1911–12 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team, Regular season
On February 26, Wake Forest and North Carolina faced off in Raleigh, North Carolina. A crowd of nearly 1,000 filled the auditorium to see the contest. The game featured several fouls on both teams (5 on Carolina and 11 on Wake Forest) and inconsistent performances by both teams. Carolina won the first half of the game 10–6 with multiple baskets from Smith. The Tar Heels continued to score and reached 18 points; however, Wake Forest began to click on offense and scored seven shots in the final ten minutes, sinking one as time expired. Their efforts fell short as the game ended 18-15 in Carolina's favor.


1911–12 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team, Aftermath
Following the game against V.P.I., where an estimated 2,000 people attended, the Alumni Review wrote that "... basketball has come into its own in this state." When the season ended, The Tar Heel published a column where it discussed the basketball championship of North Carolina. The editors spoke of the parity between the North Carolina based squads and felt that all of them had an equal right to the championship. In September 1912, The Tar Heel published a column where it commented on the season, blaming the poor performance on the fact the team started practice after Christmas, while most other successful teams started in October.


1911–12 Northern Football League
The 1911–12 Northern Football League season was the 23rd in the history of the Northern Football League, a football competition in Northern England.


1911–12 Northern Football League, Clubs
The league featured 11 clubs which competed in the last season, along with one new club:


1911–12 Northern Rugby Football Union season
The 1911–12 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the 17th season of rugby league football.


1911–12 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary
Huddersfield finished the regular season as league leaders and then went on to claim their first Championship by defeating Wigan 13-5 in the play-off final.


1911–12 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary
The Challenge Cup Winners were Dewsbury who defeated Oldham 8-5.


1911–12 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary
Huddersfield's Australian winger Albert Rosenfeld set a new record for tries in a season with 76.


1911–12 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary
Wigan won the Lancashire League, and Huddersfield won the Yorkshire League. Rochdale Hornets beat Oldham 12–5 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Huddersfield beat Hull Kingston Rovers 22–10 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.


1911–12 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Challenge Cup
Dewsbury defeated Oldham 8-5 at Leeds in front of a crowd of 15,271 to win their first Challenge Cup in their first Final appearance.


1911–12 Notre Dame men's ice hockey season
The 1911–12 Notre Dame men's ice hockey season was the inaugural season of play for the program.


1911–12 Notre Dame men's ice hockey season, Season
A year after Yale and Cornell played the first intercollegiate games held west of Cleveland, Notre Dame officially played its first ice hockey game. The team played only a single contest, against the Culver Military Academy in nearby Culver, Indiana, winning 7–1. Notre Dame's closest competition would have been Case or Western Reserve but both programs had ceased operation after the 1910–11 season while all western Pennsylvania schools had suspended their ice hockey teams in 1910. This left Notre Dame with no regional contemporaries to compete against and led to their abbreviated schedule.


1911–12 Notre Dame men's ice hockey season, Season
Note: Notre Dame was not officially known as the 'Fighting Irish' until 1919.


1911–12 Ohio Bobcats men's basketball team
The 1911–12 Ohio Bobcats men's basketball team represented Ohio University. Arthur W. Hinaman was the head coach for Ohio. The Bobcats played their home games in Ohio Gymnasium.


1911–12 Ottawa Hockey Club season
The 1911–12 Ottawa Hockey Club season was the club's 27th season, third in the National Hockey Association. The club did not repeat as league champion, placing second to Quebec, after a disputed game had to be replayed, and the Club lost the replay.


1911–12 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Regular season
Prior to the season, on November 2, Bruce Ridpath was seriously injured with a fractured skull after being hit by an automobile on Yonge Street in Toronto. He lived in Toronto and was rumoured to be a possible manager of the future Toronto NHA franchise.


1911–12 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Regular season
The NHA changed its rules prior to the season. The rover position was dropped and teams played six-per-side. The change was protested by Ottawa, which had had great success playing seven-per-side. However, the NHA owners instead decided to drop the rover. Ottawa threatened to ice a seven-man team for a game against Quebec, but did not follow through on their threat.


1911–12 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Regular season
Fred "Cyclone" Taylor went on public record stating that he would not play for Wanderers as he had a good position with the Interior Department in Ottawa, and would not play at all instead of playing for the Wanderers. Ottawa would attempt to secure his rights from Montreal. Ottawa would offer to trade Skene Ronan (who would go on to win the scoring championship) for Taylor but was turned down.


1911–12 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Regular season, Highlights
On January 24, Fred Taylor played for Ottawa against the Wanderers, despite his rights being held by the Wanderers, for which he refused to play for. Ottawa would win the game, but it was protested and ordered replayed if necessary. This was Mr. Taylor's final game in the NHA, as he would join Vancouver the next year.


1911–12 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Regular season, Highlights
On February 9, Skene Ronan would score five goals in a game against the Wanderers and follow up with eight goals in a game against the Wanderers on February 14.


1911–12 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Regular season, Highlights
On March 2, Quebec defeated Ottawa 6–5 in a game decided after 23 minutes of overtime. With four seconds to play, Joe Malone scored to tie the game and Joe Hall scored the winning goal. Ottawa would now have to play the replay game against the Wanderers in Montreal. On March 5, Ottawa lost the replay, and the loss would cost them a tie of the league championship, as Quebec finished 10–8 and Ottawa would finish 9–9.


1911–12 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Regular season, Final standings
Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF= Goals For, GA = Goals Against


1911–12 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team
The 1911–12 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team represented Penn State University during the 1911–12 college men's basketball season. The team finished with a final record of 8–5.


1911–12 Prima Categoria
The 1911–12 Prima Categoria season was won by Pro Vercelli.


1911–12 Primera Fuerza season, Overview
It was contested by 3 teams, and Reforma won the championship.


1911–12 Primera Fuerza season, League standings, Top goalscorers
Players sorted first by goals scored, then by last name.


1911–12 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season
The 1911–12 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season was the 13th season of play for the program.


1911–12 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season, Season
After a disappointing end to their previous season, second-year captain Alfred Kay looked to lead the team back to the top of the Intercollegiate Hockey Association. That job was made slightly easier due to Harvard removing itself from the conference due to a new policy by the operators at the St. Nicholas Rink. The Tigers began their season just after the start of the winter break with a game against Williams. Princeton won the extraordinarily lopsided game 14–0 and the headed to Cleveland for a three-game series with Yale. As they had the year before, Princeton won two of the three games but through their first four games it was apparent that the Tigers had a budding star on their hands.


1911–12 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season, Season
Sophomore Hobey Baker distinguished himself from the first game against Williams, scoring 6 goals and immediately becoming the focal point of the Princeton offense. Baker's first real test with the team came in early January against Dartmouth. In their first conference game of the year Princeton utterly dominated the greens, posting the largest victory in the history of IHA play, 14–0. Throughout the game Baker was obvious as the best player on the ice and, while he scored four goals himself, he was responsible for a dozen of Princeton's scores, assisting directly on five of Kuhn's six tallies.


1911–12 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season, Season
The next game came against Harvard who, despite having left the IHA, had agreed to play two games against Princeton that year. Despite their impressive wins to that point the Tigers had yet to face a team as talented as the Crimson and that was proven when Harvard skated away with a 3–2 win. Even in defeat Baker starred, scoring a goal and assisting on the other while simultaneously trying to hold back the vaunted Harvard attack. Still stinging after the defeat, Princeton laid into defending champion Cornell in their next game with Baker again the center of attention.


1911–12 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season, Season
The rover scored his second hat-trick of league play and assisted on at least two other goals in the Tigers' 6–1 win. A week later the Tigers played their second game against Harvard, this time at the Crimson's home venue. Princeton repaid Harvard for the earlier loss with their own 3–2 victory with Baker's second goal of the game serving as the eventual game-winner.


1911–12 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season, Season
Princeton returned to its conference schedule just two days later against an improving Columbia team. The Lions kept the game close until midway through the second half when Baker scored a natural hat-trick to give the Tigers a commanding lead that they would ride to a 6–2 victory. In Princeton's final game of the season they took on Yale, the only team that could stop them from claiming the IHA championship.


1911–12 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season, Season
The two teams battled to a 0–0 draw after the first half but in the second half, as he had done all season, Hobey Baker came alive for the Tigers. He recorded yet another hat-trick and added an assist on Alfred Kay's goal to give the Tigers a 4–1 victory and their second championship in three years.


1911–12 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season, Season
Despite being a sophomore, Hobey Baker was the best player on his team and likely the best in college hockey, if not the entire country. He scored a hat-trick in each of the four IHA games, notching 26 goals and at least 15 assists in just 10 games. The team, recognizing his talent and leadership, elected him captain for the following season.


1911–12 RPI men's ice hockey season
The 1911–12 RPI men's ice hockey season was the 9th season of play for the program.


1911–12 RPI men's ice hockey season, Season
After starting the season extending the team's consecutive losses to 7, Rensselaer recovered in the final two games of the year.


1911–12 RPI men's ice hockey season, Season
Note: Rensselaer's athletic teams were unofficially known as 'Cherry and White' until 1921 when the Engineers moniker debuted for the men's basketball team.


1911–12 Rangers F.C. season
The 1911–12 season was the 38th season of competitive football played by Rangers.


1911–12 Rangers F.C. season, Overview
Rangers played a total of 41 competitive matches during the 1911–12 season.


1911–12 Rugby Union County Championship
The 1911–12 Rugby Union County Championship was the 24th edition of England's premier rugby union club competition at the time.


1911–12 Rugby Union County Championship
Devon won the competition for the sixth time defeating Northumberland in the final.


1911–12 SK Rapid Wien season
The 1911–12 SK Rapid Wien season was the 14th season in club history.


1911–12 Scottish Cup
The 1911–12 Scottish Cup was the 39th staging of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The Cup was won by Celtic who defeated Clyde in the final.


1911–12 Scottish Districts season
The 1911–12 Scottish Districts season is a record of all the rugby union matches for Scotland's district teams.


1911–12 Scottish Districts season, Results, Other Scottish matches
North Reds: Cheyne (Aberdeen University), McAndrew (Gordonians), Saunders (Aberdeen University), Hay (Aberdeen University), R. Ledingham (Aberdeen GSFP), A. Ledingham (Queen's Cross), A. M. Johnston (Aberdeen GSFP), Mulligan (Aberdeen University), Hogg (Aberdeen University), Cameron (Aberdeen University), Simpson (Aberdeen GSFP), G. Ledingham (Aberdeen GSFP), Snowie (Queen's Cross), R. Johnston (Queen's Cross), Macintosh (Queen's Cross)North Colours: Stronach (Aberdeen University), Wilkinson (Queen's Cross), D. Leith (Aberdeen GSFP), Duffus (Aberdeen GSFP), Gillespie (Aberdeenshire), Macintosh (Queen's Cross), Whamond (Aberdeen University), Hodson (Aberdeenshire), Gilbert (Aberdeenshire), Nichol (Queen's Cross), Morgan (Queen's Cross), Grant (Gordonians), Ross (Aberdeen GSFP), G. Leith (Aberdeen GSFP), Clark (Aberdeen University)


1911–12 Scottish Division One
The 1911–12 Scottish Division One season was won by Rangers by six points over nearest rival Celtic.


1911–12 Scottish Division Two
The 1911–12 Scottish Division Two was won by Ayr United, with Albion Rovers and Vale of Leven finishing bottom.


1911–12 Sheffield Shield season
The 1911–12 Sheffield Shield season was the 20th season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. New South Wales won the championship.


1911–12 South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball team
The 1911–12 South Carolina men's basketball team represents University of South Carolina during the 1911–12 college men's basketball season. The head coach was James Driver coaching the Gamecocks in his first season. The team had finished with a final record of 3–4.


1911–12 Southern Football League
The 1911–12 Southern Football League season was the 18th in the history of the Southern League. Queens Park Rangers won their second league championship (the first being in 1907–08), but no clubs applied to join the Football League. Luton Town, who finished second bottom of Division One were relegated to Division Two, whilst Leyton, who finished bottom, left the Southern League after 7 seasons of participation to join the South Essex League.


1911–12 Southern Football League
Merthyr Town won the Division Two championship and were promoted to Division One together with runners-up Portsmouth, who returned to Division One after one season of absence. Walsall, who also played in the Birmingham & District League, left the Southern League, but continued to play in the Birmingham & District League. Kettering also left the Southern League along with Cwm Albion and Chesham Town, who became a founder member of the Athenian League.


1911–12 Southern Football League, Division One
A total of 20 teams contest the division, including 18 sides from previous season and two new teams.


1911–12 Southern Football League, Division Two
A total of 14 teams contest the division, including 9 sides from previous season, two teams relegated from Division One and three new teams.


1911–12 St. Louis Soccer League season
Final league standings for the 1911-12 St. Louis Soccer League.


1911–12 Stoke F.C. season
The 1911–12 season was Stoke's third season in the Southern Football League.


1911–12 Stoke F.C. season
Stoke now having left the Birmingham & District League to concentrate on the Southern League Division One, which at the time was only second to the Football League. Stoke neither struggled or impressed and they finished in 10th position with 36 points.


1911–12 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League
After leaving the Birmingham & District League Stoke concentrated on the Southern League Division One which was now a much more tougher league. The squad was strengthened by Alfred Barker who brought in a new half back line with the arrival of Jimmy McGillvray, Jock Grieve and George Smart. Stoke made a useful start to the season and held a position in the top half of the table, but four defeats either side of Christmas saw them plunge into the bottom five and prospects for the new year did not look too promising.


1911–12 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League
Yet, things did manage to improve on the pitch. Goalkeeper Richard Herron and right-half Sam Baddeley were restored to the first team and forwards John Lenaghan and Tom Revill joined to add some much needed punch up front. Stoke sold both Arthur Cartlidge and Jock Grieve to South Shields for a decent price while Jack Peart joined Newcastle United for £600. Stoke ended the season with a 7–0 victory over Millwall Athletic.


1911–12 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League
Stoke had some good crowds at home in 1911–12 with 18,000 present to see the opening match against Brighton & Hove Albion. However Stoke fans developed a reputation following a near riot in December 1911 home defeat to Queens Park Rangers. The referee had no choice but to abandon the match with just two minutes remaining, although the league ordered the result to stand. Stoke had to pay £4,000 for the installation of fences around the ground which came as a bitter blow to the club's finances following the debacle in 1908.


1911–12 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, FA Cup
Stoke made an early exit to Walsall in the fifth qualifying round losing 2–1 at Fellows Park.


1911–12 Svenska Serien
Svenska Serien 1911–12, part of the 1911–12 Swedish football season, was the second Svenska Serien season played. Örgryte IS won the league ahead of runners-up Djurgårdens IF, while Göteborgs FF, Mariebergs IK, Vikingarnas FK and IFK Eskilstuna were relegated.


1911–12 Svenska Serien, Issues
The league season suffered from a large number of issues. Göteborgs FF and Mariebergs IK replaced IFK Eskilstuna and Vikingarnas FK which both withdrew after only one round, their two match results are not included in the table of the other teams. Mariebergs IK then withdrew after six matches, but were allowed back in again after a while.


1911–12 Svenska Serien, Issues
The league was finally abandoned due to trouble finding days to play the remaining matches as the national team prepared for the 1912 Olympic football tournament by playing test matches, however the incomplete table is considered the final table.


1911–12 Svenska Serien, Issues
The following ten matches were not played: Djurgårdens IF–Mariebergs IK, Göteborgs FF–Mariebergs IK, IFK Norrköping–Djurgårdens IF, Mariebergs IK–Göteborgs FF, IFK Göteborg–Mariebergs IK, Göteborgs FF–AIK, Örgryte IS–Mariebergs IK, AIK–Göteborgs FF, Göteborgs FF–IFK Norrköping and Mariebergs IK–IFK Norrköping.


1911–12 Swiss National Ice Hockey Championship
The 1911–12 Swiss National Ice Hockey Championship was the fourth edition of the national ice hockey championship in Switzerland. Six teams participated in the championship, which was won by HC Les Avants, who defeated Club des Patineurs Lausanne in the final.


1911–12 Tennessee Volunteers basketball team
The 1911–12 Tennessee Volunteers basketball team represents the University of Tennessee during the 1911–12 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Zora G. Clevenger coaching the Volunteers in his first season. The Volunteers team captain was A. E. Leonhardt.


1911–12 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season
The 1911–12 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season was the 17th season of collegiate ice hockey.


1911–12 University of Virginia men's basketball team
The 1911–12 University of Virginia men's basketball team represented the University of Virginia during the 1911–12 NCAA men's basketball season. The team was led by seventh-year head coach Henry Lannigan, and played their home games at Fayerweather Gymnasium in Charlottesville, Virginia. Now known as the Virginia Cavaliers, the team did not have an official nickname prior to 1923.


1911–12 VMI Keydets basketball team
The 1911–12 VMI Keydets basketball team represented the Virginia Military Institute in their fourth ever season of basketball. The Keydets went 7–5 under head coach Alpha Brummage. They played their games out of the Lexington Skating Rink.


1911–12 Welsh Amateur Cup
The 1911–12 Welsh Amateur Cup was the 22nd season of the Welsh Amateur Cup. The cup was won by Rhos who defeated Summerhill 2–1 in the final at Wrexham.


1911–12 Western Football League
The 1911–12 season was the 20th in the history of the Western Football League.


1911–12 Western Football League
The league champions this season were Welton Rovers, the first time that the club had won the league.


1911–12 Western Football League, Final table
Two new clubs joined the league, and the number of clubs increased from 10 to 11 clubs, after Bristol City Reserves left the league.


1911–12 William & Mary Indians men's basketball team
The 1911–12 William & Mary Indians men's basketball team represented the College of William & Mary in intercollegiate basketball during the 1911–12 season. The team finished the season with a 2–5 record. This was the seventh season in program history for William & Mary, whose nickname is now "Tribe."


1911–12 Williams Ephs men's ice hockey season
The 1911–12 Williams Ephs men's ice hockey season was the 9th season of play for the program.


1911–12 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team
The 1911–12 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented University of Wisconsin–Madison. The head coach was Walter Meanwell, coaching his first season with the Badgers. The team played their home games at the Red Gym in Madison, Wisconsin and was a member of the Western Conference. The team finished the season with a 15–0 record and was retroactively named the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and the Premo-Porretta Power Poll.


1911–12 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season
The 1911–12 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season was the 17th season of play for the program.


1911–12 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season
Yale began the season looking to recover from a poor showing in 1911. After opening with a win over St. Paul's School, Yale headed into their winter break with two 3-game series on the slate. They met Princeton in Cleveland and got their first look at one of the game's rising stars, Hobey Baker. Yale played admirably, winning the last game in overtime, but it was clear that the Bulldog defense had its hand's full with the Tiger rover. The Elis fared better in the series with Cornell, taking the first two games from the defending champions before the Big Red offense awoke for the third match.


1911–12 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season
The team returned home and had to wait more than a week for the next game. When it came the Elis welcomed MIT for the first game at their new on-campus rink. The facility was a temporary erection near Yale Field and the Bulldogs christened the venue with a 5–3 victory where they demonstrated a great deal of teamwork.


1911–12 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season
With Harvard having withdrawn from the IHA, Yale's biggest competition for the crown came from Princeton but they were sure to receive a fight from Cornell as well. In the match against the Big Red the two teams fought to a 1–1 tie after regulation. The team captains agreed to play one overtime sessions which would only end once a goal had been scored. The sudden death session continued unabated for 25 minutes and 8 seconds before Archer Harmon scored to give the Elis the win. The game set a record for the longest overtime period played at the St. Nicholas Rink.


1911–12 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season
After downing Mass Ag 3–0 the Bulldogs faced Princeton in what was expected to be the game to ultimately decide the IHA champion. Neither team was able to score in the first half, with Yale's defense playing particularly well. The Elis opened the scoring with a goal from Cox but afterwards Hobey Baker took over the game. In the final 17 minutes he scored a hat-trick and assisted on a fourth goal to give Princeton a 4–1 victory and all but seal their league championship. Despite the disappointment Yale's season was far from over and they responded with two wins before their third league game.


1911–12 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season
Columbia entered the game with neither team having much chance for the title but that didn't stop the two teams from producing a very competitive game. The pair battled to a 3–3 tie at the end of the first half but Columbia took over in the second, scoring four times en route to a 7–4 win. The team avoided disaster in the following game by producing a 4-goal second half to overcome a 2-goal lead to down Dartmouth. The game was notable for most of the regular defensive corps being absent, including Carhart who was replaced in net by Thayer.


1911–12 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season
Yale ended its season with a best of three series against Harvard. Poor ice hampered both teams in the first game but it was the home Crimson who were able to earn the win with their typical oppressive defense. Line juggling and a change of venue allowed Yale to even the series a few days later despite a furious attack by Harvard at the end of the game. In the final  game, however, Harvard opened with the first four goals, all in the first half, and Yale could not come back from such a deficit. The Elis fell to the Crimson 4–2, ending the season with a loss that must have left a sour taste in their mouths despite posting a winning record.


1911–12 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season
The team did not have a coach, however, Esmond O'Brien served as team manager.


1911–12 Yale Bulldogs men's soccer team
The 1912–13 Yale Bulldogs men's soccer team was the program's sixth season of existence and their sixth playing in the Intercollegiate Soccer Football League (ISFL).


1911–12 Yale Bulldogs men's soccer team
The season saw Yale go 5-0-0 in all competitive fixtures, earning themselves the ISFL national championship, which predated the NCAA Championship as the national collegiate college soccer championship.


1911–12 Yorkshire Cup
The 1911–12 Yorkshire Cup was the seventh occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition, a Rugby league tournament, was held. This year saw a previous winner, Huddersfield, win the trophy by beating Hull Kingston Rovers by the score of 22-10


1911–12 Yorkshire Cup
The match was played at Belle Vue, in the City of Wakefield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 20,000 and receipts were £700. This was Huddersfield's third appearance in what would be seven appearances in eight consecutive finals between 1909 and 1919 (which included four successive victories and six in total.)


1911–12 Yorkshire Cup, Background
This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, but last year's new entrant Coventry left to join the Lancashire Cup, reducing the number of entries by one to a total of thirteen. This in turn resulted in three byes in the first round.


1911–12 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and Results, Final, Teams and Scorers
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points


1911–12 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments
1 * The first Yorkshire Cup game played at this ground, to which Bradford Northern moved for season 1908-092 * Belle Vue is the home ground of Wakefield Trinity with a capacity of approximately 12,500. The record attendance was 37,906 on the 21 March 1936 in the Challenge Cup semi-final between Leeds and Huddersfield


1911–12 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar
The Rugby League Yorkshire Cup competition was a knock-out competition between (mainly professional) rugby league clubs from  the  county of Yorkshire. The actual area was at times increased to encompass other teams from  outside the  county such as Newcastle, Mansfield, Coventry, and even London (in the form of Acton & Willesden.


1911–12 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar
The Rugby League season always (until the onset of "Summer Rugby" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final taking place in (or just before) December (The only exception to this was when disruption of the fixture list was caused during, and immediately after, the two World Wars)


1911–12 in Belgian football
The 1911–12 season was the 17th season of competitive football in Belgium.


1911–12 in Belgian football, Overview
Daring Club de Bruxelles claimed their first ever silverware by winning the Division I. From this season on it was decided that the last two first division clubs would be relegated to the promotion, replaced by the top two clubs of the promotion. RC de Malines and Léopold Club de Bruxelles were thus relegated, replaced by FC Liégeois and CS Verviétois.


1911–12 in English football
The 1911–12 season was the 41st season of competitive football in England.


1911–12 in English football, Overview
Blackburn Rovers won the First Division title for the first time. Preston North End and Bury were relegated, to be replaced by Second Division Champions Derby County and runners up, Chelsea. Barnsley won the FA Cup in a replayed final against West Bromwich Albion; Manchester Utd won the Charity Shield with a spectacular 8–4 victory over Swindon Town.


1911–12 in English football, Events
Grimsby Town returned to the Second Division after a season away. Lincoln City were the team to make way for them.


1911–12 in English football, Events
In March, Justice A.T. Lawrence established the legality of the football league's retain-and-transfer system with his judgement in the Kingaby case. Former Aston Villa player Herbert Kingaby had brought legal proceedings against his old club for preventing him from playing. Erroneous strategy by Kingaby's counsel resulted in the suit being dismissed.


1911–12 in English football, Honours
Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition


1911–12 in Scottish football
The 1911–12 season was the 39th season of competitive football in Scotland and the 22nd season of the Scottish Football League.


1911–12 in Scottish football, Scottish Cup
Celtic were winners of the Scottish Cup after a 2–0 win over Clyde in the final. Joe Watters scored the two game-winning goals in the last 23 seconds of the game.


1911–12 in Scottish football, Junior Cup
Petershill were winners of the Junior Cup after a 5–0 win over Denny Hibs in the final.


1911–12 in Scottish football, Scotland national team
Scotland shared the 1912 British Home Championship trophy with England.


1911–12 in Swedish football
The 1911–12 season in Swedish football, starting January 1911 and ending July 1912:


1911–12 in Swedish football, National team results
Sweden: Oskar Bengtsson - Knut Sandlund, Jacob Levin - Ragnar Wicksell, Götrik Frykman, Sixten Öberg - Herman Myhrberg, Gustaf Ekberg, Karl Gustafsson, Josef Appelgren, Karl Ansén.


1911–12 in Swedish football, National team results
Sweden: Knut Gustavsson - Theodor Malm, Erik Lavass - Axel Lyberg, Götrik Frykman, Fritz Welander - Ivar Friberg, William Dahlström, Erik Börjesson, Helge Ekroth, Karl Ansén.


1911–12 in Swedish football, National team results
Sweden: Gerhard Pettersson - Johannes Hellgren, Sven Pettersson - Sven Svensson, Hans Lindman, Erik Bohlin - Gunnar Pleijel, Karl Persson, Ludvig Ericsson, Adrian Brolin, Rudolf Andersson.


1911–12 in Swedish football, National team results
Sweden: Josef Börjesson - Theodor Malm, Jacob Levin - Ragnar Wicksell, Knut Nilsson, John Olsson - Herman Myhrberg, Josef Appelgren, Erik Börjesson, Helge Ekroth, Karl Ansén.


1911–12 in Swedish football, National team results
Sweden: Erik Bergqvist - Konrad Törnqvist, Henning Svensson - Ragnar Wicksell, Gustav Sandberg, Karl Gustafsson - Herman Myhrberg, Einar Halling-Johansson, Arvid Fagrell, Helge Ekroth, Karl Ansén.


1911–12 in Swedish football, National team results
Sweden: Josef Börjesson - Theodor Malm, Jacob Levin - Ragnar Wicksell, Gustav Sandberg, Karl Gustafsson - Herman Myhrberg, Einar Halling-Johansson, Erik Börjesson, Iwar Swensson, Erik Bergström.


1911–12 in Swedish football, National team results
Sweden: Herbert Svensson - Theodor Malm, Konrad Törnqvist - Gustaf Ekberg, Knut Nilsson, Oscar Gustafsson - Axel Bohm, Karl Persson, Eric Dahlström, Hjalmar Lorichs, Birger Carlsson.


1911–12 in Swedish football, National team results
Sweden: Josef Börjesson - Jacob Levin, Erik Bergström - Ragnar Wicksell, Gustav Sandberg, Karl Gustafsson - Herman Myhrberg, Iwar Swensson, Erik Börjesson, Helge Ekroth, Karl Ansén.


1911–12 in Swedish football, National team results
Sweden: Josef Börjesson - Erik Bergström, Konrad Törnqvist - Ragnar Wicksell, Götrik Frykman, Karl Gustafsson - Herman Myhrberg, Iwar Swensson, Erik Börjesson, Eric Dahlström, Karl Ansén.


1911–1916 Australian drought
The 1911–16 Australian drought consisted of a series of droughts that affected various regions of Australia between the years of 1911 and 1916. Most of the dry spells during this period can be related to three El Niño events in 1911, 1913 and 1914, though rainfall deficiencies actually began in northern Australia before the first of these El Niños set in and did not ease in coastal districts of New South Wales until well after the last El Niño had firmly dissipated and trends toward very heavy rainfall developed in other areas of the continent.


1911–1916 Australian drought
The years before the drought had generally had satisfactory rainfall with impressive crop yields throughout most of the continent with the exception of the Gippsland region, the coastal districts of New South Wales and southeastern Queensland. In these areas, the rainfall deficiencies of the Federation Drought had never disappeared at any point during the decade of the 1900s.


1911–1916 Australian drought, 1911
At the beginning of the year, a strong La Niña event was producing heavy rain over eastern Australia. January was the wettest on record in Sydney, and February was a phenomenally wet month in Victoria and southwestern New South Wales, with places like Pooncarie on the lower Darling River recording 190 millimetres (7.5 in) for the month. Averaged over Victoria, February 1911 stands as the third-wettest month since 1885 after October 1975 and February 1973. Heavy monsoonal rain drenched Queensland throughout the summer. These months, however, were virtually rainless in the southwestern quarter of the continent and quite dry in the Kimberley and Top End.


1911–1916 Australian drought, 1911
Early March saw exceptionally heavy rains in southern Victoria and eastern Tasmania: Melbourne's rainfall of 191 millimetres (7.5 in) remains a March record. However, in the Top End and Kimberley, drought was already established as Darwin had its driest March in 138 years of record with only 21 millimetres (0.83 in) as against an average of 290 millimetres (11 in). April saw some good late wet season rains in the north due to a severe tropical cyclone drenching Port Douglas with a daily fall of 801 millimetres (31.5 in) and promising rains in southwestern Australia.


1911–1916 Australian drought, 1911
However, despite the "big wet" continuing in southern Victoria through May and June, southwestern Australia and to lesser extent the settled parts of South Australia and southeast Queensland began to have major rainfall deficiencies in those months. By August dry conditions were, as is usual for El Niño years, general except in coastal districts of New South Wales and the southeast of Western Australia. Southwestern Australia was particularly hard-hit: wheat crops failed completely in many places and led to a revolution in water supply and farming techniques to cope with rainfalls lower than previously known. In the humid forest belt, 1911 was the driest year of the twentieth century at Margaret River and Cape Leeuwin and even the Warren River, the most nearly perennial river in all of WA, ceased to flow during the ensuing summer.


1911–1916 Australian drought, 1911
Apart from one big September fall in Victoria, dry and often hot conditions did not ease until one of the heaviest downpours ever known in Western Queensland fell in late November. This was followed by heavy general falls in December except in Queensland and northeastern New South Wales. November was the driest on record in many parts of western Victoria and eastern Queensland.


1911–1916 Australian drought, 1912
The hopes the good December rains gave soon disappeared as January was exceptionally dry almost throughout the continent except for a few normally-dry areas between Perth and Geraldton. Major tropical cyclones provided respite to the Kimberley in February and the Eucla in March, whilst a small coastal belt of the Wet Tropics had exceptionally heavy rainfall in April and May, with Innisfail recording 2,600 millimetres (100 in) for those two months.


1911–1916 Australian drought, 1912
However, elsewhere exceptionally dry conditions continued until a series of low pressure systems in June and July provided record-breaking rainfalls for that time of year in inland Queensland and New South Wales. Indeed, the winter averaged over those two states was nearly as wet as those of 1950 and 1998. The wheat areas of Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria missed the heavy June falls completely but were very wet in July and the Western District of Victoria was relieved of anxiety by exceptionally heavy rainfall in the first eighteen days of September. Despite a dry October outside of southeastern Queensland rainfall for the rest of the year was generally satisfactory throughout southern Australia, though the wet season did not start well in the north.


1911–1916 Australian drought, 1913
This year opened with some heavy monsoonal rains over the more coastal areas of Queensland and the Northern Territory in January; however, the month was very dry in the southeast apart from southern Tasmania. February was dry west of a line from Derby to Eucla and east from one between Melbourne and Bundaberg, but elsewhere some exceptionally heavy thunderstorm rains meant the month was a wet one. Adelaide received a particularly intense fall of 56.9 millimetres (2.24 in) on the 17th, with the worst flash flooding in the city's history.


1911–1916 Australian drought, 1913
Apart from the North Coast of New South Wales, March was particularly wet, so much so that major flooding occurred in most rivers between Melbourne and Sydney. In Melbourne, the total of 23 rainy days is a record for any month between November and April and the low sunshine hours of only four per day also unparalleled.


1911–1916 Australian drought, 1913
The period around 12 April saw an extremely heavy if localised rainfall in the Albany district with totals of up to 175 millimetres (6.9 in) in a day near the Stirling Range and 114 millimetres (4.5 in) near Katanning. April was also very wet in the southern coastal districts of New South Wales, but May and June saw an unseasonal continuation of easterly winds. Thus, Tasmania, southwestern WA and the settled areas of South Australia were very dry, whilst most of New South Wales, Queensland and East Gippsland were wet.


1911–1916 Australian drought, 1913
Apart from scattered coastal areas and the extreme southwest, July was exceptionally dry: Ouyen did not receive any rain in June or July and Adelaide's rainfall for the period of only 32 millimetres (1.3 in) was less than in the disastrous year of 1982. Frosts were exceptionally severe and led to fears of crop losses.


1911–1916 Australian drought, 1913
The following three months saw an abrupt reversal, with dry conditions in Queensland and most of New South Wales contrasting with good rains in the Mallee, South Australia and southwestern WA. August was particularly noteworthy as the most completely rainless month known in Queensland and New South Wales. The rain turned an unpromising wheat season into one of the best on record despite a violent cold outbreak in the east early in November when Melbourne recorded its lowest-ever maximum for that month on Melbourne Cup Day of just 11.4 °C (52.5 °F). December saw very wet conditions in Queensland, with record flows in some Cape York Peninsula streams; but, apart from one rain event mid-month with another record daily total in Adelaide, dry weather prevailed elsewhere.


1911–1916 Australian drought, 1914
January was very wet in the Top End, Kimberley and central Australia, but distinctly dry in the south of the continent, leading onto a major heatwave with exceptionally dry conditions in the far southeast during February, when Orbost received no rain and Hobart only 3 millimetres (0.12 in). Torrential rains around Eden and Bega in March and wet conditions in southeastern Australia (especially Tasmania) in April were followed by a second heavy fall in a belt from Broome to the Darling Downs in May. The area around Uluru saw some of the heaviest rainfalls known until the 1970s that month.


1911–1916 Australian drought, 1914
However, in the southern wheat belt May 1914 began a trend of powerful anticyclones and dry, easterly winds that was at the time quite unprecedented and not rivalled until 1982. In southwestern Australia the rainy season was extraordinarily poor from beginning to end, with only one significant fall all through from May to October and severe frosts prevalent throughout. June, August, September and October were all record dry months in Victoria and Tasmania, and even unusually heavy July rainfall in Gippsland could do nothing to alleviate the drought.


1911–1916 Australian drought, 1914
The result was, that with the northerly areas around the Darling Downs not well developed yet, Australia's wheat crop was almost completely lost after an exceptionally hot October in which temperatures reached over 36 °C (97 °F) even in Hobart. Wheat yields in Victoria were only around 0.10 tonne per hectare and in WA even lower.


1911–1916 Australian drought, 1914
In coastal districts of New South Wales, however, the extraordinarily powerful anticyclones that desiccated the interior produced powerful onshore winds and extremely heavy rain: in Port Macquarie, the spring was the wettest on record. November and December were notably hot and humid, with rainfall near or above normal except in Tasmania and coastal Queensland during November. The southeast of Western Australia was particularly wet during these months, but in the desiccated agricultural regions the rain was much too late to save crops or pastures.


1911–1916 Australian drought, 1915
The heavy rainfall of November and December in Western Australia continued throughout the first two months of 1915, culminating in quite unseasonable downpours over the southwest at the end of February and beginning of March. During this period Perth had a spell of ten successive rainy days – more than it normally has in February and March combined. El Niño, however, remained powerful and eastern Australia was almost uniformly dry throughout the first three months of 1915 except for East Gippsland in January and Tasmania in March.


1911–1916 Australian drought, 1915
Brisbane's March 1915 rainfall of 2.8 millimetres (0.11 in) is its lowest ever and only 2 percent of its long-term March mean, whilst even normally-soaked Cairns received only 120 millimetres (4.7 in). April was equally dry in Queensland and the Northern Territory and only Tasmania and an area near Onslow was even remotely above average across the whole continent.


1911–1916 Australian drought, 1915
In May, however, a trend of wet weather established itself across western Victoria, South Australia and southern Western Australia and continued right through to September. This wetness was backed up by the mildest winter across the southeast until global warming began in 1980. Crops that barely grew in 1914 grew with extraordinary vigour, and flooding even occurred in the Wimmera, around Adelaide and more severely in the Blackwood River of Western Australia. Although September saw unseasonable rain as far north as Mount Isa, the drought did not ease in Queensland, coastal New South Wales or Gippsland.


1911–1916 Australian drought, 1915
Strong westerly winds and tinder-dry forests in August led to major bushfires breaking out in the North Coast of New South Wales and southeastern Queensland. Although occasional rain put many fires out in August and September, the dryness in these regions intensified greatly still in October and November due to extremely powerful westerly weather that saw New South Wales record its driest month of the twentieth century (statewide average rainfall 3.2 millimetres (0.13 in)). Despite patchy rain in December 1915 was still the driest calendar year on record in most of the North Coast of New South Wales and the Atherton Tableland of Queensland. Notable low falls include:


1911–1916 Australian drought, 1915
The year was, however, very wet in almost all of Western Australia, and also in western Tasmania and an area around Darwin, where December saw an extremely active monsoon with flooding.


1911–1916 Australian drought, 1916
This year opened with heavy rain in Tasmania, southern Victoria and western Queensland, but the drought areas on the east coast did not gain relief until April. May, however was very dry except in a few coastal parts of New South Wales. This time, however, a powerful La Niña developed and produced starting in June exceptionally heavy rain across almost all inland areas of the continent. Adelaide set a record monthly rainfall of 218 millimetres (8.6 in) in June and there was major flooding of the whole city, whilst in July record rainfalls occurred throughout southwestern Queensland.


1911–1916 Australian drought, 1916
Still, it was not until nearly continent-wide heavy rains and flooding from late September to mid-December that the drought disappeared fully from the eastern coastal areas, especially Gippsland.


1912
1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1912th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 912th  year of the 2nd millennium, the 12th  year of the 20th century, and the  3rd   year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1912, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.


1912 AAA Championship Car season
The 1912 AAA Championship Car season consisted of 18 races, beginning in Santa Monica, California on May 4 and concluding in Brooklyn, New York on November 5. There was also one non-championship event at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The de facto National Champion as poled by the American automobile journal Motor Age was Ralph DePalma and the winner of the Indianapolis 500 was Joe Dawson. Points were not awarded by the AAA Contest Board during the 1912 season. Champions of the day were decided by Chris G. Sinsabaugh, an editor at Motor Age, based on merit and on track performance. The points table was created retroactively in 1927 – all championship results should be considered unofficial.


1912 AAA Championship Car season, Leading National Championship standings
The points paying system for the 1909–1915 and 1917–1919 season were retroactively applied in 1927 and revised in 1951 using the points system from 1920.


1912 Adrian Bulldogs football team
The 1912 Adrian Bulldogs football team represented Adrian College during the 1912 college football season.


1912 Akron Indians season
The 1912 Akron Indians season was their fifth season in existence. The team played in the Ohio League and posted a 7–3 record.


1912 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
The 1912 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA", or "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1912 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 20th overall and 17th season as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA). The team was led by head coach D. V. Graves, in his second year, and played their home games at the University of Alabama Quad in Tuscaloosa and at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, US. They finished the season with a record of five wins, three losses, and one tie (5–3–1 overall, 3–3–1 in the SIAA).


1912 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Before the season
Farley Moody was captain of the 1912 team. Also on the team were brothers Hargrove Van de Graaff and Adrian Van de Graaff, brothers of Robert J. Van de Graaff.


1912 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Marion Military Institute
To open the 1912 season, Alabama shutout the Marion Military Institute 52–0 at The Quad in Tuscaloosa. The Crimson Tide took a 20–0 lead behind a trio of first quarter touchdowns on a pair of runs by Holt Andrews McDowell and another by Adrian Van de Graaff. They then extended their lead to 33–0 at halftime behind touchdown runs by Hargrove Van de Graaff and Charlie Joplin. After a scoreless third, Alabama scored on a trio of fourth quarter touchdowns and made the final score 52–0. The final points were scored on runs by McDowell, Hargrove Van de Graaff and W. A. Barnes. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Marion to 4–0.


1912 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Birmingham College
In their second game of the season, Alabama shutout Birmingham College (now Birmingham–Southern College) 62–0 at The Quad. Although Adrian Van de Graaff, Charles Long and Farley Moody, the Crimson Tide thoroughly outmatched Birmingham. Touchdowns were scored by Hargrove Van de Graaff (4), Everett Wilkinson (2), Holt Andrews McDowell, Charlie Joplin and Morgan Stickney. The victory brought Alabama's all-time record against Birmingham College to 3–0.


1912 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Birmingham College
The starting lineup was Hargrove Van de Graaff (left end), James Gibbons (left tackle), C. M. Hamilton (left guard), C. D. Riddle (center), Julius W. Hicks (right guard), T. D. Boman (right tackle), Raymond Jones (right end), Charlie Joplin (quarterback), J. H. G. Riley (left halfback), Holt Andrews McDowell (right halfback), Everett Wilkinson (fullback).


1912 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Georgia Tech
One source claims Tech athlete Al Loeb "is best remembered for the 1912 Tech-Alabama game." The Tide were favored and outweighed the Tech team.


1912 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Georgia Tech
Loeb gave a rousing pep talk before the game. Coach John Heisman said "I think Loeb's speech did it. I've never seen madder playing than Al Loeb did that day and inspired by him, we won." Loeb broke three fingers during the game, but had the doctor tape them up and returned to the fray to lead Tech to a 20-3 victory. Loeb recalled "They were supposed to write their own score. We licked 'em 20-3. ' Tis said I didn't miss a tackle all day. And there were plenty of 'em made...


1912 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Georgia Tech
Also, coach John Heisman had a heavy shift that left me on the end so I was eligible as a pass receiver. I caught a couple, too...I was also called upon to do a bit of blocking. We ran series plays, three or four consecutively. We had no huddle -- just lined up, and without a signal we were gone. It seemed just a bit speedier than at present."


1912 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Georgia Tech
The starting lineup was: H. Vandergraaf (left end), Grady (left tacle), Hamilton (left guard), Riddle (center), Hicks (right guard), Barnes (right tackle), Wilkinson (right end), A. Vandergraaf (left halfback), McDowell (right halfback), Stickney (fullback).


1912 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Mississippi A&M
Alabama had its second consecutive SIAA loss over Mississippi A&M (now Mississippi State University).


1912 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Georgia
In the Georgia game, the Bulldogs ran a trick play in which they threw the ball to a receiver who was dressed as a waterboy, on the field, carrying a bucket. The play did not prove decisive, as Georgia fumbled the ball away soon after, but the Bulldogs won the game after they recovered a botched Alabama field goal and scored in the final minutes. Coach Graves accused Coach Cunningham of violating the ethics of the game.


1912 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Tulane
Alabama had a 7–0 victory over Tulane. A 35-yard run by Vandergraaf set up a short touchdown run by Stickney.


1912 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Mississippi
Alabama beat Ole Miss 10–9 after the Rebels missed an extra point and two late field goals.


1912 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Sewanee
The Tide finished the season with a surprising tie against Sewanee in what was the first Alabama football game played at Rickwood Field. "There was a saying in the South that all Sewanee had to do to defeat Alabama was to show the Alabamians a purple jersey."


1912 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Postseason
Moody was selected All-Southern. He died in France while serving in the First World War during the Battle of the Argonne Forest just a month before the Armistice.


1912 Alexandria state by-election
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Alexandria on 18 May 1912, following the death of John Dacey (Labour).


1912 All England Badminton Championships
The 1912 All England Open Badminton Championships was a badminton tournament held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Westminster, England from February 27 to March 3, 1912.


1912 All England Badminton Championships
Frank Chesterton regained his men's singles title after missing the 1911 Championships. Former women's champion Ethel Thomson returned as Mrs Larcombe after several years absence and reached the singles before being beaten by the defending champion Margaret Tragett (also playing under her new married name).


1912 All England Badminton Championships
Henry Norman Marrett played under the name A. N. Other.


1912 All England Badminton Championships, Mixed Doubles
In the first round Fitton & Radeglia defeated W. B. Bayne & Mrs Harvey 15–13, 15-7


1912 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The 1912 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 26th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Louth were the winners.


1912 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Results, All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
By the time the semi-final was to be played, the Leinster championship was not finished, so Dublin were nominated to represent Leinster. When Louth beat Dublin in the Leinster final, they were given Dublin's place in the All-Ireland final.


1912 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
The 1912 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 25th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1912 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.


1912 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
At half time Louth led 0-2 to 0-1. Antrim led by two points with fifteen minutes to go, but Louth came back to win their title.


1912 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
The 1912 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was the 26th staging of the All-Ireland hurling championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1887. The championship began on 19 May 1912 and ended on 17 November 1912.


1912 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
Kilkenny were the defending champions, and successfully defended their title following a 2-1 to 1-3 defeat of Cork in the final.


1912 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format
Semi-finals: (2 matches) The four provincial representatives made up the semi-final pairings. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while the two winning teams advance to the All-Ireland final.


1912 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format
Final: (1 match) The winners of the two semi-finals contest this game with the winners being declared All-Ireland champions.


1912 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final
The 1912 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 25th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1912 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at Jones' Road, Dublin, on 17 November 1912, between Kilkenny, represented by club side Tullaroan, and Cork, represented by club side Blackrock.


1912 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final
The Munster champions lost to their Leinster opponents on a score line of 2-1 to 1-3 with Sim Walton 1-1 and Matt Gargan 1-0 the scorers for Kilkenny.


1912 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final
This match was the first All-Ireland Hurling final to have a bigger attendance than the same year's football final.


1912 All-Western college football team
The 1912 All-Western college football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Western teams chosen by various selectors for the 1912 college football season.


1912 All-Western college football team, Key
Bold = consensus choice by a majority of the selectors


1912 All-Western college football team, Key
FY = Fielding H. Yost, head football coach at University of Michigan, in the Detroit Free Press


1912 Allan Cup
The 1912 Allan Cup was the Canadian national senior ice hockey championship for the 1911-12 Senior season. The final challenge was hosted by the Winnipeg Victorias and Winnipeg, Manitoba. The 1912 playoff marked the 5th time the Allan Cup had a champion.


1912 Allan Cup, First challenge
The Winnipeg Victorias received a challenge from the Calgary Athletic Club, Alberta champions. Played in Winnipeg, Manitoba.


1912 Allan Cup, First challenge, Results
Winnipeg Victorias carries the Allan Cup, winning the series 19-goals-to-6.


1912 Allan Cup, Second challenge
The Winnipeg Victorias received a challenge from the Toronto Eatons, Ontario champions. Played in Winnipeg, Manitoba.


1912 Allan Cup, Second challenge, Results
Winnipeg Victorias carries the Allan Cup, winning the series 24-goals-to-5.


1912 Allan Cup, Third challenge
The Winnipeg Victorias received a challenge from the Regina Capitals, Saskatchewan champions. Played in Winnipeg, Manitoba.


1912 Allan Cup, Third challenge, Results
Winnipeg Victorias carries the Allan Cup. With no more challengers accepted in time to play, the Victorias win the 1912 Allan Cup.


1912 American Grand Prize
The 1912 American Grand Prize was the seventh and final race of the 1912 Grand Prix season. It was held at the Wauwatosa Road Race Course in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and was sanctioned by the Automobile Club of America. Caleb Bragg won by over 15 minutes over Erwin Bergdoll. Bragg's average speed was 68.397 mph (110.074 km/h).


1912 American Grand Prize
The event was marred by the deaths of two-time and defending winner David Bruce-Brown and his mechanician Tony Scudellari in a practice accident. Bruce-Brown's car was repaired by Barney Oldfield and driven to a fourth-place finish. Ralph DePalma and his mechanician Tom Alley were injured when DePalma's Mercedes touched the rear of Bragg's Fiat and overturned, ejecting its occupants.


1912 Anubis
1912 Anubis (prov. designation: 6534 P-L) is a stony Koronis asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) in diameter. It was named after the Egyptian deity Anubis.


1912 Anubis, Orbit and classification
The S-type asteroid is a member of the Koronis family, a group consisting of about 200 known bodies. It orbits the Sun in the outer main-belt at a distance of 2.6–3.2 AU once every 4 years and 11 months (1,810 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.09 and an inclination of 3° with respect to the ecliptic.


1912 Anubis, Discovery
Anubis was discovered on 24 September 1960, by the Dutch and Dutch–American astronomers Ingrid and Cornelis van Houten at Leiden, and Tom Gehrels, who took the photographic plates at Palomar Observatory, California. On the same night, the trio of astronomers also discovered 1923 Osiris, 1924 Horus and 5011 Ptah, also named after Ancient Egyptian deities.


1912 Anubis, Discovery
The survey designation "P-L" stands for Palomar–Leiden, named after Palomar Observatory and Leiden Observatory, which collaborated on the fruitful Palomar–Leiden survey in the 1960s. Gehrels used Palomar's Samuel Oschin telescope (also known as the 48-inch Schmidt Telescope), and shipped the photographic plates to Ingrid and Cornelis van Houten at Leiden Observatory where astrometry was carried out. The trio are credited with the discovery of several thousand minor planets.


1912 Anubis, Naming
This minor planet was named after Anubis, the jackal-headed Egyptian god and protector of the dead. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 November 1979 (M.P.C. 5013).


1912 Anubis, Physical characteristics
According to the survey carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Anubis measures 10.407 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.382, while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL) assumes a standard albedo for stony members of the Koronis family of 0.24, and calculates a diameter of 10.28 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 12.11.


1912 Anubis, Physical characteristics
In 2010 and 2012, two rotational lightcurves of Anubis were obtained from photometric observations at the Palomar Transient Factory in California. Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 4.626 and 4.628 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.47 and 0.18 magnitude, respectively (U=2/2). CALL adopts the shorter period of 4.626 hours.


1912 Argentine Primera División
The 1912 Argentine Primera División was the 21st season of top-flight football in Argentina. Two tournaments were held at the same time, due to the establishment of Federación Argentina de Football (FAF), a dissident association which organised its own championship. Thus, Quilmes won the official AFA tournament, while Porteño won the FAF title.


1912 Argentine Primera División
The AFA season began on April 14 and ended on December 13 while the FAF season began on July 11 and ended on December 23.


1912 Argentine Primera División, Final tables, Asociación Argentina de Football - Copa Campeonato
Many former players of Alumni (dissolved one year later) went to play for Quilmes, which would be the champion. The tournament had no relegations. Estudiantes (LP) (promoted) added to the championship.


1912 Argentine Primera División, Final tables, Federación Argentina de Football
In July 1912, Gimnasia y Esgrima de Buenos Aires disaffiliated from Asociación Argentina de Football, founding the Federación Argentina de Football (FAF) presided by Ricardo Aldao. Recently promoted teams Porteño and Estudiantes (LP) joined the new league, among other clubs.


1912 Argentine Primera División, Final tables, Federación Argentina de Football
1912 was the inaugural season of the dissident FAF league. This tournament was formed by 3 dissident teams from the Asociación Argentina (AAF): Estudiantes de La Plata, Gimnasia y Esgrima (BA) and Porteño, plus the 4 teams promoted from the second division: Argentino de Quilmes, Atlanta, Independiente and Kimberley. The last club added was the recently created Sociedad Sportiva Argentina.


1912 Argentine Primera División, Final tables, Federación Argentina de Football, Championship playoff
Independiente and Porteño finished level on points at the top of the table, necessitating a championship playoff. The game was suspended at 87' after the Independiente players abandoned the pitch in protest at a disallowed goal by referee Carlos Aertz. The championship was then awarded to Porteño.


1912 Argentine legislative election
Argentine legislative elections of 1912 were held on 7 April 1912 for the Argentine Chamber of Deputies. The first free, democratic elections in the nation's history, the contest had a turnout of 73%.


1912 Argentine legislative election, Background
The era of dominance by the National Autonomist Party (PAN), made possible by an 1874 agreement between kingmakers Adolfo Alsina and Bartolomé Mitre (as well as by systematic electoral fraud), was also undone by agreement. A visit to Rome in 1909 gave the scion of one of Argentina's most powerful families at the time, Roque Sáenz Peña, the opportunity to meet the governing party's nemesis - the exiled leader of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), Hipólito Yrigoyen.


1912 Argentine legislative election, Background
Between one of their numerous discussions, Sáenz Peña was surprised by news that he would carry the PAN's standard for the upcoming "elections" of April, 1910. Sáenz Peña, who had been passed over in favor of his aging (and more conservative) father in 1892, was the counterweight President José Figueroa Alcorta needed against the reactionary wing of his party. Convinced of the need for relectoral reform, Sáenz Peña agreed with Yrigoyen to advance free and fair elections.


1912 Argentine legislative election, Background
President Sáenz Peña kept his word to the eccentric popular leader, who in turn rescinded the UCR's policy of abstentionism. The Sáenz Peña Law, enacted on February 13, mandated universal male suffrage and the secret ballot. Argentina's large immigrant population, most of whom were not yet citizens, were not included in the suffrage; this particularly affected larger cities, such as Buenos Aires and Rosario, where, at the time, more than half the population were born outside Argentina.


1912 Argentine legislative election, Background
Voters in the nation's 14 provinces and Federal District (Buenos Aires) turned out in unprecedented numbers, more than tripling the 199,000 ballots registered in the 1910 elections (the last under the "scripted vote song" scheme that had limited suffrage and produced predictable results since 1862). The UCR, whose boycott, dating from 1892, had left them without representation, was rewarded with 11 Congressmen.


1912 Argentine legislative election, Background
They maintained their boycott, however, of numerous gubernatorial elections where a lack of legal safeguards was evident - notably in Buenos Aires Province, and were defeated in the La Rioja gubernatorial elections (among the few not boycotted by the party). The UCR did defeat the rival National Civic Union (UCN) in their first joint electoral test (the latter had not boycotted earlier elections); the UCR had parted ways from the UCN, founded by former President Bartolomé Mitre, in 1890.


1912 Argentine legislative election, Background
The Socialist Party increased their representation from one (the principal Congressional advocate for social legislation and labor laws, Alfredo Palacios) to two: Alfredo Palacios and Juan B. Justo.


1912 Argentine legislative election, Background
The hitherto dominant PAN had suffered a schism in 1908 led by reformist Lisandro de la Torre, who led a significant faction of the ruling party into the Liga del Sur (its successor, Democratic Progressive Party, would become a major third party during the 1920s and '30s). What remained of the PAN became the Conservative Party, which retained its dominance in the Senate, albeit a weakened one; but lost its absolute majority in the Lower House, becoming more reliant on the Unión Nacional (whose strength was in western Argentina).


1912 Argentine legislative election, Background
Elections to the Senate remained the responsibility of each provincial legislature, despite the 1912 reforms, in all districts save for the City of Buenos Aires. The Buenos Aires race, held on March 30, 1913, resulted in an upset, giving Socialist candidate Enrique del Valle Iberlucea a victory over the UCR's Leopoldo Melo by 42,000 votes to 39,000. Ten Senate seats in all (one third of the chamber), were renewed in 1913. The UCR's sole Senator in 1913 (its first) was Ignacio Iturraspe, elected by Santa Fe Province legislators.


1912 Argentine legislative election, Background
The Buenos Aires Province legislature elected Conservative Marcelino Ugarte, and the party also prevailed in San Juan, Santiago del Estero, and Tucumán. Jujuy Province's two Senators were removed on April 21 by President Sáenz Peña amid allegations of electoral fraud in provincial legislature races, and Jujuy Republican Party candidates Octavio Iturbe and Carlos Zabala were certified in their stead; the development was another victory for de la Torre, to whose Liga del Sur Iturbe and Zabala also belonged.


1912 Arizona football team
The 1912 Arizona football team was an American football team that represented the University of Arizona as an independent during the 1912 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Raymond L. Quigley, the team compiled a 2–1 record and outscored its opponents by a total of 55 to 30. The team captain was Richard L Merritt.


1912 Arkansas Razorbacks football team
The 1912 Arkansas Razorbacks football team represented the University of Arkansas during the 1912 college football season. In their fifth and final year under head coach Hugo Bezdek, the Razorbacks compiled a 4–6 record and were outscored by all opponents by a combined total of 179 to 149. The Razorbacks were blown out in games against Texas A&M (27–0), Wisconsin (64–7), and Texas (48–0). Bezdek left Arkansas after the 1912 season to become head football coach at Oregon, where he was offered more money and a modern gymnasium and athletic field. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1954.


1912 Arkansas gubernatorial election
The 1912 Arkansas gubernatorial election took place on September 9, 1912.


1912 Arkansas gubernatorial election
Democratic Representative Joseph Taylor Robinson defeated the Republican and Socialist candidates Andrew I. Roland and G. E. Mikel with 64.74% of the vote.


1912 Arkansas gubernatorial election
Robinson would later leave his position after he was elected by the state legislature to fill the vacant Senate seat after Jefferson Davis died and would be succeeded by William Kavanaugh Oldham.


1912 Army Cadets football team
The 1912 Army Cadets football team was an American football team that represented the United States Military Academy as an independent during the 1912 college football season. Under head coach Ernest Graves Sr., the Cadets compiled a 5–3 record and outscored opponents by a total of 108 to 59.


1912 Army Cadets football team
Dwight Eisenhower played at left halfback for the team. Eisenhower's college football career ended on November 16 when he sustained a knee injury against Tufts.


1912 Army Cadets football team
On November 9, Army lost by a 27–6 score to a Carlisle team led by Jim Thorpe.


1912 Atlantic hurricane season
The 1912 Atlantic hurricane season featured the first recorded major hurricane – Category 3 or higher on the modern day Saffir–Simpson scale – in the month of November. There were eleven tropical cyclones, seven of which became tropical storms; four of those strengthened into hurricanes, and one reached major hurricane intensity. The season's first cyclone developed on April 4, while the final dissipated on November 21. The season's most intense and most devastating tropical cyclone was the final storm, known as the Jamaica hurricane. It produced heavy rainfall on Jamaica, leading to at least 100 fatalities and about $1.5 million (1912 USD) in damage. The storm was also blamed for five deaths in Cuba.


1912 Atlantic hurricane season
Other tropical cyclones that left notable impact include the fourth and sixth hurricanes. The former brought rough seas and storm surge to portions of the Gulf Coast of the United States, leaving locally severe damage, particularly in Mobile, Alabama, and Pensacola, Florida, totaling about $39,000. One fatality occurred after a barge capsized. The sixth hurricane brought rough seas and heavy precipitation to northeastern Mexico and south Texas, with flooding reported inland. The storm left 15 deaths and about $28,000 in damage. Overall, the tropical cyclones of this season collectively caused at least 122 fatalities and just under $1.6 million in damage.


1912 Atlantic hurricane season
The season's activity was reflected with an accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) rating of 57, near the 1911–1920 average of 58.7. ACE is a metric used to express the energy used by a tropical cyclone during its lifetime. Therefore, a storm with a longer duration will have high values of ACE. It is only calculated at six-hour increments in which specific tropical and subtropical systems are either at or above sustained wind speeds of 39 mph (63 km/h), which is the threshold for tropical storm intensity. Thus, tropical depressions are not included here.


1912 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm One
On June 7, ships in the Gulf of Mexico reported a low pressure area with a closed circulation about 100 mi (160 km) southeast of Port Eads, Louisiana. Initially, the storm moved slowly southeastward, before turning west-southwestward late on June 8. Strengthening slightly, the cyclone turned to the northwest by June 11. Around 12:00 UTC on the following day, a ship observed a barometric pressure of 995 mbar (29.4 inHg), the lowest known in relation to the storm. Based on this, maximum sustained winds were estimated at 70 mph (110 km/h).


1912 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm One
Early on June 13, the storm curved northeastward and made landfall near Franklin, Louisiana, around 05:00 UTC. The system slowly weakened and emerged into the Atlantic Ocean from the Outer Banks of North Carolina, while still at tropical storm intensity. By 12:00 UTC on June 16, the cyclone weakened to a tropical depression. About 24 hours later, the depression dissipated about 150 mi (240 km) north of Bermuda.


1912 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm One
In Louisiana, heavy rainfall resulted in some flooding in inland areas. Precipitation in Georgia and South Carolina caused rivers to approach or reach flood stage, necessitating a flood stage warning at Cheraw, South Carolina, along the Pee Dee River. There, the Pee Dee River crested at 27.5 ft (8.4 m), about 0.5 ft (0.15 m) above flood stage. Some locations in eastern North Carolina reported strong winds, particularly at Fayetteville, where there was a "severe local storm".


1912 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Two
A ship initially encountered this storm about 65 mi (105 km) north-northeast of San Salvador Island in the Bahamas on July 12. The storm initially moved northwestward and strengthened slowly. Early on July 14, the cyclone turned west-northwestward. Later that day, a ship recorded a barometric pressure of 1,011 mbar (29.9 inHg), which was the lowest pressure in relation to the cyclone. Around 12:00 UTC on July 15, the system peaked with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (85 km/h), based on an observation from Savannah, Georgia. About three hours later, the storm made landfall near Darien, Georgia. The cyclone slowly weakened inland and fell to tropical depression status by 12:00 UTC on July 16. About twenty four hours, it dissipated over Mississippi.


1912 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Two
Prior to the storm's landfall, northeast storm warnings were issued from Jacksonville, Florida, to Charleston, South Carolina. At Tybee Island in Georgia, strong winds and abnormally high tides were reported. In Savannah, a wind speed of 49 mph (79 km/h) was reported. The storm resulted in minimal damage.


1912 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Three
A tropical depression formed about 140 mi (230 km) east-southeast of Ocean City, Maryland, early on September 2. The depression drifted southward and reached tropical storm intensity later that day. Based on observations from ships on September 3, the cyclone peaked with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (85 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 1,007 mbar (29.7 inHg). The storm then began moving southwestward at a faster pace. Late on September 5, the cyclone weakened to a tropical depression and curved west-southwestward. Shortly after 06:00 UTC on September 6, the system made landfall near Midway, Georgia, with winds of 35 mph (55 km/h). About 12 hours later, the depression dissipated over southwest Georgia. The strongest wind speed associated with the storm was 37 mph (60 km/h) in Charleston, South Carolina.


1912 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four
A trough of low pressure in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico developed into a tropical depression about 60 mi (100 km) west-southwest of Cedar Key, Florida, on September 10. Shortly thereafter, the depression intensified into a tropical storm. Moving generally westward, the storm intensified into a Category 1 hurricane on the modern day Saffir–Simpson scale early on September 12. The cyclone peaked with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph (150 km/h) at 00:00 UTC on September 13, observed by a ship. Around this time, the hurricane began to curve northwestward.


1912 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four
While approaching the Gulf Coast of the United States, the system weakened. At 08:00 UTC on September 14, the hurricane made landfall near Pascagoula, Mississippi, with winds of 75 mph (120 km/h). A barometric pressure of 986 mbar (29.1 inHg) was observed at landfall, the lowest known in relation to the cyclone. The system quickly weakened to a tropical storm just four hours after landfall. Early on September 15, the storm weakened to a tropical depression and dissipated over Tennessee.


1912 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four
In Florida, the precursor to the hurricane brought heavy rainfall to Tampa, with 13.19 in (335 mm) falling there between September 7 and September 10. Hundreds of homes and numerous acres of agricultural lands were flooded. Throughout the area, many streets were washed out, disrupting street car service and commuting. In Pensacola, abnormally high tides caused severe damage. Wharves and small buildings used for storing fishing equipment washed away. About 20 barges were beached, strewing timber across the beach. Service via the Louisville and Nashville Railroad was briefly interrupted due to timber on a railroad bridge.


1912 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four
Wind damage was relatively minor. A dance pavilion on Santa Rosa Island was partially deroofed, as was a hotel. Damage in Pensacola reached approximately $25,000 (1912 USD). In Alabama, the city of Mobile in particular suffered impact from the storm. Some ships and vessels capsized in the Mobile Bay and Mobile River, including a $2,000 barge, drowning a watchman. Winds destroyed a church, though wind damage was otherwise limited to downed street signs and fences. Overall, the hurricane caused $39,000 in damage.


1912 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Five
In late September, a cold front moved into the Gulf of Mexico. By October 3, a low pressure associated with the front developed. Initially extratropical, the low moved east-northeastward and crossed Florida on October 4. After entering the Atlantic early on October 5, the low began strengthening and soon reached the equivalency in intensity to a tropical storm. Around 00:00 UTC on October 6, the system transitioned into a tropical cyclone while situated about 260 mi (420 km) southeast of Cape Fear in North Carolina. Already a strong tropical storm, the cyclone intensified into a hurricane about six hours later.


1912 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Five
Late on October 6, a vessel observed a barometric pressure of 996 mbar (29.4 inHg), the lowest in relation to the stop. Based on this, it is estimated that the hurricane peaked with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph (150 km/h). The storm then began to execute a small cyclonic loop, which continued until early on October 8. By then, the cyclone was moving eastward and weakened to a tropical storm around 00:00 UTC on October 9. About 24 hours later, the system weakened to a tropical depression. At 18:00 UTC on October 10, the depression dissipated about 280 mi (450 km) northeast of Bermuda.


1912 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Five
Despite remaining well offshore during its tropical cyclone stage, a wind speed of 46 mph (74 km/h) was observed at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.


1912 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Six
Observations from ships first indicated the presence of a tropical storm to the southeast of the Cayman Islands on October 11. Moving west-northwestward, the storm strengthened steadily, reaching winds of 70 mph (110 km/h) before making landfall near Cancún, Quintana Roo, early on October 13. The system weakened slightly over land and while situated in the Gulf of Mexico just north of the Yucatán Peninsula, but began re-intensifying later that day. By 12:00 UTC on October 14, the cyclone deepened into a Category 1 hurricane and then a Category 2 hurricane about 24 hours later.


1912 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Six
The hurricane made landfall on central Padre Island between Corpus Christi and Port Mansfield in Texas late on October 16 with winds of 100 mph (155 km/h), estimated based on a storm surge of 6 ft (1.8 m). A barometric pressure of 970 mbar (29 inHg) was estimated using the pressure-wind relationship. The system quickly weakened to a tropical storm early on October 17, several hours before weakening to a tropical depression. The storm dissipated early on October 18.


1912 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Six
Offshore Padre Island, the Mexican streamer SS Nicaragua capsized with a crew of 27. Thirteen people, including the captain, were rescued by personnel from the United States Life-Saving Service station in Port Aransas, though six other crew members were lost. Storm surge and abnormally high tides resulted in severe damage along the coast. Brazos and Padre islands were inundated for several hours, with several buildings being swept away. Considerable damage also occurred in due to strong winds and tides in Brownsville and Port Isabel.


1912 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Six
At the former, a number of windmills, trees, and poorly constructed buildings suffered some degree of damage. Brownsville and Raymondville broke daily rainfall records, with 6.34 in (161 mm) and 4.9 in (120 mm) observed on October 17, respectively. Many buildings were destroyed and several boats sunk after tides rose 6 ft (1.8 m) in less than 4 hours. Fifteen people died and damage reached more than $28,000 (1912 USD).


1912 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Seven
A low pressure area in the southwestern Caribbean Sea developed into a tropical storm by 06:00 UTC on November 11. Initially, the storm moved slowly northwestward, before eventually curving north-northeastward. Late on November 13, the cyclone intensified into a hurricane, based on a ship report. Slow intensification took place after classification as a hurricane, though after recurving toward northeastward, the storm began to quicken in strengthening. Early on November 17, the hurricane reached its maximum sustained wind speed of 115 mph (185 km/h). It continued north-northeastward and made landfall near Negril, Jamaica, around 12:00 UTC.


1912 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Seven
At South Negril Point, a barometric pressure of 965 mbar (28.5 inHg) was observed, the lowest known in relation to the storm. The storm weakened after landfall and the trend continued after reentry into the Caribbean Sea. On November 20, the hurricane weakened to a tropical storm north of Jamaica. The system then westward across the Caribbean, before dissipating on November 22 about 115 mi (185 km) southwest of Grand Cayman.


1912 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Seven
Heavy rainfall was reported in Jamaica. Several bridges were severely damaged in the northern and eastern portions of the island. Strong winds generated by the storm destroyed approximately 25% of banana trees, while telegraph lines were downed in a number of places. Railway lines were also heavily damaged by the winds and rain. Rough seas also lashed the island, with Savanna-la-Mar suffering near complete destruction and 42 deaths in that city alone. Across western Jamaica, roughly a hundred homes were destroyed, while 5,000 buildings were damaged or demolished. About 100 fatalities and $1.5 million in damage occurred in Jamaica. Extensive flooding and five fatalities occurred in Cuba in the Guantánamo Bay area.


1912 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Other systems
In addition to the seven tropical storms, four tropical depressions developed and remained below tropical storm intensity. The first formed from an extratropical cyclone well to the southwest of the Azores on April 4. The depression moved southwestward until being by a frontal boundary on April 6. By September 25, another tropical depression developed from a formerly extratropical cyclone about halfway between Bermuda and the Azores. However, on September 27, the depression lost tropical characteristics again. The next tropical depression formed on October 17 to the southeast of Bermuda. Moving generally northwestward, the depression transitioned into an extratropical cyclone by October 21. The final non-developing depression formed from an extratropical cyclone to the west of the Canary Islands on November 7. The depression tracked generally westward before being absorbed by a frontal system on November 11.


1912 Auburn Tigers football team
The 1912 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University (then called the Alabama Polytechnic Institute) in the 1912 college football season. It was the Tigers' 21st season and they competed as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA). The team was led by head coach Mike Donahue, in his eighth year, and played their home games at Drake Field in Auburn, Alabama. They finished with a record of six wins, one loss and one tie (6–1–1 overall).


1912 Auckland City mayoral election
The 1912 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1912, elections were held for the Mayor of Auckland. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.


1912 Auckland City mayoral election, Background
The mayoral contest was viewed with great interest as it followed a recent industrial dispute. Sitting mayor James Parr was challenged by Alfred Hall-Skelton, who had the endorsement of the Federation of Labour. Parr claimed not to be an opponent of Labour but was against "revolutionary agitators".


1912 Auckland Rugby League season
The 1912 Auckland Rugby League season was the 4th official year of the Auckland Rugby League. The season commenced on 11 May, with the start of the First Grade competition.


1912 Auckland Rugby League season
It saw six teams competing for the First Grade title after the addition of the Manukau Rovers who were formed after a meeting in Onehunga in March. There were other clubs which had formed but only competed in the lower grades. These were Northcote & Birkenhead Ramblers (founded in 1910 and who later became known as the Northcote Tigers), Ellerslie Wanderers (in 1919 renamed Ellerslie United, and then later Ellerslie Eagles), Hobsonville Pirates, and Otahuhu Rovers (founded in 1911 but did not enter teams until 1912). The season commenced on 11 May with the start of the first grade competition.


1912 Auckland Rugby League season
Newton Rangers secured their first Auckland first grade club title after they defeated Ponsonby United in the penultimate round at Eden Park on 13 July.


1912 Auckland Rugby League season, Manukau Magpies formed
Manukau held a meeting in Onehunga in March. They decided to field a senior team and two junior teams. James Rukutai was their captain and after his death in 1940 the trophy for the minor premiers was named after him. Teams still play for it today.


1912 Auckland Rugby League season, Myers Cup (First Grade Championship)
Thirty regular season matches were played with nearly all fixtures being played at Eden Park (25 in total). With the Devonport Domain being used for four North Shore Albions home matches, and one match at Ellerslie.


1912 Auckland Rugby League season, Myers Cup (First Grade Championship), Myers Cup results, Round 4
Eden only had nine players for their match with North Shore and after trailing by 33 points to 0 they threw in the proverbial towel and the match ended at that point. No point scorers or match description was published in the NZ Herald or Auckland Star. In the match between Ponsonby and Newton Charles Savory was ordered from the field for “rough and tumble” play just before fulltime and a match his side won by 16 to 6. He had earlier scored 2 tries and kicked a conversion.


1912 Auckland Rugby League season, Myers Cup (First Grade Championship), Myers Cup results, Round 6
The code showed that it was still struggling in its infancy to always organise itself properly with City only managing to field 12 players and the Auckland Star noted in its match report that several players “wore wrongly coloured uniforms”, and that the match was 45 minutes late kicking off. Also noticeable was the Newton and Eden result where Newton ran in 12 tries but only managed to convert one of them. Goal kicking in general was relatively poor and was shared amongst the teams with it not uncommon to see 3 or 4 players used.


1912 Auckland Rugby League season, Myers Cup (First Grade Championship), Top scorers
There were multiple instances of points being unattributed. As such the following try scoring and point scoring lists are incomplete. Games and/or teams with unattributed points are as follows: North Shore try and penalty v Manukau (R3), North Shore 33 points v Eden (R4), Manukau try v North Shore (R3), Newton try v Manukau (R5), Newton 2 tries v Manukau (R10), Eden 25 points v City (R10), City 5 points v Eden (R10). This amounts to 84 points unattributed out of 773 points scored in total.


1912 Auckland Rugby League season, Lower grades and exhibition matches
Grades were made of the following teams with the winning team in bold:


1912 Auckland Rugby League season, Lower grades and exhibition matches
(Points table at the end of the first round + additional known results)


1912 Auckland Rugby League season, Lower grades and exhibition matches
Ponsonby B beat Ponsonby A in the final match 17-5 to win the competition


1912 Auckland Rugby League season, Representative season
The team to play Thames-Goldfields to begin the season was a considerably weakened one. Several players named originally in the NZ Herald did not actually make the trip and the match day line up as reported in the Thames News was a very different one with many players on debut for Auckland.


1912 Auckland Rugby League season, Representative season, Auckland v New Zealand
Sid Riley the former Australian rugby international who was playing club football in Auckland for Ponsonby at the time was listed to play for Auckland in the match. However he played for New Zealand instead.


1912 Auckland Rugby League season, Representative season, Auckland v Hawke’s Bay (Northern Union C.C.)
The Auckland team featured Harold Hayward who was from the Thames district which was affiliated to Auckland Rugby League. He had been a member of the combined Thames-Goldfields team which had played Auckland earlier in the season.


1912 Auckland Rugby League season, Representative season, Auckland B v Waikato
Early in the game Skeates for Auckland broke "several ribs" and had to leave the field. Then near the end of the match another Auckland player sprined a toe and left the field leaving Auckland a player short.


1912 Auckland Rugby League season, Representative season, Auckland v Rotorua
On 3 August Auckland played Rotorua in Rotorua and they also played Lower Waikato at Eden Park. The later match was listed in some quarters as a B team though it was filled with New Zealand internationals.


1912 Auckland Rugby League season, Representative season, Auckland v Wellington (Northern Union C.C.)
Due to the Rotorua and Thames leagues being affiliated with the Auckland Rugby League the Auckland team contained two players from each sub league. Namely Riki Papakura and Rukingi Reke from Rotorua and Harold Hayward and his brother Morgan Hayward from Thames.


1912 Auckland Rugby League season, Representative season, Auckland v New South Wales
Auckland won their first victory over an ‘international’ side when they defeated New South Wales by 10 points to 3. The game was marred by several acts of violence with the visiting side said to be at fault repeatedly. Near the end of the match Sid Deane was sent off for punching Billy Curran.


1912 Auckland Rugby League season, Representative season, Auckland v New South Wales
New South Wales reversed their earlier loss with a comprehensive win over a disappointing Auckland effort. Charles Dunning and Bob Mitchell who had both been named to play originally were forced to withdraw due to illness and were replaced by Harry Fricker and Jim Griffin.


1912 Auckland Rugby League season, Representative season, Auckland representative matches played and scorers
The following list is complete in terms of points scored however the match with Rotorua did not have team lists published with only the three point scorers from the match known (Hardgrave, Tobin, and Webb).


1912 Australasian Championships
The 1912 Australasian Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on outdoor grass courts at Hastings, New Zealand from 30 December 1912 until 1 January 1913. It was the 8th edition of the Australian Championships (now known as the Australian Open), the first held in Hastings, the second held in New Zealand, after Christchurch in 1906, and the third Grand Slam tournament of the year. Travel by sea was slow, limiting the attendance of Australian players, and New Zealand player Anthony Wilding did not return from Europe. The singles title was won by Irish James Cecil Parke.


1912 Australasian Championships, Finals, Men's singles
James Cecil Parke defeated  Alfred Beamish  3–6, 6–3, 1–6, 6–1, 7–5


1912 Australasian Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles
Charles Dixon /  James Cecil Parke defeated  Alfred Beamish /  Gordon Lowe 6–4, 6–4, 6–2


1912 Australasian Championships – Singles
James Cecil Parke won in the final 3–6, 6–3, 1–6, 6–1, 7–5, against Alfred Beamish to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1912 Australasian Championships.


1912 Australasian Championships – Singles
Norman Brookes was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year.


1912 Australia rugby union tour of Canada and the U.S.
The 1912 Australia rugby union tour of Canada and the United States was a collection of friendly rugby union games undertaken by the Australia national rugby union team against various invitational teams from Canada and the U.S, and also against the US national team.


1912 Australia rugby union tour of Canada and the U.S., The squad's leadership
Dr. Otto Martin Bohrsmann (1869–1944) was tour manager. He was a Sydney physician who served as New South Wales Rugby Union treasurer for a number of years. Howell attributes the team's poor performance to a lack of discipline stemming from weakly imposed tour management. Bohrsmann's name would later be given to the landmark Mona Road, Darling Point, Sydney property Otto, which he bought in 1925 and which was retained by his descendants until 2010. His sister Altona would give her name to another Sydney landmark, a Point Piper home which in 2007 set the mark as Australia's most expensive home when it sold for A$50million.


1912 Australia rugby union tour of Canada and the U.S., The squad's leadership
Billy Hill was the secretary of the New South Wales Rugby Union, he toured with the squad as Assistant Manager and refereed some of the matches. At this time team coaches were frowned upon, with the team captain expected to fulfill these duties.


1912 Australia rugby union tour of Canada and the U.S., The squad's leadership
Ward Prentice had toured with the 1908 Wallabies and had played both Tests of that tour. He had made three further Test appearances for Australia in 1910. He was a rugged on-field leader and the 1912 tour marked his swan-song in international rugby, appearing in fifteen of the sixteen matches. After World War I he had a brief first-grade rugby league career Sydney in 1920.


1912 Australia rugby union tour of Canada and the U.S., The squad's leadership
Tom Richards had also toured with the 1908 Wallabies and had played 1st grade rugby all over the world, making district representative sides in Queensland, New South Wales, South Africa and England. He was a leader in the forwards and a natural selection as tour vice-captain. He would later see active service with the AIF, landing on day one of the Gallipoli Campaign on 25 April 1915 and he would be awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry on the Western Front.


1912 Australia rugby union tour of Canada and the U.S., Tour itinerary
The squad travelled by ship from Sydney to the US on the SS Moana with a number of the touring party confined to their cabins with sea-sickness for the first four days. Howell attributes the team's poor performance record to a focus placed on socialising. The squad was billeted out in college fraternity houses in California where the hospitality played havoc with team discipline. Howell quotes squad member Bob Adamson who spoke of the tour: "We were never in bed. That was the trouble. I've never had such a time in my life"


1912 Australia rugby union tour of Canada and the U.S., Tour statistics
The tour took in 16 games with only 11 won by the Wallabies, including the sole Test of the tour played against the US All three matches played in Canada were lost by the Wallabies as well as one of the two matches against Stanford University and one of the three matches played against UC Berkeley. The team played in the light-blue jersey of New South Wales with a Waratah emblem and the word Australia on the chest.


1912 Australia rugby union tour of Canada and the U.S., Touring party
The second match of the 1912 New South Wales v Queensland interstate series acted as a selection trial for the tour and the Blues won the match 12–3 in Sydney. The selectors chose only six Queenslanders in the squad including Tom Richards, Jimmy Flynn, Lou Meibusch, Copper Kent, Peter Cunningham and Bob Willocks. Willocks withdrew from the touring squad before departure and his place was taken by fellow Queenslander William Murphy. Flynn and Meisbusch were still aged 18 years at the start of the tour.