cup and the Perthshire Cup.