1928 Preakness Stakes
The 1928 Preakness Stakes was the 53rd running of the Preakness. The race took place on Friday, May 11, 1928, eight days before the Kentucky Derby making it the first leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series. A horse race for three-year-old thoroughbreds, it carried a total purse of $71,370. It was run on a track rated fast in a final time of 2:00 1/5. Ridden by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Raymond Workman, Victorian won the race by a nose over runner-up Toro. Nassak, the betting favorite from the powerful Rancocas Stable finished a distant 11th. The fifth-place finisher, Sun Beau, went on to a brilliant racing career and was voted U.S. Champion Older Horse in three straight years culminating with his 1996 induction into the U.S. National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.


1928 Preakness Stakes, No Triple Crown attempt
The owners of the Preakness winner chose not to send the colt to Louisville, Kentucky to compete in the May 19th Kentucky Derby. The Daily Racing Form reported that Victorian's owner made a statement by telephone saying the colt had gone through a very tough Preakness and did not do well after the race. Plans called for transporting Victorian to Belmont Park where he would run in the Withers Stakes if his trainer thought the colt was healthy. Victorian won the Withers Stakes.


1928 Preakness Stakes, Record crowd
The Daily Racing Form reported there was a record crowd in attendance on Preakness day which included notables such as Belgium's Prince Ernest and Princess Marguerite de Ligne, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., father of a future President of the United States, the British Ambassador Sir Esmé Howard, Bernard Baruch, George Saportas, and James Wood Colt, among others.


1928 Preakness Stakes, Record crowd
Maryland Governor Albert Ritchie presented the Woodlawn Vase to James G. Rowe Jr., the winning trainer who accepted it on behalf of the absent Harry Payne Whitney.


1928 Preakness Stakes, Death of scheduled Preakness rider
Twenty-five-year-old jockey Ovila Bourassa was scheduled to ride Solace in the 1928 Preakness. The colt, who would finish third, was owned by the Seagram Stables for whom jockey Bourassa had ridden Sir Harry to a second-place finish in the 1927 Preakness Stakes. Three weeks prior to the running of the 1928 Preakness, the young jockey died from a fractured skull after the saddle girth slipped on a horse he was breezing in the early morning hours at Havre de Grace Racetrack in Havre de Grace, Maryland.


1928 Preakness Stakes, Death of scheduled Preakness rider
A champion Canadian jockey, and very popular with his racing fraternity and race fans in the United States, Ovila Bourassa's death received wide coverage in newspapers in both countries. The New York Times wrote that Bourassa "rode winners of many classics" and was "one of the best-known riders in the country". The New York Daily News called him a "rider of great promise" and someone who was "in the first rank of riders." In his native Canada, the Calgary Daily Herald said Ovila Bourassa was "one of the outstanding figures in Canadian racing."


1928 Princeton Tigers football team
The 1928 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1928 college football season. The Tigers finished with a 5–1–2 record under 15th-year head coach Bill Roper. Princeton center Charles Howe was selected by the Associated Press as a first-team honoree on the 1928 College Football All-America Team.


1928 Providence Steam Roller season
The 1928 Providence Steam Roller season was their fourth in the league. The team improved on their previous season's output of 8–5–1, losing only one game. As the team with the best win percentage, Providence Steam Rollers won the 1928 NFL championship. The Steam Rollers are the last currently defunct NFL franchise to win a championship.


1928 Providence Steam Roller season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen
The 1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen i Fodbold (Unofficial English translation: 1928 Provincial Football Championship Tournament) was the 15th edition of the Danish provincial championship play-off, Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, the second highest senior cup competition, crowning the best provincial championship club of the five regional football associations outside the dominating Copenhagen football clubs, organised and financially supported by the national football organization Danish FA (DBU).


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen
This was the first edition of the tournament under its new status as a separate championship cup tournament, no longer being an essential part of the road to winning the Danish Football Championship, which it had been under the previous structure of Landsfodboldturneringen. The new Danish Football Championship structure, had its debut this season, 1927–28 Danmarksmesterskabsturneringen. Following a recommendation by the five provincial football associations, the Danish FA finally decided to re-establish a provincial football tournament in late March 1928.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen
The four matches in the tournament were held during June 1928 following the conclusion of each of the 1927–28 regional league championship seasons for Bornholm FA, Funen FA, Jutland FA, Lolland-Falster FA and Zealand FA.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen
In advance of the tournament, a play-off structure had been agreed, which meant that the semi-finals consisted of two matches; on one side the senior champions of FBUs Mesterskabsrække played against the champions of JBUs Mesterskabsrække and in the other match, the champions of the BBUs Mesterskabsrække tournament played against the winners of a preliminary round between the league champions of SBUs Mesterskabsrække and LFBUs Mesterskabsrække. Initially the rules of the tournament dictated that each match should be played on a neutral ground, but only one match ended up doing so.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen
The tournament was won by the Jutland FA representative Aalborg BK, by defeating the Zealand FA representative and defending provincial champions, Skovshoved IF, in the championship final held at Aalborg Stadium, Aalborg on 24 June 1928. This was the first provincial championship title by Aalborg BK, who had also secured the combined regional league championship for both north and south Jutland and the regional cup title after winning the JBUs Pokalturnering this season. This would be the first time, that the city of Aalborg hosted an important national or provincial final match. The top scorers of the tournament became Svend Strømann (Skovshoved IF) and Søren Andersen (Aalborg BK) with 7 goals each, scoring in all the matches, that they played in (3 and 2 matches respectively).


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Qualified teams
The following five teams qualified for the tournament. This was Aalborg BK's first participation in the Provincial Football Championship Tournament, while B 1901 had participated in all previous tournaments.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Matches, Provincial tournament, preliminary round, Match summary
The preliminary round was played between the representative club champions of Zealand FA and Lolland-Falster FA. Skovshoved IF qualified to the tournament after winning their third consecutive regional league final just one week prior to the match; their fourth Zealand League Championship in total. B 1901 qualified by winning the regional football league, LFBUs Mesterskabsrække for the 20th time in the league's history, and had participated in all 15th previous editions of the Provinsmesterskabsturneringen. The match was originally scheduled to take place on 3 June 1928, but was postponed with one week due to the late decision regarding the Zealand League Championship winner.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Matches, Provincial tournament, preliminary round, Match summary
The only match in the preliminary round, played on 10 June 1928 at 13:30 CEST, was attended by a couple of thousands on the home field of B 1901 in Nykøbing Falster. It was reportedly described as hard played, exiting to the end and  with the result of the match ending in a narrow victory of the score 3–2 to Skovshoved IF, who were playing in a blue kit. Skovshoved IF's center forward Svend Strømann scored the first goal after 25 minutes of play, which became the only goal in the first half.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Matches, Provincial tournament, preliminary round, Match summary
The 1–0 lead for the away team was equalized in the 10th minute in the second half with a goal by Holger Brodthagen, after which a colleague, Svend Aage Eriksen, scored another goal for B 1901 in the 26th minute of the second half, giving the home team a 2–1 lead. Only two minutes later Strømann scored his second goal in the match and Skovhoved IF's left inner winger Axel Guhle scored the third goal in the 42nd minutes of the second half, securing the victory for the Zealandians. A regional newspaper, Lolland-Falster Social-Demokrat (Nakskov), praised the young Skovshoved IF halfback, Hans Møller, as the best player on the football field, and highlighted his efforts of keeping B 1901's forward Svend Aage Eriksen in check during the match.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Matches, Provincial tournament, preliminary round, Match details
The home team was B 1901, because the match was played at their regular home turf.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Matches, Provincial tournament, semi-finals, Pre-match
The two provincial semi-finals were played between the representative club champions of Zealand FA and Bornholm FA in one match and the club champions of Jutland FA and Funen FA in the other match. Both IK Viking and Aalborg BK had received byes from the preliminary round and did not enter the tournament until the semi-finals — this was only the second time in the competition's history (last one was in the 1913–14 edition), that a team from Bornholm FA played in the semi-finals.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Matches, Provincial tournament, semi-finals, Pre-match
Prior to Skovshoved IF's next semi-final match, the club's administration arranged a training match at their home ground in Skovshoved on 14 June 1928 against the first team of Akademisk BK in preparation for the semi-final match — the unofficial evening match won 3–1 by the academics of Copenhagen. Prior to the match, the newspapers predicted, that the IK Viking team would not get many chances for a victory.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Matches, Provincial tournament, semi-finals, Pre-match
The line-up for IK Viking, that was going to travel overseas from Bornholm, was assembled after an evening match on 14 June 1928 between the first and second (reserves) team, that ended in an 8–0 victory, and consisted of the following players (listed goalkeeper to left wing): Vilhelm Reker, Harry Pedersen, H. P. Hansen, Niels Mortensen, Arthur Aakerlund, Harald Mortensen, Knud Hansen, Knud Christiansen, Charles Olsen, Carlo Christiansen and Carl Mortensen, while the reserve player was Edm. Larsen and the team's leader was Jens P. Pedersen.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Matches, Provincial tournament, semi-finals, Match summaries
The semi-final match between Skovshoved IF and IK Viking took place at Skovshoved Idrætspark on 17 June 1928 13:30 CEST in front of approximately 300 spectators and the Danish FA had assigned the well known former goalkeeper on the national football team, Sophus Hansen (affiliated with BK Frem), to be the referee at the game.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Matches, Provincial tournament, semi-finals, Match summaries
Skovshoved IF's forwards had several engaging attacks in the first 30 minutes of the game, but they were all either saved by the Rønne-goalkeeper Vilhelm Reker or the attackers were lacking shooting skills, while the IK Viking's players on the other hand could not get their game and the passes to function effectively. In the last 15 minutes of the first half, the Vikings regained the upper hand and eventually got a 1–0 lead, after Charles Olsen scored the team's only goal with a one-man performance five minutes before the referee whistled for the half time break. A local newspaper from northern Zealand concluded, that away-team's positive activities were due to the strong tailwind that the visiting players had towards the home-team's goal post — an advantage that had been decided at the beginning of the match by a drawing of lots.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Matches, Provincial tournament, semi-finals, Match summaries
As a consequence of the strong winds IK Viking Rønne was able to compete on equal terms against the much stronger Skovshoved IF-players, which was emphasized during the second half. After a few minutes, SIF scored the first goal, greatly assisted by IK Viking's Niels Mortensen, whereafter they progressed in gaining the upper hand for the remaining part of the match, and were quite dominant in the last 15 minutes — a local newspaper, based on Bornholm, referred this to insufficient training on the Rønne-players' part.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Matches, Provincial tournament, semi-finals, Match summaries
The Rønne-team's Charles Olsen and Karl Mortensen had some great opportunities for scoring goals, but both failed to accomplish the objective. During the second half, the home team's centerforward, Svend Strømann, scored four goals — between 2 and 3 goals using his head — while the team's right winger Ernst Sørensen and the team captain, Helmuth Thomas, each scored one goal — contributing to Skovshoved IF's victory of 6-1. According to the local Bornholm newspaper, players on both teams hailed the IK Viking goalkeeper, Vilhelm Reker, as the best player on the field.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Matches, Provincial tournament, semi-finals, Match summaries
The inaugural match in the newly refounded Provincial Football Championship was played on 3 June 1928 on a neutral football field in Randers in front of approximately 2,000 spectators, which took place two weeks after the league final in the JBUs Mesterskabsrække and over a month had passed after the final round of regular league fixtures had been played in the FBUs Mesterskabsrække.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Matches, Provincial tournament, semi-finals, Match summaries
To the match, B 1913's line-up consisted of Frederik Johansen, Poul Espe, Richard Rasmussen, Harry Christensen, Børge Jensen (forward), Chr. Larsen, Martin Petersen, Knud Lindegaard, Albert Fischer (forward), Carl Hansen and Kaj Seeback, while the line-up for Aalborg BK consisted of goalkeeper Folmer Olesen, defenders Harry Jensen and Dalhoff Jørgensen (Captain), midfielders Harald Christensen, Ejner Hansen and Egon Thon and forwards Børge Lunde, Axel Villadsen, Søren Andersen, Kaj Mølback and Aage Nielsen.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Matches, Provincial tournament, semi-finals, Match summaries
The Jutlandian championship club, Aalborg BK, won the semi-final match 3-2 after having obtained a lead of 3-0 after 60 minutes of play in the second half — all Alborg BK goals in the victory were scored by center forward Søren Andersen — before the Odense team was able to get in two goals. Originally scheduled to be played at Aarhus Stadium, only a few days before the first semi-final match, it was moved to Randers Stadium due to the stadium being occupied by other activities; and Peder Remtoft (Copenhagen) was assigned as referee to the match.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Matches, Provincial tournament, semi-finals, Match details
The home team was Skovshoved IF, because the match was played at their regular home turf.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Matches, Provincial tournament, semi-finals, Match details
The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined to be B 1913 although Randers Stadium was located closer to Aalborg BK's home.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Matches, Provincial Championship Final, Pre-match
The final of the Provinsmesterskabsturneringen was played between the representative club champions of Zealand FA, who were the defending provincial champions from the previous season, and Jutland FA, who secured their participation in this tournament by winning the combined regional league championship for both north and south Jutland, and in the same season also secured the regional cup title in the JBUs Pokalturnering.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Matches, Provincial Championship Final, Pre-match
The last game in the tournament was originally scheduled to take place in Odense, but negotiations initiated by the Jutland FA tried to get the match moved to Aarhus Stadium due to expectations that several more spectators would attend the match. However, Skovshoved IF had no interest in playing in Aarhus, but on the other hand would like to play the match in Aalborg, and on 19 June the Jutland FA unexpectedly announced to Aalborg BK that Skovshoved IF had agreed to play the final at Aalborg Stadium on 24 June 1928 at 14:00 CEST and be refereed by Cand.jur.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Matches, Provincial Championship Final, Pre-match
Otto Remke (affiliated with Akademisk BK). This would be the first time, that an important national or provincial final match was played as far north as Aalborg — these kind of final matches had in the previous years basically only been held in Copenhagen, Odense, Nykøbing Falster and Aarhus. The Skovshoved IF players arrived in Aalborg on the morning of the match day. Skovshoved IF played in blue shirts and black shorts/socks, while the Aalborg BK team played in their usual red and white football kit and with the entire team line-up used in the regional league championship.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Matches, Provincial Championship Final, Match summary
Before the match, both teams announced that they would be fielding their best players. This would be Skovshoved IF's 12th competitive match in 1928, having scored 39 times and only conceding 6 goals prior to the game. Aalborg BK, who had the home field advantage, won both halves of the match with the score of 4–1, but the game quickly lacked any spark of excitement.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Matches, Provincial Championship Final, Match summary
Very early in the match, the Jutlanders obtained a lead, when the forward Kaj Mølback scored a goal, but a few moments Skovshoved IF's Axel Guhle equalized for the Zealanders — after 3 minutes of play, the score was 1–1. For the remaining part of the first half, the Aalborg players took control of the match, increasing the score with two goals from the forwards Søren Andersen (in the 10' and 23' minute) and an additional goal by Kaj Mølback in the 30' minute. After the break, the control of the match continued, when Søren Andersen (48' and 63'), Kaj Mølback (75') and Alex Villadsen (77') further increased the lead to 8–1. It was not until the last minutes of the match, that Skovserne managed to get another in; scored by Svend Strømann.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Matches, Provincial Championship Final, Match summary
The match has been described as the probably the best game played by the club due to winning the match in a convincing manner, while the local newspaper Aalborg Stiftstidende criticised the performance of the away team, Skovshoved IF, as being nothing better than some random village team although the club was located in the suburbs of Copenhagen in an era of the dominating clubs from Copenhagen FA.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Matches, Provincial Championship Final, Match summary
The "home" team was praised for the players' organisation on the field, the players knew their tasks in the formation, the ball was transferred smoothly from player to player, and the forwards unexploited their options during the match. The "away" team had a very different playing style, shooting long balls to the players in front, and then relied on individual efforts.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Matches, Provincial Championship Final, Match summary
At the same time as Aalborg BK's inner wing, Kaj Mølback, scored his team's seventh goal in the 75th minute, giving the team a 7–1 lead, a violent guest of wind caught the very large Dannebrog and the stadium's flagpole broke, falling to the ground with a bang, but not injuring any spectators nearby.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Matches, Provincial Championship Final, Match summary
Aalborg BK won the Final of the Provinsmesterskabsturneringen in front of 1,800 spectators and were crowned Champions of the Provincial Football Championship (Danish: Vinder af Provinsmesterskabet i Fodbold or simply Provinsmester). Unlike the important corresponding Danish football tournaments of the era, the winning team would not be awarded a trophy, but instead received a diploma for their efforts, which had also been awarded the previous provincial champions. Aalborg BK's centerforward, Søren Andersen, was hailed as the best player during the match by two local newspapers.


1928 Provinsmesterskabsturneringen, Matches, Provincial Championship Final, Match details
Although Aalborg BK was playing on their home turf/city, the "home" team had been determined to be Skovshoved IF for administrative reasons.


1928 Prussian state election
State elections were held in the Free State of Prussia on 20 May 1928 to elect all 450 members of the Landtag of Prussia. The governing coalition of the Social Democratic Party, Centre Party, and German Democratic Party retained its majority. The SPD recorded its best result since 1919 while the opposition German National People's Party suffered significant losses. The Centre Party, German People's Party, and DDP took modest losses; the Communist Party and Wirtschaftspartei made modest gains.


1928 Puerto Rican general election
General elections were held in Puerto Rico in 1928. Since they were held under the colonial rule of the United States, only municipalities were able to democratically elect their representation.


1928 Purdue Boilermakers football team
The 1928 Purdue Boilermakers football team was an American football team that represented Purdue University during the 1928 college football season. In their seventh season under head coach James Phelan, the Boilermakers compiled a 5–2–1 record, finished in sixth place in the Big Ten Conference with a 2–2–1 record against conference opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 143 to 41. H. S. Olson was the team captain.


1928 Railway Cup Hurling Championship
The 1928 Railway Cup Hurling Championship was the second series of the inter-provincial hurling Railway Cup. Two matches were played between 12 February and 17 March 1928. It was contested by Connacht, Leinster and Munster.


1928 Railway Cup Hurling Championship
On 17 March 1928, Munster won the Railway Cup after a 2-02 to 1-02 defeat of Leinster in the final at Croke Park, Dublin. This was their first Railway Cup title.


1928 Regis Rangers football team
The 1928 Regis Rangers football team was an American football team that represented Regis College as an independent during the 1928 college football season. The team compiled a 5–4 record and outscored opponents by a total of 212 to 80.


1928 Regis Rangers football team
In May 1928, Red Strader was hired as the team's head coach. He had been an assistant coach at St. Mary's. Strader was assisted by John Illia. Stubbs, who played at the guard position, was the team captain.


1928 Regis Rangers football team
Prior to the 1928 season, Regis was admitted as "an associate member" of the Rocky Mountain Conference with the understanding that conference teams were under no obligation to schedule games and that the conference would not be required to admit Regis as a full member.


1928 Republican National Convention
The 1928 National Convention of the Republican Party of the United States was held at Convention Hall in Kansas City, Missouri, from June 12 to June 15, 1928.


1928 Republican National Convention
Because President Coolidge had announced unexpectedly he would not run for re-election in 1928, Commerce Secretary Herbert Clark Hoover became the natural front-runner for the Republican nomination. Former Illinois Governor Frank Lowden and Kansas Senator Charles Curtis were candidates for the nomination but stood no chance against the popular and accomplished Hoover. Chicago Mayor William Hale Thompson considered himself a candidate, but without the support of Ruth Hanna McCormick, his candidacy was unsuccessful.


1928 Republican National Convention
Hoover was nominated on the first ballot with 837 votes to 72 for Lowden and 64 for Curtis and the rest scattered. John L. McNab delivered Hoover's nomination address.


1928 Republican National Convention
In his acceptance speech he said, "We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty ever before in the history of any land."


1928 Republican National Convention
That and other optimistic remarks about the country's future were used against him in the 1932 election, which he lost to Franklin Roosevelt.


1928 Republican National Convention, Platform
The platform praised the Coolidge administration for the prosperity of the mid-1920s, and also promised reduction of the national debt, tax reduction, retention of the protective tariff, opposition of cancellation of foreign debts, settlement of claims from World War I from foreign governments, continuation of the Coolidge foreign policy, support of arbitration treaties, civil service protection, a tariff for agricultural protection and continued farm exports, aid to the coal-mining industry, continued appropriations for highway construction, the right to collective bargaining, regulation of railroads, a continued independent American merchant marine, government supervision of radio facilities, construction of waterways to help transportation of bulk goods, support for war veterans, federal regulation of public utilities, conservation, vigorous law enforcement, honest government, continued reclamation of arid lands in the West, improvement of air-mail service, restricted immigration and naturalization of foreign immigrants in America, continued enforcement of the Washington Naval Treaty, continued status of territory status for Alaska and Hawaii and called for more women in public service, right of the President to draft defense material resources and services, creation of an Indian Commission, an Anti- Lynching Law and promised continued Home-Rule for the American Citizen.


1928 Republican National Convention, Candidates for the nomination before and during the convention
After Coolidge announced that he would not run for a second full term in August 1927, Hoover emerged as the frontrunner. Illinois Governor Frank Lowden, Vice President Charles Dawes, and Senators James Eli Watson of Indiana, Charles Curtis of Kansas, Guy D. Goff of West Virginia, and Frank Willis of Ohio also loomed as potential challengers to Hoover.


1928 Republican National Convention, Candidates for the nomination before and during the convention
Hoover had won respect by many for his work in the Wilson, Harding, and Coolidge administrations, but many party regulars distrusted his loyalty to the party on issues of both policy and patronage. Some progressive Republicans, such as California Senator Hiram Johnson, also disliked Hoover, but others, such as Senator William E. Borah, favored Hoover's candidacy. Many party leaders pressured Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon to run, but at 73, Mellon felt that he was too old to run in 1928. Mellon sought to convince former Secretary of State and 1916 Republican nominee Charles Evan Hughes to run, but Hughes refused to campaign for the nomination.


1928 Republican National Convention, Candidates for the nomination before and during the convention
With no strong alternative, Hoover appeared to be the likely nominee at the start of the convention, but many in the party still opposed his candidacy. A "draft Coolidge" movement emerged, but the movement collapsed once it became clear that Coolidge would not run again. With Coolidge out of the running, Senate Majority Leader Charles Curtis tried to rally Hoover's rivals around his own candidacy. However, Hoover won the nomination on the first ballot.


1928 Republican National Convention, Candidates for the vice presidential nomination
At the start of the convention, Vice President Charles G. Dawes, former Kansas Governor Henry Justin Allen, New Jersey Senator Walter Edge, New Hampshire Senator George H. Moses, Connecticut Representative John Q. Tilson, and Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton were mentioned as potential running mates for Hoover. Kansas Senator Charles Curtis was also mentioned as a possibility, but he was not yet ready to concede the presidential nomination to Hoover.


1928 Republican National Convention, Candidates for the vice presidential nomination
After Hoover won the presidential nomination, Moses, Illinois Senator Charles S. Deneen, and former Massachusetts Governor Channing Cox were named as the most likely vice-presidential nominees, with a re-nomination for Dawes also a possibility. Party leaders considered nominating Cox or Dawes, but Cox was vetoed by Utah Senator Reed Smoot, and Dawes was unacceptable to Hoover and Coolidge for supporting McNary-Haugen.


1928 Republican National Convention, Candidates for the vice presidential nomination
Curtis, possibly with the support of Coolidge, was nominated by the party leaders, and the convention ratified the choice.


1928 Republican National Convention, Prayers
Each of the four days of the convention opened with a lengthy invocation by a different clergymen—one Jewish, one Catholic, one Episcopalian, one Methodist. Together, these four religious groups formed a majority of Americans at the time.


1928 Republican National Convention, Prayers
All of the clergy were based in Missouri, where the convention was held. Each was listed among the convention officers as an official chaplain.


1928 Republican National Convention, Prayers
On June 12, the opening prayer was given by Bishop S. C. Partridge of the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri. Speakers on the second through fourth days were Catholic Bishop Thomas F. Lillis of the Diocese of Kansas City, Rabbi Herman M. Cohen of Congregation Keneseth Israel-Beth Sholom, Kansas City, and Bishop E. L. Waldorf of the Methodist Episcopal Diocese of Kansas City.


1928 Republican Party presidential primaries
From March 6 to May 18, 1928, voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for president in the 1928 United States presidential election. The nominee was selected through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1928 Republican National Convention held from June 12 to June 15, 1928, in Kansas City, Missouri.


1928 Rhode Island State Rams football team
The 1928 Rhode Island Rams football team was an American football team that represented Rhode Island State College (later renamed the University of Rhode Island) as a member of the New England Conference during the 1928 college football season. In its ninth season under head coach Frank Keaney, the team compiled a 2–7 record (0–3 against conference opponents) and finished in last place in the conference.


1928 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1928 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1928. Incumbent Republican Norman S. Case defeated Democratic nominee Alberic A. Archambault with 51.59% of the vote.


1928 Rice Owls football team
The 1928 Rice Owls football team was an American football team that represented Rice University as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1928 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Claude Rothgeb, the team compiled a 2–7 record (0–5 against SWC opponents) and was outscored by a total of 174 to 83.


1928 Richmond Spiders football team
The 1928 Richmond Spiders football team was an American football team that represented the University of Richmond as a member of the Virginia Conference during the 1928 college football season. Led by 15th-year head coach, Frank Dobson, Richmond compiled an overall record of 3–4–2. The team included Herbie Peterson, whom Dobson considered one of the three best backs he ever coached. Richmond played their home games at Tate Field on Mayo Island.


1928 Romanian general election
General elections were held in Romania in December 1928. The Chamber of Deputies was elected on 12 December, whilst the Senate was elected in three stages on 15, 17 and 19 December. The result was a victory for the governing National Peasants' Party-led alliance, which won 348 of the 387 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 105 of the 110 seats in the Senate elected through universal male vote.


1928 Romanian general election
Of the 348 Chamber seats won by the alliance, the National Peasants' Party won 326, the Social Democratic Party won 9, the German Party won 8, the Hungarian People's Party won 2 and three were won by Jewish candidates. It is generally regarded as the freest election ever held in Romania until the 1990s.


1928 Rose Bowl
The 1928 Rose Bowl Game was a match between Stanford (7–2–1) and the Pittsburgh Panthers (8–0–1). Usually, the Rose Bowl was played on January 1, but in 1928, that fell on a Sunday, so the game was played on January 2, 1928. At this time, the Rose Bowl was the top and only bowl game, an east-vs.-west matchup. Stanford won the game, 7–6.


1928 Rose Bowl, Coaching
The coach for Pittsburgh was Jock Sutherland, while the Stanford coach was Pop Warner. Sutherland had played on several of Warner's Pitt teams while Warner was head coach at Pitt. Warner was head coach at Pitt from 1915 to 1923 and coached the Panthers to three undefeated seasons, 33 straight wins, and was credited with three national championships for Pitt before going to Stanford in 1924.


1928 Rose Bowl, Game summary
Stanford's Frank Wilton had been the goat of the 1927 Rose Bowl: with Stanford leading 7–0 late in the game, an Alabama defender broke through the line and blocked his punt, setting up the Tide's tying touchdown. In the 1928 game, Wilton again made a critical error, losing the ball after being hit on his own 20 yard line, allowing Pittburgh's Jimmy Hagan to run the fumble in for a touchdown. Walt Heinecke of Stanford blocked Allen Booth's point after attempt, holding Pitt's lead to 6–0. Later in the game, Wilton had his redemption when teammate Spud Lewis fumbled a yard from the goal. Wilton scooped up the ball and crashed through for the tying touchdown. The kick was good, and Stanford held on for a 7–6 win.


1928 Rose Bowl, Game notes
The capacity of the Pasadena Rose Bowl Stadium was increased to 76,000, adding 19,000 seats. At game time, the temperature was 70 °F (21 °C).


1928 Rutgers Queensmen football team
The 1928 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University in the 1928 college football season. In their second season under head coach Harry Rockafeller, the Queensmen compiled a 6–3 record and were outscored by their opponents, 116 to 97. The captain was Stan Rosen.


1928 SANFL Grand Final
The 1928 SANFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football competition. Port Adelaide beat Norwood 104 to 56.


1928 SANFL season
The 1928 South Australian National Football League season was the 49th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.


1928 SMU Mustangs football team
The 1928 SMU Mustangs football team represented Southern Methodist University during the 1928 college football season, their 13th season in existence.


1928 SMU Mustangs football team
Their year began with two easy victories against the outmatched Denton(Texas) Normal Teachers' College (known in later years as the University of North Texas) and Howard Payne.


1928 SMU Mustangs football team
These games led into what could be seen as the highlight of the year, a contest against Army, already a national college football juggernaut. Although they could not win, they came within a point of victory against the powerhouse.


1928 SMU Mustangs football team
SMU survived a scare returning to Texas, defeating Simmons College (now Hardin-Simmons) by only 6-0 in Wichita Falls, although SMU did not play its regular players, who were still feeling fatigue returning from the Army game at West Point.


1928 SMU Mustangs football team
The Mustangs began their conference schedule against Rice with another convincing victory, and then added another victory against non-conference foe Trinity. However, their momentum was shattered with a difficult loss to the University of Texas, the eventual conference champions.


1928 SMU Mustangs football team
That Texas game would prove to be pivotal for the Mustangs in the race for the conference crown, as SMU ended the season with a tie against A&M and then two consecutive conference losses, finishing with a homecoming game  loss against TCU where the entire coaching staff was out with the flu.


1928 SMU Mustangs football team
The campaign marked SMU's first with an All-American, with left guard and team co-captain Henry Jack "Choc" Sanders earning the honors from The New York Sun


1928 Saar parliamentary election
Elections to the consultative Regional Council (Landesrat) were held in the territory of the Saar Basin on 25 March 1928. The Centre Party remained the largest faction, winning 14 of the 30 seats. Peter Scheuer of the Centre Party was re-elected President of the Landesrat.


1928 Saint Louis Billikens football team
The 1928 Saint Louis Billikens football team was an American football team that represented Saint Louis University during the 1928 college football season. In their first season under head coach Hunk Anderson, the Billikens compiled a 4–4–1 record and were outscored by a total of 77 to 52. The team played its home games at Public Schools Stadium and Sportsman's Park in St. Louis.


1928 Saint Lucian general election
General elections were held in Saint Lucia in 1928. All three constituencies had only one candidate, resulting in all three being returned unopposed.


1928 Saint Lucian general election, Background
In 1924 a partially elected Legislative Council of 12 members was established with nine nominated seats and three elected seats. The first elections were held in 1925.


1928 Saint Lucian general election, Results
George Palmer was re-elected in Eastern District, Louis McVane in North District and H.E. Belmar in Western District.


1928 Saint Mary's Gaels football team
The 1928 Saint Mary's Gaels football team was an American football team that represented Saint Mary's College of California during the 1928 college football season. In their eighth season under head coach Slip Madigan, the Gaels compiled a 5–4 record, won the Northern California Athletic Conference championship, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 105 to 59. End Malcolm Franklan was selected by both the Associated Press and the United Press as a first-team member of the 1928 All-Pacific Coast football team.


1928 Salvadoran legislative election
Legislative elections were held in El Salvador in January 1928. The result was a victory for the National Democratic Party, which won all 42 seats.


1928 San Diego State Aztecs football team
The 1928 San Diego State Aztecs football team represented San Diego State Teachers College during the 1928 NCAA football season.


1928 San Diego State Aztecs football team
San Diego State competed in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC). The 1928 San Diego State team was led by head coach Charles E. Peterson in his eighth season as football coach of the Aztecs. They played three home games at Balboa Stadium and one at a field on the school campus. The Aztecs finished the season with three wins and three losses (3–3, 2–3 SCIAC). Overall, the team outscored its opponents 111–105 points for the season.


1928 San Francisco Seals season
The 1928 San Francisco Seals season was the 26th season in the history of the San Francisco Seals baseball team. The 1926 team won the Pacific Coast League (PCL) pennant with a 120–71 record. Nick Williams was the team's manager. In the 1928 PCL championship series, the Seals defeated the Sacramento Solons four games to two.


1928 San Francisco Seals season
The 1925 Seals were selected in 2003 by a panel of minor league experts as the ninth best team in the PCL's 100-year history. The team was also selected by Minor League Baseball as the 50th best team in minor league history. According to one published account, the Seals in 1928 were "considered the second most valuable franchise in sports, second only to the New York Yankees."


1928 San Francisco Seals season
The team's outfield trio of Smead Jolley, Earl Averill, and Roy Johnson, rated by some as the best minor league outfield in history, combined for 813 hits, 103 home runs, and 437 RBIs. Right fielder Jolley won the PCL's Triple Crown, leading the league with a .404 batting average, 45 home runs, 188 RBIs, 309 hits, and 516 total bases. Center fielder Averill, a Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, led the league with 178 runs and finished second behind Jolly with 173 RBIs. Left fielder Johnson hit .360 and led the PCL with 16 triples. After the 1928 season, the Seals sold the three outfielders for a total of $135,000.


1928 San Francisco Seals season
Though remembered mostly for their offensive output and .308 team batting average, the 1928 Seals also had a strong pitching staff. Dutch Ruether, a native of Alameda, California, led the PCL with 29 wins and 28 complete games. Elmer Jacobs won 22 games, had a streak of 35 scoreless innings, and led the league with 159 strikeouts and a 2.56 earned run average. Duster Mails, a native of San Quentin, California, won 20 games and struck out 152 batters.


1928 San Francisco Seals season, Players, Batting
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1928 San Francisco Seals season, Players, Pitching
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; PCT = Win percentage; ERA = Earned run average


1928 San Jose State Spartans football team
The 1928 San Jose State Spartans football team represented State Teachers College at San Jose during the 1928 college football season.


1928 San Jose State Spartans football team
San Jose State competed in the last year of the California Coast Conference (CCC). They had been a member since 1922, and would move to the Far Western Conference (FWC) in 1929. The team was led by fifth-year head coach Ernesto R. Knollin, and they played home games at Spartan Field in San Jose, California. The team finished the season with a record of six wins, two losses and one tie (6–2–1, 6–2 CCC). The Spartans outscored their opponents 123–64 for the season.


1928 San Jose State Spartans football team
The CCC championship game was a rematch of the Spartans earlier loss vs. San Mateo Junior College. In the rematch, San Jose State tied San Mateo 21–21.


1928 Santa Barbara State Roadrunners football team
The 1928 Santa Barbara State Roadrunners football team represented Santa Barbara State during the 1928 college football season.


1928 Santa Barbara State Roadrunners football team
Santa Barbara State competed in the California Coast Conference (CCC) from 1927–1928. The conference disbanded after the 1928 season, and the Roadrunners competed as an Independent the following two years. The 1928 Roadrunners were led by first-year head coach Harold Davis and played home games at Peabody Stadium in Santa Barbara, California. They finished the season with a record of four wins and five losses (4–5, 2–2 CCC). Overall, the team was outscored by its opponents 43–96 for the season and was shut out in all five of the losses.


1928 Santa Clara Broncos football team
The 1928 Santa Clara Broncos football team was an American football team that represented Santa Clara University during the 1928 college football season. In their fourth and final season under head coach Adam Walsh, the Broncos compiled a 5–4 record and outscored opponents by a total of 179 to 106.


1928 Santos FC season
The 1928 season was the seventeenth season for Santos FC.


1928 Sewanee Tigers football team
The 1928 Sewanee Tigers football team represented the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South during the 1928 college football season.


1928 Sheffield Hallam by-election
The Sheffield Hallam by-election of 1928 was held on 16 July 1928. The by-election was held due to the appointment of the incumbent Conservative MP, Frederick Sykes, as Governor of Bombay. It was won by the Conservative candidate Louis Smith. At the previous two general elections (1923 and 1924) the Conservative candidate had won the seat with majorities of over 6,000 votes.


1928 Sheffield Hallam by-election, Result
After winning the by-election, Smith successfully defended the seat  at the following year's general election. On that occasion he won with an increased majority of 6,787 votes in a straight fight with a Labour candidate. At the same contest, Hobman fought Bradford North for the Liberals, but again finished in third place.


1928 Simmons Cowboys football team
The 1928 Simmons Cowboys football team represented Simmons University—now known as Hardin–Simmons University—as a member of the Texas Conference during 1928 college football season. Led by Frank Bridges in his second season as head coach, the team went 6–6–1 overall, tying for fourth place in the Texas Conference with a mark of 2–3.


1928 Slovak provincial election
Provincial elections were held in Slovak Province on 2 December 1928. The elections were marked by a drop in support for the Slovak People's Party, whilst the Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants emerged as the largest party in the Assembly of Slovakia.


1928 Slovak provincial election, Background
The Slovak Assembly was established on 14 July 1927 when the National Assembly abolished the counties of Czechoslovakia, replacing them with four provinces, one of which was Slovakia. The law took effect on 1 July 1928.


1928 Slovak provincial election, Electoral system
The 54-member Assembly had two-thirds of its members elected and the other third appointed by the national government.


1928 South Carolina Gamecocks football team
The 1928 South Carolina Gamecocks football team was an American football team that represented the University of South Carolina as a member of the Southern Conference during the 1928 college football season. In their first season under head coach Billy Laval, South Carolina compiled a 6–2–2 record.


1928 South Dakota Coyotes football team
The 1928 South Dakota Coyotes football team was an American football team that represented the University of South Dakota in the North Central Conference (NCC) during the 1928 college football season. In its second season under head coach Vincent E. Montgomery, the team compiled a 3–5 record (1–3 against NCC opponents), finished in sixth place out of six teams in the NCC, and was outscored by a total of 77 to 71. The team played its home games at Inman Field in Vermillion, South Dakota.


1928 South Dakota State Jackrabbits football team
The 1928 South Dakota State Jackrabbits football team was an American football team that represented South Dakota State University in the North Central Conference during the 1928 college football season. In its first season under head coach Cy Kasper, the team compiled a 9–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 230 to 26.


1928 South Dakota gubernatorial election
The 1928 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1928. Incumbent Democratic Governor William J. Bulow ran for re-election to a second term. In the general election, he faced Attorney General Buell F. Jones, the Republican nominee. Despite Republican presidential nominee Herbert Hoover overwhelmingly defeating Democratic nominee Al Smith overwhelmingly in South Dakota, Bulow defeated Jones by a decisive margin to retain the governorship. In so doing, he became the first Democratic candidate for Governor to receive a majority of the vote in the state's history.


1928 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Democratic primary
Governor Bulow was renominated by the Democratic Party without opposition and no primary election was held.


1928 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Republican primary
In accordance with the complicated Richards primary law, which governed party nominations in South Dakota at the time, the Republican Party held a convention to select its statewide nominees; however, if a requisite number of delegates opposed the candidates selected by the majority, they could force a primary election to be held. Seven Republican candidates ran for the governorship:


1928 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Republican primary
In the lead-up to the Republican convention, Jones, Day, and Howell were seen as the likeliest candidates, with the contest likely coming down to Jones and Day.


1928 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Republican primary
At the convention, Jones took a leading position, remaining in first place on the first ballot, but still standing several thousand votes short of victory. Over subsequent ballots, he got closer and closer, and lagging candidates removed themselves from contention. Only on the fifth ballot did Jones receive the requisite vote to win the nomination.


1928 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Farmer–Labor primary, Campaign
At the March 1928 Farmer–Labor convention, John Sumption won the party's nomination; however, a minority faction at the convention favoring G. L. Hasvold dissented from Sumption's nomination and forced a primary. With just a few hundred voters turning out, Sumption defeated Hasvold to win the party's nomination.


1928 South Indian railway strike
The 1928 South Indian railway strike was a general strike by the South Indian Railway Workers Union against plans of the South Indian Railway Company to lay off over 3,100 workers in order to reduce the expenditures of the company. The strike lasted from 29 June – 2 August 1928, and severely affected the transportation of people and goods across South India. The Madras government and the South Indian Railway Company responded with a crackdown. Most of the leaders of the strike were arrested and recognition to the union was withdrawn. The Government of Madras recorded it as the "most important event of the year".


1928 South Indian railway strike, Prelude
In 1927, railway companies all over India took a unanimous decision to reduce their railway workforce in order to cut costs. In response to this decision, strikes were called by the workers of the Bengal–Nagpur railway at Kharagpur in February 1927 and Lilooh in March 1928.


1928 South Indian railway strike, Prelude
During 1928, there was general discontent among the workers of the South Indian Railway Company over the long working hours, low wages and racial discrimination against native Indians in the railway. At about the same time, the management of the South Indian Railway Company decided to lay off over 3,100 workers to compensate for the purchase of costly machinery in the workshops at Podanur, Negapatam and Trichinopoly. Supporters of the strike have, however, claimed that cost-cut was mainly an excuse and that the real reason for the layoffs was to get rid of extremist elements in the railway union. A Madras government official noted that retrenchment was


1928 South Indian railway strike, Prelude
... a cloak for victimization of obnoxious workmen particularly those connected with the labour unions


1928 South Indian railway strike, Events
On 28 June 1928, the Central Committee of the South Indian Railway Workers Union telegraphed the management authorities demanding their response to the union's petition to withdraw Circular No. 202 dealing with retrenchment and a general pay raise for both skilled and unskilled workers. The management refused to raise the pay and explained that the lay offs were the result of a government inquiry.


1928 South Indian railway strike, Events
On 29 June 1928, about 8,000 workers in the South Indian Railway workshops in Negapatam, Trichinopoly and Podanur struck work. The union demanded a total wage increase of 25 percent, a minimum wage threshold of Rs. 30 and repeal of Circular No. 202. The management responded with a lockout. The strike also encountered opposition from some of the union leaders, too, notable among them being S. V. Aiyar, editor of the Indian Railway Magazine and President of the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Employees Union and Ernest Kirk, General Secretary of the Madras Labour Union who commented


1928 South Indian railway strike, Events
I am not against a strike, but if initiated and rushed and wire-pulled by adherents of Moscow it is severely handicapped from the outset


1928 South Indian railway strike, Events
The striking workers responded by accusing them of "betraying the interests of the workers" and "working against the Central Committee." At a meeting in Trichinopoly on 1 July 1928, Mukundlal Sircar, Secretary of the All India Labour Union, blamed British imperialism for widespread unemployment in India and exhorted railway workers to join hands with the Indian National Congress and participate in the Indian Independence Movement.


1928 South Indian railway strike, Events
There was a total lockout on 6 July 1928 and 9 July 1928 at Trichinopoly and Podanur respectively. Vegetable and fruit shopowners in Trichinopoly had also downed their shutters on 6 July in support of the railway workers. A 3,000-strong procession walked through the town. The situation was calm from 9 July to 18 July when the union tried to negotiate with the management. But when negotiations broke down on 19 July 1928, the strike was resumed in renewed vigour.


1928 South Indian railway strike, Events
The strike turned violent on 20 July and incidents were reported from Tuticorin, Viluppuram, Mayavaram and Trichinopoly. There were clashes between railway workers and policemen in Tuticorin and Mayavaram in which a striker was killed in police firing and 63 others were arrested. This was followed by 78 arrests in Panruti, Vikravandi and Villekuppam. The workers in Viluppuram organised a Satyagraha to press their demands. When a light engine collided against a bus in Trichinopoly causing heavy casualties, a crowd assembled at the spot and catching hold of the light engine driver, a European, lynched him to death.


1928 South Indian railway strike, End of the strike
The strike was brutally suppressed by the government. When about 5000 striking workers in Mayavaram lay on the tracks blocking trains, the police arrested nine workers and stopped the train. Five were killed by the police in Mayavaram in response to an incident of stone throwing and a shepherd named Kone was bayoneted during another stone throwing incident in Tuticorin. Six were killed and twenty-two wounded during a third incident in Viluppuram. A public meeting called by the Madras District Congress Committee in Madras city was prohibited.


1928 South Indian railway strike, End of the strike
Singaravelu Chetty and Mukundlal Sircar were arrested on 23 July 1928. D. K. Pillai, President of the Central Committee was arrested on 25 July followed by T.K. Naidu, Secretary of the Engineering Workshop Labour Union, P. Mudaliar, General Secretary and V. Aujar, Vice President of the Central Committee, on 26 July. On 27 July, nine more leaders of the strike were arrested. The very same day, M. Pillai, Union Secretary at Tinnevely, called off the strike. The strike, however, continued in Trichinopoly and Madura till 30 July 1928, when Krishnamachari, the Secretary of the South Indian Railway Workers' Union, and Pillai, treasurer of the South Indian Railway Local Labour Union, issued a statement formally calling off the strike


1928 South Indian railway strike, End of the strike
We have demonstrated to the public our capacity for organisation and concerted action . . . (but) we find that the public have suffered in this quarrel between Capital and Labour and we are very sorry that we were forced to go on strike much against our wishes . . . relying on the justice of our cause we are determined to continue our fight by peaceful methods and with the sole aim of sparing the public all inconvenience, we have decided to call off the strike from 6 a.m. on the 30th


1928 South Indian railway strike, End of the strike
Minor incidents occurred till 2 August 1928, when the South Indian Railway Workers' Union was officially outlawed.


1928 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1928 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from February 24–February 28, 1928, at Municipal Auditorium in Atlanta, Georgia. The Mississippi Rebels won their first Southern Conference title, led by head coach Homer Hazel.


1928 Southern Conference football season
The 1928 Southern Conference football season was the college football games played by the member schools of the Southern Conference as part of the 1928 college football season. The season began on September 22.


1928 Southern Conference football season
In the annual Rose Bowl game, Georgia Tech defeated the California Golden Bears by a score of 8–7. The game was notable for a play by California All-American Roy Riegels in which he scooped up a Georgia Tech fumble and ran towards his own goal line. The two-point safety on the ensuing punt proved to be the margin of victory. Georgia Tech thus claims a national championship.


1928 Southern Conference football season
The Florida Gators led the nation in scoring with 336 points, but had their undefeated campaign derailed in the final game by the South's biggest upset that season, a controversial loss to Tennessee.


1928 Southern Conference football season
Tulane back Bill Banker led the conference in individual scoring with 128 points, tying a school record set by Peggy Flournoy in 1925 which was unbroken until 2007 by Matt Forte.


1928 Southern Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Southern team
The  followers players were picked for the composite first All-Southern team of more than one hundred sports writers and coaches compiled by the Associated Press (AP). The United Press (UP) also selected a team:


1928 Southern Illinois Maroons football team
The 1928 Southern Illinois Maroons football team was an American football team that represented Southern Illinois Normal University (now known as Southern Illinois University Carbondale) in the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) during the 1928 college football season. In its 16th season under head coach William McAndrew, the team compiled a 7–1–2 record. The team played its home games at Normal Field in Carbondale, Illinois.


1928 Southern Rhodesian general election
General elections were held in Southern Rhodesia on 19 September 1928, the second elections to the Legislative Assembly. The Rhodesia Party, which had won an overwhelming victory in the previous elections in 1924, was re-elected with a slightly reduced majority.


1928 Southern Rhodesian general election, Electoral system
The Electoral Act, 1928 added a procedure whereby electors could vote by post, but otherwise retained the same system as used previously.


1928 Southern Rhodesian general election, Electoral system
At this election the franchise was codified for the first time by the Electoral Act, 1928. The basis for the act was a consolidation of the previous regulations created by Order in Council, but the opportunity was taken by the Legislative Assembly to change some of the regulations which they had come to dislike. The principal change in the franchise was to restrict registration to British subjects only, whether by birth or naturalisation; previously, resident aliens could take an oath of allegiance to qualify themselves.


1928 Southern Rhodesian general election, Electoral system
A change was also made to the literacy requirements for voters, where the test of writing fifty words of English at the dictation of the registering officer was dropped and the would-be voter merely had to be able to fill in the form in their own handwriting. The financial means qualification was the subject of a minor wording change, whereby the word "income" was added as an alternative to salary or wages.


1928 Southern Rhodesian general election, Electoral system
Having previously elected the Legislative Assembly by means of 15 electoral districts each returning two members, in 1927 a Delimitation Board was established to recommend new districts. The Board intended to recommend 30 single-member districts, but found this to be impractical given the strong population growth around Salisbury and Bulawayo and therefore recommended 22 single-member districts and four two-member districts. The retention of two-member districts was controversial. The Board found its work hampered by the inaccuracy of the electoral roll, and as a result registration procedure was tightened up in the Electoral Act, 1928.


1928 Southern Rhodesian general election, Political parties
The development of political parties had advanced since the colony was granted self-government. The Progressive Party, an opposition group opposed to monopolies and advocating more development of Matabeleland, had been formed in June 1927 from a group of independent members, and was able to nominate 22 candidates for the 30 seats. The Rhodesia Labour Party had increased its strength in the towns.


1928 Southern Rhodesian general election, Political parties
Also in 1927 the Country Party had been formed by dissident farmers in the Rhodesian Agricultural Union.


1928 Southern Rhodesian general election, Changes during the Assembly, Mazoe
John Wallace Downie gave up his seat on 28 October 1930 on his appointment as High Commissioner of Southern Rhodesia in London, precipitating a byelection in his electoral district which was held on 5 December 1930.


1928 Southern Rhodesian general election, Changes during the Assembly, Salisbury South
Due to the resignation of Gordon Ross Milne who was in ill health, a byelection in this electoral district was held on 13 March 1931.


1928 Southern Rhodesian general election, Changes during the Assembly, Gwelo
Max Danziger left the Rhodesia Party on 4 June 1931 and simultaneously decided to vacate his seat to test the opinion of his electors. The result of the election was:


1928 Southern Rhodesian general election, Changes during the Assembly, Party changes
In October 1929 the Progressive Party merged with the Country Party to form the Reform Party.


1928 Southwark Borough election
Elections to Metropolitan Borough of Southwark were held in 1928.


1928 Southwark Borough election
The borough had ten wards which returned between 3 and 9 members.


1928 Southwark Borough election, Election summary
At the previous elections in 1925 the Ratepayers Association won 44 seats to the Labour Party's 16. The Ratepayers Association was the name adopted for an anti-Labour Party electoral alliance. By 1928 this electoral alliance had ended in two of the ten of wards. In other wards, candidates reverted to running either as Liberals (Progressives) or Municipal Reform (Conservatives).


1928 Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs football team
The 1928 Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented the Southwestern Louisiana Institute of Liberal and Technical Learning (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association during the 1928 college football season. In their tenth year under head coach T. R. Mobley, the team compiled a 4–5 record.


1928 St Ives by-election
The St Ives by-election, 1928 was a by-election held on 6 March 1928 for the British House of Commons constituency of St Ives in Cornwall.


1928 St Ives by-election, Vacancy
The by-election was caused by the resignation of the sitting Unionist Party Member of Parliament (MP) Anthony Hawke on his appointment to be a High Court judge.


1928 St Ives by-election, Electoral history
Hawke had first won the seat at the 1922 general election. He lost it to the Liberal candidate Sir Clifford Cory at the 1923 general election when there was also a Labour candidate in the field  but won it back from Cory in a straight fight in 1924.


1928 St Ives by-election, Campaign
The by-election was a three-cornered contest, though given the electoral history of the seat it was always regarded as a two-horse race between Unionist and Liberal.


1928 St Ives by-election, Campaign
The circumstances in which Hilda Runciman came to be selected as Liberal candidate were an issue in the by-election. Her husband, Walter, who was Liberal MP for Swansea West, had decided to transfer to St Ives at the next general election. When the by-election was caused by Hawke’s resignation, Hilda was adopted as Liberal candidate to keep the seat warm for her husband.


1928 St Ives by-election, Campaign
Liberal party leader David Lloyd George did not approve of Hilda’s candidacy; the Liberal Council, a band of Liberal politicians which Walter led, had voted to oppose Lloyd George's Yellow Book, which set out many of his key positions. Runciman refused to have Lloyd George speak on her behalf during the campaign However, Deputy Leader Sir Herbert Samuel did travel to the constituency to speak on her behalf.


1928 St Ives by-election, Campaign
The use of Hilda to keep the seat warm for her husband attracted Tory derision, and became a campaign issue.


1928 St Ives by-election, Result
The result was a victory for Mrs Runciman, who overturned Hawke’s majority of 1,247 to win by a majority of 763 votes.


1928 St Ives by-election, Result
Runciman was the third woman parliamentary candidate ever to be elected for the Liberal Party, after Margaret Wintringham and Vera Terrington. On election she joined her husband in the House of Commons, the first married couple to sit in the House together. She was the first female Cornish MP and the only Cornish Liberal MP at the time (though the Liberals won all five Cornish seats in the general election the next year).


1928 St Ives by-election, Aftermath
Runciman duly stood down in her husband’s favour at the 1929 general election and he held the seat for the Liberal Party, again defeating Caird.


1928 St Ives by-election, Aftermath
Runciman sought re-election at the General Election of 1929 at the Unionist held seat of Tavistock, but finished second. Hopkins also moved to contest Penryn & Falmouth and again finished third.


1928 St Ives by-election, Aftermath
This was seen as one of the two ‘warming  pan’ by-elections in the 1924-1929 Parliament, with Hugh Dalton's wife successfully contested the 1929 Bishop Auckland by-election with her husband contesting it at the 1929 general election.


1928 St Marylebone by-election
The St Marylebone by-election of 1928 was held on 30 April 1928. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, Douglas Hogg. It was won by the Conservative candidate Rennell Rodd.


1928 St. Ignatius Gray Fog football team
The 1928 St. Ignatius Gray Fog football team was an American football team that represented St. Ignatius College (later renamed the University of San Francisco) as a member of the Far Western Conference (FWC) during the 1928 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach Jimmy Needles, the Gray Fog compiled a 4–4 record, tied for second place in the FWC, and was outscored by a total of 99 to 63.


1928 St. Louis Browns season
The 1928 St. Louis Browns season involved the Browns finishing 3rd in the American League with a record of 82 wins and 72 losses.


1928 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1928 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1928 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1928 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1928 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1928 St. Louis Cardinals season
The 1928 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 47th season in St. Louis, Missouri and the 37th season in the National League. The Cardinals went 95–59 during the season and finished first in the National League. In the World Series, they were swept by the New York Yankees.


1928 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season
First baseman Jim Bottomley won the MVP Award this year, batting .325, with 31 home runs and 136 RBIs.


1928 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1928 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1928 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1928 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1928 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1928 St. Louis Stars season
The 1928 St. Louis Stars baseball team represented the St. Louis Stars in the Negro National League during the 1928 baseball season. The Stars won the Negro National League championship. The team played its home games at Stars Park in St. Louis.


1928 St. Louis Stars season
Three players from the 1928 team were later inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame: center fielder Cool Papa Bell; first baseman Mule Suttles; and shortstop Willie Wells.


1928 St. Louis Stars season
The team's leading pitchers were Ted Trent (20-4 record in 205 innings pitched) and Logan Hensley (12-5 record in 144 innings pitched.


1928 St. Xavier Musketeers football team
The 1928 St. Xavier Musketeers football team was an American football team that represented St. Xavier College (later renamed Xavier University) in the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) during the 1928 college football season. In its ninth season under head coach Joseph A. Meyer, the team compiled a 7–2 record (1–0 against OAC opponents) and outscored opponents by a total of 152 to 46. The team played its home games at Corcoran Field in Cincinnati.


1928 Stanford football team
The 1928 Stanford football team represented Stanford University in the 1928 college football season. Under fifth-year head coach Pop Warner, Stanford played its home games on campus at Stanford Stadium and were members of the Pacific Coast Conference.


1928 Stanford football team
After playing in the Rose Bowl for the last two seasons, and three of the last four, Stanford did not play a postseason game, but did end its season on a high note with a shutout over Army before 86,000 at Yankee Stadium.


1928 Stanley Cup Finals
The 1928 Stanley Cup Finals was a best-of-five series played entirely in Montreal between the New York Rangers and the Montreal Maroons. It was the first appearance by the Rangers in the Finals in only their second season. The Maroons made their second Finals appearance after winning the Stanley Cup in 1926. The Rangers won the series three games to two to earn their first championship in franchise history, this was also the second Stanley Cup victory by an American-based team, and the first since the Seattle Metropolitans in 1917.


1928 Stanley Cup Finals
This was also the first of only two times that a Montreal-based team lost the clinching game of the Stanley Cup Finals at home in the Montreal Forum, the other occurred in 1989 when the Calgary Flames defeated the Montreal Canadiens. This was the last Stanley Cup Finals to be played in one location until the pandemic shortened season of 2020.


1928 Stanley Cup Finals, Paths to the Finals
The Montreal Maroons defeated the Ottawa Senators in the quarter-finals total-goals series 3–1. The Maroons then defeated the Montreal Canadiens in the semi-finals total-goals series 3–2 to reach the Finals.


1928 Stanley Cup Finals, Paths to the Finals
The New York Rangers defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates in the quarter-finals total-goals series 6–4. The Rangers then defeated the Boston Bruins in the semi-finals total-goals series 5–2 to reach the Finals.


1928 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries
The series had to be played in Montreal, as the circus had taken over New York's Madison Square Garden.


1928 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries
The Rangers lost their goalie Lorne Chabot to an eye injury in the second period of game two. Although goaltenders Alex Connell and Hugh McCormick were in the stands, the Maroons refused to allow the Rangers to use either goalie. In one of the most famous incidents in hockey history, 44-year-old coach Lester Patrick took over with the recorded words "Boys, don't let an old man down," and his efforts inspired the Rangers to a 2–1 victory in overtime.


1928 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries
At 44 years, 99 days old, Patrick became the oldest man to play in the Stanley Cup Finals, a record which remains unsurpassed to this day (Chris Chelios in 2008 at the age of 46 became the oldest player with his name on the cup, though he did not log any ice time in the final). He entered with eight minutes remaining in the second period and played the final 35:05 of the game.


1928 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries
For the following matches, the Rangers hired New York Americans goalie Joe Miller, who won two games including a shutout. Miller was available to all NHL teams as a backup after the Americans had put him on waivers. The Boston Bruins had claimed him on waivers, but he was made available to any NHL team. At the time of the Finals, Miller had not played in four weeks, and was home in Ottawa. Miller was cut and suffered two black eyes in game five, but hung on for a 2–1 victory.


1928 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving
The 1928 Stanley Cup was presented to Rangers captain Bill Cook by NHL President Frank Calder following the Rangers 2–1 win over the Maroons in game five.


1928 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving
The following Rangers players and staff had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup


1928 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving
Frank Boucher became the fourth member of his family to win the Stanley Cup, after his brother George won it four times with Ottawa, and his brothers Billy and Bobby had won it with Montreal in 1924.


1928 Stanley Cup Finals, Three champions
With the Rangers' triumph, the city of New York became home of the titlists of all three major sports leagues, including the 1927 World Series-winning New York Yankees and the 1927 National Football League champion New York Giants. (The Yankees won again in 1928, giving New York bragging rights over MLB, the NFL and NHL for almost 14 months, until the Providence Steamrollers clinched the NFL title in December of that year.) The only other city to pull off this feat is Detroit, whose Tigers, Lions and Red Wings reigned over the pro sports scene in 1935.


1928 Sudbury municipal election
The 1928 municipal election was held on December 3, 1928. Charles Bibby was acclaimed the Mayor of the City of Sudbury.


1928 Sudbury municipal election
At the time of this election, the candidates were elected to serve the City of Sudbury and were not elected to represent each of the wards individually.


1928 Sudbury municipal election, Election moments
The election results were not fully tabulated until 12 o’clock the day after the election. During the election, there was a minor mix-up in the returns. Councillor Drybrough’s total was given at 751 when in reality it was 731. The town clerk, W. J. Ross, who was responsible of for returns, was questioned by the Sudbury Star regarding this discrepancy.


1928 Sudbury municipal election, Election moments
The reporter requested that Mr. Ross to look at his list. Mr. Ross tersely said that he wouldn’t.


1928 Sudbury municipal election, Election moments
“But how do you account for the difference of twenty?” enquired the reporter.


1928 Sudbury municipal election, Election moments
“Seven men checked those figures” replied the town clerk with all the dignity of his command. “and  they’re official. I won’t change them.”


1928 Sudbury municipal election, Election moments
Initially Ross wouldn’t change the figures; however, after the reporter removed the results card from the wall, he continued to press Ross for answer. Ross then quickly reviewed the figures and subsequently Frank C. Muirhead was elected to council, defeating the incumbent Drybourogh by 20 votes.


1928 Sudbury municipal election, Election moments
The reporter continued to investigate the election results, and also discovered that Council;or Newburn also had 20 votes misallocated. Newburn's tally in the "L – Z" poll was 139 when it should have read 159. Concerned that Newburn would not have the necessary clout in the Fournier ward after the election, the reporter brought this to the attention of the officials. The reporter subsequently stopped investigating, after an unnamed candidate elect cautioned him against further investigation. He was quoted as saying "First thing you know, if you keep checking these figures I'll find out I haven't been elected at all."


1928 Sudbury municipal election, Results
The results of the mayoral and Aldermanic contests as reported by the Sudbury Star on December 5, 1928 are as follows:


1928 Summa
1928 Summa, provisional designation 1938 SO, is a stony asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 9 kilometers in diameter.


1928 Summa
It was discovered on 21 September 1938, by Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä at Turku Observatory in Southwest Finland. It was named for a Finnish village where the Battle of Summa took place.


1928 Summa, Orbit and classification
Summa is a S-type asteroid that orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 2.0–3.0 AU once every 3 years and 11 months (1,423 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.20 and an inclination of 5° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins at Turku one night after its official discovery observation, with no precoveries taken, and no prior identifications made.


1928 Summa, Rotation period
In March 1984, the first but poorly rated rotational lightcurve of Summa was obtained from photometric observations by American astronomer Richard Binzel. It gave a rotation period of 9.66 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.14 magnitude (U=1).


1928 Summa, Rotation period
In August 2012, a refined yet ambiguous lightcurve with a period of 6.855 hours and an amplitude of 0.13 was obtained by Larry E. Owings at the Barnes Ridge Observatory in California (U=2+). Lightcurve analysis also considered that Summa might be a binary system. One month later, the so-far best rated lightcurve from British astronomer Kevin Hills using the remote controlled Riverland Dingo Observatory in Australia, gave a period of 6.8549 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.18 (U=3).


1928 Summa, Diameter an albedo
According to the survey carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Summa measures 9.333 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.160, while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for stony asteroids of 0.20 and calculates a diameter of 8.34 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 12.76.


1928 Summa, Naming
This minor planet was named after the village on the Karelian Isthmus, where the Battle of Summa took place during the Finnish Winter War (1939–1940). The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1980 (M.P.C. 5450). Most of Yrjö Väisälä's discoveries have names that relate in one way or another to this military conflict between Finland and the Soviet Union during World War II.


1928 Summer Deaflympics
The 1928 Summer Deaflympics (Dutch: 2017 Zomerdeaflympische Zomerspelen 1928), officially known as the 2nd International Silent Games (Dutch: 2e Internationale Stille Spelen), is an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from 18 to 26 August 1928 in Amsterdam, Netherlands


1928 Summer Olympics
The 1928 Summer Olympics (Dutch: Olympische Zomerspelen 1928), officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad (Dutch: Spelen van de IXe Olympiade) and commonly known as Amsterdam 1928, was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from 28 July to 12 August 1928 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The city of Amsterdam had previously bid for the 1920 and 1924 Olympic Games, but was obliged to give way to war-torn Antwerp in Belgium for the 1920 Games and Pierre de Coubertin's Paris for the 1924 Games.


1928 Summer Olympics
The only other candidate city for the 1928 Olympics was Los Angeles, which would eventually be selected to host the Olympics four years later. In preparation for the 1932 Summer Olympics, the United States Olympic Committee reviewed the costs and revenue of the 1928 Games. The committee reported a total cost of US$1.183 million with receipts of US$1.165 million, giving a negligible loss of US$18,000, which was a considerable improvement over the 1924 Games.


1928 Summer Olympics
The United States won the most gold and overall medals.


1928 Summer Olympics, Host city selection
Dutch nobleman Frederik van Tuyll van Serooskerken first proposed Amsterdam as host city for the Summer Olympic Games in 1912, even before the Netherlands Olympic Committee was established.


1928 Summer Olympics, Host city selection
The Olympic Games were cancelled in 1916 due to World War I. In 1919, the Netherlands Olympic Committee abandoned the proposal of Amsterdam in favor of their support for the nomination of Antwerp as host city for the 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1921, Paris was selected for the 1924 Summer Olympics on the condition that the 1928 Summer Olympics would be organized in Amsterdam. This decision, supported by the Netherlands Olympic Committee, was announced by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on 2 June 1921.


1928 Summer Olympics, Host city selection
Los Angeles bid for the 1928 Summer Olympics was without success in 1922 and again in 1923. The city was eventually selected as host city for the 1932 Summer Olympics, being the only bidder for that year.


1928 Summer Olympics, Sports
During the 1928 Summer Olympics, there were 14 sports, 20 disciplines and 109 events in the tournament. In parentheses is the number of events per discipline.


1928 Summer Olympics, Sports
Women's athletics and team gymnastics debuted at these Olympics, in spite of criticism. Five women's athletics events were added: 100 meters, 800 meters, high jump, discus, and 400 meter hurdles. In protest of the limited number of events, British women athletes, boycotted the Games. Halina Konopacka of Poland became the first female Olympic track and field champion. Reports that the 800 meter run ended with several of the competitors being completely exhausted were widely (and erroneously) circulated. As a result, the IOC decided that women were too frail for long-distance running, and women's Olympic running events were limited to 200 meters until the 1960s.


1928 Summer Olympics, Sports
Tennis disappeared from the program, only to reappear in 1968 as a demonstration sport.


1928 Summer Olympics, Sports, Demonstration sports
These Games also included art competitions in five categories: architecture, painting, sculpture, literature, and poetry. However, the IOC no longer considers these to be official medal events, so the medals awarded are not included in today's Olympic medal counts.


1928 Summer Olympics, Venues
Fourteen sports venues were used for the 1928 Summer Olympics. The Swim Stadium was demolished in 1929. The Het Kasteel football stadium was renovated in 1998–99. The Monnikenhuize stadium was demolished in 1950. The Schermzaal sports hall has also been demolished. The Olympic Stadium was renovated between 1996 and 2000, and is still in use. The Old Stadion was demolished in 1929 and replaced with housing in the Amsterdam area.


1928 Summer Olympics, Participating nations
A total of 46 nations were represented at the Amsterdam Games. Malta, Panama, and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) competed at the Olympic Games for the first time. Germany returned after having been banned in 1920 and 1924.


1928 Summer Olympics, Medal count
These are the top ten nations that won medals at the 1928 Games.


1928 Summer Olympics, Poster
The official poster for the Games displaying a running man in a white shirt was designed by Jos Rovers however the IOC never succeeded in obtaining the copyright of the image. The IOC used a different poster, with the German text Olympische Spiele, and an athlete partly covered in the Dutch national flag, holding a peace leaf in his hand. The poster was made for a German book about the Amsterdam Olympics.


1928 Summer Olympics, Last surviving competitor
The last living competitor of the 1928 Summer Olympics was Clara Marangoni, a member of the silver medal-winning Italian gymnastic team who had been twelve years old during the Olympics. Marangoni died 18 January 2018, at the age of 102 as the oldest living Olympic medalist at the time of her death.


1928 Summer Olympics medal table
This 1928 Summer Olympics medal table comprises two tables of countries ranked by the number of medals won during the 1928 Summer Olympics.


1928 Summer Olympics medal table
The 1928 Summer Olympics were held in and around Amsterdam in the Netherlands from 17 May 1928 to 22 August 1928. A total of 2,883 athletes from 46 countries participated in the sports competition, in 14 sports and 109 events. Additionally, five art competitions were held with 13 events combined. 327 sports medals and 29 arts medals were awarded during the 1928 Summer Olympics. A total of 5,901 souvenir medals were given; 5,139 medals to contestants and officials, and 762 medals to persons that contributed to the Olympics by rendering their services. The souvenir medals are not displayed in the medal tables.


1928 Summer Olympics medal table, Sports competition
The ranking of the sports competition is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee, although the committee does not officially recognize global ranking per country.


1928 Summer Olympics medal table, Sports competition
For the 109 sports events a total of 327 medals were awarded: 110 gold medals, 108 silver medals, and 109 bronze medals. These numbers are unequal, because two gold medals and no silver medals were awarded in the lightweight category of weightlifting, after a first-place tie in the event. The athletes of 33 different countries won one or more medals. The most medals (56) and the most gold medals (22) were won by athletes from the United States.


1928 Summer Olympics medal table, Sports competition
The countries are ranked by the number of gold medals won by the athletes of that country. If countries are tied, first the number of silver medals is taken into consideration and then the number of bronze medals. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically.


1928 Summer Olympics medal table, Arts competition
The ranking of the 1928 arts competitions is based on the official report The Ninth Olympiad (1928) of the Dutch National Olympic Committee. Art competitions were held during the Olympic Games from 1912 until 1948.


1928 Summer Olympics medal table, Arts competition
For the 13 arts events a total of 29 medals were awarded: 9 golden medals, 10 silver medals, and 10 bronze medals. These numbers are inequal, because not for all events three medals were awarded. There was only a silver medal awarded for dramatic works in literature and only a bronze medal for composition for orchestra in music. And also in music, no medals were awarded for compositions for song and composition for one instrument. The most medals (8) were won by contestants from Germany, the most gold medals (2) were won by contestants from the Netherlands.


1928 Summer Olympics medal table, Arts competition
The countries are ranked by the number of gold medals won by the athletes of that country. If countries are tied, first the number of silver medals is taken into consideration and then the number of bronze medals. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically.


1928 Summer Student World Championships
The 1928 Summer Student World Championships, was the fourth editions of the Summer Student World Championships, were organised by the Confederation Internationale des Etudiants (CIE) and held in Paris, France. Held from 9–17 August, a total of 300 athletes from 16 nations competed in the programme of five sports, including: athletics, fencing, association football, swimming and tennis. Women competed in swimming events only.


1928 Swedish Ice Hockey Championship
The 1928 Swedish Ice Hockey Championship was the seventh season of the Swedish Ice Hockey Championship, the national championship of Sweden. IK Gota won the championship.


1928 Swedish general election
General elections were held in Sweden between 15 and 21 September 1928. The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 90 of the 230 seats in the Second Chamber of the Riksdag. Arvid Lindman of the General Electoral League became Prime Minister, replacing the incumbent, Carl Gustaf Ekman of the Free-minded National Association. The elections have since become known as the "Cossack Election" due to the harsh tone and aggressive criticism used by both sides.


1928 Swiss federal election
Federal elections were held in Switzerland on 28 October 1928. Although the Social Democratic Party received the most votes, the Free Democratic Party remained the largest party in the National Council, winning 58 of the 198 seats.


1928 Swiss federal election, Results, Council of States, Summary
In several cantons the members of the Council of States were chosen by the cantonal parliaments.


1928 Swiss referendums
Two referendums were held in Switzerland during 1928. The first was held on 20 May, asking voters whether they approved of amending article 44 of the constitution regarding measures against foreign infiltrators, and was approved by a majority of voters and cantons. The second was held on 2 December, asking voters whether they approved of the "Kursaalspiele" popular initiative on gambling, and was also approved.


1928 Swiss referendums, Background
The constitutional question was a mandatory referendum, which required a double majority; a majority of the popular vote and majority of the cantons. The decision of each canton was based on the vote in that canton. Full cantons counted as one vote, whilst half cantons counted as half. The gambling question was a "popular initiative", which also required a double majority.


1928 Syracuse Orangemen football team
The 1928 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University in the 1928 college football season. The Orangemen were led by second-year head coach Lew Andreas and played their home games at Archbold Stadium in Syracuse, New York.


1928 TCU Horned Frogs football team
The 1928 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University (TCU) as a member the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1928 college football season. Led by Matty Bell in his sixth and final year as head coach, the Horned Frogs compiled and overall record of 8–2 overall with a mark of 3–2 in conference play, tying for third place. TCU played their home games at Clark Field, located on campus in Fort Worth, Texas.


1928 Talca earthquake
The 1928 Talca earthquake occurred on 1 December at 00:06 local time near Curepto, Maule Region, Chile, with an estimated magnitude of 7.6 MW, 8.3 MS and 7.9 ML. In Talca, it lasted 1 minute 45 seconds.


1928 Talca earthquake
There was damage between Valparaíso and Concepción, and severe damage on the coast from Cauquenes to Pichilemu, and in the following cities in the Chilean Central Valley:  Talca, Curicó and San Fernando.


1928 Talca earthquake
In Talca there were 108 dead, 67 in Constitución, and 50 in the surrounding villages. Soon after the earthquake, the Barahona dam, in the valley of Cachapoal River, that contained copper tailings, collapsed, killing 54 miners.


1928 Talca earthquake
In total, there were 279 dead, 1,083 wounded and 127,043 homeless.


1928 Tasmanian state election
The 1928 Tasmanian state election was held on Wednesday, 30 May 1928 in the Australian state of Tasmania to elect 30 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. The election used the Hare-Clark proportional representation system — six members were elected from each of five electorates.


1928 Tasmanian state election
Labor had won the 1925 election in a landslide, with the Nationalist Party losing five seats in the House of Assembly. In 1928, leading up to the election, the Nationalists reverted to "hard politics", criticising Labor Premier Joseph Lyons for an increasing unemployment problem and economic stagnation. This shift was much to the chagrin of Lyons, who had encouraged cordial relations with the Nationalists, and referred to their leader John McPhee as a "colleague and mate".


1928 Tasmanian state election
The Labor Party won a slim majority of the vote in the 1928 election, but only fourteen seats. As the Nationalist Party held half the seats in the House of Assembly and had the support of one Independent, Nationalist leader McPhee became Premier of Tasmania, and praised Lyons for his statesmanship.


1928 Tasmanian state election
Lyons stood for the federal seat of Wilmot in 1929, and he became Prime Minister of Australia in 1932.


1928 Tavistock by-election
The Tavistock by-election, 1928 was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Tavistock on 11 October 1928.


1928 Tavistock by-election, Vacancy
The by-election was caused by the death of the sitting Unionist MP, Philip Kenyon-Slaney on 9 September 1928. He had been MP since 1924.


1928 Tavistock by-election, Election history
The constituency was a Unionist-Liberal marginal that had been Unionist in 1918 and 1924 and Liberal in 1922 and 1923. The result at the last general election was:


1928 Tavistock by-election, Candidates
The Unionist candidate was Wallace Duffield Wright. He served in the British Army, reaching the rank of Brigadier General, being awarded the Victoria Cross. Maxwell Ruthven Thornton, the former Liberal MP who had lost here last time had left the Liberals to join the Unionists in 1925. In 1927, the Liberals selected Reginald Fletcher, the former MP for Basingstoke as their candidate. The Labour Party decided to intervene, and fielded Richard Davies. He was a Plymouth builder, who had been boss of the Municipal Employees Union and had contested Hastings three times without success.


1928 Tavistock by-election, Main Issues and Campaign
With polling day fixed for a date, just 4 weeks after the death or the former MP, the campaign was very short. The Liberals were helped by the fact that Fletcher had been working the constituency for more than a year. Traditionally, the dominant issue in this rural constituency was farming. None of the three candidates  were either local or had a strong knowledge of farming issues. On 26 September, voters went to the polls in Cheltenahm, A Unionist seat that had not been won by the Liberals since 1910. The Unionists held the seat with an increased majority, though the intervening Labour candidate managed to poll nearly 19%, costing the Liberal the seat.


1928 Tavistock by-election, Result
Despite a swing to the Liberals, Wright narrowly held onto the seat. The Labour candidate lost his deposit, but took enough votes from the Liberal to let the Unionist win.


1928 Tavistock by-election, Aftermath
Wright held the seat at the following General Election and retired from Parliament in 1931. Fletcher did not contest the 1929 elections, left the Liberals and joined Labour, being elected in 1935 and serving in Attlee's Labour Government. Davies fought here again in 1929 and again lost his deposit. The result at the following General election;


1928 Tempe State Bulldogs football team
The 1928 Tempe State Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Tempe State Teachers College (later renamed Arizona State University) as an independent during the 1928 college football season. In their sixth season under head coach Aaron McCreary, the Bulldogs compiled a 3–2–1 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 133 to 73. The team's games included a scoreless tie with UTEP and a 39–0 loss in the Arizona–Arizona State football rivalry. William Dick was the team captain.


1928 Temple Owls football team
The 1928 Temple Owls football team was an American football team that represented Temple University as an independent during the 1928 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Heinie Miller, the team compiled a 7–1–2 record. Quarterback Howard "Barney" Gugel was the team captain.


1928 Temple Owls football team
The team played its home games at the newly built Temple Stadium in Philadelphia. The Owls played their first game in the new stadium on September 29, 1929 – a 12–0 victory over St. Thomas (PA). The dedication of the stadium occurred two weeks later on October 13.


1928 Tennessee Volunteers football team
The 1928 Tennessee Volunteers football team (variously "Tennessee", "UT" or the "Vols") represented the University of Tennessee in the 1928 Southern Conference football season. Playing as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon), the team was led by head coach Robert Neyland, in his third year, and played their home games at Shields–Watkins Field in Knoxville, Tennessee. The 1928 Vols won nine, lost zero and tied one game (9–0–1 overall, 6–0–1 in the SoCon). The only blemish on their schedule was a scoreless tie with Kentucky. Tennessee outscored their opponents 249 to 51 and posted five shutouts.


1928 Tennessee Volunteers football team
On November 17, Tennessee beat in-state rival Vanderbilt for the first time since 1916. Before 1928, Vanderbilt held a strong advantage over the Volunteers with a record of 18–2–3 in the first 23 meetings between the two school. Since 1928, Tennessee has dominated the rivalry.