1920 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Georgia
On the second offensive play of the game, Mullie Lenoir fumbled the ball and the Bulldogs' Paige Bennett returned it 45-yards for a touchdown and 7–0 lead. On the possession that followed, the Bulldogs' Hugh Whelchel blocked the J. T. O'Connor punt, Artie Pew recovered the ball and returned it 25-yards for a touchdown and extended the Georgia lead to 14–0.


1920 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Georgia
Alabama tied the game 14–14 as they entered the fourth quarter after touchdowns were scored by Lenoir on a short run in the second and by Al Clemens on a Riggs Stephenson pass in the third quarter. With the game still tied late in the fourth, Alabama was to attempt a potential, game-winning 18-yard field goal. However, James Cheeves blocked the attempt for the Bulldogs and returned it 82-yards for the game-winning touchdown. The loss brought Alabama's all-time record against Georgia to 4–8–3.


1920 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Mississippi A&M
In their final home game of the season, Alabama defeated the Mississippi A&M (now known as Mississippi State University) Aggies 24–7 on Thanksgiving at Rickwood Field. After a scoreless first, Alabama took a 14–0 halftime lead with a pair of second quarter touchdowns. The first came on a one-yard Ben Hunt run and the second on a six-yard Mullie Lenoir run. After P. M. Hough cut the lead in half for the Aggies with his one-yard touchdown run in the third, the Crimson Tide closed with ten unanswered points that made the final score 24–7. J. T. O'Connor scored first with his 25-yard field goal in the third and then Riggs Stephenson closed the game with an eight-yard touchdown run. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Mississippi A&M to 8–4–1.


1920 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Case
On November 9, officials from both Case and Alabama agreed to play on the Saturday after Thanksgiving to close the 1920 season in what was the first time the Crimson Tide played a game in the North. The game came together as coach Scott previously coached at Case, worked for The Plain Dealer and wanted to showcase his team back in his Cleveland home. Played only two days after their win over Mississippi A&M, the Crimson Tide shutout the Scientists 40–0 in the only game between the schools and captured the first ten win season in school history.


1920 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Case
Alabama brought only 17 players to Cleveland for the game that included two who were from the city and Riggs Stephenson who was expected to sign with baseball's Cleveland Indians. Mullie Lenoir scored first for Alabama on a 12-yard run in the first quarter for a 7–0 lead. In the second, Stephenson threw a 30-yard touchdown pass to Al Clemens that made the halftime score 14–0. After they extended their lead to 21–0 on a short Lenoir run in the third, the Crimson Tide closed the game with three fourth quarter touchdowns that made the final score 40–0. Stephenson was involved with all three scored with a pair scored by himself on short runs and the third on a second pass to Clemens.


1920 Alabama coal strike
The 1920 Alabama coal strike, or the Alabama miners' strike, was a statewide strike of the United Mine Workers of America against coal mine operators. The strike was marked by racial violence, and ended in significant defeat for the union.


1920 Alabama coal strike, Conditions
The strike was officially authorized by UMW president John L. Lewis to begin on September 7, and as many as 15,000 of the 27,000 coal miners in the state stopped work. UMW vice-president Van Bittner was sent to the state to oversee the effort.


1920 Alabama coal strike, Conditions
One main union demand was for union recognition, and one fundamental obstacle to union recognition was the fact that the UMW was racially integrated. Popular opinion was turned against the strikers almost immediately, particularly the disapproving black middle class, who saw racial solidarity and cooperation with capitalists as their only route to economic self-defense.


1920 Alabama coal strike, Conditions
Major operators in Alabama's coalfields were also still using convict labor under abominable conditions with no salary cost whatsoever, the convict leasing system, described by some as "Slavery by Another Name". Mines of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company had phased out convict leasing five years after its acquisition by U.S. Steel, but the mines controlled by Sloss Furnaces and Pratt Consolidated continued the practice until 1926.


1920 Alabama coal strike, The strike
The strike's first major confrontation happened on September 16, in Patton Junction, Alabama (in Walker County), where strikers killed the general manager of the Corona Coal Company, Leon Adler, along with Earl Edgil, a company guard. But African Americans bore the brunt of the violence:  among many such threatening incidents, black miner Henry Junius was found in a shallow grave outside of Roebuck a few weeks into the strike. At least thirteen houses of strikebreakers were dynamited between September and December. Also in December state troopers terrorized the small black business district in Pratt City with random machine gun fire.


1920 Alabama coal strike, The strike
The Alabama State Militia and the state police had been called out by the governor, Thomas Kilby, known as the "business governor". Once on site, state troop commanders typically placed themselves at the service of the coal companies. By February thousands of workers had been evicted from their company houses and left homeless.


1920 Alabama coal strike, The strike
Towards the end of February the enormous expense of conducting the strike with no progress led the union to seek a resolution. None other than Governor Kilby was accepted as arbitrator. Kilby's settlement flatly refused union recognition and any wage increases, and he refused to reinstate striking miners. Part of Kilby's March 9 decision read,


1920 Alabama coal strike, The strike
It is rather difficult to understand how such a large number of men could be induced so deliberately to disregard such an obligation of honor. The only explanation, perhaps, lies in the fact that from 70 per cent to 80 per cent of the miners are Negroes. The southern Negro is easily misled, especially when given a permanent and official place in an organization in which both races are members.


1920 Alabama coal strike, The strike
The national UMW chose to adhere to Kilby's decision. The union closed its state offices, and the strike prevented any union advances in the state for another ten years. At least 16 people were killed in the strike, more than half of them black, with an uncounted number of wounded.


1920 Alabama coal strike, Willie Baird
On December 22, 1920, local union official and itinerant Nazarine minister Adrian Northcutt of Nauvoo, Alabama was summoned out of his home by soldiers of Company M of the Alabama Guard.


1920 Alabama coal strike, Willie Baird
After hearing seven shots fired in quick succession, Northcutt's son-in-law William (Willie) Baird rushed out to find Northcutt, dead on the ground, with Private James Morris standing over him. Baird shot Morris in self-defense, then fled into the woods. After three days Baird turned himself over to Walker County officials. On January 5, nine guardsmen of Company M entered the jail, subdued the sheriff on duty, lynched Baird, and riddled his body with bullets.


1920 Alabama coal strike, Willie Baird
The guardsmen were eventually acquitted. Former Alabama governor Braxton Bragg Comer would claim that the lynching of Baird "had some element of self-defense in it".


1920 Aliens Order
The 1920 Aliens Order was a statutory instrument created under the Aliens Restriction (Amendment) Act 1919 and extended powers over the entry of immigrants into Britain. The order made passports obligatory and was brought out in the context of widespread unemployment after the First World War. All aliens seeking employment or residence were as a result required to register with the police and a 'central register of aliens' was maintained under the direction of the Secretary of State.


1920 Aliens Order
The Order also required the medical inspection of all aliens entering Britain and permitted immigration officers to refuse entry to those deemed "a lunatic, idiot, or mentally deficient" or if "certified by a medical inspector that for medical reasons his admission is undesirable".


1920 Aliens Order
The Order remained in force until it was replaced by the 1953 Aliens Order.


1920 All England Badminton Championships
The 1920 All England Championships was a badminton tournament held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Westminster, England from 2 March to 7 March 1920. It was the first All England Championships since 1914 following a six year break because of World War I.


1920 All England Badminton Championships
George Thomas played under the alias George Allen and finally won his first men's singles title after many years of trying, his best previous singles result was as a losing finalist 16 years earlier in 1904. Another player Archibald Engelbach played under the alias Archibald Fee and won the doubles with Raoul du Roveray.


1920 All England Badminton Championships
K. S. Tann was listed as representing China in the first round of the men's singles and was beaten by the defending champion Guy Sautter 15-1, 15-3. It was the first instance of a Chinese player appearing at the Championships. Tann partnered by Mackinnon also made it to the semi finals of the men's doubles.


1920 All-Big Ten Conference football team
The 1920 All-Big Ten Conference football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Big Ten Conference teams chosen by various selectors for the 1920 Big Ten Conference football season.


1920 All-Big Ten Conference football team, Key
Bold = consensus choice by a majority of the selectors


1920 All-Big Ten Conference football team, Key
Italics = Player whose team was not a member of the Big Ten (certain selectors chose All-Western teams in the geographic sense; others chose All-Western teams in reference to the Western Conference, aka the Big Ten Conference)


1920 All-Big Ten Conference football team, Key
EA = Earl C. Arnold, sports editor of Minneapolis Tribune


1920 All-Big Ten Conference football team, Key
FM = Frank G. Menke, sporting editor of King Features Syndicate


1920 All-Big Ten Conference football team, Key
HJ = Howard Jones, head coach at University of Iowa


1920 All-Big Ten Conference football team, Key
PD = Prentiss Douglass, assistant coach at University of Michigan


1920 All-Big Ten Conference football team, Key
RA = Robert C. Angell, sports editor of The Michigan Daily


1920 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The 1920 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 34th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition.


1920 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The championship was disrupted by the ongoing Irish War of Independence, including the events of Bloody Sunday in November 1920, when British forces killed fourteen people at a match between Dublin and Tipperary at Croke Park in Dublin. Because Dublin and Tipperary were the eventual finalists, it is often incorrectly assumed that this was the All-Ireland final, but it was actually a challenge match held to raise funds for the Republican Prisoners Dependents Fund. In fact, Tipperary did not play their semi-final match until 1922, 19 months after Dublin won the first semi-final.


1920 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The Final was played in June 1922. Tipperary beat Dublin by 1-6 to 1-2.


1920 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
100 years later, the same four teams appeared in the semi-finals, with Cavan also playing Dublin and Mayo also playing Tipperary, confirmed on the weekend of the centenary of Bloody Sunday with the championship delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.


1920 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
The 1920 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 33rd All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1920 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.


1920 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Pre-match
The final was the first time the teams had met since Bloody Sunday (21 November 1920); since then, the Anglo-Irish Treaty had been signed and 26 counties had been offered independence from British rule.


1920 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match summary
IRA volunteer Dan Breen, who previously fought against the British Empire during the War of Independence, threw the ball in at kickoff. The Civil War would begin just 17 days after.


1920 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match summary
Dublin were held scoreless in the second half, they had led by 1-2 to 0-3 at half-time. A late goal by Tommy Powell sealed victory for Tipperary.


1920 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match summary
It was Tipperary's fourth All-Ireland football title following success in 1889, 1895 and 1900. Football has since become the secondary GAA sport in the county, with hurling now being more prominent.


1920 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
The 1920 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was the 34th staging of the All-Ireland hurling championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1887. The championship began on 9 May 1920 and ended on 14 May 1922.


1920 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
Cork were the defending champions; however, they were defeated by Dublin by 4-9 to 4-3 in the final.


1920 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
The final stages of the championship were delayed due to the ongoing War of Independence.


1920 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Teams
A total of fourteen teams contested the championship, the same as the previous championship; however, there were some changes of personnel, with Westmeath replacing Laois in the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship.


1920 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final
The 1920 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 33rd All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1920 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at Croke Park, Dublin, on 2 May 1922, between Cork, represented by a selection of club players, and Dublin, represented by club side Faughs. The Munster champions lost to their Leinster opponents on a score line of 4-9 to 4-3.


1920 All-Pacific Coast football team
The 1920 All-Pacific Coast football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Pacific Coast teams for the 1920 college football season.


1920 All-Pacific Coast football team, Key
AS = Andy Smith, head coach of California, picking all 11 first-team players from his own squad


1920 All-Pro Team
The 1920 All-Pro Team represented the All-Pro team for the 1920 season of the American Professional Football Association (APFA), later renamed the National Football League (NFL). It was compiled by sportswriter Bruce Copeland.


1920 All-Western college football team
The 1920 All-Western college football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Western teams chosen by various selectors for the 1920 college football season.


1920 All-Western college football team, Key
FM = Frank G. Menke, sporting editor of King Features Syndicate


1920 Allan Cup
The 1920 Allan Cup was the senior ice hockey championship of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) for the 1919–20 season.


1920 Allan Cup, History
During the 1920 Allan Cup playoffs, CAHA president Frederick E. Betts expressed concerns that the Toronto Varsity Blues men's ice hockey team had violated the rules by participating in both the Ontario Hockey Association and the Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union playoffs. At the 1920 general meeting, the CAHA decided that the team was eligible for the Allan Cup. Betts and Allan Cup trustee William Northey formed a committee to discuss the CAHA having more say into how the Allan Cup playoffs were operated. Betts sought to end the financial struggles of operating the CAHA and to receive adequate financial compensation.


1920 Allan Cup, History
He argued that the Allan Cup playoffs were the primary source of income for the CAHA, and that the lack of working capital made it difficult to have meetings and govern effectively. He sought a provision that gave a set percentage of gate receipts to the CAHA annually, as opposed to funds being distributed solely at the discretion of the cup's trustees.


1920 Allan Cup, Final
The Winnipeg Falcons defeated the Toronto Varsity Blues men's ice hockey team by 11 goals to 5 in a two-game total goals series. The Falcons then represented the Canada men's national ice hockey team in ice hockey at the 1920 Summer Olympics, and won the first Olympic gold medal in ice hockey.


1920 America's Cup
The 1920 America's Cup was the 13th challenge for the Cup and the first since 1903. It took place in New York Harbor and consisted of a best-of-five series of races between the defender Resolute, entered by a syndicate of New York Yacht Club members headed by Henry Walters, and Shamrock IV, the fourth in Sir Thomas Lipton's line of Cup challengers.


1920 America's Cup
Despite being disabled in the first race and losing the second, Resolute won the final three races and in doing so retained the Cup on behalf of the NYYC, continuing the club's unbroken record of defending the America's Cup.


1920 America's Cup
The 1920 America's Cup was originally scheduled to take place in 1914 but was postponed upon the outbreak of World War I.


1920 America's Cup
The 13th Cup challenge was the last to take place in New York, and the first held under the Universal Rule of measurement. Due to the rule, Shamrock IV owed Resolute seven minutes time.


1920 America's Cup, Lipton challenges a fourth time
Following his unsuccessful Cup challenge in 1903, Lipton, founder of the Lipton tea company, attempted to persuade the NYYC to adopt new rules of measurement for America's Cup yachts that would reduce their cost, which was widely seen to be a result of the Seawanhaka rule then used by the club. Despite the NYYC having adopted the new Universal Rule in 1903, formulated by Nathaniel Herreshoff, for its own races, it was reluctant to allow its use for America's Cup races and refused several challenges issued by Lipton until finally accepting in 1913.


1920 America's Cup, Trials
The 1914 defender selection trials pitted Resolute against Vanitie. In winning, Resolute set a course record. The races were suspended as World War I broke out and did not resume until 1920, at which point Resolute again secured her place as defender in trials against Vanitie.


1920 America's Cup, Race
The American defender Resolute won 3-2 against the challenger Shamrock IV.


1920 America's Cup, Race
During the first race, Shamrock IV crossed the line ahead of the start, having to circle back around and provide an early lead to Resolute. However, later in the race the shackle holding Resolute's mainsail broke, forcing the boat to complete the race only under jib. This provided Lipton with his first America's Cup victory, although he refused to celebrate the win.


1920 America's Cup, Race
The second race was without incident and Shamrock IV won by a corrected two minutes ahead of Resolute.


1920 America's Cup, Race
The following three races were under lighter conditions, which disadvantaged Shamrock IV and allowed Resolute to win. Police estimated that over 75,000 people watched the final race.


1920 American Cup
The 1920 American Cup was the annual open cup held by the American Football Association. Bethlehem Steel had their streak of four straight American Cup wins broken this year by Robins Dry Dock of Brooklyn. The shipbuilders defeated the steelworkers 1-0 in the final on May 2nd at Harrison, New Jersey.


1920 Antrim County Council election
The 1920 Antrim County Council election was held on Thursday, 3 June 1920.


1920 Antrim County Council election, Division results, Antrim Electoral Division
Composed of the former districts of Antrim Rural, Ballycare Rural, Ballynaorentagh, Ballyrobin, Ballygillan, Cargin, Carnmoney, Connor, Craigarogan, Cranfield, Crumlin, Donegore, Drumanaway, Dundesert, Glenavy, Kilbride, Randalstown, Rashee, Seacash, Sharvogue, Shilvodan, Templepatrick, Toome, Urban District of Ballycare, Town of Antrim.


1920 Antrim County Council election, Division results, Ballymena Electoral Division
Composed of the former districts of Ballymena, Ahoghoil, Kells, Glen Rm, Galgorm, and Killoquin.


1920 Antrim County Council election, Division results, Carrickfergus Electoral Division
Composed of the former districts of Ballycor, Ballylinney, Ballynure, Cairncastle, Carrick, Fergus Rural, Eden, Glenwherry, Glynn, Islandmagee, Kilwaughter, Monkstown, Raloo, Temple Corran, Whiteabbey, Whitehouse, and urban districts of Carrickfergus and Larne.


1920 Antrim County Council election, Division results, Carrickfergus Electoral Division
In Carrickfergus the defeat of Edward Coey, an active member of Edward Carson's Advisory Committee, was an unexpected loss. Coey had been a member of the council since the first elections in 1899.


1920 Argentine Primera División
The 1920 Argentine Primera División was the 29th season of top-flight football in Argentina. The AFA season began on March 21 and ended in January 1921 while the AAmF began on March 28 and also ended on January 1921.


1920 Argentine Primera División
Boca Juniors won its 2nd. consecutive AFA championship while River Plate won the dissident Asociación Amateurs de Football (AAmF) title, putting an ended to the seven consecutive titles won by Racing.


1920 Argentine Primera División, Final tables, Asociación Argentina de Football - Copa Campeonato
Club Eureka disappeared when merging with Sportivo Palermo while the Association expanded the number of to 13 clubs participating. Banfield returned to Primera after promoting the last year while Sportivo Barracas came from rival league "Asociación Amateurs de Football". The rest of the teams were promoted to Primera through a resolution by the association, they were Del Plata, Sportivo del Norte (then Colegiales), Nueva Chicago, Lanús, and Sportivo Palermo.


1920 Argentine Primera División, Final tables, Asociación Amateurs de Football
The tournament started with 17 teams then expanded to 19 when Lanús and Sportivo Almagro (that had previously left the Asociación Argentina) joined the league. Ferro Carril Oeste returned to the league after being relegated 2 years before. Barracas Central debuted in Primera after winning the Primera B (Aam) title last year. Sportivo Buenos Aires also debuted in the top division.


1920 Argentine legislative election
The Argentine legislative elections of 1920 were held on 7 March. Voters chose their legislators and numerous governors, and with a turnout of 53.0%.


1920 Argentine legislative election, Background
A strong economy and a vigorous social policy helped make 1920 a banner year for President Hipólito Yrigoyen, whose UCR won 61 of the 102 seats at stake in the Lower House of Congress.


1920 Argentine legislative election, Background
The party emerged victorious in the City of Buenos Aires, Entre Ríos, La Rioja, Santiago del Estero, and even in districts which had hitherto been dominated by either opposition parties (such as Buenos Aires Province and Tucumán), or dissident factions of the UCR (as in the case of Santa Fe). The party effectively displaced both the Socialist and Democratic Progressive parties in the highly competitive Buenos Aires district by supporting labor rights and advancing programs such as the National Inexpensive Housing Commission (CNCB), which added thousands of units to the capital's perennially strained housing supply. The addition of 38 seats to the Chamber of Deputies, partly as a result of the 1914 Census, further enhanced the UCR's sweep, and for the first time, gave them an absolute majority in the Lower House.


1920 Argentine legislative election, Background
Socialists made modest gains in Congress, and won control of local governments in Zárate and Mar del Plata (the first in Argentina). The Democratic Progressive Party, organized by reformist Congressman Lisandro de la Torre from his Southern League in 1914, continued to make gains, and triumphed in Córdoba Province (though not in Santa Fe, de la Torre's home province). They displaced their former allies, the Conservatives (a holdover from the landowner-controlled National Autonomist Party, which was in power from 1874 to 1916), as the largest party in the minority.


1920 Argentine legislative election, Background
Conservatives continued to dominate the Senate, however, and much of Yrigoyen's legislation - notably the establishment of a national merchant marine - continued to encounter long delays. Nor had Yrigoyen been persuasive among the nation's governors, and at the time of the March 1920 elections, fully 14 had been replaced by presidentially-decreed federal intervention.


1920 Argentine legislative election, Background
The removal of Governors by presidential decree had, by itself, helped discourage the establishment of dissident UCR factions, of which there were no fewer than five prior to the election; these elections left only Mendoza Province with a dissident UCR majority delegation. The most prominent such faction, that was led by Santa Fe Governor Rodolfo Lehmann and 8 Congressmen at its height, was weakened by his resignation at the end of 1919, and presented no candidates in 1920. The reformist governor's struggle with the La Forestal logging company, whose striking workers were brutally repressed by both company heavies and national troops, was more to blame for his departure than were differences with President Yrigoyen, and illustrated the limits of the era of pluralist government that began in 1916.


1920 Argyll by-election
The Argyllshire by-election, 1920 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Argyllshire on 10 March 1920.


1920 Argyll by-election, Vacancy
The by-election was caused by the appointment of the sitting Coalition Liberal MP Sir William Sutherland as a Lord of the Treasury. This was an office of appointment under the Crown which enabled Sutherland to take up the post of Scottish Liberal whip but under the constitutional requirements of the day it meant he had to resign and fight a by-election.


1920 Argyll by-election, Candidates
As the candidate of the Liberal-Conservative coalition government Sutherland had no Unionist opponent. Neither did he face opposition by the Independent Asquithian Liberals, who chose not to stand a candidate. He was however opposed by the Reverend M MacCallum of Muckairn, Oban for Labour.


1920 Argyll by-election, Issues
Reverend MacCallum was reported as being not only the representative of the Labour Party but also of the Highland Land League. Another candidate representing the Labour and the Highland Land League had been Sutherland's only opponent in Argyllshire at the 1918 general election. Sutherland was fighting on the record of the Coalition government. Given this was a straight fight between the Coalition and Labour it is little surprise that Sutherland sought to portray it as a struggle against socialism and nationalisation and that MacCallum played up the issue of community control against the vested interests ranged against the working class.


1920 Argyll by-election, The result
The press reported there was little excitement in the constituency on polling day. Perhaps because the combined Liberal and Conservative votes were substantial there seemed little likelihood of an upset. Because of the scattered geography of the constituency it took until 24 March to get all the ballots collected and counted and the result formally declared. Sutherland held the seat with a reduced majority but Labour had nearly doubled its share of the vote.


1920 Arizona Wildcats football team
The 1920 Arizona Wildcats football team represented the University of Arizona as an independent during the 1920 college football season. In their sixth season under head coach Pop McKale, the Wildcats compiled a 6–1 record and outscored their opponents, 381 to 65. The team captain was Alter Louis Slonaker.


1920 Arizona gubernatorial election
The 1920 Arizona gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1920, for the post of the Governor of Arizona. Thomas Campbell won a second term in office, winning a full majority of the popular vote for the first time in three consecutive elections. He beat the sole challenger, Secretary of State Mit Simms. This would be the last office Campbell would win, while Sims would return in the 1930s to win several terms in his old offices of Treasurer and Secretary of State


1920 Arizona gubernatorial election
Thomas Campbell was sworn in for his second term on January 3, 1921.


1920 Arkansas Razorbacks football team
The 1920 Arkansas Razorbacks football team represented the University of Arkansas in the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1920 college football season. In their first year under head coach George McLaren, the Razorbacks compiled a 3–2–2 record (2–0–1 against SWC opponents), finished in third place in the SWC, shut out five of their nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 42 to 22.


1920 Armagh County Council election
The 1920 Armagh County Council election was held on Saturday, 5 June 1920.


1920 Armagh County Council election, Division results, Portsdown Electoral Division
There was no contest in Portsdown Electoral Division, as only 4 candidates were nominated for the 4 seats.


1920 Armagh Urban District election
An election to the Armagh Urban District Council took place in January 1920 as part of that year's Irish local elections. The Local Government (Ireland) Act 1919 had seen elections for local government in Ireland change to a more proportional system. These changes meant little in Armagh however, which reverted to an older form of governance, with no seats being contested. Instead all the seats were filled by agreement.


1920 Army Cadets football team
The 1920 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1920 college football season. In their sixth season under head coach Charles Dudley Daly, the Cadets compiled a 7–2 record, shut out five of their nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 314 to 47. In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets lost to the Midshipmen 7–0. The Cadets also defeated Lebanon Valley College 53–0 and Bowdoin College 90–0.


1920 Army Cadets football team
Two players were recognized on the All-America team. Fullback Walter French was selected as a first-team All-American by Football World magazine and as a second-team All-American by Walter Camp and the United Press. Guard Fritz Breidster was selected as a second-team All-American by Walter Eckersall and a third-team player by Walter Camp.


1920 Ashton-under-Lyne by-election
The Ashton-under-Lyne by-election, 1920 was a by-election held on 31 January 1920 for the British House of Commons constituency of Ashton-under-Lyne.


1920 Ashton-under-Lyne by-election
The by-election was triggered by the elevation to the peerage of the town's Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) Albert Stanley, who was ennobled as Baron Ashfield.


1920 Ashton-under-Lyne by-election
The result was a victory for the Conservative candidate Sir Walter de Frece, who held the seat with a massively reduced majority.


1920 Ashton-under-Lyne by-election
British Pathe has a newsreel clip of Sir Walter Frece campaigning in the by-election with his wife.


1920 Assembly of Representatives election
The first elections to the Assembly of Representatives were held amongst members of the Jewish community in Mandatory Palestine on 19 April 1920, except in Jerusalem where voting took place on 3 May. Ahdut HaAvoda led by David Ben-Gurion emerged as the largest party, winning 70 of the 314 seats.


1920 Assembly of Representatives election, Background
Following the British conquest of Ottoman Palestine in 1917, Jewish leaders met in Petah Tikva on 17 November to discuss the formation of a representative convention. After Jerusalem fell to the British, another convention was held, this time in Jaffa, to discuss the establishment of an organisation for the Jews of Palestine. A committee was formed with the mandate to hold elections to a Constituent Assembly.


1920 Assembly of Representatives election, Background
With northern Palestine still held by the Ottomans, a second convention was held in Jaffa in July 1918 and elections were scheduled to be held by the end of 1918. However, after the armistice was signed in November, delegates were required to represent Palestinian Jews at the peace conference. A third convention was held in Jaffa on 18 December, to which every settlement, community and political party were invited. Chaim Weizmann and Nahum Sokolow were chosen to represent the community at the peace conference.


1920 Assembly of Representatives election, Background
The elections were then postponed several times, before they were fixed for 26 October 1919. However, they were postponed again as Weizmann was worried that internal divisions would weaken the Jewish negotiating position. The date was finally set for 19 April 1920 after it was confirmed that the British would have the Mandate for Palestine.


1920 Assembly of Representatives election, Electoral system
At the first meeting in Jaffa, it was decided that the election would be held using secret balloting, and would be direct. However, no agreement was made on women's suffrage. The second meeting confirmed that men and women over the age of 21 would be entitled to vote, although the issue of women candidates remained unresolved. The issue was raised at the third Jaffa convention, and despite opposition from Orthodox Jews, it was decided that women would be allowed to stand as candidates. However, ultimately the Orthodox held separate elections in Jerusalem on 3 May, from which women were banned from participating.


1920 Assembly of Representatives election, Electoral system
Voters elected one member for every 80 voters, except for the Orthodox, who elected one for every 40 voters on the basis that women were banned from their vote. A total of 263 delegates were elected in the general voting, and another 51 by Orthodox voters.


1920 Assembly of Representatives election, Results
Around 22,000 of the 26,000 registered voters participated in the election.


1920 Assembly of Representatives election, Aftermath
The Assembly met for the first time on 7 October 1920, and voted to admit the 51 Orthodox representatives. It also elected the Jewish National Council to serve as an executive committee.


1920 Atlantic hurricane season
The 1920 Atlantic hurricane season featured tropical storms and hurricanes only in the month of September. Although no "hurricane season" was defined at the time, the present-day delineation of such is June 1 to November 30. The first system, a hurricane, developed on September 7 while the last, a tropical depression, transitioned into an extratropical cyclone on October 27. Of note, four of the six cyclones co-existed with another tropical cyclone during the season.


1920 Atlantic hurricane season
Of the season's six tropical cyclones, five became tropical storms and four strengthened into hurricanes. Furthermore, none of these strengthened into a major hurricane—Category 3 or higher on the modern-day Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale—marking the seventh such occurrence since 1900. The strongest hurricane of the season peaked as only as a strong Category 2 with winds of 110 mph (175  km/h). The second hurricane caused one death and $1.45 million (1920 USD) in damage in Louisiana, the third left one fatality in North Carolina, and the fifth storm indirectly killed one person in Florida.


1920 Atlantic hurricane season
The season's activity was reflected with an accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) rating of 30, below the 1911–1920 average of 58.7. ACE is, broadly speaking, a measure of the power of the hurricane multiplied by the length of time it existed, so storms that last a long time, as well as particularly strong hurricanes, have high ACEs. It is only calculated for full advisories on tropical systems at or exceeding 39 mph (63 km/h), which is the threshold for tropical storm status.


1920 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane One
The first known storm of the season was initially identified on September 7 as a 40 mph (65 km/h) tropical storm over Atlantic Ocean. Traveling towards the northwest, the storm gradually intensified, attaining hurricane-status late on September 9. The following day, a ship in the vicinity of the storm recorded a pressure of 985 mbar (hPa), the lowest pressure recorded in relation to the storm. Around 1200 UTC, the hurricane turned towards the north and intensified into a modern-day Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson scale early on September 11.


1920 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane One
The storm continued to intensify through September 12 when it reached its peak intensity with winds of 110 mph (175 km/h). After maintaining this intensity for 18 hours, the hurricane began to weaken as it turned towards the northwest. By 0000 UTC on September 14, the storm weakened to a Category 1 hurricane. The system began to undergo an extratropical transition, completing the process early the next day. The system tracked nearly due east before dissipating on September 16 to the north of the Azores islands.


1920 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two
An area of disturbed weather developed into a tropical depression northwest of Colombia on September 16. The system remained a weak tropical depression as it made landfall on Nicaragua, but later intensified to tropical storm strength as it moved across the Gulf of Honduras, prior to making a second landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula. Once in the Gulf of Mexico, the storm quickly intensified as it moved towards the north-northwest, reaching its peak intensity as a Category 2 hurricane with winds of 100 mph (160 km/h) prior to making landfall near Houma, Louisiana with no change in intensity. Afterwards, it quickly weakened over land, before dissipating on September 23 over eastern Kansas.


1920 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two
As it approached the United States Gulf Coast, the hurricane forced an estimated 4,500 people to evacuate off of Galveston Island, and numerous other evacuations and precautionary measures to occur. At landfall, the hurricane generated strong winds along a wide swath of the coast, uprooting trees and causing damage to homes and other infrastructure. Heavy rainfall associated with the storm peaked at 11.9 in (300 mm) in Robertsdale, Alabama. The heavy rains also washed out railroads, leading to several rail accidents. Across the Gulf Coast, one death was associated with the hurricane and damage from the storm totaled to $1.45 million (1920 USD).


1920 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three
A low-pressure area developed into a tropical depression on September 19, while located about 245 mi (395 km) southeast of Awendaw, South Carolina. The system, which had an "extremely small diameter", moved in a slow cyclonic loop. Around 1200 UTC on September 20, the depression strengthened into a tropical storm. By midday on September 22, it continued the cyclonic loop while moving northwestward. The storm intensified into a Category 1 hurricane around that time. Maximum sustained winds peaked at 85 mph (140 km/h) late on September 22. However, the hurricane then began to weakened and fell to a strong tropical storm early the following day, at which time it made landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina. The cyclone quickly weakened after moving inland and dissipated over western Virginia early on September 24.


1920 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three
Offshore Bald Head Island, North Carolina, a lightship was carried several miles from its original location and observed winds of 72 mph (116 km/h). Inland, a house in Wilmington was blown off its foundation and destroyed in, potentially a small tornado spawned by the cyclone. Many small severe windstorms were reported in Pitt County, where one person was killed, a number of people were injured, and several buildings were demolished.


1920 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Four
A tropical depression developed from a weak low-pressure area along a decaying stationary front about 450 mi (720 km) east of Bermuda around 1200 UTC on September 23. Based on ship observations, the system is estimated to have become a tropical storm early on September 24. The drifted slowly eastward for a few days and peaked with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (75 km/h) later that day. Eventually, the system curved east-southeastward, but later continued its generally eastward motion at a faster forward speed. Around 1200 UTC on September 27, the storm weakened to a tropical depression, hours before being absorbed by a cold front. This storm was not operationally tracked in real time, but was later added to HURDAT based on weather maps and ship reports.


1920 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Five
A low-pressure area centered the Gulf of Mexico on September 25 and was designated as a tropical depression hours later. Turning west-southwestward, the storm gradually intensified, attaining tropical storm-status on September 27. The next day, the system nearly stalled close to the center of the Gulf of Mexico. On September 28, further development of the storm took place and ships in the vicinity of the storm reported a strong gale. The next day, the storm strengthened into a hurricane. Several hours later, nearby ship reported a pressure of 987 mbar (29.1 inHg), the lowest pressure associated with the hurricane.


1920 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Five
Around this time, the storm reached its peak intensity with winds of 85 mph (140 km/h); the storm also began to turn northeastward at this time. The hurricane then accelerated and began weakening. Early on September 30, the storm made landfall near Cedar Key, Florida, with winds up to 65 mph (100 km/h) before transitioning into an extratropical cyclone over Florida. Later that day, the remnants dissipated over the eastern Atlantic Ocean.


1920 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Five
Although the storm weakened significantly before landfall, it caused severe damage along the immediate coastlines of western Florida. Low lands along the coast were inundated by storm surge and heavy rains, peaking at 8 in (203.2 mm). Crop lands were flooded, causing substantial damage to the fruit industry. One person was killed after being electrocuted by a downed wire in St. Petersburg. Several ships were also destroyed by the storm while docked along the coast.


1920 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression
On October 20, a westward moving tropical wave developed into a tropical depression about 165 mi (265 km) north-northeast of Barbuda. Trekking northwestward over the next three days, before curving northward in advance of an approaching frontal boundary. The depression peaked with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph (55 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 1,010 mbar (30 inHg). By October 25, it began merging with a cold front, finally being absorbed on October 27 about 590 mi (950 km) east-northeast of Bermuda.


1920 Auburn Tigers baseball team
The 1920 Auburn Tigers baseball team represented the Auburn Tigers of the Auburn University in the 1920 NCAA baseball season.


1920 Auburn Tigers football team
The 1920 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1920 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. It was the Tigers' 29th overall 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 16th year, and played their home games at Drake Field in Auburn, Alabama. They finished with a record of seven wins and two losses (7–2 overall, 3–2 in the SIAA). Auburn outscored their opponents by a margin of 332–49, a then school record for points, but were held scoreless in their two losses by the conference co-champions.


1920 Auckland Rugby League season
On 25 March, North Shore Albions held a meeting to discuss whether they should amalgamate with Sunnyside League Football Club, who were also based in Devonport. The following week both clubs agreed to merge. After some debate they decided their club name would be 'Devonport United' and they would wear green and white broad bands. In addition Grafton and Richmond Rovers amalgamated, while new clubs were also formed in Kingsland (Kingsland Rovers), and at Point Chevalier.


1920 Auckland Rugby League season
First grade games continued to regularly draw large crowds, especially matches involving the likes of Maritime, City Rovers, and Ponsonby United. The round 6 match between Maritime and Ponsonby drew what was thought to be a record crowd for a club match in Auckland of 9,000. Maritime would go on to win the first grade title for the first time after a strong season where they won nine games and were only defeated twice. They were awarded the Monteith Shield at the 1921 annual general meeting while Newton Rangers won the Roope Rooster for the second year in a row by defeating Maritime in the final.


1920 Auckland Rugby League season
The highlight of the year was the match between Auckland and the touring England team on 24 July. A crowd of 30,000 packed into the Auckland Domain to witness an Auckland win by 24 points to 16.


1920 Auckland Rugby League season, Carlaw Park site found
At the end of the season an inspection was made of the site where Carlaw Park would emerge. It was decided that the ground would be named ‘Carlaw Athletic Park’. The land had been purchased years earlier. It was noted that the site was “excellently situated for the purpose for which it is intended, and provides sufficient space for two playing grounds. Natural slopes on two sides will give room for a large number of spectators…”.


1920 Auckland Rugby League season, Monteith Shield (first grade championship)
Maritime won the first grade title with City Rovers finishing in second position. Three grounds were used for the competition, Victoria Park, the Auckland Domain, and the Devonport Domain. Thirty eight matches were played which was the most in the competitions history to this point. Unlike in previous seasons all clubs were able to survive until the end of the season and fulfill the majority, or all, of their fixture obligations.


1920 Auckland Rugby League season, Monteith Shield (first grade championship), Monteith Shield standings
(*) Two of Grafton's defeats were by default, while one of Marist's wins and one of Devonport's wins were by default.


1920 Auckland Rugby League season, Monteith Shield (first grade championship), Monteith Shield fixtures, Round 5
The match between City and Grafton had the score reported by both the Auckland Star and the New Zealand Herald but had no match report and scoring. The Observer had a brief description of the match where they described one of Karl Ifwersen's "tries" indicating he scored at least 2.


1920 Auckland Rugby League season, Monteith Shield (first grade championship), Monteith Shield fixtures, Round 6
Arthur Cadman was sent off in the Maritime match versus Ponsonby for kicking a Maritime player, while the Auckland Star suggested in their match reports that the 9,000 in attendance was possibly the largest ever Auckland Club Rugby League crowd to attend a match to this point.


1920 Auckland Rugby League season, Monteith Shield (first grade championship), Monteith Shield fixtures, Round 7
2 Players were ordered off in the 2nd half of the Maritime versus Newton match. While in the Grafton v Ponsonby match Grafton had two players ordered off including Horace Neal, and had another injured meaning they finished the match with just 10 players on the field.


1920 Auckland Rugby League season, Monteith Shield (first grade championship), Monteith Shield fixtures, Round 11
The City v Grafton match resulted in a 66–13 win to City but the Auckland Star and New Zealand Herald did not report any of the scoring details. Grafton were missing Karl Ifwersen, J Bennett, and Charles Woolley who were on representative duty and could only field 11 players.


1920 Auckland Rugby League season, Roope Rooster knockout competition
The Roope Rooster began on 28 August with 3 first round matches and Ponsonby United receiving a bye. Newton Rangers defeated Maritime in the final for the second consecutive year.


1920 Auckland Rugby League season, Top try scorers and point scorers
The following point scoring lists include Senior Championship matches and the Roope Rooster competition matches only. The lists are extremely incomplete for players from the City Rovers club who had no scoring whatsoever for their 24–17 win over Grafton Athletic, and their 66–13 win over the same opponents. In total the City team was missing the scorers of 112 of its points. Likewise Devonport United was missing scorers for 7 points, Newton Rangers for 13, Maritime for 3, Marist Old Boys for 15, and Grafton Athletic for 30 (from the two matches with City).


1920 Auckland Rugby League season, Top try scorers and point scorers
In addition to this a number of teams featured brothers and often there was no distinction made as to which of the Grey brothers of Maritime it was. H Grey scored 4 tries, while C Grey was credited with 3, along with 2 conversions, however "Grey" was credited with 8 tries, 1 conversion, 1 penalty, and a drop goal which could have been either of the aforementioned players in each instance. Also Ponsonby had a try and conversion credited to McGregor but they could have been scored by either E McGregor or Dougie McGregor.


1920 Auckland Rugby League season, Top try scorers and point scorers
Bill Davidson replicated the feat of his younger brother George of the previous season by leading the point scoring while playing for Maritime. George had qualified for the Antwerp Olympics where he ran 5th in the 200m final and did not play in the Auckland Rugby League competition at all in 1920. He was to return and join his brothers in the City Rovers team from the 1921 season onwards.


1920 Auckland Rugby League season, Thacker Shield
Ponsonby United defended the Thacker Shield from Federal (of Christchurch) at Victoria Park in front of 10,000 spectators. They had won the shield from Sydenham in Christchurch two years earlier. They had been unable to arrange a defence in the 1919 season. Eventually the shield was to be returned to Christchurch and played for amongst teams in the South Island.


1920 Auckland Rugby League season, Other club matches and lower grades, Lower grade teams and clubs
There were 5 lower grades in 1920. Clubs with only lower grade teams were:


1920 Auckland Rugby League season, Other club matches and lower grades, Lower grade teams and clubs
Grades were made of the following teams with the winning team in bold:


1920 Auckland Rugby League season, Representative fixtures
Auckland played a Rest of New Zealand team as part of the selection process for the New Zealand team to play England. They trounced them by 54 points to 0. They later played a trial match between and A and B team before the Auckland side was selected to play England. The match was played at the Auckland Domain in front of 30,000 spectators. Unfortunately the English halfback fractured his tibia in the first few minutes and they were forced to play with 12 for the remainder of the game as the rules at the time did not allow for substitutions of injured players.


1920 Auckland Rugby League season, Representative fixtures, Auckland v Rest of New Zealand
The match was postponed a day due to bad weather and played on the Sunday.


1920 Australasian Championships
The 1920 Australasian Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on outdoor Grass courts at the Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, Australia from 15 March to 20 March. It was the 13th edition of the Australian Championships (now known as the Australian Open), the 2nd held in Adelaide, and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. The singles titles was won by Australian Pat O'Hara Wood.


1920 Australasian Championships, Finals, Singles
Pat O'Hara Wood defeated  Ronald Thomas  6–3, 4–6, 6–8, 6–1, 6–3


1920 Australasian Championships, Finals, Doubles
Pat O'Hara Wood /  Ronald Thomas defeated  Horace Rice /  Roy Taylor 6–1, 6–0, 7–5


1920 Australasian Championships – Singles
Pat O'Hara Wood defeated Ronald Thomas 6–3, 4–6, 6–8, 6–1, 6–3 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1920 Australasian Championships.


1920 Austrian legislative election
Parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 17 October 1920, although they were not held in Carinthia until 19 June 1921 and in Burgenland until 18 June 1922. They were the first regular elections held after a permanent constitution was promulgated two weeks earlier.


1920 Austrian legislative election
The result was a victory for the Christian Social Party, which won 85 of the 183 seats. Voter turnout was 80.3%.


1920 Ballaarat by-election
A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Ballaarat on 10 July 1920.


1920 Ballaarat by-election
At the 1919 federal election, Nationalist candidate Edwin Kerby had defeated the sitting Labor MP, Charles McGrath, by a single vote, the narrowest margin in Australian electoral history. McGrath challenged the result successfully on the grounds of electoral irregularities, triggering the by-election, at which McGrath was victorious.


1920 Barcelona City Council election
The 1920 Barcelona City Council election was held on Sunday, 8 February 1920, to elect half of the Barcelona City Council. 26 out of 50 seats were up for election (1 was a vacant seat).


1920 Barcelona City Council election, Electoral system
The number of seats of each council was determined by the population count, according to the 1877 Municipal Law. As Barcelona had more than 200,000 inhabitants, the number of seats composing the city council was 50. The municipal law also established that half of the seats had to be renewed every two years. Therefore, in these elections 25 seats had to be renewed. Additionally, any vacant seat would also be renewed. The municipality was divided in 10 multi-member constituencies, corresponding to the city districts. Seats were elected using limited partial block voting. Candidates winning a plurality in each constituency were elected. In districts electing. Voting was on the basis of universal manhood suffrage, which comprised all national males over twenty-five, having at least a two-year residency in a municipality and in full enjoyment of their civil rights.


1920 Barcelona City Council election, Electoral system
The Municipal Law allowed the King of Spain to elect directly the Mayor of Barcelona.


1920 Basingstoke by-election
The Basingstoke by-election, 1920 was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Basingstoke on 31 March 1920.


1920 Basingstoke by-election, Vacancy
The by-election was caused by the resignation of the sitting Unionist MP, Auckland Geddes when he was appointed British Ambassador to the United States. He had been MP here since winning the seat in 1917.


1920 Basingstoke by-election, Electoral history
The result at the last General Election in 1918 was;


1920 Basingstoke by-election, Campaign
Polling Day was set for 31 March 1920. On 26 March nominations closed to confirm that the election would be a three-way contest.


1920 Basingstoke by-election, Campaign
Holbrook received the official endorsement of the Coalition Government in separate letters from Lloyd George and Bonar Law.


1920 Basingstoke by-election, Campaign
Farming was the dominant issue as the seat was mainly agricultural. By the rejection of Judd, the Unionists lost the support of a large section of farmers who threatened either to abstain from voting or to vote Liberal. For the Labour campaign, Round's chief hope lay in the organized farm labourers.


1920 Basingstoke by-election, Result
The Unionists held onto the seat with a much reduced majority, while the Liberals won the battle for second place.


1920 Basingstoke by-election, Aftermath
Holbrook defended his seat at the following General Election, while Verney moved to contest Skipton. Round did not stand again. The result at the following General Election in 1922 was;


1920 Bavarian state election
The 1920 Bavarian state election was held on 6 June 1920 to elect the 155 members of the Landtag of Bavaria.


1920 Bavarian state election, Members from Coburg
Following the incorporation of Coburg into Bavaria, the Coburg Landtag elected two Social Democratic Party members and one German Democratic Party member to join the Bavarian Landtag from 1 July 1920.


1920 Bavarian state election, Members from Coburg
A by-election was held in Coburg on 7 November 1920 to elect the region's three members to the Bavarian Landtag.


1920 Bay of Plenty by-election
The 1920 Bay of Plenty by-election was a by-election held in the Bay of Plenty electorate in the Bay of Plenty during the term of the 20th New Zealand Parliament on 30 September 1920.


1920 Bay of Plenty by-election
After the death of William MacDonald of the Liberal Party he was replaced by Kenneth Williams of the Reform Party.


1920 Bay of Plenty by-election
Frederick Lynsar, the Liberal candidate who lost to the Reform candidate, was Chairman of the Gisborne Harbour Board and an ex-chairman of the Cook County Council. He was described as a "staunch supporter" of James Carroll and William MacDonald. Lynsar was a brother of Douglas Lynsar, the Reform MP for Gisborne.


1920 Baylor Bears football team
The 1919 Baylor Bears football team was an American football team that represented Baylor University as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1920 college football season. In its first season under head coach Frank Bridges, the team compiled a 4–4–1 record and was outscored by a total of 89 to 65.


1920 Belfast Corporation election
An election to Belfast Corporation took place in January 1920 as part of that year's Irish local elections. The Local Government (Ireland) Act 1919 had seen elections for local government in Ireland change to a more proportional system. As a result, Unionist dominance of the Belfast council was somewhat undermined, and the party lost 15 seats. In contrast Labour, Sinn Féin, and Nationalist representation grew, resulting in a more politically and socially representative council.


1920 Belfast Corporation election
147 candidates stood for the sixty seats on the council. The sixty seats were in nine new wards, identical to the parliamentary constituencies. In advance of the election, the Irish Times stated that it expected the Unionists to lose between five and eight seats, to be picked up by the Labour and Nationalist candidates, with Sinn Féin having a chance of taking one or two seats.


1920 Belfast Corporation election
The result in the Falls was controversial; over twenty candidates stood, creating the most complex election by single-transferable vote to date; and 764 votes were disallowed due to spoiled ballot papers. 300 of these lacked an official mark; this was because the printing press marking them had ceased adding it near the end of the run, but this error was not noticed until the election count took place.


1920 Belfast Corporation election
After the election Sir William Coates, 1st Baronet was elected by the new council as Lord Mayor of Belfast.


1920 Belfast Corporation election
Following the partition of Ireland the Northern Irish Government restored the older, and less representative ward based electoral system.


1920 Belmont Stakes
The 1920 Belmont Stakes was the 52nd running of the Belmont Stakes. It was the 14th Belmont Stakes held at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York and was held on June 12, 1920. With a field of only two horses, heavily favored Man o' War won the 1 3⁄8–mile race (11 f; 2.2 km) by 20 lengths over Donnacona.


1920 Belmont Stakes
Man o' War's time of 2:14.2 set a world record for 1 3⁄8–mile.


1920 Big Ten Conference Men's Golf Championship
The 1920 Big Ten Conference Men's Golf Championship was held October 22–23, 1920 at the Olympia Fields Country Club in Olympia Fields, Illinois. The team champion was Drake with a match play score of 28 down.


1920 Big Ten Conference football season
The 1920 Big Ten Conference football season was the 25th season of college football played by the member schools of the Big Ten Conference (also known as the Western Conference) and was a part of the 1920 college football season.


1920 Big Ten Conference football season
The 1920 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, under head coach John Wilce, compiled a 7–0 record in the regular season, won the Big Ten championship, and lost to California in the 1921 Rose Bowl. Halfback Gaylord Stinchcomb and guard Iolas Huffman were  consensus first-team All-Americans.


1920 Big Ten Conference football season
The 1920 Wisconsin Badgers football team, under head coach John R. Richards, compiled a 6–1 record and finished in second place in the Big Ten. Tackle Ralph Scott was a consensus first-team All-American. End Frank Weston and center George Bunge also received first-team All-American honors from at least one selector.


1920 Big Ten Conference football season
End Chuck Carney of Illinois was the Big Ten's fourth consensus first-team All-American. Iowa led the conference in scoring offense (20.3 points per game), and Michigan led the conference in scoring defense (3.0 points allowed per game).


1920 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics
KeyPPG = Average of points scored per game; team with highest average in boldPAG = Average of points allowed per game; team with lowest average in bold


1920 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, September 25
On September 25, 1920, only one Big Ten team saw action.


1920 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, October 2
On October 2, 1920, the Big Ten football teams participated in one conference game and five non-conference games. The non-conference games all resulted in victories, giving the Big Ten a 6–0 non-conference record to that point in the season. Chicago, Illinois, and Michigan had bye weeks.


1920 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, October 9
On October 9, 1920, the Big Ten teams participated in two conference games and six non-conference games. The non-conference games resulted in six victories, giving the Big Ten a 12–0 non-conference record to that point in the season.


1920 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, October 16
On October 16, 1920, the Big Ten teams participated in four conference games and two non-conference games. The non-conference games resulted in two victories, giving the Big Ten a 14–0 non-conference record to that point in the season.


1920 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, October 23
On October 23, 1920, the Big Ten teams participated in four conference games. Northwestern and Purdue had bye weeks.


1920 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, October 30
On October 30, 1920, the Big Ten teams participated in three conference games and two non-conference games. The non-conference games resulted in two victories, giving the Big Ten a 16–0 non-conference record to that point in the season. Iowa and Wisconsin had bye weeks.


1920 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, November 6
On November 6, 1920, the Big Ten teams participated in four conference games and one non-conference game. The non-conference game resulted in a loss to Notre Dame, giving the Big Ten a 16–1 non-conference record to that point in the season. Indiana had a bye week.


1920 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, November 13
On November 13, 1920, the Big Ten teams participated in four conference games and one non-conference game. The non-conference game resulted in a second loss to Notre Dame, giving the Big Ten a 16–2 non-conference record to that point in the season. Ohio State had a bye week.


1920 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, November 20
On November 20, 1920, the Big Ten teams participated in four conference games and two non-conference games. The non-conference games resulted in a win and a loss, giving the Big Ten a 17–3 non-conference record for the regular season. All three losses were against Notre Dame.


1920 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Bowl games
On January 1, 1921, at Tournament Park in Pasadena, California, Ohio State lost to national champion California by a 28–0 score. California remained undefeated from 1920 until 1924.


1920 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Big Ten players
The following players were selected as first-team players on the 1920 All-Big Ten Conference football team by E. C. Patterson for Collier's Weekly (ECP), Malcolm McLean, or Walter Eckersall of the Chicago Tribune (WE). It also includes players listed as members of the 1920 "All-Conference Team" as published in the "ESPN Big Ten Football Encyclopedia" (BTFE).


1920 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Americans
Four Big Ten players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1920 College Football All-America Team. They were:


1920 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Americans
Other Big Ten players received first-team honors from at least one selector. They were:


1920 Birmingham–Southern Panthers football team
The 1920 Birmingham–Southern Panthers football team was an American football team that represented Birmingham–Southern College as an independent during the 1920 college football season. In their second season under head coach Charles H. Brown, the team compiled a 6–3 record.


1920 Birthday Honours
The 1920 Birthday Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The King, and were published in The London Gazette on 4 June 1920.


1920 Birthday Honours
Prince Albert, the future King George VI, led the honours list as the only new peer, being invested as the Duke of York, while more than 60 men were knighted.


1920 Birthday Honours
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.


1920 Birthday Honours, United Kingdom and British Empire, Privy Councillor
The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council of the United Kingdom:


1920 Birthday Honours, United Kingdom and British Empire, Privy Councillor
The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council of Ireland:


1920 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)
The 1920 King's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of King George V, were appointments made by the King on the recommendation of the New Zealand government to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. They were announced on 3 June 1920.


1920 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.


1920 Bolivian coup d'état
1920 Bolivian coup d'état was a bloodless takeover of power in Bolivia by the Republican party on July 12, 1920 which overthrew the previously ruling government of the Liberal Party and brought Bautista Saavedra to power as President from 1920 until 1925.


1920 Bolivian coup d'état
Republicans were less united by a single ideology, than a wide alliance of former Liberals and some Conservative elites who usually had some personal conflicts with the ruling Liberals and wanted to gain power for themselves. Soon after the coup, Republicans split in two new parties grouped around two leaders - Bautista Saavedra with his Republican Socialist Party and Daniel Salamanca, who established the Genuine Republican Party.


1920 Bolivian coup d'état
Saavedra legalized the right to strike and introduced government arbitration in labour disputes. In 1922 he caused a general strike after banning night taxis. The strikers won and taxi services were resumed and railroad federation was recognized as representative of railroad workers. This did not mean the end of violence. In 1923 a strike by miners in Uncia was repressed by force. A native uprising in the Altiplano region led by Jesus de Machacha was also suppressed in the same year. The tin boom came to end in 1925 and economic problems began.


1920 Bolivian coup d'état
Saavedra picked his successor Hernando Siles Reyes, one of the leading Republicans, who was elected President in 1926 and was forced to resign in 1930 after he tried to get elected for the second term. Daniel Salamanca then assumed Presidency with the help of Liberal Party and soon led the country into the disastrous Chaco War.


1920 Boston Braves season
The 1920 Boston Braves season was the 50th season of the franchise.


1920 Boston Braves season, Regular season
On May 1, the Braves and the Brooklyn Robins (later the Brooklyn Dodgers and now the Los Angeles Dodgers) played what remains the longest major league baseball game, tied 1 to 1 at the end of nine innings and then going scoreless for 19 more until the game 26-inning game was called because of darkness


1920 Boston Braves season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1920 Boston Braves season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1920 Boston Braves season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1920 Boston Braves season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1920 Boston Braves season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1920 Boston College Eagles football team
The 1920 Boston College Eagles football team represented Boston College during the 1920 college football season.


1920 Boston Red Sox season
The 1920 Boston Red Sox season was the 20th season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished fifth in the American League (AL) with a record of 72 wins and 81 losses, 25+1⁄2 games behind the Cleveland Indians, who went on to win the 1920 World Series.


1920 Boston Red Sox season, Offseason
On January 5, 1920, news that the Red Sox sold their star pitcher-turned-outfielder Babe Ruth to the Yankees for $125,000 (equivalent to $1,900,000 in 2020) became public, the sub-headline in The New York Times the next day read, "Highest Purchase Price in Baseball History Paid for Game's Greatest Slugger." The trade to the Yankees would live in infamy for generations of Boston fans for over 8 and a half decades and was one of the worse highlights of that offseason.


1920 Boston Red Sox season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1920 Boston Red Sox season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1920 Boston Red Sox season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1920 Boston Red Sox season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1920 Boston University football team
The 1920 Boston University football team was an American football team that represented Boston University as an independent during the 1920 college football season. The team compiled a 4–3–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 49 to 48.


1920 Boston University football team
In July 1920, Percy Wendell was hired at the school's head football coach. Wendell had been an All-American football fullback at Harvard. He had not been active in football since leaving Harvard. Wendell's arrival led to a new enthusiasm for football among the student body.


1920 Boston University football team
Wendell spent only one season at Boston University, departing in 1921 for Williams College.


1920 Bowling Green Normals football team
The 1920 Bowling Green Normals football team was an American football team that represented Bowling Green State Normal School (later Bowling Green State University) during the 1920 college football season. In its second season of intercollegiate football, Bowling Green compiled a 1–4 record and was outscored by a total of 138 to 41. Walter Jean was the coach, and Charles Clucas was the team captain.


1920 Bremen state election
The 1920 Bremen state election was held on 6 June 1920 to elect the 120 members of the Bürgerschaft of Bremen.


1920 British Columbia general election
The 1920 British Columbia general election was the fifteenth general election for the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on October 23, 1920, and held on December 1, 1920. The new legislature met for the first time on February 8, 1921.


1920 British Columbia general election
Although it lost eleven seats in the legislature, and fell from 50% of the popular vote to under 38%, the governing Liberal Party was able to hold on to a slim majority in the legislature for its second consecutive term in government.


1920 British Columbia general election
The Conservative Party also lost a significant share of its popular vote, but won six additional seats for a total of fifteen, and formed the Official Opposition.


1920 British Columbia general election
Almost a third of the vote and seven seats were won by independents and by a wide variety of fringe parties.


1920 British Columbia general election
This was the first general election in which women could vote and run for office.


1920 British Columbia general election, Results
* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.


1920 British Columbia general election, Results
1 Liberals: One member elected by acclamation. One candidate, J. Oliver, who contested and was elected in both Delta and Victoria City is counted twice.


1920 British Columbia general election, Results
2 Includes Liberty League of B.C., Vancouver Ratepayers Association, and Women's Freedom League candidates.


1920 British Columbia general election, Results
3 Includes those candidates not directly nominated by, but supported by the Federated Labour Party.


1920 British Columbia general election, Results
4 Includes the Prince Rupert Labour candidate running on a Socialist Party platform.


1920 British Columbia general election, Results
5 Sometimes referred to as a triple alliance of "Farmer-Labour-Soldier" with Soldier-Farmer candidates running in rural Districts (five candidates, 3361 votes) and Soldier-Labour candidates running in urban ones (six candidates, 7419 votes).


1920 British Columbia general election, Results
6 Some GAUV candidates ran on a joint Soldier-Labour ticket.


1920 British Columbia general election, Results by riding
All districts' elections were held as first past the post, except in Vancouver City (where six seats were filled through block voting) and Victoria City (where four seats were filled through block voting).


1920 Brooklyn Robins season
The 1920 Brooklyn Robins, also known as the Dodgers, won 16 of their final 18 games to pull away from a tight pennant race and earn a trip to their second World Series against the Cleveland Indians. They lost the series in seven games.


1920 Brooklyn Robins season
The team featured four Hall of Famers: manager Wilbert Robinson, pitchers Burleigh Grimes and Rube Marquard, and outfielder Zack Wheat. Grimes anchored a pitching staff that allowed the fewest runs in the majors.


1920 Brooklyn Robins season, Regular season
On May 1, Brooklyn and the Boston Braves played what remains the longest major league baseball game, tied 1 to 1 at the end of nine innings and then going scoreless for 19 more until the game 26-inning game was called because of darkness


1920 Brooklyn Robins season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases


1920 Brooklyn Robins season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases


1920 Brooklyn Robins season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts; CG = Complete games


1920 Brooklyn Robins season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts; CG = Complete games


1920 Brooklyn Robins season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts


1920 Brooklyn Robins season, 1920 World Series
On October 10, 1920, which was the fifth game of the World Series, Elmer Smith of the Indians hit the first grand slam in World Series history. On the same day, Bill Wambsganss of the Indians had an unassisted triple play. He caught a liner, touched second base, and tagged the runner coming from first base. During that same game, Indians pitcher Jim Bagby became the first pitcher to hit a home run in World Series history.


1920 Brooklyn Robins season, 1920 World Series, Game 1
October 5, 1920, at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York


1920 Brooklyn Robins season, 1920 World Series, Game 2
October 6, 1920, at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York


1920 Brooklyn Robins season, 1920 World Series, Game 3
October 7, 1920, at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York


1920 Brooklyn Royal Giants season
The 1920 Brooklyn Royal Giants baseball team represented the Brooklyn Royal Giants as an independent during the 1920 baseball season. The team compiled a 13–7–2 (.636) record and won the Eastern independent championship. Nat Strong was the team's owner, and John Henry Lloyd was the manager. The team played its home games at Dexter Park in Queens.


1920 Brooklyn Royal Giants season
The team's leading pitchers were Harry Kenyon (3–1, 2.65 ERA) and Jesse Hubbard (3–2, 3.19 ERA, 41 strikeouts).


1920 Brown Bears football team
The 1920 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University during the 1920 college football season.


1920 Bruce by-election
The Bruce by-election of 1920 was a by-election held on 14 April 1920 during the 20th New Zealand Parliament in the rural lower South Island electorate of the Bruce.


1920 Bruce by-election, Background
The contest was triggered due to the resignation from Parliament of James Allen, who took up the position of New Zealand's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. The Liberal Party's chosen candidate was John Edie. He had contested the Bruce electorate in the 1919 election against James Allen and was beaten by the mere margin of 126 votes (only 2.15%).


1920 Bruce by-election, Aftermath
The Bruce electorate was abolished for the 1922 general election. Edie won the Clutha electorate, holding it until 1925.


1920 Bucknell football team
The 1920 Bucknell football team was an American football team that represented Bucknell University as an independent during the 1920 college football season. In its second season under head coach Pete Reynolds, the team compiled a 6–3 record.


1920 Buffalo All-Americans season
The 1920 Buffalo All-Americans season was the franchise's inaugural season with the American Professional Football Association (APFA), an American football league, and fifth total as a team. The All-Americans entered 1920 coming off a 9–1–1 record in 1919 as the Buffalo Prospects in the New York Pro Football League (NYPFL). Several representatives from another professional football league, the Ohio League, wanted to form a new national league, and thus the APFA was created.


1920 Buffalo All-Americans season
Buffalo reshaped itself for the 1920 season. Only two players from the 1919 season stayed, and the team went into new management. Tommy Hughitt (one of the returning players) became the new coach, and Frank McNeil became the new owner. The All-Americans opened the season with a 32–6 victory over the local semi-pro team West Buffalo, en route to a 9-win, 1–loss, 1-tie (9–1–1) record. Its only loss of the season was a 3–0 game against the Canton Bulldogs. A meeting was held by the officials of the APFA to determine a winner, with each coach having a vote.


1920 Buffalo All-Americans season
The All-Americans stated their cases; they believed they should deserve the championship trophy because they had the most wins and were undefeated against the Akron Pros and the Decatur Staleys. The officials, however, awarded the Brunswick-Balke Collender Cup to the Akron Pros because they had a 1.000 winning percentage. Had standings been counted as they are as of today, the All-Americans would be co-champions.


1920 Buffalo All-Americans season
The sportswriter Bruce Copeland compiled the 1920 All-Pro list, but no players from the All-Americans were on it. That is because Copeland wrote for the Rock Island Argus and did not see any players from the easternmost teams in the league. As of 2012, no player from the 1920 All-Americans has been enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.


1920 Buffalo All-Americans season, Offseason
In the 1919 season, the franchise was named the Buffalo Prospects, and finished with a 9–1–1 in the NYPFL. As a result, they won the New York Championship. After the 1919 season, the Prospects went under new management, and the name was changed to the All-Americans. Tommy Hughitt became the coach, and several players from the 1919 squad left. Of the 33 players on the 1919 team, only Barney Lepper and Tommy Hughitt remained on the team for the 1920 season.


1920 Buffalo All-Americans season, Offseason
After the 1919 season, representatives of four Ohio League teams—the Canton Bulldogs, the Cleveland Tigers, the Dayton Triangles, and the Akron Pros—called a meeting on August 20, 1920, to discuss the formation of a new league. At the meeting, they tentatively agreed on a salary cap and pledged not to sign college players or players already under contract with other teams. They also agreed on a name for the circuit: the American Professional Football Conference. They then invited other professional teams to a second meeting on September 17.


1920 Buffalo All-Americans season, Offseason
At that meeting, held at Bulldogs owner Ralph Hay's Hupmobile showroom in Canton, representatives of the Rock Island Independents, the Muncie Flyers, the Decatur Staleys, the Racine Cardinals, the Massillon Tigers, the Chicago Cardinals, and the Hammond Pros agreed to join the league. Representatives of the All-Americans and Rochester Jeffersons could not attend the meeting, but sent letters to Hay asking to be included in the league. Team representatives changed the league's name slightly to the American Professional Football Association and elected officers, installing Jim Thorpe as president. Under the new league structure, teams created their schedules dynamically as the season progressed, so there were no minimum or maximum number of games needed to be played. Also, representatives of each team voted to determine the winner of the APFA trophy.


1920 Buffalo All-Americans season, Schedule
The table below was compiled using the information from The Pro Football Archives, which used various contemporary newspapers. A dagger () indicated a non-APFA team. For the results column, the winning team's score is posted first. For the attendance, if a block has "N/A", then that means there is an unknown figure for that game. The green-colored cells indicates a win; the yellow-colored cells indicates a tie; and the red-colored cells indicate a loss.


1920 Buffalo All-Americans season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. West Buffalo
To open the season, the All-Americans defeated the local, semi-pro team West Buffalo. Running back John Weldon scored a rushing touchdown early in the first quarter. Quarterback Tommy Hughitt and Weldon added touchdowns in the second quarter to make the score 19–0 going into halftime. Hughitt scored from a yard out in the third quarter to make the score 25–0. West Buffalo got on the scoreboard when Bob Langdon intercepted a Buffalo pass and ran it back 75 yards for a touchdown. This was West Buffalo's only points scored their entire year. Buffalo finished off the scoring in the fourth quarter and won the game 32–6.


1920 Buffalo All-Americans season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. All-Buffalo
For their second game of the season, the All-Americans played against another local team, the Buffalo All-Buffalo. Once again, the All-Americans shut out their opponents, winning 51–0. In the first quarter, Weldon scored a rushing touchdown. In the second quarter, the All-Americans scored three times: Running back Ockie Anderson returned a punt for a touchdown, Hughitt ran for a rushing touchdown, and Weldon caught a receiving touchdown from Hughitt. To start the second half, Anderson scored another rushing touchdown, and that was the only score of the third quarter. In the final quarter, Anderson kicked a 35-yard field goal. Also, defensive end Murray Shelton recovered a fumble and returned it for a touchdown. Hughitt's rushing touchdown was the final score of the game.


1920 Buffalo All-Americans season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. McKeesport Olympics
The McKeesport Olympics, a team from McKeesport, Pennsylvania, was the All-Americans next opponent. This game had to be played outside of Pennsylvania because of that state's blue laws which disallowed football on Sundays. In fact, this was one of only two away games for the Olympics. Hughitt scored a rushing touchdown in the first quarter to start the game. In the second quarter, Hughitt threw a touchdown pass to offensive lineman Heinie Miller to bring the All-Americans' lead to 14–0 going into halftime. The Olympics scored their only points of the game in the third quarter. A player with the last name of Schreiner caught a receiving touchdown. The All-Americans answered when offensive lineman Lou Little blocked a field goal and ran it back for a touchdown. The final score of the game came when Shelton caught a receiving touchdown in the fourth quarter from Hughitt.


1920 Buffalo All-Americans season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Toledo Maroons
For the All-Americans' next game, they played against the Toledo Maroons. Based in Toledo, Ohio, the Maroons were an independent team but became part of the APFA in 1922. Coming into the game, the Maroons had not scored a point for the entire season, and that streak continued this game. Six thousand people were in attendance for the 38–0 All-Americans victory. In the first quarter, Anderson returned a 40-yard and a 50-yard punt for two touchdowns. Hughitt scored a rushing touchdown in the second quarter, and Weldon kicked a 35-yard field goal to make the score 24–0 at halftime. Anderson scored the final two touchdowns of the game. He scored two rushing touchdowns: one in the third quarter and one in the fourth quarter.


1920 Buffalo All-Americans season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Rochester Jeffersons
In week six, the All-Americans played their first game against an APFA team, challenging the Rochester Jeffersons. The All-Americans received the kickoff, and on its opening drive kicked a 30-yard field goal. The Jeffersons' first drive resulted a turnover on downs. Weldon scored a 3-yard rushing touchdown on the resulting All-Americans' drive. Rochester running back Jim Laird scored all of his team's points. In the second and the fourth quarter, he kicked a 30-yard and a 33-yard field goal, respectively. The All-Americans' final score of the game came from a blocked punt. Red Quigley was punting from his own end zone when  Swede Youngstrom blocked the punt, and defensive guard Bill Brace ran it back.


1920 Buffalo All-Americans season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. All-Tonawanda Lumberjacks
The All-Americans next game was against the All-Tonawanda Lumberjacks, who would join the APFA the following year. Anderson scored a rushing touchdown to put the All-Americans up 7–0 at the end of the first quarter. The All-Americans followed up with three touchdowns in the next quarter. Anderson rushed for two, and running back Barney Lepper rushed for another one. Hughitt scored the All-Americans' last touchdown of the game in the third quarter when he rushed for a touchdown. The final score of the game was 35–0. This game was the Lumberjacks only loss of the season, and the only game in which they failed to score a point.


1920 Buffalo All-Americans season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. Columbus Panhandles
With 9,000 fans in attendance, the All-Americans played an APFA opponent, the Columbus Panhandles. At the end of the first quarter, the Panhandles were winning 7–6. After that, the game "proved disastrous", according to football historian Chris Willis, to the Panhandles. The final score was 43–7. The Panhandles' only score was a receiving touchdown from Homer Ruh. The All-Americans had six rushing touchdowns, four of which came from Smith. The other two came from Anderson and Hughitt. From these six rushing touchdowns, five of the extra points were converted, and the All-Americans' defense got a safety.


1920 Buffalo All-Americans season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Canton Bulldogs
In week nine, the All-Americans played the Bulldogs. Jim Thorpe, who was later inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, started the game for the Bulldogs, but he came out at halftime because he believed it would end in a tie. Both teams were slowed by a muddy field, and the football became soggy after three quarters. Neither the All-Americans nor the Bulldogs could gain a lot of yards during the game. The lone score of the game came with under four minutes to play: a field goal from the Bulldogs' Al Feeney. He never missed a field goal the entire 1920 season, and the final score of the game was 3–0.


1920 Buffalo All-Americans season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. Cleveland Tigers
Following their first loss of the season, the All-Americans challenged the Cleveland Tigers. The owner of the Tigers, Jimmy O'Donnell, helped with the foundation of the APFA. A total of 5,000 fans showed up to the game. The only score of the game came in the third quarter. Anderson scored an 8-yard rushing touchdown. This loss for the Tigers would be their final game of the season.


1920 Buffalo All-Americans season, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. Canton Bulldogs
The following week, the All-Americans played their second game against the Bulldogs, winning 7–3. The Bulldogs did not get a first down or complete a pass during the game, but Thorpe kicked a field goal in the third quarter after a fumble recovery for the team's only score. In the fourth quarter, All-Americans tackle Youngstrom blocked a Thorpe punt and returned it for a touchdown. The Sunday Chronicle named Thorpe, Henry and Lowe as the Bulldogs' stars, while Anderson, Youngstrom, and Miller were the standouts for the All-Americans.


1920 Buffalo All-Americans season, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. Akron Pros
The All-Americans had the Akron Pros as their next opponent. The All-Americans were tired from their victory against the Canton Bulldogs the day before. Before the start of the game, Bob Nash of Akron was sold to the All-Americans for $300 and 5% of the Akron-Buffalo gate, making the first deal in APFA history. The reason for the trade was because rain was responsible for a low turnout of fans, and the game would not have been profitable for the Pros. However, Nash did not appear in the game for either team, and Scotty Bierce replaced Nash for the Pros.


1920 Buffalo All-Americans season, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. Akron Pros
The rain caused sloppy game play as well as a small crowd of 3,000 people. The All-Americans had an opportunity to score in the final minutes of the game. Fritz Pollard fumbled the ball, and Heinie Miller recovered it. Buffalo had the ball on the 12-yard-line, but the officials called the end of the game. It resulted in a 0–0 tie.


1920 Buffalo All-Americans season, Post-season
Since there were no playoff system in the APFA until 1932, a meeting was held to determine the 1920 APFA Champions. Each team that showed up had a vote to determine the champions. The All-Americans stated that they should win the award because they had more wins and were not beaten by the Akron Pros. Since the Akron Pros had a 1.000 winning percentage, however, the Pros were awarded the Brunswick-Balke Collender Cup on April 30, 1921. Ties were not counted in standings until 1972, which is why Akron is credited with a 1.000 winning percentage. The sportswriter Bruce Copeland compiled the All-Pro list for the 1920 season. No player from the All-Americans were on the list.


1920 Buffalo All-Americans season, Standings
Awarded the Brunswick-Balke Collender Cup and named APFA Champions. Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1920 Bulgarian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 28 March 1920. The result was a victory for the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, which won 110 of the 229 seats. Voter turnout was 77.3%.


1920 Cal Poly Mustangs football team
The 1920 Cal Poly Mustangs football team represented California Polytechnic School, now California Polytechnic State University, in the 1920 college football season. The team was led by H. Hess, in his second and final season, and were outscored by their opponents 19–65.


1920 Calgary municipal election
The 1920 Calgary municipal election was held on December 15, 1920 to a Mayor and six Aldermen to sit on Calgary City Council for two years, and two Aldermen to sit for one year. Additionally a Commissioner, three members for the Public School Board and two members for the Separate School Board were elected.


1920 Calgary municipal election
There were twelve aldermen on city council, but six of the positions were already filled: Frank Freeze, George Harry Webster, Annie Gale, and Fred Shouldice, were all elected to two-year terms in 1919 and were still in office. Both Samuel Hunter Adams and Issac G. Ruttle resigned their positions as Aldermen to run for mayor.


1920 Calgary municipal election
A number of plebiscites were held, all requiring a majority to pass.


1920 Calgary municipal election
The election was held under the Single Transferable Voting/Proportional Representation (STV/PR) with the term for Alderman being two years and the Mayor being one year.


1920 Calgary municipal election, Background
In the 1920 election for mayor, Adams ran against his only challenger, and fellow alderman Isaac G. Ruttle. Adams and Ruttle were both friends and agreed to spend only $100 during the election, $50 for advertisements in the Calgary Herald and $50 for advertisements in the Albertan. During the campaign both candidates would travel together as Adams did not have a car, and alternated who would speak first at each event.


1920 Calgary municipal election, Background
Eventually both candidates broke the agreement to spend only $100 with Ruttle placing advertisements between films in one of the City's theaters, and Adams countered with a $25 advertisement in the Market Examiner. Adams won the election held on December 15, 1920 with approximately 60% of the vote and assumed the role of Calgary's 21st Mayor on January 3, 1920, serving until January 2, 1923.


1920 California Golden Bears football team
The 1920 California Golden Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Berkeley in the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) during the 1920 college football season. In their fifth year under head coach Andy Smith, the team compiled a 9–0 record (3–0 against PCC opponents), shut out seven of nine opponents, won the PCC championship, defeated Ohio State in the 1921 Rose Bowl, and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 510 to 14. The team was retroactively selected as the national champion by the College Football Researchers Association, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Jeff Sagarin.


1920 Camberwell North West by-election
The Camberwell North West by-election, 1920 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Camberwell North West in the South London district of Camberwell on 31 March 1920.


1920 Camberwell North West by-election, Vacancy
The by-election was caused by the appointment of the sitting Coalition Liberal Member of Parliament, Thomas Macnamara as Minister of Labour. Until the passing of the Re-election of Ministers Act, 1919, MPs who were appointed to certain ministerial and other offices more than nine months after a proclamation summoning a new Parliament were required to seek re-election to the House of Commons.


1920 Camberwell North West by-election, Electoral history
The North West division of Camberwell was created for the 1918 general election and gave Camberwell an additional member. It comprised three wards from the old Camberwell North seat, which was Liberal  and two wards from Dulwich which had previously been Unionist. Macnamara had switched to the new seat in 1918 when, as a close associate of David Lloyd George he was a recipient of the Coalition Coupon. There is some dispute over the status of his opponent at that election, the Conservative Guy Radford.