1925 Grand Prix season
The Italian Grand Prix was the final race of the championship. Alfa Romeo, Delage and Duesenberg had one win apiece but Delage chose not to contest it. Duesenberg entered two cars for Tommy Milton and Peter Kreis. Indianapolis winner Pete DePaolo also came across, taking the place of Ascari in the Alfa Corse team. Bugatti entered its new 1.5-litre models. Kreis in the Duesenberg led at the start but crashed on lap 3. The Alfas then set the pace but when they pitted for fuel Milton led until he was delayed with a slow pitstop. Brilli-Peri took a comfortable win by 20 minutes from Campari, thus giving Alfa Romeo the Manufacturer's Championship.


1925 Grand Prix season
In the middle of the year, Germany was admitted into the AIACR, allowing German teams to enter the Championship in 1926. This was the last year of the current 2-litre formula. Increased concerns about the high speeds and safety led the AIACR change the regulations the following year to the 1.5-litre voiturette class for Grand Prix racing.


1925 Grand Prix season, Teams and drivers, Significant Privateer drivers
Note: * was raced as a relief driver. Those in brackets show, although entered, the driver did not race


1925 Grand Prix season, Regulations and Technical
The AIACR (forerunner of the FIA) 2-litre regulations for Grand Prix races remained unchanged. In the United States, the American Automobile Association (AAA) stayed with the same regulations as well. The AIACR followed the American example to remove the mandatory mechanic on board, replacing him with a compulsory rear-view mirror instead. As the circuits used became shorter, as well as the danger to the passenger, the mechanic had become superfluous. Incongruously, the cars still had to be 2-seaters.


1925 Grand Prix season, Regulations and Technical
The Targa Florio regulations remained open to any sized cars. The smallest engine classes were merged up to 1.1-litres and only ran three laps. Each car had a minimum weight of 120kg and, unlike other regulations, had to have a driver and a mechanic (who was not permitted to drive). The crew was allowed to be swapped at the end of a lap with a pre-registered substitute crew. With a maximum time limit of 10 hours, each entry had to finish within an hour of the class winner to be classified.


1925 Grand Prix season, Regulations and Technical
The Targa Florio and Coppa Florio were held simultaneously, with the Coppa was held over just four laps, with teams paying extra to enter both races. The Coppa Ciano was only open to factory entries who had registered. The two smaller classes – to 1.1-litre and to 1.5-litre only ran 3 laps.


1925 Grand Prix season, Regulations and Technical, The World Championship
As early as the October 1923 meeting of the AIACR, there were discussions about holding an international championship. The initial ideas were for a European competition including grand prix, touring car and endurance events but there were concerns about achieving a balance of performance.


1925 Grand Prix season, Regulations and Technical, The World Championship
At the January 1925 meeting, the Automobile Club of Italy gave its proposal to the committee – for an ongoing international series through to 1930. The 1925 season would comprise the existing Grand Prix of Italy, France and Indianapolis as well as new Grand Prix for Spain, Belgium and Great Britain. The committee voted to omit the Spanish GP, and Brooklands had to cancel the British race because of legal action with neighbours about noise complaints. Each race had to be at least 800km long and run to the existing 2-litre formula. Cars had a minimum empty weight of 650kg and be a 2-seater with a minimum width of 80cm. Following the death of Kenelm Lee Guinness's riding mechanic during the 1924 Spanish Grand Prix, riding mechanics were banned and a rear-view mirror was made compulsory.


1925 Grand Prix season, Regulations and Technical, The World Championship
The championship was for manufacturers, not individual drivers, and to be eligible teams had to enter the Italian GP, as well their own national GP if available. They would only score points from their best three results of the four races. The winning manufacturer would receive FF70000 cash prize as well as a FF30000 bronze and gold trophy designed by Italian sculptor Antonio Maraini.


1925 Grand Prix season, Regulations and Technical, The World Championship
Only the best-finishing car for each manufacturer would score points, which were awarded as follows:


1925 Grand Prix season, Regulations and Technical, The World Championship
And in the case of a tie, a 200km race-off would be held at Monza within 2 days of the Italian GP. At the February meeting the committee ratified the proposal. They also voted to exclude German teams from the Championship, as Germany was not a member of the AIACR, and they were still not permitted to officially race in France, Great Britain or Belgium.


1925 Grand Prix season, Regulations and Technical, The World Championship
Note: Information is limited as the AIACR did not release official notices or confirm the results. Etzrodt has pieced together information from contemporary magazines. For example, it is unclear whether only works teams scored points or privateers could score for the manufacturer. Likewise, it was not stipulated whether racing specials based on a given chassis would score separately (for example the various Miller specials that were popular in the USA).


1925 Grand Prix season, Regulations and Technical, Technical Innovation
Fiat and Rolland Pilain had retired from motor-racing. Alfa Romeo had dominated the previous year with their P2 model. Between seasons, chief engineer Vittorio Jano further developed the engine, boosting its output from 145 up to 155 bhp. With new fuel for the year, an additional forward fuel tank was fitted for the higher consumption, as were larger drum brakes.


1925 Grand Prix season, Regulations and Technical, Technical Innovation
Delage joined the other top manufacturers by supercharging their 2-litre V12 engine. They chose to use twin Roots-style superchargers. The power output was 190bhp, closing in on the “magical” 100bhp per litre milestone. However, despite a 5-speed gearbox, the chassis was still not capable of transferring all the power to the road. The bonnet was now louvered to try and dissipate the great amount of heat generated by the engine. With riding mechanics now banned, Sunbeam fitted their cars with a fuel pump to maintain fuel pressure, which was a role the mechanic used to do.


1925 Grand Prix season, Regulations and Technical, Technical Innovation
There were also several specials entered in Grand Prix. Albert Guyot had been a regular driver for Rolland-Pilain who had also raced at the Indianapolis race since before the war. He took three of the Rolland-Pilain cars, adding a Cozette supercharger to a new Burt-McCollum sleeve-valve engine. English driver Ernest Eldridge took an Amilcar GS and fitted a 1.5-litre supercharged Anzani side-valve engine that got up to 185 km/h.


1925 Grand Prix season, Regulations and Technical, Technical Innovation
After the 1924 Indianapolis race, Jimmy Murphy had suggested to Harry Miller that a lower centre-of-gravity would increase cornering speeds. That could be achieved with front-wheel drive obviating the need for a central driveshaft. Miller started work on it but, sadly Murphy was killed later in the year. The Miller FWD had a supercharger giving out 200 bhp. He also supplied supercharger kits to his customers that they could retrofit to their cars, which many did.


1925 Grand Prix season, Regulations and Technical, Technical Innovation
The Duesenberg had a vanes-type compressor, that could rev at up to 30000 rpm, far higher than the Roots supercharger. This format gave them better performance at low speeds. The wider wheelbase also gave greater cornering stability.


1925 Grand Prix season, Regulations and Technical, Technical Innovation
The first Grand Prix was held in Belgium at the Spa-Francorchamps. Originally opened in 1921, it was a roughly triangular track with similar elevation changes to the French circuit at Lyons. Right on the frontier, the Malmedy corner was in former German territory. Grand prix racing also extended across the Mediterranean to Libya. Intended to increase tourism and prospective immigrants, an event was organised in the Italian province of Tripolitania. The previous year, Casablanca had hosted a race for touring cars. This event was held on a 70km road circuit heading out from the south of Tripoli, the provincial capital.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
This year the season opener was a new event, the Grand Prix of Rome, held in February. The race was run on a 10.6km circuit on the streets of Rome north of the Vatican City. A big field of 35 starters lined up for an overall prize of 100000 lire. Predominantly Italians, a number of top drivers entered including Conte Gastone Brilli-Peri in a Ballot designed for the 1919 Indianapolis race, Emilio Materassi with his pair of his modified Italas and Conte Carlo Masetti in a Bugatti 35.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
He was the older brother of Giulio Masetti, the famous double-winner of the Targa Florio. The only foreign driver was Christian Werner, who was driving as a privateer; in the Mercedes with which he had won the 1924 Targa Florio. Brilli Peri led initially but retired with a broken gearbox, and Werner crashed and had to retire. Antonio Ascari, who had replaced Giovanni Minozzi in his Alfa Romeo, crashed heavily on the steep downhill section while overtaking Conte Aymo Maggi in a smaller car. Fortunately, despite bowling two telephone poles, both emerged unscathed. Masetti won by nearly half an hour from Materassi, giving Bugatti its first win in Italy at its first attempt.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
The first event in Africa for grand prix cars had an inauspicious start. The boat bringing the small-engine cars from Italy mistakenly offloaded them in Benghazi, so their race was delayed by two days. This left a small field of five in the over 2-litre class in their own race on the Thursday. Then on Saturday the ten smaller cars had their race. Renato Balestrero, works driver for OM won from Luigi Platé, who drove his Chiribiri with his wife as the co-driver.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
The Bugatti team returned to Italy for the Targa Florio. Once again, the event was run in conjunction with the Coppa Florio, with that being based on the results of the event's first four laps of the newly sealed Madonie circuit. In 1924, the grandstands had been destroyed by a fire but within a year they had been rebuilt. Whereas in 1924 the German teams arrived in force, this year it was the French. Bugatti had a three-car team with Bartolomeo Costantini and the Spanish de Vizcaya brothers, Pierre and Ferdinand.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
Peugeot returned with four of their Type 174 sports cars with André Boillot, Louis Wagner, Victor Rigal and Christian d'Auvergne as the drivers. None of the Italian works teams turned up, with the small field filled out by privateers. The field started at 4-minute intervals with the Peugeots, as the only entrants in the Coppa Florio, going out first. They set the early pace with Boillot setting a new lap record on the first circuit (assisted by the better quality roads). Going into the third lap, now led by Wagner they were running 1-2-3 with Costantini three minutes behind.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
However, d'Auvergne missed a corner, hit a wall and rolled. His mechanic was thrown clear while d'Auvergne lay pinned under the burning car. Wagner, following a few minutes behind, stopped and together with the mechanic pulled his badly injured teammate from the wreck before re-joining the race. Costantini meanwhile was picking up his pace and was ahead on elapsed time by the end of the third lap. He drove a smooth incident-free run, putting in the fastest lap of the race on his final lap to beat the Peugeots of Wagner and Boillot, to win the Targa. By dint of Peugeot being the only team to register for the Coppa, André Boillot won that prize. Along with their 1922 victory, Peugeot became the first two-time winners and were awarded the Coppa Florio, but decided to put it up for competition again.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
The Grand Prix d’Ouverture heralded the official opening for racing at the completed Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry outside of Paris. Held on the oval circuit, it was restricted to voiturettes up to 1.5-litres with 150000 francs in prizes. A big field was therefore expected but this waned when the works teams from Bugatti and Chiribiri withdrew. This left the Talbot team as the overwhelming favourites, with Henry Segrave, George Duller and Conte Caberto Conelli. They were joined by racing specials from J. G. Parry-Thomas and Ernest Eldridge.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
Against them were teams from some of the many small French manufacturers springing up: La Perle, Bucciali, Jean Gras and Salmson. A pedestrian race ended in rain with the expected 1-2-3 result for the Talbots led by Duller, 20 laps ahead of Eldridge. Conelli had been racing hard to catch Duller and as the latter eased off to take the flag Conelli clipped his car, rolled and skated past the line– perhaps the only driver to get a podium after finishing a race upside down.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
One of the smallest entry lists for the Indianapolis 500 was once again dominated by the Miller 122, in various guises, with 16 of the 22 starters. Harry Miller had developed his front-wheel drive model, which Cliff Durant entered as a “Junior-8” for Dave Lewis – the first front-wheel drive car to be at the race. He also ran a standard Miller for teammate Earl Cooper. Miller's own team driver, Bennett Hill, tested the car but preferred to race the older, rear-wheel drive version with a supercharger instead. Harry Hartz also ran supercharged Millers for himself, Fred Comer and Leon Duray, as did previous race-winners Tommy Milton and Ralph DePalma.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
Up against the Millers was Fred Duesenberg's cars. The four supercharged 122s were led by the previous year's winner Peter DePaolo in what he called his “Banana Wagon”. Circuit director Pop Meyers had travelled to Europe to encourage their teams to come to the race, but they all refused. FIAT driver Pietro Bordino had been racing his 805 in the USA since the previous year and entered his car as a privateer. After over a decade, the brick surface was becoming increasingly rough. Instead of the usual straight-sided high-pressure tyres, Firestone decided to supply the teams with balloon-style, low-pressure tyres for the first time.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
Although nominally the first round of the new Championship, the American cars did not technically meet the AIACR regulations. They had 122 cubic inch (2-litre) engines, but the chassis were narrow single-seaters less than 80cm wide. This year the AAA lifted the qualifying speed to an average of 85mph – or 7m 30s over a 4-lap, 10-mile run. Duray set a new lap record of 113.2mph to get pole position. Second fastest was DePaolo and his Duesenberg with Duray's team-leader Hartz completing the front row. Last year's co-winner, L.L. Corum, crashed his car in Friday practise and would not be a starter, becoming a relief driver for DePaolo instead.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
Race day was sunny and warm, and 145000 spectators arrived. DePaolo took the lead from the start, and after 100 miles was just ahead of the veterans Cooper and Hartz, with less than 30 seconds covering the top five. Bordino was an early stop at the pits, losing two laps to change spark plugs. At quarter distance, DePaolo's teammate, rookie Phil Shafer (who had been the final qualifier, starting at the back) had moved up to second and the pair duelled for the lead for the next eighty miles.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
Many of the drivers were being shaken up and exhausted by the rough surface and a number of relief drivers were employed. Bordino stopped again, with an injured hand and while he went to the track hospital Antoine Mourre took over the Fiat. Soon after Herb Jones's Miller crashed into the wall and caught fire. Jones was also taken to the track hospital with injuries. Just after halfway, DePaolo pitted suffering from blistered hands and was replaced by Norman Batten.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
As the pitstops worked through, this soon put Cooper into the lead until a puncture nudged him into the wall and he had to pit. DePaolo had got back into his car again on lap 127 and, running fourth, set off after the leaders. Lewis, in the Miller FD, ran at the front but in ten laps was hauled in and passed by DePaolo. An exhausted Lewis finally pitted to be relieved by Bennett Hill who had retired early with suspension issues.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
Although Hill charged hard, DePaolo held on and won by almost a minute, or half a lap, from Hill, with Shafer third. It was the first time the race had been won in under 5 hours, averaging 101.3mph. With four other wins in the 11-race season, Pete DePaolo would, in 1927, be retroactively declared the year's AAA champion, well ahead of Tommy Milton. The end of the year saw the retirement of Milton and DePalma, two of America's greatest post-war drivers.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
The third European Grand Prix turned out to be a major anti-climax. It was the inaugural Belgian Grand Prix and part of the World Championship, but only the Alfa Romeo and Delage works teams arrived. Sunbeam claimed its cars were not ready, as did Alfred Guyot. Alfa Corse had Antonio Ascari, Giuseppe Campari and Gastone Brilli-Peri as their drivers, with the latter running an older, 1924, model. The four Delages (driven by team manager René Thomas, Albert Divo, Robert Benoist and Paul Torchy) were now fitted with twin superchargers.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
In practice the two teams had similar lap times, although grid positions were still drawn by lot unlike Indianapolis. From the start, Ascari took off with a big lead over his teammates Campari and Brilli-Peri. The Delages had an abysmal time and all failed during the race. Benoist pulled into the pits on just the second lap with a cracked fuel-tank. Thomas' car caught fire and even though Divo kept up with the Alfas, the strain burnt out the supercharger. Just after halfway through the race there were only the Alfas of Ascari and Campari left.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
An apocryphal story has risen about the race: The partisan Belgian crowd were very disappointed and booed the Italian team. In response, team manager Vittorio Jano called his drivers in to stop for a lunchbreak. However, this is refuted by Etzrodt who says it was just a methodical pit-stop to change all four tyres on both cars. They then went back out to complete a farcical 1–2 victory.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
The next round of the championship, the French Grand Prix, was held at the new track at Montlhéry. Now completed with its road section to complement the banked oval, it was the first French GP not held on a public-road circuit. This time all the main protagonists turned up: Alfa Corse returned with their three cars and drivers. This time Delage had just three cars, with Thomas' destroyed, and Louis Wagner brought in to join Divo and Benoist. Thomas apparently had been fired as team chief for taking money for deficient connecting rods. There were three works Bugattis for “Meo” Costantini, Pierre de Vizcaya and veteran Jules Goux, along with two privateer entries for Pierre's brother Ferdinand and Giulio Foresti. Finally, the Sunbeam team arrived from Britain with three cars for Henry Segrave and the Italian counts Giulio Masetti and Caberto Conelli.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
After a confused rolling-start, it was Ascari who led at the end of the first lap. Divo was second but dropped back after just three laps to retire again with supercharger issues. Ascari built a comfortable lead while Campari, Benoist and Masetti competed duelled behind him. Then on the 22nd lap, after two hours racing, Ascari cut a corner too close, slide and mowed down 100 metres of fencing, before the car rolled twice throwing the driver out. Badly injured, but conscious, he was pulled free but died on the way to the hospital.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
When the news came through the crowd was stunned and the other two Alfa Corse cars were withdrawn. The remainder of the race was fairly pedestrian. After a slow start, Benoist had moved up the field and inherited the lead from Campari. Aided by Divo as the rain closed in, he went on to win the race, the first Frenchman to win his home Grand Prix since Georges Boillot in 1913. Teammate Wagner (relieved by teammate Torchy) finished second over seven minutes behind with Masetti just ahead of Costantini in the best of the outpaced Bugattis. Awarded a big wreath of flowers from the French President, Benoist drove to where Ascari had crashed and laid it there in respect.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
So, going into the final race, the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, Alfa Romeo, Delage and Duesenberg had one win apiece. Delage felt they were beaten and instead chose to concentrate on preparing for the upcoming (non-Championship) San Sebastián Grand Prix. Duesenberg, though, did arrive with two cars, for Tommy Milton and young new driver Peter Kreis. Indianapolis winner Pete DePaolo also came across, taking the place of Ascari in the Alfa Corse team, alongside Campari and Brilli-Peri.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
Tazio Nuvolari had originally been selected but had crashed heavily in the trial when the car's gearbox seized (heavily bandaged he then went out  the next week to win the Grand Prix des Nations motorcycle race in pouring rain). Fellow Italian manufacturer Diatto had two new cars, designed by Alfieri Maserati and driven by himself and Emilio Materassi, with the final 2-litre entrant being former pre-war Delage driver Albert Guyot in his own Special. The Organisers also had a separate trophy for 1.5-litre Voiturette cars.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
The Bugatti works team entered its new 1.5-litre Type 37 and supercharged Type 39, in anticipation of the change in GP formula coming up in 1926. Their competition was from two Chiribiris and Ernest Eldridge’s special. After the accident at Montlhéry, the Lesmo corners were modified putting a 60cm strip of sand to even out the inside of the bends. A banked wall was also put on the final, fastest, corner of the oval.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
The Duesenbergs were fastest in practice, although it was said the Alfas had held back to conserve the cars. From the start, Kreis in his Duesenberg bolted from the second row into the lead. But it was short-lived. After setting what turned out to be the fastest lap of the race, he crashed at the Lesmo curves on lap 3. The car rolled but Kreis was unhurt. Campari then led from Brilli-Peri at the head of the field. Milton stayed with the two red cars and took the lead when they pitted for fuel on lap 32.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
Campari had a slow stop while Brilli-Peri had a quick pitstop and came out in second. He took the lead when Milton was delayed with his stop and took a comfortable win, almost 20 minutes ahead of Campari. The supercharged Bugatti of Costantini was third, ten minutes back, just ahead of Milton and DePaolo.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
The victory clinched the inaugural World Championship for Alfa Romeo. Henceforth the iconic Visconti badge carried on their cars had a laurel wreath added to the design to celebrate the achievement.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
Delage had chosen to miss the Italian Grand Prix for the race in Spain a fortnight later. The team arrived with four cars, as did the Bugatti team while Giulio Masetti ran a sole Sunbeam works car. The Lasarte track south of San Sebastián was a 18km circuit on sealed public roads. A huge crowd turned out, including the Spanish King and Queen, for the rolling start at 9am. In the early part Divo led Masetti's Sunbeam and the other Delages of Benoist and Thomas and the Bugatti of Costantini.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
On the fifth lap the race was marred by the crash of the fourth Delage driver Paul Torchy. He had gone off the road when trying to pass the Sunbeam. Slamming into roadside trees, he was crushed fatally against his steering wheel. At the halfway point, the Delages pitted to refuel. André Morel relieved Divo and Benoist took the lead. The Bugattis had all run into issues and Masetti retired the Sunbeam soon after with faulty steering. Thereafter it was clear running for the Delages and Divo led home a 1-2-3 result over the Bugatti team.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
The proliferation of races across Italy spread into France with the advent of two well-supported local races – the Marne Grand Prix held near Reims and the Comminges Grand Prix at St Gaudens, near Toulouse.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
German and Austrian manufacturers and drivers had not been allowed to compete in races held in France, Belgium or Great Britain since the end of the war. Mercedes, Benz and Opel led a number of German companies continuing to develop new cars and engineering. However, in May, the German Automobile Club was re-admitted into the AIACR and in November, back into the CSI regulatory body. Local races in Germany were increasing in number.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
In May, Otto Merz in a 2-litre Mercedes won the main race in an opening weekend of the new Solitude circuit around the castle of the same name near Stuttgart in front of over 100000 spectators. Similarly, the Eifelrennen event was a 3-day festival of racing for cars and motorbikes. When the Mercedes team withdrew from the main race, it lost a lot of its interest and the wet Ardennes weather further detracted from the occasion. Vittorio Rosa won overall in an Alfa Romeo RL Unlike in France and Italy with their number of road and track races, and Brooklands in England with its open-class handicap races, the German racing scene placed equal emphasis on winning hill-climbs with many being held across the country.


1925 Grand Prix season, Season review
This was the last year of the 2-litre formula that had been in place since 1922. It had been a successful innovation, dramatically advancing engine design and bringing the advent of supercharging. But becoming more and more concerned with the higher speeds, the AIACR decided that a new 1.5-litre formula for Grand prix racing would come into effect as of the 1926 season.


1925 Grand Prix season, Championship final standings
Table lists the  highest race position for each manufacturer. ** non-participation disqualified the manufacturer from the championship


1925 Grand Prix season, Results of the season's major races
italics show the driver of the race's fastest lap. Only those drivers with a best finish of 6th or better are shown. Sources:


1925 Green Bay Packers season
The 1925 Green Bay Packers season was their seventh season overall and their fifth season in the National Football League. The team finished with an 8–5 record under player/coach Curly Lambeau earning them a ninth-place finish. The season marked the first year the Packers played at City Stadium.


1925 Green Bay Packers season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972. * The Pottsville Maroons were suspended from the league in December, resulting in the Chicago Cardinals being named the NFL champions.


1925 Grenadian general election, Background
A Representative Government Association was formed in 1917, which called for the introduction of elected members in the Legislative Council and the abolition of the crown colony system in place since 1877. This was achieved with a new constitution of 1925.


1925 Grenadian general election, Electoral system
The Legislative Council consisted of 16 members; the Governor (who served as president of the council), seven 'official' members (civil servants), three appointed members and five elected members. Voting was restricted to men aged 21 or over and women aged 30 or over who had resided in Grenada for at least two years and either had an income of at least £30 per year, owned property valued at £150 or more, or rented property for at least £12 per annum. Candidacy was restricted to qualified male voters with a minimum annual income of £200 and who either had lived in their constituency for at least a year, or owned property in the constituency worth at least £500.


1925 Grenadian general election, Electoral system
From a total population of 70,184, only 2,159 people were eligible to vote.


1925 Grenadian general election, Results
Three constituencies – St David's – South St George's, St George's and St John's – St Mark's, had only one candidate, who was elected unopposed. Although the Representative Government Association had proposed nominating candidates, it was defunct by late 1924 and all candidates ran as independents.


1925 Grenadian general election, Results
The Colonial Secretary, Attorney General, Chief Medical Officer, Director of Education, Treasurer, Superintendent of Agriculture and Superintendent of Public Works were appointed as the official members.


1925 Grenadian general election, Aftermath
The newly elected Legislative Council met for the first time in March.


1925 Guatemalan parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Guatemala in December 1925. The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won all 69 seats. The party faced serious opposition in only fifteen constituencies. In Guatemala City the Liberal  received 3,289 votes, the Progressive Liberal Party 506 and the Conservative Party 178. The PLP claimed that they had won 90% of the vote, but that the Liberal government had discounted votes against them.


1925 Guatemalan parliamentary election, Background
The elections were the first major test for the Progressive Liberal Party, who put forward candidates in every constituency. However, the Conservative Party did not put forward any candidates.


1925 Hama uprising
The 1925 Hama uprising was one of the major events of the Great Syrian Revolt. It involved a rebel assault led by Fawzi al-Qawuqji against Mandatory French security installations in Hama and a subsequent uprising by residents sympathetic to the rebel cause. Heavy French bombardment of the city and the dispatch of reinforcements followed. The hostilities began on 4 October 1925 and negotiations between a delegation of Hama's leading families and the French authorities resulted in the rebels' withdrawal on 5 October.


1925 Hama uprising, Background
In 1918, during World War I, the Ottoman Turks were driven out of Syria by the Allied Forces and their Hashemite Arab allies, after which the latter assumed authority over the country. In 1920 France gained control of Syria under the auspices of a mandate by the League of Nations, a move largely rejected by the general population. Syria was divided into six autonomous entities, including the State of Damascus and Jabal Druze State.


1925 Hama uprising, Background
Tensions between the French authorities and the leaders of Jabal al-Druze began to surface from 1922 and in the mid-summer of 1925, the Druze leader Sultan Pasha al-Atrash declared an uprising against the French Mandate after the imprisonment of three prominent Druze leaders who were invited to Damascus for talks with the authorities. After a number of significant military successes against the French Army, Syrian nationalists throughout the country were inspired to take up arms.


1925 Hama uprising, Background
One of those nationalists who was particularly impressed by the actions of al-Atrash's men was Fawzi al-Qawuqji, a veteran soldier from the Ottoman army who fought against the Italian occupation of Libya and later against the Allied forces in Syria. In 1925 he served as a cavalry commander for the French Syrian Legion.


1925 Hama uprising, Background
The city of Hama, which was part of the State of Damascus and was third largest city in Syria at the time, was "known for its Islamic conservatism and fierce opposition to French rule," according to historian Michael Provence. Together with members of the city's religious establishment, al-Qawuqji formed the Hizb Allah ("Party of God"), an outfit for anti-French activity. The party, according to al-Qawuqji, was devoted to nationalism and independence from France, but there was also an apparent religious character to the organization. Hama itself was far more outwardly religious compared to Damascus.


1925 Hama uprising, Planning
Following the Druze assault against the French Army at al-Musayfirah, al-Qawuqji sent emissaries to al-Atrash to notify him of the strength of his Hama-based forces, request that al-Atrash maintain the pressure against French troops in the Hauran, and to establish oral communication between their forces via a trusted connection. Al-Qawuqji's membership in the French Mandatory army allowed for him to keep track of the routines and activities of the French command in Hama. His party also had the support of large segments of Hama's inhabitants, many of whom were members, while the French lacked any local sympathy.


1925 Hama uprising, Planning
In the months preceding the uprising in Hama, al-Qawuqji had been fostering close ties with Hama's religious leaders, local Bedouin, the merchants and the police, encouraging them to join in a holy war against the French and promising them to divide the riches of the government's offices and banks, which he claimed had been stolen from the Syrian people. The city's landlords also lent their support to al-Qawuqji due to their opposition to planned French land reforms. Despite al-Qawuqji's apparently wide scale campaign promoting rebellion, French intelligence was unaware of an impending uprising.


1925 Hama uprising, Uprising
On 4 October, at 7:00 pm, al-Qawuqji commanded the mutiny of his entire cavalry unit and together with irregulars from the nomadic Mawali tribe, his forces numbered in the hundreds. According to Provence, al-Qawuqji had the local "Syrian Legion, several hundred bedouin tribesmen and the entire population of Hama behind him." The rebels proceeded to occupy the city, cutting off its telephone lines, blocking its main thoroughfares and assaulting the government palace (saray). In their attack against the saray, the rebels captured several French officers who had not fled and released prisoners being held in the compound. The city had fallen to al-Qawuqji's forces by 11:30 pm.


1925 Hama uprising, Uprising
In response, French forces commenced a heavy aerial bombardment of the city from sunrise the following morning, 5 October, until the early afternoon. The bulk of French ground forces had been concentrated in Jabal al-Arab at the time. Most of Hama's souks ("bazaars") and numerous homes of leading city notables were consequently destroyed. Meanwhile, two companies of French reinforcements from Rayak and Aleppo were rushed to dislodge the rebels. French authorities had also mobilized the support of the rural landlords against Hama's urban and tribal nationalist leaders.


1925 Hama uprising, Uprising
Hama's major landowning families, who had initially supported al-Qawuqji's plans for revolt, feared further destruction to their property. Represented by mayor Najib al-Barazi and Farid al-Azm, the head of the city's most influential family al-Azm, they broke rebel ranks and met with Eugène Coustillère, the commander of the captured saray, and negotiated an end to the bombardment. In return, the city's notables agreed to convince the rebels to withdraw from the city. By the end of the day, al-Barazi persuaded al-Qawuqji to depart with his men.


1925 Hama uprising, Uprising
The uprising and the subsequent bombardment ended with the deaths 344 Syrians, mostly civilians, according to a petition by the city's residents to the League of Nations. The authorities countered that only 76 people were killed, all of them rebels. However, French intelligence documented more than 100 Syrian deaths. Al-Qawuqji was charged with high treason and sentenced to death in absentia while 355 people from Hama were detained by the authorities. Property damage included the destruction of 115 shops, two souks, 144 homes, including several villas. On 10 October the French newspaper Bulletin de Renseignements proclaimed "... the excellent impression produced by the energetic manner in which order was restored during the events in Ḥamâh. The prestige of France is vastly increased ..."


1925 Hama uprising, Aftermath
After withdrawing, al-Qawuqji and his forces regrouped with Ramadan al-Shallash, a rebel leader from Deir ez-Zor, who had just arrived from British-controlled Transjordan. The revolt in Hama was the first major confrontation between rebels and French troops outside of the Hauran and although press censorship officially blocked news of events in the city, word had spread and rebel groups emerged across the country. Particularly in Damascus, its environs and the Ghouta countryside, relatively autonomous insurgent groups increased their guerrilla efforts against the French Army. According to al-Qawuqji, who continued to foment rebellion in villages across Syria, "The gates of Syria's fields were opened before us for revolt." He boasted about the failure of French intelligence and how the "cunning" of the Arabs triumphed over that of France.


1925 Hama uprising, Aftermath
On 18 October rebels under the leadership of Hasan al-Kharrat and Nasib al-Bakri led a major rebel assault against French troops based in Damascus, occupying the city and capturing the Azm Palace, which served as the residence of the new high-commissioner, General Maurice Sarrail. Al-Shallash managed to participate in the battle, but al-Qawuqji and his men arrived too late. Following massive aerial and ground bombardment of the city, resulting in thousands of deaths and wide scale destruction, French forces retook Damascus. The commander of the French garrison in Damascus reportedly "wished the Damascenes would give France a chance of dealing with them as the Hama rebels had been dealt with."


1925 Hama uprising, Aftermath
In the following months rebels continued their guerrilla campaign in the Ghouta, but after the imprisonment and exile of hundreds of nationalist leaders, including al-Qawuqji and al-Atrash, the death of al-Kharrat and the defection of al-Shallash, the rebels were largely defeated by 26 November. Sporadic fighting in Hama as well as Jabal al-Arab continued until 1927.


1925 Hammond Pros season
The 1925 Hammond Pros season was their sixth in the league. The team failed to improve on their previous record against league opponents of 2–2–1, winning only one game. They finished fourteenth in the league.


1925 Hammond Pros season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972. * The Pottsville Maroons were suspended from the league in December, resulting in the Chicago Cardinals being named the NFL champions.


1925 Hartford Blues season
The 1925 Waterbury-Hartford Blues season was their second season in existence and their last independent season before joining the National Football League in 1926. The team finished the season with a 10–2 record. The team also relocated to Hartford from Waterbury midway through the season. With the change in venue, the team was renamed the Hartford Blues.


1925 Harvard Crimson football team
The 1925 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University as an independent during the 1925 college football season. In its seventh season under head coach Bob Fisher, the team compiled a 4–3–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 118 to 88. The team played its home games at Harvard Stadium in Boston.


1925 Haskell Indians football team
The 1925 Haskell Indians football team was an American football team that represented the Haskell Institute (later renamed Haskell Indian Nations University) as an independent during the 1925 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Dick Hanley, the team compiled a 9–3–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 229 to 65.


1925 Haskell Indians football team
The 1925 Haskell team traveled across the country, including games in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Spokane, Washington, and Richmond, Virginia, and was described as having earned "the title of most-traveled team." The team reportedly traveled 45,000 miles from 1923 to 1925. Haskell played only one home game during the 1925 season, that one taking place at Lawrence High School. After the 1925 season, Haskell built its own football stadium, Haskell Memorial Stadium, at a cost of approximately $200,000.


1925 Haskell Indians football team
Mayes McLain played for Haskell during the 1925 and 1926 seasons. In 1926, he set the all-time college football scoring record with 253 points on 38 touchdowns, 19 extra point kicks, and two field goals.


1925 Hawaii Deans football team
The 1925 Hawaii Deans football team was an American football team that represented the University of Hawaii during the 1925 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach Otto Klum, the team compiled a perfect 10–0 record, shut out eight of ten opponents, and outscored opponents by a total of 421 to 17. The team's victories included games against Occidental (13–0), Colorado Agricultural (41–0), and Washington State (20–11).


1925 Hawaii Deans football team
The season was part of a 20-game winning streak by Hawaii that began with a January 1, 1924, victory over the 1923 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team and ended on October 2, 1926, with a victory over a United States Army field artillery unit. The undefeated 1924 and 1925 Hawaii teams are known as the "Wonder Teams". Over the course of 18 games during the 1924 and 1925 seasons, the Wonder Teams outscored opponents by a total of 606 to 29. The 1924 and 1925 teams were inducted as a group into the University of Hawaii Circle of Honor in 1955.


1925 Hawaii Deans football team
Key players on the 1924 and 1925 Wonder Teams included Bill "Doggie" Wise, Johnny Morse, Eddie Fernandez, and Theodore "Pump" Searle, sometimes referred to as the Four Horsemen of Mānoa".


1925 Hawthorn Football Club season
The 1925 season is the Hawthorn Football Club's first season in the Victorian Football League and 24th overall. The club was allowed entry to join the VFL crossing over from the Victorian Football Association. Alex Hall was the first coach for the VFL team while Jim Jackson was the first captain.


1925 Hawthorn Football Club season
The club's first match in the Victorian Football League was against the Richmond at the Glenferrie Oval on the 2 May 1925. The club finished 3–14 in their first season which placed them 12th and last on the ladder, receiving the wooden spoon.


1925 Hawthorn Football Club season
Hawthorn's best and fairest was awarded to Fred Finch while Les Woodford was the leading goalkicker with twenty goals for the season.


1925 Hawthorn Football Club season, Season summary
Hawthorn began their 1925 season on the 2 May against Richmond at Glenferrie Oval as one of the three new teams competing (the others being North Melbourne and Footscray. In the opening game, they scored the first VFL goal from Hec Yeomans as they would lose by 39 points. The following week they suffered a 54 point loss to St Kilda.


1925 Hawthorn Football Club season, Season summary
It would not be until Round 5, that Hawthorn would record their first victory in the VFL as Les Woodford scored three goals in a sixteen point victory over fellow newcomers Footscray who was missing seven players from the previous week. The following week would see Hawthorn give up an seventeen point lead at the half time break to lose by four points at Arden Street Oval to North Melbourne.


1925 Hawthorn Football Club season, Season summary
That loss to North Melbourne, would see the start of a seven-game losing streak which included losses to the defending VFL champions Essendon (31 points), South Melbourne (67 points) and Fitzroy (84 points). The streak of losses would be broken on the 10 August with a three point win over St Kilda at home in Round 13 with Bert Hyde getting three goals for Hawthorn in the victory. They evently finish with the wooden-spoon with a third win in the final match of the season against North Melbourne at home in what was their biggest win of the season (25 points).


1925 Hilldale Club season
The 1925 Hilldale Club baseball team represented the Hilldale Club in the Eastern Colored League (ECL) during the 1925 baseball season. The team compiled a 53–18–1 (.743) record, won the ECL pennant, and defeated the Kansas City Monarchs in the 1925 Colored World Series. Frank Warfield was Hilldale's player-manager. The team played its home games at Hilldale Park in Darby, Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia suburb.


1925 Hilldale Club season
The team included three players who were late inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame: third baseman Judy Johnson, catcher Biz Mackey, and catcher Louis Santop.


1925 Hilldale Club season
The team's leading pitchers were Nip Winters (17–8, 3.02 ERA, 85 strikeouts), Reuben Currie (11–1, 4.57 ERA), and Phil Cockrell (11–2, 3.15 ERA).


1925 Holy Cross Crusaders football team
The 1925 Holy Cross Crusaders football team was an American football team represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent during the 1925 college football season. In its seventh season under head coach Cleo A. O'Donnell, the team compiled an 8–2 record and defeated Harvard for the first time in school history.


1925 Holy Cross Crusaders football team
This was the first team to be named the "Holy Cross Crusaders", as the college adopted its first official team name by a vote of the student body in October 1925. "Crusaders" was the overwhelming favorite in a three-way race, with 143 votes, beating "Chiefs" (17) and "Sagamores" (7). The poll was conducted by The Tomahawk, the student weekly newspaper. Though the Tomahawk noted that this was the college's first official athletic nickname, newspapers had been referring to Holy Cross teams as "the Purple" for years.


1925 Holy Cross Crusaders football team
The team played its home games at Fitton Field on the college campus in Worcester, Massachusetts.


1925 Howard Bison football team
The 1925 Howard Bison football team was an American football team that represented Howard University during the 1925 college football season. In their second year under head coach Louis L. Watson, the Bison compiled a 6–0–2 record, did not allow a point to be scored by opponents, outscored opponents by a total of 140 to 0, and were recognized as the black college national champion.


1925 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team
The 1925 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team represented Humboldt State College during the 1925 college football season. They competed as an independent. 1925 was the second year for Humboldt State football and they only played four games against local high schools. The team was led by head coach Cy Falkenberg in his only year as coach.


1925 Ice Hockey European Championship
The 1925 Ice Hockey European Championship was the 10th edition of the ice hockey tournament for European countries associated to the International Ice Hockey Federation .


1925 Ice Hockey European Championship
The tournament was played between January 8, and January 11, 1925, in Štrbské Pleso and Starý Smokovec, Czechoslovakia, and it was won by Czechoslovakia.


1925 Idaho Vandals football team
The 1925 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1925 Pacific Coast Conference football season, and were led by fourth-year head coach Robert "Matty" Mathews. It was Idaho's fourth year in the Pacific Coast Conference and they were 3–5 overall and 2–3 in conference. Home games were played on campus in Moscow at MacLean Field, with one in Boise at Public School Field.


1925 Idaho Vandals football team
Idaho defeated neighbor Washington State for the third straight year in the Battle of the Palouse, and the second consecutive win at Rogers Field in Pullman. Since this three-peat of 95 years ago, Idaho has won only five games in the rivalry, the next victory came 29 years later in 1954.


1925 Idaho Vandals football team
USC came north in late October and met Idaho in Moscow for the only time in history, and won 51–7 on a Friday afternoon. The next day in nearby Pullman, Washington State hosted Washington, decades before the rivalry became known as the Apple Cup. A special train from Boise brought up football fans from southern Idaho to watch both games for a package fare of fifty dollars for the four-day jaunt.


1925 Idaho Vandals football team
Idaho opened the season with three wins, but dropped its final five games. After the season, head coach Mathews left for Saint Louis University in Missouri and was succeeded by Charles Erb, a former all-PCC quarterback at the University of California.


1925 Illinois Fighting Illini football team
The 1925 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1925 Big Ten Conference football season. In their 13th season under head coach Robert Zuppke, the Illini compiled a 5–3 record and finished in a tie for fifth place in the Big Ten Conference.


1925 Illinois Fighting Illini football team
This was the final season for hall-of-fame All-American halfback Harold "Red" Grange. Grange was also the team captain.


1925 Indian riots
The 1925 Indian riots refers to the sixteen communal riots which occurred throughout British India. Reported as being among the worst were in March in Delhi, during September in Aligarh, at Arvi in the Wardha district and in Solapur.


1925 Indian riots, Aligarh
The Aligarh riot occurred on 22 September in the United Provinces of British India (now Uttar Pradesh). Of the sixteen communal riots that occurred that year, it was counted as one of the most severe. The London Times wrote two stories on the riots. The riot, was confined to Aligarh which is in the top five of most riot prone cities in India.


1925 Indian riots, Aligarh
According to a report from the Singapore Free Press, on 24 September 1925, it had been said the rioting was caused by Mohammedan throwing stones at some Hindus during the festival of Ramlila, the Hindus retaliated and in the ensuing violence sixty Muslim men and women were injured and twelve Hindus were hospitalized.


1925 Indian riots, Aligarh
Sheikh Abdullah speaking at a Muslim League conference at Aligarh likened the year-long violence to the Crusades, arguing that the most serious danger that Muslims had ever had to deal with was the current Hindu resurgence. The official number of those killed in the riot was six, four Muslims and two Hindus.


1925 Indiana Hoosiers football team
The 1925 Indiana Hoosiers football team represented the Indiana Hoosiers in the 1925 Big Ten Conference football season. The Hoosiers played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana. The team was coached by Bill Ingram, in his third and final year as head coach.


1925 Indiana Hoosiers football team
The first game in the new Memorial Stadium was an October 3, 1925, victory over Indiana State. The dedication game occurred later in the season against Purdue.


1925 Indianapolis 500
The 13th International 500-Mile Sweepstakes Race was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Saturday, May 30, 1925.


1925 Indianapolis 500
Race winner Peter DePaolo became the first driver to complete the 500 miles in under five hours, and have an average over 100 mph. Norman Batten drove 21 laps of relief (laps 106-127) while DePaolo had his hands bandaged due to blisters and bruises.


1925 Indianapolis 500, Time trials
Four-lap (10 mile) qualifying runs were utilized. Leon Duray won the pole position with a 4-lap track record of 113.196 mph. Peter DePaolo, who qualified second, set the 1-lap track record at 114.285 mph.


1925 Indianapolis mayoral election
The Indianapolis mayoral election of 1925 took place on November 3, 1925 and saw the election of Republican former Marion County treasurer John L. Duvall, who defeated Democratic former Indianapolis city attorney Walter Meyers.


1925 Indianapolis mayoral election
The 1925 municipal elections were notable for the presence of the Ku Klux Klan. John L. Duvall was a member of the Klan. However, contemporarily, the election was considered to one of the most tame municipal elections in then-recent memory.


1925 Indianapolis mayoral election, Nominations
Duvall, a Klansman, defeated anti-Klan candidate Ralph Lemcke for the Republican nomination.


1925 Indianapolis mayoral election, Results
Duvall won roughly 52,000 votes to Myers' roughly 43,000 votes.


1925 Indianapolis mayoral election, Results
Duvall carried every ward except the city's 12th and 13th wards. Despite his being a Klansman, Duvall's victory was, in part, due to his carrying the predominantly African American 5th and 6th wards. Duvall, despite winning, underperformed in many wards compared to down-ticket Republicans.


1925 Indianapolis mayoral election, Results
Voter turnout was considered to be low, with only 95,872 out of an estimated 150,000 registered voters participating in the municipal election.


1925 Indianapolis mayoral election, Results
In the coinciding city council elections, which were voted at-large, six out of nine city council members elected were also pro-Klan Republicans. Additionally, the Klan-backed "United Protestant" slate won in the city's coinciding school board elections.


1925 International Cross Country Championships
The 1925 International Cross Country Championships was held in Dublin, Ireland, at the Baldoyle Racecourse on March 28, 1925. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.


1925 International Cross Country Championships
Complete results, medallists,  and the results of British athletes were published.


1925 International Cross Country Championships, Participation
An unofficial count yields the participation of 42 athletes from 5 countries.


1925 International Lawn Tennis Challenge
The 1925 International Lawn Tennis Challenge was the 20th edition of what is now known as the Davis Cup. Sixteen teams would enter the Europe Zone, while 9 would enter the America Zone. Chile, Portugal, Poland and Sweden competed for the first time.


1925 International Lawn Tennis Challenge
France defeated Australia in the Inter-Zonal play-off, but would fall to the United States in the Challenge Round. The final was played at the Germantown Cricket Club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States on 11–13 September.


1925 International Lawn Tennis Challenge America Zone
The America Zone was one of the two regional zones of the 1925 International Lawn Tennis Challenge.


1925 International Lawn Tennis Challenge America Zone
9 teams entered the America Zone, with the winner going on to compete in the Inter-Zonal Final against the winner of the Europe Zone. Australia defeated Japan in the final, and went on to face France in the Inter-Zonal Final.


1925 International Lawn Tennis Challenge Europe Zone
The Europe Zone was one of the two regional zones of the 1925 International Lawn Tennis Challenge.


1925 International Lawn Tennis Challenge Europe Zone
16 teams entered the Europe Zone, with the winner going on to compete in the Inter-Zonal Final against the winner of the America Zone. France defeated the Netherlands in the final, and went on to face Australia in the Inter-Zonal Final.


1925 Iowa Hawkeyes football team
The 1925 Iowa Hawkeyes football team was an American football team that represented the University of Iowa as a member of the Big Ten Conference during the 1925 Big Ten football season. In its second season under head coach Burt Ingwersen, the team compiled a 5–3 record (2–2 against conference opponents) and outscored opponents by a total of 121 to 74. The team played its home games at Iowa Field in Iowa City, Iowa.


1925 Iowa State Cyclones football team
The 1925 Iowa State Cyclones football team was an American football team that represented Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts (later renamed Iowa State University) in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) during the 1925 college football season. In its fourth and final season under head coach Sam Willaman, the team compiled a 4–3–1 record (3–2–1 against MVC opponents), tied for third place in the conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 107 to 93.


1925 Iowa State Cyclones football team
On October 10, 1925, Iowa State dedicated its new football stadium, State Field, in Ames, Iowa. The Cyclones defeated the Kansas Jayhawks by a 20 to 0 score in the dedication game.


1925 Iowa State Cyclones football team
Johnny Behm was the team captain. Lincoln Cory was selected as a first-team all-conference player.


1925 Iowa State Teachers football team
The 1925 Iowa State Teachers football team represented Iowa State Teachers College (later renamed University of Northern Iowa) in the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Association (IIAA) during the 1925 college football season. In its first season under head coach Paul F. Bender, the team compiled a 5–1–2 record.


1925 Iraqi parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq in 1925, the first under the 1925 constitution. After the elections, Abdul-Muhsin Al-Saadoun became Prime Minister for the second time and founded the Progress Party to support the government and gain a parliamentary majority.


1925 Iraqi parliamentary election, Aftermath
King Faisal I wanted to remove Al-Saadoun from his office after he tried to reduce the king's powers; Faisal succeeded in persuading the majority of the Chamber of Deputies to vote for Rashid Ali al-Gaylani for speaker, rather than the candidate nominated by the Al-Saadoun government, resulting in Al-Saadoun's resignation. Faisal was also concerned that Al-Saadoun had too many allies in the British government and had the trust of the British High Commissioner, so he made his two loyal men, Nuri al-Said and Jafar al-Askari, join the Progress Party and sabotage it.


1925 Irish local elections
The 1925 Irish local elections were the first local elections following the establishment of the Irish Free State. The Local Government Act 1925 had abolished rural district councils, passing their powers to Ireland's various county councils.


1925 Irish local elections, Background
Elections did not place in all councils, with a number of councils being dissolved by W. T. Cosgraves Cumann na nGaedheal government in 1923 and 1924, either due to being controlled by anti-Treaty politicians during the Irish Civil War, or because of alleged financial mismanagement. These councils instead were run by appointed commissioners.


1925 Isle of Man TT
The 1925 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy was the second and final year of the Ultra-Lightweight class for motorcycles of 175 cc capacity. This was the third year of the Sidecar race, which was also dropped after 1925.


1925 Isle of Man TT
After numerous retirements in 1924, Wal Handley won the Junior TT race over six laps of the Mountain Course on a Rex-Acme motorcycle at an average speed of 65.02 mph (104.64 km/h). Later in the week, Handley became the first TT rider to win two races in a week when he won the four-lap Ultra-Lightweight TT race, again on a Rex-Acme, setting a race record average speed of 53.45 mph (86.02 km/h), and a new lap record of 41 minutes, 52 seconds at an average speed of 54.12 mph (87.10 km/h).


1925 Isle of Man TT
During the Lightweight TT race, Wal Handley led the first two laps by over two minutes from C. W. "Paddy" Johnston, riding a Cotton, but a puncture caused Handley to slip off his motorcycle at Signpost Corner. The race was eventually won by Eddie Twemlow on a New Imperial at an average speed of 57.74 mph (92.92 km/h) from Johnston and Eddie's brother, Ken Twemlow, riding a New Imperial.


1925 Isle of Man TT
The Senior TT race was sensationally won by Howard Davis while competing against the works teams with a motorcycle of his own manufacture, an HRD, in 3 hours, 25 minutes, 8 seconds at an average speed of 66.13 mph (106.43 km/h). A new lap record was posted by Jimmie Simpson, in 32 minutes and 50 seconds and an average speed of 68.97 mph (111.00 km/h) on an AJS motorcycle, but  he failed to finish.


1925 Isle of Man TT, Lightweight TT
It was held on Wednesday, June 19th, 1925 at 9:30 am over a distance of 226 miles and 750 yards, 6 laps of 37.75 miles each. The machines were limited of cylinder capacity not exceeding 250cc. All nineteen entries started the race and only five riders finished.


1925 Isle of Man TT, Sidecar TT
It was held on Friday, June 19th, 1925 at 1:30pm over a distance of 151  miles and 680 yards, 4 laps of 37.75 miles each. Sidecar TT machines were limited of cylinder capacity not exceeding 600cc. All 18 entries started the race at one minute intervals and six finished.


1925 Italian Grand Prix
The 1925 Italian Grand Prix was a combined Grand Prix and Voiturette motor race held at Monza on 6 September 1925. The voiturettes competed for their own trophy. It was the final race of the 1925 AIACR World Manufacturers' Championship season.


1925 KML season
1925 Korvpalli Meistriliiga was the inaugural season of the Estonian basketball league.


1925 KML season
The season started on 15 March 1925 and concluded on 28 March 1925 with Tallinna Sport winning their 1st Estonian League title.


1925 Kanpur Communist Conference
The Kanpur Communist Conference was an historic event of the early communist movement in India, held from December 26 to 28, 1925 at Kanpur. In 1959 the leadership of the Communist Party of India decided to consider the Kanpur conference as the founding event of the party.


1925 Kanpur Communist Conference
Foundation of Communist Party of India in 1925 was a historic product of the dialecticalcombination of national and class struggles, deeply crystallized byRussian revolution and international events. It was welcomed by all theprogressive sections of the national movement. CPI formed in Kanpur in 1925 was a natural culmination of these processes. The conference was held near Congress pandal, symbolizing close cooperation withthe freedom movement. Kanpur conference setup regular organization, elected central executive committee and officebearers, adopted Constitution, membership form and red flag. CPI evolved in the course of time, to take on the form it subsequently adopted. CPI dialectically combined national and class tasks. Kanpur conference elected M. Singaravelu as chairman and S. V. Ghate and J. P. Bagerhatta, asgeneral secretaries of CPI. 1927 onwards Ghate remained the only general secretary.


1925 Kanpur Communist Conference, Background
Limited colonial industrialization led to emergence of working class as the material condition for the rise of Communist movement in India. Limited modern education also helped emergence of intelligentsia, many of whom joined socialist and Communist movements. Foundation of AITUC in 1920 contributed in its own way towards the formation of CPI. It qualitatively raised the class consciousness of the working class. The inaugural speech of Lala Lajpat Rai at AITUC conference is the proof of it. Later on, the Communists gained influence and brought national andclass consciousness to the movement.


1925 Kanpur Communist Conference, Background
S. A. Dange, S. V. Ghate, S. S. Mirajkar,Muzaffar Ahmed, M. Singaravelu, K.N. Joglekar, Ajoy Ghosh, P. C. Joshi, Shapurji Saklatvala, and a host of others helped politicize and ideologize the working class. In the meantime, the Communist groups in major industrial centershelped the move towards formation of CPI. Tashkent group had norole to play in these events. Various Communist groups brought out Marxist newspapers, such as The Socialist by S. A. Dange, Langal byMuzaffar Ahmed, Kirti by Sohan Singh Josh, Labor Kisan Gazette by M. Singaravelu, and many others that started coming out in this period. S.A.


1925 Kanpur Communist Conference, Background
Dange wrote the first Marxist booklet in India, Gandhi vs Lenin(1921), comparing and contrasting politico-ideological views ofLenin and Gandhi. The Socialist trained early generations of Marxists. Communists were inseparable part of the freedom movement. It was in 1921 that Maulana Hasrat Mohani, a Communist, presented resolution demanding full independence at Ahmedabad session of Congress. By 1925, there was considerable number of Communists as members of the AICC as well as in some of the provincial Congress Committees such as in Bombay, Madras, Punjab, etc. M. Singaravelu worked actively within the Madras PCC (Provincial or Presidency Congress Committee) and in AICC. Working class playeda crucial role in Indian freedom movement, Communists contributing immensely.


1925 Kansas City Cowboys season
The 1925 Kansas City Cowboys season was their second in the league and first as the Cowboys. The team improved on their previous output of 2–7, losing only five games. They finished thirteenth in the league.


1925 Kansas City Cowboys season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972. * The Pottsville Maroons were suspended from the league in December, resulting in the Chicago Cardinals being named the NFL champions.


1925 Kansas Jayhawks football team
The 1925 Kansas Jayhawks football team was an American football team that represented the University of Kansas in the Missouri Valley Conference during the 1925 college football season. In its fifth and final season under head coach Potsy Clark, the team compiled a 2–5–1 record (2–5–1 against conference opponents), finished in eighth place in the conference, and was outscored by a total of 68 to 30. They played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, Kansas. Reginald Smith was the team captain.


1925 Kansas State Wildcats football team
The 1925 Kansas State Wildcats football team was an American football team that represented Kansas State Agricultural College as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) during the 1925 college football season. In its sixth season under head coach Charlie Bachman, the team compiled a 5–2–1 record (3–2–1 against conference opponents), won the conference championship, and outscored opponents by a total of 70 to 43.


1925 Kent State Silver Foxes football team
The 1925 Kent State Silver Foxes football team was an American football team that represented Kent State Normal College (later Kent State University) during the 1925 college football season. In its first season under head coach Merle E. Wagoner, Kent State compiled a 1–1–3 record and was outscored by a total of 24 to 13. On November 14, 1925, the team won the program's first victory on the field, defeating West Liberty by a 7-6 score. (The program's only prior victory was by default in 1920.)


1925 Kentucky Derby
The 1925 Kentucky Derby was the 51st running of the Kentucky Derby. The race was run on May 16, 1925.


1925 Kentucky Wildcats football team
The 1925 Kentucky Wildcats football team was an American football team that represented the University of Kentucky as a member of the Southern Conference during the 1925 season. In its second season under head coach Fred J. Murphy, Kentucky compiled a 6–3 record (4–2 against conference opponents), finished seventh in the conference, and was outscored by a total of 97 to 92. The team played its home games at Stoll Field in Lexington, Kentucky.


1925 Kildare County Council election
An election to Kildare County Council took place in 1925 as part of that year's Irish local elections.


1925 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship
The 1925 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the 31st staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board.


1925 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship
On 27 September 1925, Tullaroan won the championship after a 3-04 to 3-03 defeat of Dicksboro in the final. It was their 14th championship title overall and their second title in succession.


1925 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on 8 February 1925.


1925 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election, Overview
The People's Radical Party remained the largest faction in National Assembly, winning 123 of the 315 seats.


1925 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election, Overview
The elections resulted in the re-election of Prime Minister Nikola Pašić and his right-wing People's Radical Party-lead government.


1925 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election, Overview
In April 1926, faced with a series of corruption scandals Prime Minister Nikola Pašić was forced to resign. A member of Pašić's party Nikola Uzunović became the new Prime Minister of Yugoslavia on 8 April 1926, however faced with internal conflict within the party, a succession of short term governments, came and went under his watch.


1925 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election, Overview
In April 1927 Uzunović resigned from the office of Prime Minister, after the Croatian Peasant Party decided to leave his government. He was replaced by Velimir Vukićević, who was also a member of People's Radical Party.


1925 Klass I season
The 1925 Klass I season was the third season of the Klass I, the top level of ice hockey in Sweden. IK Göta won the league championship, finishing undefeated.


1925 LFF Lyga
The 1925 LFF Lyga was the 4th season of the LFF Lyga football competition in Lithuania. It was contested by 13 teams, and Kovas Kaunas won the championship.


1925 LSU Tigers football team
The 1925 LSU Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Louisiana State University (LSU) as a member of the Southern Conference during the 1925 college football season. In its third season under head coach Mike Donahue, LSU compiled a 5–3–1 record (0–2–1 against conference opponents). LSU's first official homecoming game occurred in 1925.


1925 Lafayette Leopards football team
The 1925 Lafayette Leopards football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College as an independent during the 1925 college football season. In its second season under head coach Herb McCracken, the team compiled a 7–1–1 record. The team's victory over St. Bonaventure on October 31, 1925, marked the start of a 16-game winning streak that continued until October 15, 1927.


1925 Latvian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Latvia on 3 and 4 October 1925. The Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party remained the largest party, winning 32 of the 100 seats.


1925 Latvian parliamentary election, Electoral system
For the elections the country was divided into five constituencies, electing a total of 97 MPs using proportional representation. The three remaining seats were awarded to the parties with the highest vote totals that had failed to win a seat in any of the five constituencies.


1925 Latvian parliamentary election, Electoral system
The list system used was made flexible, as voters were able to cross out candidates' names and replace them with names from other lists. However, only 26.03% of voters made any changes to the lists. To register a list for the election parties needed only collect 100 signatures. A total of 141 lists were registered, although only 93 competed.


1925 Latvian presidential election
The 1925 presidential elections in Latvia took place on November 6, 1925 over a two parliamentary period. In the elections with three candidates, Jānis Čakste was re-elected as the President of Latvia.


1925 Latvian presidential election, Election process and results
The first ballot failed to elect the president because no candidate received more than 50 votes. Jānis Pliekšāns won 33 votes, Kārlis Ulmanis won 32, and Čakste won 29. Each candidate only received the total number of votes of members of the same party. In the second ballot, the LSDSP withdrew Pliekšāns' candidacy, which gave Čakste 60 votes.


1925 Lehigh Brown and White football team
The 1925 Lafayette Brown and White football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University during the 1925 college football season. In its first season under head coach Percy Langdon Wendell, the team compiled a 3–5–1 record. The team played its home games at Taylor Stadium in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.


1925 Liechtenstein referendums
Three referendums were held in Liechtenstein during 1925. The first on 13 September was on the subject of the Lawena power plant and was approved by 56.1% of voters. The second and third were held on 13 December and concerned two proposals on civil order, the Gassner Initiative and a counterproposal from the Landtag. The Landtag's proposal was approved by 81.7% of voters, whilst the Gassner Initiative was rejected by 89.1%.


1925 Liechtenstein referendums, Results, Landtag counterproposal on civil order
The official figures for the two referendums in December are inconsistent and do not add up to the totals given.


1925 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship
The 1925 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship was the 31st staging of the Limerick Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board in 1887.


1925 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship
Newcastle West won the championship after a 3-02 to 1-02 defeat of Bruffs in the final. It was second championship title overall and their first title 1917. It remains their last championship triumph.


1925 Liverpool City Council election
Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on 2 November 1925.


1925 Liverpool City Council election
One third of the council seats were up for election. The term of office for each councillor being three years.


1925 Liverpool City Council election
Eight of the thirty-seven seats up for election were uncontested.


1925 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Elections, Aldermanic Election 9 November 1925
The term of office of Alderman William Albert Robinson(Labour, last elected as an alderman on 10 November 1919) expired on this date.


1925 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Elections, Aldermanic Election 9 November 1925
At the Council meeting on 9 November 1925 there were two candidates nominated to fill this position: William Albert Robinson and Councillor Patrick Jeremiah Kelly (Catholic, South Scotland, elected as an Irish Nationalist on 1 November 1924). The result of a poll of Councillors was :


1925 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Elections, Aldermanic Election 3 February 1926
Caused by the death on 14 December 1925 of Alderman Arthur Crosthwaite (Conservative, last elected as an alderman on 9 November 1920).


1925 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Elections, Aldermanic Election 3 February 1926
In a poll of councillors on 3 February 1926, Councillor James Conrad Cross (Conservative, last elected as a councillor on 1 November 1924) was elected in his place.


1925 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 30 Breckfield, 1 December 1925
Caused by the death on 20 October 1925 of Councillor Alfred Griffiths (Conservative, Breckfield, elected 1 November 1923).


1925 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 25 Walton, Tuesday 16 February 1926
Following the death of Alderman Arthur Crosthwaite on 14 December 1925, Councillor James Conrad Cross (Conservative, last elected as a councillor on 1 November 1924) was elected as an alderman by the councillors on 3 February 1926.


1925 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 26 Warbreck, 18 February 1926
Caused by the death on 31 January 1926 of Councillor John Albert Thompson (Conservative, elected 1 November 1923)


1925 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 18 Edge Hill, Tuesday 20 April 1926
Caused by the death on 18 March 1926 of Councillor Daniel Charles Williams (Conservative, Edge Hill, elected 1 November 1923)


1925 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 28 West Derby,
Caused by the death on 21 July 1926 of Councillor Frederick William Riley (Conservative, West Derby, elected 1 November 1923)


1925 Liège–Bastogne–Liège
The 1925 Liège–Bastogne–Liège was the 15th edition of the Liège–Bastogne–Liège cycle race and was held on 14 June 1925. The race started and finished in Liège. The race was won by Georges Ronsse.


1925 Llandeilo Rural District Council election
An election to the Llandeilo Rural District Council was held in April 1925. It was preceded by the 1922 election and followed by the 1928 election. The successful candidates were also elected to the Llandeilo Board of Guardians.


1925 Llandeilo Rural District Council election, Overview of the result
As in the past many candidates stood without party affiliations although an increased number of Labour candidates contested the industrial wards but the party lost ground following the party's defeat at a national level at the 1924 General Election. As in previous elections a number of the members representing rural wards were returned unopposed.


1925 Llandeilo Rural District Council election, Ward results, Llansawel (two seats)
This was the only contest in a rural ward at the election.


1925 Llandeilo Rural District Council election, Llandeilo Board of Guardians
All members of the District Council also served as members of Llandeilo Board of Guardians. In addition, three Guardians were elected to represent the Ammanford Urban District and another three to represent the Cwmamman Urban District, both of  which also lay within the remit of the Llandeilo Guardians. A further three Guardians were elected to represent the Llandeilo Urban District.


1925 Llandeilo Rural District Council election, Llandeilo Board of Guardians
Elected candidates at both Ammanford and Cwmamman stood specifically as Liberals, in contrast to the non-political nature of previous Guardians elections.


1925 Llandeilo Rural District Council election, Llandeilo Board of Guardians, Ammanford (three seats)
The three sitting members, including Henry Herbert, a Guardian for nearly forty years, were re-elected.


1925 Lombard Olive football team
The 1925 Lombard Olive football team was an American football team that represented Lombard College as an independent during the 1925 college football season.


1925 London County Council election
An election to the County Council of London took place on 5 March 1925. The council was elected by First Past the Post with each elector having two votes in the two-member seats. The Municipal Reform Party retained a large majority, while the Labour Party established itself as the principal opposition, supplanting the Progressive Party.


1925 London County Council election, Campaign
The Municipal Reform Party campaigned on its record in office, noting that it had reduced rates, and built housing. It opposed compulsory education for children over 14 years old and promised "patriotic education", and claimed that the Labour Party would introduce "communist schemes... under the revolutionary red flag". It stood 112 candidates, and those in the City of London, Kensington South and Streatham were elected without facing a contest. The Times predicted that the party could gain seats in Bow and Bromley, Kennington and Shoreditch.


1925 London County Council election, Campaign
The Labour Party's manifesto proposed a major programme of municipalisation, including transport, power, lighting, water, slaughterhouses, and the supply of milk and coal. It also proposed establishing a municipal bank, rating based on land values, the construction of new bridges and tunnels to cross the Thames, and the establishment of tourist offices around the country, to encourage visitors to the city. The party stood 112 candidates, who included 27 of the 49 women contesting the election. The Times believed it might gain seats in Camberwell North West, Deptford, Limehouse and Mile End.


1925 London County Council election, Campaign
The Progressive Party's leader, John Scott Lidgett, argued for the training of more skilled building workers, with the long-term aim of constructing more workers' housing. The party established unofficial pacts with the Municipal Reformers in some seats, and itself stood only 41 candidates. Unable to win a majority of the council, it hoped after the election to hold the balance of power.


1925 London County Council election, Campaign
No minor parties contested the election, but four independent candidates stood.


1925 London County Council election, Results
The Municipal Reform Party maintained a large majority on the council, gaining one seat in Kennington from Labour, and six seats from the Progressives, doing particularly well in the Islington seats.


1925 London County Council election, Results
Labour gained thirteen seats from the Progressives, and six from the Municipal Reformers, more than doubling its representation, and for the first time becoming the official opposition on the council. The Progressive Party failed to make any gains, and lost 19 of its 25 seats, a situation which the Manchester Guardian blamed on its lack of distinctive policies, and its willingness in 1922 to form pacts with the Municipal Reformers. Women won 21 seats on the council, up from 13 at the previous election.


1925 Los Angeles mayoral election
The 1925 election for Mayor of Los Angeles took place on May 5, 1925. Incumbent George E. Cryer was re-elected.


1925 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team
The 1925 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented the Louisiana Polytechnic Institute—now known as Louisiana Tech University—as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) during the 1925 college football season. Led by Ralph C. Kenney in his first and only year as head coach, Louisiana Tech compiled an overall record of 1–6–2.


1925 Louisville Cardinals football team
The 1925 Louisville Cardinals football team was an American football team  that represented the University of Louisville as an independent during the 1925 college football season. In its first season under head coach Tom King, the team compiled a perfect 8–0 record and shut out seven of eight opponents. The only points scored against the team were two points on a safety versus Marshall. The team played its home games at Parkway Field (three games) and Maxwell Field (one game) in Louisville, Kentucky.


1925 Loyola Green and Gray football team
The 1925 Loyola Green and Gray Maryland football team was an American football team that represented Loyola College Maryland as an independent during the 1925 college football season. In its first season under head coach Stan Cofall, the team compiled a 2–6 record.


1925 Loyola Lions football team
The 1925 Loyola Lions football team was an American football team that represented Loyola College of Los Angeles (now known as Loyola Marymount University) as an independent during the 1925 college football season. In its third season under head coach William L. Driver, the team compiled a 4–2 record and outscored opponents by a total of 70 to 69.


1925 Loyola University Chicago football team
The 1925 Loyola University Chicago football team was an American football team that represented Loyola University Chicago as an independent during the 1925 college football season. In its third season under head coach Roger Kiley, the team compiled a 6–2 record and outscored opponents by a total of 70 to 39. The team played three of its home games at Loyola Field and one game each at Grant Park Stadium and Soldier Field.


1925 Loyola Wolf Pack football team
The 1925 Loyola Wolf Pack football team was an American football team that represented Loyola College of New Orleans (now known as Loyola University New Orleans) as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) during the 1925 college football season. In its second season under head coach Moon Ducote, the team compiled a 2–7 record (1–3 against SIAA opponents).


1925 Loyola Wolf Pack football team
Quarterback J. R. "Deuce" Domengeaux was the star of the team on offense. Gene Wallet was the team captain.


1925 Luxembourg general election
General elections were held in Luxembourg on 1 March 1925. The Party of the Right won 22 of the 47 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.


1925 Maine Black Bears football team
The 1925 Maine Black Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of Maine as a member of the New England Conference during the 1925 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach Fred Brice, the team compiled a 5–2–1 record, going 1–0–1 against conference opponents.


1925 Maine Black Bears football team
With victories over Fort Williams, Bates, Colby, and Bowdoin, the team was recognized as the Maine state champion for 1925. The team also lost to undefeated national champion Dartmouth by a 56 to 0 score.


1925 Maine Black Bears football team
Maine played its home games at Alumni Field in Orono, Maine. Oren Fraser was the team captain. Willis Barrows was the  leading scorer with six touchdowns for 36 points.


1925 Major League Baseball season
The 1925 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 14 to October 15, 1925. The Pittsburgh Pirates and Washington Senators were the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The Pirates then defeated the Senators in the World Series, four games to three.


1925 Major League Baseball season
This was the fourth of eight seasons that "League Awards", a precursor to the Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award (introduced in 1931), were issued.


1925 Malaya Cup
Malaya Cup was a tournament held annually by a Malaya Cup committee.


1925 Malaya Cup
This is the fifth season of Malaya Cup (later known as Malaysia Cup). It were contested by states in Malaya. The final were contested by the southern and northern champions in their respective conference round. Six states sent their teams. The final were held at Anson Road Stadium on 29 August 1925 where Singapore recorded their first hat-trick of winning Malaya Cup, by defeating Selangor with scoreline 2–1. The match was a rematch of last year's final and first final in Singapore.


1925 Malaya Cup, Conference Round
Six teams participated the second edition of the Malaya Cup, Malacca, Negeri Sembilan, Singapore, Penang, Selangor and Perak. The teams were divided into two conference, the Northern Section and Southern Section. The Northern Section comprises Penang, Selangor and Perak while Southern Section represented by Johor, Negeri Sembilan, Malacca and Singapore. Each team will play with each other (two games per team) and the winners of each conference will play in the final. Each win will give the team 2 points while losing will give 0 points. A draw means a point were shared between two teams.


1925 Malaya Cup, Final
The final were held at Anson Road Stadium, Singapore on 29 August 1925. The match was a rematch of last year's final, with Singapore recorded their first hat-trick of winning Malaya Cup, by defeating Selangor with scoreline 2–1. This is the first final played in Singapore.


1925 Manhattan College football team
The 1925 Manhattan College football team was an American football team that represented Manhattan College as an independent during the 1925 college football season. In its first season under head coach James F. McCarthy, the team compiled a 1–6–1 record and was outscored by a total of 216 to 47.


1925 Marquette Golden Avalanche football team
The 1925 Marquette Golden Avalanche football team was an American football team that represented Marquette University as an independent during the 1925 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Frank Murray, the team compiled a 7–2 record.


1925 Marshall Thundering Herd football team
The 1925 Marshall Thundering Herd football team was an American football team that represented Marshall College (now Marshall University) in the West Virginia Athletic Conference during the 1925 college football season. In its first season under head coach Charles Tallman, the team compiled a 4–1–4 record, 3–0–2 against conference opponents, won the WVAC championship, and outscored opponents by a total of 138 to 29.


1925 Maryland Aggies football team
The 1925 Maryland Aggies football team represented the University of Maryland in the 1925 college football season. In their 15th season under head coach Curley Byrd, the Aggies compiled a 3–5 record (0–4 in conference), finished in a tie for last place in the Southern Conference, and were outscored by their opponents 82 to 53.


1925 Massachusetts Aggies football team
The 1925 Massachusetts Aggies football team represented Massachusetts Agricultural College in the 1925 college football season, competing as a member of the New England Conference. The team was coached by Harold Gore and played its home games at Alumni Field in Amherst, Massachusetts. Massachusetts finished the season with an overall record of 6–2, and a conference record of 1–0.


1925 Memorial Cup
The 1925 Memorial Cup final was the seventh junior ice hockey championship of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. The George Richardson Memorial Trophy champions Toronto Aura Lee of the Ontario Hockey Association in Eastern Canada competed against the Abbott Cup champions Regina Pats of the South Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League in Western Canada. In a two-game, total goal series, held at the Arena Gardens in Toronto, Ontario, Regina won their 1st Memorial Cup, defeating Toronto 7 goals to 3.


1925 Memorial Cup, Winning roster
Sly Acaster, Jack Crapper, Jack Cranstoun, Jack Cunning, Ken Doraty, Bert Dowie, Stan Fuller, Johnny Gottselig, Frank Ingram, Ike Morrison. Coach: Al Ritchie


1925 Mercer Bears football team
The 1925 Mercer Bears football team was an American football team that represented Mercer University as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association during the 1925 college football season. In their third year under head coach Stanley L. Robinson, the team compiled a 3–6 record.


1925 Miami Redskins football team
The 1925 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University in the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) during the 1925 college football season. In its second season under head coach Chester Pittser, Miami compiled a 5–3 record (3–2 against OAC opponents), shut out four of eight opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 120 to 55. Tom Sharkey was the team captain.


1925 Miami tornado
The 1925 Miami tornado was an intense tornado that struck Dade County, Florida, on April 5, 1925. It remains the deadliest tornado to affect the South Florida county, and it is estimated to have been the most intense tornado to strike the Miami area. The tornado caused five deaths and produced damage totals that were estimated near $200–300,000 (1925 USD). 35 people were also hospitalized because of injuries. The tornado remains the only tornado to cause multiple fatalities in Dade County. While officially unrated, it is estimated that the tornado likely produced F3-level damage based on photographs taken after the passage of the supercell.


1925 Miami tornado, Summary
The exact path and strength of the tornado are uncertain, since it occurred prior to modern records which began in 1950. The first tornadoes to directly receive damage ratings on the Fujita scale occurred in 1971. The 1925 tornado was first reported in its formative stage over the Everglades near Hialeah, where several golfers noted a funnel cloud around 1:00 p.m. Hail was reported with the parent thunderstorm prior to the sighting of the funnel cloud.


1925 Miami tornado, Summary
The slow movement of the storm was accompanied by a large number of people outside during the Sunday afternoon, which led to a considerable number of reports; several reports originated from passing motorists. The vortex touched down around 1:15 p.m., and the tornado was described as a "very slender" funnel that frequently lifted from the ground for brief periods. The debris swirling around the rotation was compared to smoke from "burning oil." Later, as it passed west of Miami, the slow-moving tornado passed over and destroyed the state's largest dairy farm, killing one person and injuring 20 people. Losses from the farm reached $100,000.


1925 Miami tornado, Summary
The tornado eventually intensified and destroyed numerous properties northwest and north of the city of Miami, causing at least three deaths. Some residents successfully attempted to flee in automobiles, though the cars were wrecked and some were thrown for distances. The tornado became obscured by rain, weakened, and dissipated over the northern portion of Biscayne Bay, though it destroyed some power poles along the eastern half of its damage path. Hail associated with the storm was measured to 3 inches (7.6 cm) in diameter, damaging automobiles and residences' roofs. The damage path was less than 100 yards (91 m) in width, and the funnel was visible for nearly one hour. The thunderstorm that spawned the tornado also affected the communities of Ojus, Little River, Biscayne Park, and Lemon City, having traversed the region from Homestead to Fort Lauderdale.


1925 Miami tornado, Summary
In total, the tornado demolished nearly 50 residences. Five fatalities were related directly to the tornado or injuries from flying debris. One of the deaths occurred inside a restaurant; the building was demolished and a cookstove thrown 100 yd (91 m). Hundreds of people were homeless after the storm, and several residences were destroyed at Biscayne Park.


1925 Michigan Mines football team
The 1925 Michigan Mines football team represented the Michigan College of Mines—now known as Michigan Technological University—as an independent during the 1925 college football season. Michigan Mines compiled a 2–1 record.


1925 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team
The 1925 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team was an American football team that represented Michigan State Normal School (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) during the 1925 college football season. The Normalites compiled a perfect 8–0 record, shut out seven of eight opponents, won the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 106 to 6.


1925 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team
In February 1925, Elton Rynearson was appointed as Michigan State Normal's director of sports. He previously played and coached football at the school, but left in 1920 to pursue advanced studies at the University of Michigan. He also served as Michigan State Normal's head football coach from 1925 to 1948. In the six years after Rynearson's return as head coach (1925-1930), the football team compiled a 40-4-2 record.


1925 Michigan State Spartans football team
The 1925 Michigan State Spartans football team was an American football team that represented Michigan State College as an independent during the 1925 college football season. In its third year under head coach Ralph H. Young, the team compiled a 3–5 record and was outscored by a total of 106 to 105.


1925 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Michigan
On October 3, 1925, the Spartans lost to Michigan by a 39 to 0 score before a crowd of 30,000 persons for a Ferry Field record. The game was the 20th meeting in the Michigan – Michigan State football rivalry. Michigan had won nine straight games, eight by shutouts, dating back to 1916. Michigan scored twice in the first quarter. The first touchdown came on a 65-yard run by Benny Friedman.


1925 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Michigan
Later in the quarter, Friedman completed a pass to Charles Grube for a 20-yard gain and then completed another pass to Bruce Gregory for a 30-yard gain and a touchdown. After a scoreless second quarter, Michigan led 13–0 at halftime. In the third quarter, Michigan scored three touchdowns. The first came on a pass from sophomore halfback Louis Gilbert to fellow sophomore Bennie Oosterbaan for a 40-yard gain and a touchdown. On the next drive, George Babcock ran 68 yards for a touchdown after "scooping up a fumble on the dead run."


1925 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Michigan
Gilbert kicked the extra point, and Michigan led, 27–0. Later in the quarter, Friedman intercepted a pass and then completed a pass to Oosterbaan for a 24-yard gain and a touchdown. The New York Times noted that Oosterbaan "sparkled in his play" and that both of his touchdowns came on "clever catches and smart running." Gilbert kicked two extra points, and Frederic Fuller kicked one.


1925 Michigan Wolverines football team
The 1925 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1925 Big Ten Conference football season. The 1925 season was Fielding H. Yost's 24th as the head football coach. Michigan compiled a 7–1 record and outscored opponents by a combined score of 227 to 3. The 1925 team won the Big Ten Conference championship and was ranked second in country (tied with Alabama) behind Dartmouth in the Dickinson System rankings.


1925 Michigan Wolverines football team
The only points allowed by the team were in a 3 to 2 loss to Northwestern in a game played in a heavy rainstorm on a field covered in mud five or six inches deep in some places. Michigan shut out seven of its eight opponents and allowed only four first downs in the last three games of the season.


1925 Michigan Wolverines football team
Quarterback Benny Friedman and left end Bennie Oosterbaan, sometimes referred to as "The Benny-to-Bennie Show," were both consensus All-Americans and became known as one of the greatest passing combinations in college football history. Friedman finished second in close voting for the 1925 Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy, which is awarded to the Most Valuable Player in the Big Ten. Both Friedman and Oosterbaan were later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Team captain and center Robert J. Brown and guard Tom Edwards also received first-team All-American honors from some selectors.


1925 Michigan Wolverines football team
At the end of the season, Yost called the 1925 Michigan team "the greatest football team I ever coached" and "the greatest football team I ever saw in action." He continued to maintain that the 1925 squad was his greatest team even years later. The team was retroactively named as a 1925 co-national champion by MIT statistician Jeff Sagarin.